Mark 16.18 Days And Counting ....

It's been a while since I've posted anything publicly. Some people have written to inquire if I'm O.K. The answer is, yes, I'm fine.

Though I sometimes have to wonder about the state of mind of some of my readers and listeners. One of my myriad, enthusiastic fans recently e-mailed me to say:

"Heard you on the radio. Your an idiot. Sent from my iPhone."

In spite of his/her self-evident semiliterate handicap, it's touching to know that s/he cared enough to write. There's nothing quite like the warmth of human contact.

Another correspondent's communication with me ended with these heart warming words:

"...you've got a bulls eye on your forehead so I'll leave it at that."

I had simply asked for verifiable proof that my correspondent was in fact a real, identifiable human. Instead, I got a sputtering, defensive response that offered zero proof and ended on that menacing note. Given the huge percentage of the population that is swilling cheap booze from the supermarket and popping fistfuls of pills from the corner drugstore, it's a wonder that there's anyone left who's even lucid enough to compose a semi-coherent insult or threat.

As it is, the scenario that the shamanic plants in the Amazon rain forest have shown me for the upcoming future is playing out as recently displayed before my inner vision.

The USA is morphing into an Authoritarian Police State or Fascist Dictatorship at warp speed. The news cycle in recent weeks has been clogged with stories about the expanding use of surveillance drones in the skies of the USA. Here's but one example of many such:

30,000 drones in American skies, civil liberties in jeopardy

That's easy enough to understand. The whole country is being turned into a giant, red-white-and-blue prison camp, with Orwellian, Big Brother Eyes In The Sky to electronically surveil and monitor your every burp and fart. Just think about that check you write to the IRS every year as your "Go Straight To Jail And Stay There Card." Because that is exactly what it is. You are in a big jail called the USA.

For those of you who are professing Christans you don't even have to ask who is in charge of the jail, because your jailers have openly self-identified. I won't leave you in the lurch. The man you worship had this to say about them thousands of years ago:

"You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?" (Christan Bible, Book of Matthew 23:33)

The TSA is running a national, in your face, VIPR program that is straight out of the Gestapo play book.

The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state

It's only going to get worse.

All of this is part of the Nazi-style Department of Homeland Security, the freedom-killing bastard spawn of this hollow creature, an Israeli citizen by birth.

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose," as the French say. Please see the comments of Jesus Christ above, personally addressing the Jewish elite of his day, as cited in the Christian's Holy Bible.

The unleashing of the VIPR's brood on the people of the USA takes place at a time when other, even more unspeakably foul events are poised to be unleashed on the world.

Israeli Letter-poem to Grass: If We Go, Everyone Goes

All I have to add to that is that I continue to participate in shamanic ceremonies using the ancient, hyper-conscious plants of the Amazon jungle. In my most recent experience I asked the spirits what was going to happen in the upcoming months on Planet Earth. They said nothing, just looked at me quite calmly and very slowly, ever so slowly, they smiled. Of course they also provided additional, more substantive feedback, but I won't refer to it here.

Though, yeah, even the astrologers say that May and June of this year are difficult months for the USA.

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If You Think It`s Crazy Now, You Just Wait ...

I have read just a little bit of the attack being mounted against Jeff Rense, and I`ll tell you this much:

Jeff Rense has linked to my articles when many other sites would not and did not. He linked to my Minot Manifesto when others would not.

He has treated my research and writing seriously from the very beginning, going back many years.

There are other alternative websites whose editors will not even respond to my e-mails.

Jeff Rense was supportive of me when I went to jail in North Dakota in 2010. You learn who your real friends are when the jackboot of the USA government is on your neck.

There are some really big names in the alternative media, darlings of the alternative Internet community who don`t even give me, my research and activism the time of day.

So I have to count Jeff Rense as a friend and supporter -- for years.

Here`s the way I see it: really big events are going to be coming down in the near future, in March, April, May, June, July ....

So you may see more hatchet jobs and vicious attacks on websites, personalities, radio shows, etc. at the same time as, or as a prelude to global financial chaos and collapse, possible nuclear warfare, notorious false flag attacks, coups d`état, assassinations, geological upheaval, catastrophic failure (by accident or evil plots) of more nuclear power plants, and so forth.

It`s all part of the fog of war, it`s all part of a huge play of maya, a huge conspiracy to confuse and cloud your thinking, to keep you from seeing clearly and understanding clearly what is happening.

The hard reality is that we are skating on the razor thin edge of nuclear war right now, in these very days and weeks. The machinery of war, and false flags is all set up, primed for action, ready to go at any time.

Let me illustrate part of what I mean with two brief YouTube clips. They are just two or three minutes long and are well worth watching. The first is from Stanley Kubrick`s film, "Barry Lyndon."


Barry Lyndon, La marche avant la charge

We are just about at the stage where the French officers start shouting orders to their troops and they open fire on the advancing British infantry with repeated, deadly, musket volleys at point blank range.

The next clip also illustrates starkly what is being rapidly set up right now.

La charge à Eylau - Le colonel Chabert

We are about at the 25 to 35 second mark right now, where the cavalry unsheath their swords en masse and the officer gallops down the line just before the massive murderous charge begins.

Have you ever faced off, all by yourself, unarmed, against overwhelming military force?

I have. More than once. I`ve watched it build layer by layer, weapon by weapon, directed against me personally. Starting with the first hurried drive-by military patrol. Then comes the marksman with the sniper rifle aimed directly at my head, lying prone just over the brow of a nearby hill. At any second he could squeeze the trigger and my head would explode like a watermelon before I could even flinch. I wouldn`t even hear the shot. Then come more troops with automatic rifles. Then come the helicopters with heavily armed assault teams, audible from miles away, whop-whop-whopping their way towards me. Then comes an armored vehicle with a heavy machine gun and machine gunner. Then comes an assault team advancing on me physically with weapons drawn, pointed directly at me, sternly shouting orders to put my hands in the air and fall forward on my face on the ground. Next come the handcuffs, chains and jail cell after jail cell.

At any point in this process I could be killed, by the USA military, by guards or inmates in jail, or here in South America by the CIA or its hired killers, suddenly and without any warning whatsoever, even now, just for writing these words, or maybe even especially for writing these words. Or I could be arrested here in South America by the FBI or CIA and flown to a secret prison and tortured or murdered.

The difference between me and many of those reading these words is that I recognize this harsh reality, whereas many of you remain in deep denial.

There is a really dark and violent control structure on this planet.

It enslaves people -- by the millions and billions. It exploits people. It ruthlessly kills people, in very large numbers. It mind controls people, by the millions and billions. And some of its most hideous, darkest control centers are in places like Washington, DC, Tel Aviv, Paris and London.

All I can say is: Free yourself if you can. Free your mind if you can. Wherever you may be.

The sacred, hyper-conscious plants of the Amazon have shown me that better days are certainly coming for humanity and the Earth, as surely as brightest day follows darkest night.

At the same time, even a cursory reading of the financial headlines and a quick look at the state of international relations and the preparations for major warfare in the Middle East with a real danger of spreading to other regions of the planet, show that it is probable that we, the human race, are just about to go through a real darkly violent and grim period in our history.

From everything I have seen March, April, May and June will be very trying and eventful, and the second half of the year may even exceed the coming months in drama.

That is why I have staged repeated nonviolent peace demonstrations on nuclear missile silos in the USA during my lifetime, in the hope that somehow others could be awakened and nuclear war can be avoided.

Nuclear war is not necessary. It does not automatically have to happen.

But enough humans have to concretely PERSONALLY DO SOMETHING to create an alternative scenario without nuclear warfare.

And please don`t engage in any childish, magical fantasies that feature you somehow miraculously catching the last flight for New Zealand out of Heathrow or LAX or JFK or Charles de Gaulle -- as apocalyptic mushroom clouds billow up behind you in the rear view mirror.

If you don`t stand up to be counted in times like these, then you simply lack the courage to stand up and be counted.

If you need a model to copy, if you can`t think of any courageous action to perform on your own, then you can always copy what I have done.

I won`t pretend that it is easy. I certainly cannot promise you that you will be safe.

In fact, I can tell you that going out on the nuclear missile silos is very hard, and fraught with danger.

By the same token, I very solemnly assure you that nuclear war is also neither safe nor easy, and absolutely fraught with the most hideous danger imaginable.

So we all choose to act or not to act, to publicly vote or not to publicly vote, according to our will.

What happens next is a result of our joint global preference. What is your preference?

And that, my friends, is not an academic question.

The Ancient Wisdom Of The Infinite, Living Heart Of The Amazon

When I was younger I eagerly devoured the books of Carlos Castañeda as they appeared in print. I read and reread his descriptions of his encounters with the allies and the nagual. For me they were mysterious accounts of another world at serious odds with the insanity of the red-white-and-blue mental asylum north of the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo.

However, as I have spent more and more time in Latin America, beginning years ago in Mexico, I have found myself slowly being drawn onto the shamanic path. Back in the 1980s, I somehow managed to stumble across the path of some of Carlos Castañeda´s Mexican associates. A series of improbable events occurred over the course of several weeks that brought me face to face with the realization that, for whatever reason, I was interacting with a shamanic group whose life modus operandi and perception and mnanipulation of reality, whether physical, social or otherwise, was very substantially at variance with the rest of society.

More recently I have been involved with a number of South American shamans and the plant-based brews and concoctions that they use to access other realities. The effect for me has been to drive home the salient point that there is NO dividing line between the so-called physical world and spiritual realm.

The two are in fact part and parcel of the one and same continuum of reality, which is limitless in extent and mystery.

In recent weeks I have been working with malicagua, and even more so than ayahuasca or salvia divinorum, it has driven home to me the reality of the allies that Don Juan Matus taught Carlos Castañeda about. The same would be true of the nagual.

The shaman who is currently instructing me has told me that poweerful shamans of the past sometimes saw the essence of malicagua but that in its essential aspect it is impossible to rationally describe. It is beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. Malicagua is not bound in any way that the human mind can conceive. It is limitless.

The variety of beings that it brings calling is truly stunning. Many of them appear to be ordinary, everyday humans; so ordinary, in fact, that repeatedly I have found myself asking the shaman if they are his covert confederates that he has slyly sent to trick me or confound me. He smiles and says, no, that these are all beings that mnalicagua is sending to me for its own unknown purposes and reasons.

In one recent ceremony an ordinary-looking man unobtrusively entered my field of vision as I sat quietly behind the shaman´s house. I perceived that he was sent by malicagua so I asked him if he had a message for me. He slowly turned toward me and silently beckoned for me to come closer. I approached him and he put his face right in front of mine. I then saw that this was no ordinary man and that his response was no ordinary answer, because his eyes were windows directly into the void. As I gazed at his eyes I saw that they opened directly into the limitless, indescribable, infinitude of total nothingness. Nothingness, because there are absolutely no words or mental concepts in our modern languages or cultures to describe or understand the reality of what his eyes expósed to my consciousness.

Sometime later, I became aware that another human being had appeared in front of me. This was a solitary Amazonian warrior wearing a mioderately large, circular feather headdress. He was very solemn, almost regal in his prospect. His head was backlit with a soft golden glow. His face was painted with a greenishish-blue pigment.

Later when I was describing him to the shaman it was his feeling that this man was a shaman-warrior from deeper in the Amazon, perhaps from Brazil or Peru, whom I may meet in person in the future.

When I was studying South American geography, back in the 1980s, the professor used to impress upon the class that the Amazon jungle is the lungs of the planet. Kill the Amazon, and the Earth as we know it is done. Now that I am here in South Amnerica I am sure that he was right. The fortunes of this planet and the human race rise and fall with the fortunes of the natural world, with the fortunes of the great forests on this planet, in particular, the grandest of them all, The Amazon.

As I meet more and more spirits of the forest, as the medicinal plants of South America speak to me and reveal more of themselves and their reality to me, ranging from spirit warrior allies carrying blow guns, bows, arrows and lances, and also a whole slew of very ordinary looking, Western European-type human beings, both male and female, to tree people, to hyper-conscious insect beings, to animals ranging from owls, to armadillos, snakes and javelinas, the veil between the natural spirit world and the everyday world of consensual social reality is becoming more and more tenuous.

In fact, this is what the so-called Powers That Be fear so much. They are in absolute dread of large numbers of people establishing a conscious connection with the natural world, because that fundamentally threatens the machine consciousness, the artificial, mechanical, machine driven control structure they have spent so many centuries clamping down on this planet.

But there is no future in their vision, no life juice in their hollow, mechanical, artificial reality that they impose by genocidal military force on people after people, country after country.

One of the things that malicagua has shown me is that the time is coming when humanity will run joyfully through the forest singing ecstatically at the top of our lungs in a magical, majestic symnphony of life, in planetary concert with the mighty trees of the deep forest. All of humanity in joyful, full throat harmony with the mighty, ancient trees of this world´s forests.

Huge changes will soon be upon us. Much of what is coming will be far different than what the so-called ruling elite of this planet expect. This is because they lack a spiritual core, they are hollow, soulless entities. For this reason, spiritual realities are incomprehensible to them, they cannot begin to fathom them.

But they have had their day. They have held sway and had their say. Chance after chance has been extended to them to turn from their ruinous, self-destructive course. Even now they could express genuine remorse for their multitudinous heinous deeds and throw themselves on the mercy of the Universe. But this presupposes a measure of humility and introspection that they appear to lack. And so it does appear that their fate is sealed. They will continue to cause enormous harm to the planet and all its creatures right up to the last instant --and then they will exit the global stage and a new era will begin

When I first began to drink malicagua the shaman came and took my watch from me. He said it was better for him to do that, because malicagua does not like watches. If people do not remove them beforehand, then after drinking malicagua they routinely remove their watches and fling them away into the underbrush. He also took my belt. Malicagua does not like leather either. People also routinely take off their belts and throw them away in the bushes.

Malicagua does not like to be metered or constrained. Just pure, infinite, natural consciousness, flowing like a mighty river straight from the Infinite Living Heart of the Amazon.

This is what the Powers That Be want to kill. But in the end, Mother Nature does prevail, in a manner that they absolutely do not expect, could never predict, do not comprehend, and moreover will not believe, not even when they are personally confronted with it to their very faces.

Malicagua And The Queen Of The Natural World

I drank Malicagua for the first time, in the woods behind the shaman`s house. After about an hour the effects kicked in, exactly as the shaman said they would, to my complete astonishment.

Malicagua is a bright green juice that is squeezed out of the cambium tissue layer that lies just beneath the bark of the plant of the same name. There are no other plants involved, neither is the raw juice cooked or boiled. You consume a small portion of it on the spot and wait for it to take effect.

The shaman had told me that the spirits of the forest would appear right before me, in broad daylight, with my eyes open. and that I would be able to communicate with them.

Truer words were never spoken. As I quietly sat there, I suddenly realized with a start that I was not alone. The transition from one level of reality to another was so smooth and seamless that it took me completely by surprise. I was surrounded by a variety of beings, both human and nonhuman, who were soberly observing me at distances ranging from just a few feet away to up to 20 yards away. They said nothing, communicated nothing, and did nothing but quietly observe me. I had entered their territory and they had assembled as a greeting and observation committee, as it were. I sensed that they were reading my intentions.

Just to my right, on the edge of the woods, stood two male Amazonian warriors, naked save for loincloths and feathers in their hair. White and black pigment was painted on their bodes and faces, with the result that they blended in extremely well with the dappled shadows of the pole saplings that bordered the edge of the woods. They gazed at me silently. The shaman later told me that these men were spirits of the people who inhabited that region of the Upper Amazon before the Spanish conquest. In front of me I could see other humans garbed in large, dry banana leaves. It was a very effective camouflage, permitting them to stand right out in the open and appear to be short banana trees, as it were, with masses of downward hanging, dried leaves. They also said and did nothing beyond quietly observe me.

Then there were a number of non-human, green pigmented beings, with elongated, narrow faces and large eyes. It seemed to me that they may have been insectoid beings, or perhaps a variety of plant life. I could not tell for sure. Their faces strongly reminded me of the bright, green, elongate leaves growing on several of the plants at the edge of the clearing.

Finally, the most compelling of the entities gathered around me was a very green, tall, praying mantis-like being. I instinctively knew that "she" was female. When she noticed that I was looking at her, she began to vigorously, rhythmically sway her body in my direction. I approached her and stood in front of her, which seemed to please her. She looked very much like the praying mantis at the following link:

Photo of Praying Mantis

She then took her two feelers and begain to gently, daintily touch me all over my body, arms, head and face. I sensed that she was comprehensively reading every aspect of my being. She wanted to find out who I was and what I was doing in her realm. I also reached out to touch her, and did so, which I could see displeased her. So I refrained from touching her again. The next thing she began to do was to very energetically bob and weave her head from side to side, and also up and down, and toward me.

Her face was right in my face. The effect was very hypnotic, which I am sure was her specific intent. She wanted to move me to a deeper level of consciousness and set my ego-based consciousness to the side. With my conscious mind out of the way, and parked to the side, she could directly access my subconscious without interference from my ego.

And that is exactly what happened, because that is the last, clear conscious memory I had, for about the next two hours. I presume that the assembled beings and I did something together over those two hours for which I have no conscious recollection.

I felt no negative emotion or energy from any of them. On the contrary, I sensed great tranquil resolve and understated curiosity. The Green Lady was clearly in charge of the entire rendez-vous. I was in her bailiwick and she ran the show. I repeat that all of this occurred in broad daylight, with my eyes open. I saw everything that I normally see when I am awake, with open eyes. Only in this case, I also had a conscious encounter with other beings, human and non-human who showed up to meet me.

The Green Lady is unquestionably Queen of the Realm and works at very deep levels of consciousness. I doubt that anyone or anything is beyond her ken. I sensed great authority and power in her. She´s not God of the entire Universe, but on the other hand she is clearly not a personality with whom you would want to trifle.

Having directly gazed upon the hyper-conscious face of the stupendous green within, it seems entirely appropriate to me to refer to the Green Lady as Your Verdant Majesty.

Wisened In The Upper Amazon

I have drunk ayahuasca 12 times now, and every time it seends me reeling. Every time it slams me hard, at a physical level, and every time it raises new questions about reality, and our perception and experience of it, expanding my inner horizons.

A couple of days ago I journeyed into the edge of the forest in the Upper Amazon in the company of a Kichwa shaman. We built a sturdy lean to for shelter against the rain, and collected fallen wood for a fire. He then took me walk about through the forest in search of copal trees. We found a couple of towering, massive specimens from one of which he proceeded to collect small clumps of dried resin or sap. He did this by grabbing hold of a lone, thin vine that was growing straight up 150 feet into the crown of the tree, and yanking on it and slapping it against the side of the tree to knock off the clumps of dried resin. He then used the resin to light the fire as a hard rain began to fall, and thunder pealed.

Just after nightfall I drank a strong dose of ayahuasca and invoked the spirit of amasanga. I specifically asked to be shown what is going to happen in the near future, so that I could communicate what I was shown to a wider public.

Here is what ayahusca showed me:

I saw a large, rectangular compound, set in an open space that had been cleared in a forested area. The site was surrounded by a tall security fence with guard towers or gun towers in the corners. There were military trucks parked near to and also inside the fence, It was a concentration camp. It had a dark, brooding air about it, a low vibration.

Shimmering in the air above the military concentration camp was a sort of electronic mesh or grid or net. I understood that this electronic "shield", if you will, was a sort of frequency barrier to control the concentration camp and to prevent any higher energy or frequency from entering. The interesting thing about the electronic grid was that it encompassed only the area above the concentration camp. It conformed to the rectangular extent of the camp and no farther. I saw no signs or symbols, but had the understanding that this was an American concentration camp.

I wasn`t sure that this was the answer I was seeking, so I asked ayahuasca a second time to show what was going to happen in the near future (understood to be the next one to twelve months). Once again I was shown precisely the same grim scene.

Inwardly I thought, "O.K., that`s it then, that`s the answer. Military dictatorship, police state, internment camps, human holding pens, that`s what`s being planned, that`s what`s coming up in the future months."

I believe that this scenario clearly applies to individual countries, such as the USA, but can also be extended to the whole Earth, considering the whole planet as a concentration camp. The global police state is rapidly spreading its tentacles everywhere. Twice in the last three weeks, buses that I was traveling on were stopped by the army and the national police, respectively, and all the male passengers were ordered off the bus to have their personal identity documents examined. This type of thing is happening routinely in many countries now, including in the USA. Before I left the USA, in late 2010, federal agents entered a bus I was traveling on in New York state and walked the aisle, requesting passengers to produce personal identification. The same thing happened to me while taveling in Peru. Failure to comply can result in arrest and physical detention (jail) or deportation.

The TSA in the USA is now actively expanding its search operations beyond airport screening areas. Recent legislation in the USA such as the notorious NDAA lays the (il)legal groundwork for fascist arrest, detention and even summary execution of anyone, anywhere that the USA government deems a threat to its fascist, imperial agenda. And then there is the recent bid solicitation by FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for contractors to build fenced "camps" within 72 hours, in every region of the continental USA.

For more information, see here and here, and also explore the links here.

What I saw closely corresponds to the camps described in this FEMA bid solicitation.

The electronic grid that controls and subjugates humanity is also real enough -- television, radio, cell telephones and cell telephone towers,, HAARP, the GWEN antennas, ELF antennas, satellite microwave systems, the commercial electrical grid that spans large areas of the planet and feeds electricity into homes and buildings all over the world, and even more we do not know about.

I accept that this huge, global electromagnetic "shield" is a control mechanism that is used to artificially suppress human consciousness.

So that is what ayahuasca showed me initially. But I presisted in inquiring, "What is going to happen in the near future?" What happened next was not quite what I was expecting. I thought maybe it would show me scenes of financial collapse and social unrest, or of war, or natural disasters.

But it did not show me those things, perhaps because all of those are self-evident. Global financial collapse is already underway, social unrest is occurring in many countries and war is an ever-present threat rearing its ugly head.

So, no, ayahuasdca showed me none of those things.

What happened instead is that again and again, at intervals of several minutes I saw extraordinarily brilliant bursts of intensely white, pure light with slight traces of rose, lavender, violet and other hues and colors. I sensed tremendous significance and intent and order in the light, without, however, being able to consciously perceive any discrete image or message.

So I just accepted that ayahuasca wanted me to know that after the concentration camp(s) phase, after the police state repression, after the fascist human prison pens, the Great White Light breaks in and washes all of that away, like a great purifying tidal wave.

I have to say that the force of the Pure White Light is absolutely dazzling. It is unknown multiple orders of magnitude stronger than the shadowy gloom of the concentration camp scene. You might say that the fascist prison camps can`t hold a candle to the Great White Light.

So it looks like near future events will be exceedingly negative at first, but that the subsequent prospect of events to follow is far brighter!

The forces of gloom, doom and darkness will hold sway for yet another while, but after that their shadowy plans will melt away into insipid nothingness.

Nothing from nothing yields nothing. The Vipers Brood will be returning to the bottomless pit from which they sprang, fleeing in abject horror, fear and dread, as the Great White Light that they so loathe comes flooding in.

Coming soon to a planet near you. Details may vary somewhat from person to person, country to country, region to region. But that is the overall picture, as shown to me by ayahuasca.

Vorticular Madness Of The Dark Magicians

In my recent book, Hidden in Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files, I reproduce in full and discuss a couple of Project Paperclip memoranda (circa 1947) that I discovered in the historical archives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in Washington, DC. Of course, the Top Secret Project Paperclip operation brought large numbers of “ex”-NAZI scientists, engineers and technicians to the USA in the years after WW II, where they were salted into a wide variety of military, civil government and espionage agencies, corporations and other organizations.

The Project Paperclip memos caught my attention for a number of reasons. First of all, because they were requesting such prominent names as W.O. Schumann, Walter Dornberger and Eugen Saenger to be made available for Project Paperclip, the first being the preeminent authority in the world on extremely high powered electrical fields, and the last two perhaps the two biggest names in rocket science in the world at that time. The memos also explicitly asked for Xaver Dorsch and three other men to help with the U.S. Military's Underground Plant Program. Xaver Dorsch was head of the Todt Organization during the last years of WW II and was in charge of Hitler's frantic program of major underground base construction during the closing stages of WW II.

This greatly interested me because my earlier research had documented that in 1987, Lloyd A. Duscha, the then-Deputy Director of Engineering and Construction for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, gave a talk at an engineering conference entitled “Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons.” In the first part of his talk he stated that:

“After World War II, political and economic factors changed the underground construction picture and caused a renewed interest to 'think underground.' As a result of this interest, the Corps of Engineers became involved in the design and construction of some very complex and interesting military projects.”

Of course, a big part of the “renewed interest to 'think underground'” was due to the discovery in 1945 of the elaborate underground facilities the NAZIs had constructed during WW II. No doubt, one of the “political ... factors (that) changed the underground construction picture” was also Project Paperclip, though it went unmentioned by name by Lloyd Duscha in 1987. A little further on he said:

“Although the conference program indicates the topic to be 'Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons,' I must deviate a little because several of the most interesting facilities that have been designed and constructed by the Corps are classified.”

Subsequently Mr. Duscha went into a discussion of the Corps’ involvement in the 1960s in the construction of the large and elaborate NORAD base buried deep beneath Cheyenne Mountain, in Colorado. And then he said:

“As stated earlier, there are other projects of similar scope, which I cannot identify...”

I would add, parenthetically that I believe these multiple “interesting facilities” that are “classified”, which he “cannot identify” are likely to be either a) undersea, b) involve sensitive projects involving UFO technology and/or joint alien/human operating bases, and/or c) be located on the Moon and/or Mars and/or other planets and planetoids elsewhere.

Returning the discussion to Project Paperclip again, the request for the NAZI personnel in the Project Paperclip memos that I reference was made under the authority of the American military's USAFE-A2 Command, which is a military alpha-numeric designation still in use in the present day, having to do with the U.S. Air Force's European compartmentalized and sensitive intelligence operations.

Please see: http://www.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFI14-105_USAFESUP1.pdf

By logical inference, the USAFE-A2 Command is the arena of many Top Secret and classified operations and programs, and has been for more than half a century. Among its many responsibilities are: International Transfers of Technology, Goods, Services and Munitions, Disclosure of Classified Military Information to Foreign Governments and International Organizations, Visits and Assignments of Foreign Nationals, and Disclosure of Military Information to Foreign Governments and International Organizations.

Interestingly, the USAFE-A2Command includes OSS (Operations Support Squadron) units. The espionage acronym OSS is reminiscent of the WW-II era OSS espionage agency of the USA, the Office of Strategic Services. Does a remnant of the WW-II era OSS live on within the bowels of the USAFE-A2 Command, shielded within its secretive structure from public scrutiny? Who knows?

Of course, foreign can mean a number of things, including: nonnative, alien, originating outside of, or having to do with a place outside of or beyond the territory of a given district or country. Germans are, therefore, foreign to the USA. Martians or beings from the Pleiades are also foreign to the USA. And so forth.

One of the two Project Paperclip memoranda is signed by H.M. McCoy, Colonel, Air Corps, Deputy Commanding General, Intelligence (T-2), while the other is signed by Geo. F. Schulgen, Brigadier General, U.S.A., Chief, Air Intelligence Requirements Div., Office of Ass't Chief of Air Staff-2.

This is intriguing because Colonel H.M. McCoy is a well known figure in post-WW II U.S. military UFO investigations. In the immediate post-WW II period he worked out of Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio, where he interfaced with both the Project Paperclip operation, and directed the U.S. Air Force's major UFO investigation Project SIGN, which subsequently morphed into Project Grudge in 1949, with McCoy remaining as director. Please see: http://majesticdocuments.com/official.investigations.projectsign.php

Brigadier General Schulgen also worked out of Wright Patterson, and had involvement with both Project Paperclip and the U.S. Air Force's UFO investigations. Schulgen both received and wrote high level Top Secret memos on the UFO issue in 1947.

http://majesticdocuments.com/official.investigations.projectsign.php
http://www.2012changesarenow.com/2009/05/roswell-debris-confirmed.html

Remember that the recovered UFO wreckage from the so-called Roswell crash in New Mexico in 1947 has been reported by many to have been transported to Wright Patterson AFB.

Enter the NAZI Bell and Its Tangled History

I mention all of this because I recently read Joseph Farrell's fascinating book, The SS Brotherhood of the Bell, in which he avers that the NAZIs made almost science fiction-like technological breakthroughs during WW II, having to do with exotic, high-energy mercury plasmas, and the engineering of the vacuum or aether, call it what you will, with implications for UFO-like antigravity technology, new generations of scalar weaponry, time travel and more, based on a nonlinear conception of physics, a vorticular physics of the internal rotational stress of space itself. Farrell makes an intriguing case that R&D work on this technology centered on construction of a device known as The Bell (die Glocke). This project has also been earlier discussed in the books, The Hunt For Zero Point, by British aerospace writer, Nick Cook, and The Truth About The Wunderwaffe, by Polish military journalist, Igor Witkowski. The evidence indicates that the Bell R&D project was under the command of a Top Secret SS cell called FEP. This FEP-SS Cell, oddly enough, was under the direction of a Kriegsmarine Admiral Rhein (I will come back to this unexplained naval connection later), which clearly intimates some degree of involvement of the German war-time Navy in the Bell project. However, the actual work on the “Bell” project itself was apparently directed by an SS General Emil Mazuw, about whom very little is known, albeit that he was one of the highest ranking NAZI officers in the Third Reich.

Another important figure, SS General Hans Kammler, also is reported to have had a high-level connection to the Bell project. Kammler was no ordinary SS officer. He was in charge of concentration camp design and construction during the war. He was also tasked with the construction of production facilities for secret weapons programs, and with moving V-2 and V-1 missile production underground to the Mittelwerk facility in the southern Harz mountains near Nordhausen in the last year of the war. During the war Kammler was in charge of special construction projects for Albert Speer, special buildings for Hermann Goering, and for most of the last year of the war was in charge of the V-2 project, taking it over from SS General Walter Dornberger. This is the same V-2 program for which Wernher von Braun was the principle rocket scientist and engineer. At war's end SS General Hans Kammler seems to have vanished into thin air, along with the Bell itself. There is speculation that the both of them were perhaps secretly flown away to the USA and/or South America, or even another, unknown destination.

Part of Farrell's thesis is that near the end of WW II and in the following years, a powerful NAZI faction established an extremely secretive, extremely well funded, international organizational network to continue the exotic, high-tech R&D centered on the scalar, anti-gravity and time engineering breakthroughs they had made during WW II. The work is hypothesized to have continued after WW II, in part with the connivance of Operation Paperclip in the USA, but also elsewhere in various other countries of the world, including Russia, Egypt and Argentina, and presumably others, operating from within the military-industrial-espionage complex of the USA and other countries. Within the USA, this sprawling network had a number of nodal points, notably in Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, Florida and Alabama.

The Project Paperclip Memos

I definitely consider that the two Project Paperclip memoranda that I discovered in the NASA historical archives in Washington, DC are completely consonant with Farrell's thesis. I don't have the slightest doubt that Project paperclip was part and parcel of the post-WW II continuation of the NAZI agenda under official USA government and military auspices.

Winfried Otto Schumann, best known today for discovering the Schumann magnetic resonances in the ionosphere, was one of the preeminent high voltage, high current electrophysical scientists and engineers in the world in the first half of the 20th century. W.O. Schumann's name is on both of the Project Paperclip memos in question. Interestingly, W.O. Schumann was granted a U.S. Patent on 29 September 1942, at the height of WW II, Patent No. 2,297, 256 - - entitled “Tube Control.” The patent application was filed in April of 1939 in Germany. The title of the patent says that the patent is “Vested in the Alien Property Custodian.” (Hmm. One does wonder precisely what technology the “Alien Property Custodian” of the USA government has collected over the years.) To be sure, from the standpoint of Joseph Farrell's research on the SS Nazi “Bell,” Schumann's “Tube Control” patent pointedly has to do with vacuum-arc electrical discharges within a mercury plasma contained within a tube.

Joseph Farrell reports that mercury plasma and very high energy electrical fields are both said to be integral to the operation of the NAZI Bell. And Project Paperclip was “ordering” W.O. Schumann as of 16 June 1947, just three weeks before the famous Roswell UFO crash in New Mexico. What a coincidence, eh? I wonder if the recovered Roswell crash wreckage was also “Vested in the Alien Property Custodian,” like W.O. Schumann's “vacuum-arc mercury plasma Tube Control” patent?

Walter Dornberger, Werrnher von Braun's commanding officer at Peenemuende, and head of the V-2 missile program until Hans Kammler took it over in the last year of the war, is also listed in this memo. Dornberger was brought to the USA and went to work for Bell Helicopter, in New York State. That seems a strange destination for a ballistic missile expert. However, Bell Helicopter was for a period of time a leading company in the R&D effort for the U.S. Air Force's planned manned space program, the Dyna-Soar boost-glide rocket plane, during the 1950s and early 1960s. Most people do not know, or do not remember, that in that period there were two, parallel manned space programs under development, one at NASA, the Mercury and Gemini programs, the other at the Air Force, the Dyna-Soar program. Even fewer people know that Neil Armstrong, purportedly the first man to walk on the Moon, was in astronaut training in the U.S. Air Force's Dyna-Soar manned space program, before he left that program and became a NASA astronaut.

As regards Dornberger's odd placement at Bell Helicopter, was he placed there to get him out of the public eye, away from von Braun and the other Paperclip personnel, perhaps in order to run a compartmentalized program safely removed from the publicity glare of the manned space program and the USA's miliary agencies' ballistic missile programs?

Jospeh Farrell mentions the central role played by the Allgemeine Electricitäts Gesellschaft (A.E.G.) in the R&D of the Bell.

Two specialists with an AEG affiliation are requested by the Paperclip memos:

Dr. Orthenhuber, with an expertise in homing systems, and also
Professor Bladenbeck, with an expertise in guided missiles and infrared homing.

Others requested are:

Dr. Wolfgang Braun, with expertise in radar tracking devices, and
Dr. W. Pfister, with expertise in navigation and theoretical electronics
Dr. Ing. Max Knoll, specialist in cathode ray tubes and electron optics
Dr. Kurt Franz, theorist in high frequency technique
Dr. W. Wessel, specialist in theoretical physics and electrostatics of ion fields
Hans Bomke, specialist in theoretical physics and high frequency techniques
Prof. O. Scherzer, specialist in electron optics

For a more detailed discussion of why scientists and engineers with these qualifications and areas of expertise were of such interest to Project Paperclip please refer to Joseph Farrell's, The SS Brotherhood of the Bell. Suffice it to say that high energy ionized gases (plasmas), high frequency pulsing of electrical currents and fields, electrostatics, particle physics, radar theory and so forth, have direct application to so-called UFO technologies, and so-called scalar technologies. I'm talking about things like antigravity, electrogravitics, manipulation of the local foundation of the time-space continuum, and perhaps also time travel, or engineering of the time stream. It is clear to me at this point that there are important aspects of Project Paperclip that have still not been publicly divulged, even with the passage of several decades of time. Frankly, what we are looking at is a kind of Black Magic, an effort to technologically force the source-code of the Universe and subjugate the Creation to a duplicitous, technocratic, militaristic dominion.

Most of the "Bell" project took place in Lower Silesia. Notably, much of the most important work took place underground, beneath Fürstenstein castle. My research strongly suggests that the exotic technology R&D of the NAZIs continued in underground bases in the USA and probably also in other regions of the world. The Project Paperclip memos that I found in the NASA historical archives all but admit as much.

Virginia

President Truman, the 33rd President of the United States of America (and a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Free Mason-- you'll be seeing more of the number "33" and Scottish Rite Free Masonry in this article), established the CIA with the National Security Act of 1947, effectively wedding the Third Reich's sprawling NAZI spy apparatus, the Gehlen Organization, with the remnants of the American OSS. The practical result was that the CIA, from its creation, was a hybrid NAZI- American agency and provided intimate “ex”-NAZI access to the very highest and most secretive levels of the American power structure – government, military, intelligence agencies, industry, the halls of academe, you name it.

To my knowledge, the CIA has at least three principle bases of operation in Virginia, one at its world famous, Langley headquarters in northern Virginia; another at its extremely secretive underground base at the U.S. Army's Warrenton Training Stations in northern Virginia, about which almost nothing is known; and another at its Camp Peary training and operations base in southeastern Virginia, often popularly referred to as “The Farm.”.

Camp Peary is right across from Colonial Williamsburg along I-64, the interstate highway that runs from Richmond to Newport News. Camp Peary has an interesting history. During WW II it was initially a Seabee training base, and then was made into a POW base for “special” German prisoners of war that had to be held under very secretive conditions. Several years after the war, Camp Peary became a high security CIA base and remains so today. On maps, Camp Peary is identified as a U.S. Navy Reservation, but it is, in fact, a CIA base. As an aside, Camp David, the Presidential retreat adjacent to Catoctin State Park in the mountains of Maryland, is also a U.S. Navy Reservation, built by the Seabees and guarded by the U.S. Marine Corps. During WW II the area that is now Camp David was a training base for the OSS. Camp David today has a massive underground base that sprawls for miles beneath the mountains and countryside of rural Maryland. I have talked to people that have been down in the tunnels, and one of them told me that the Camp David subterranean maze is so vast and intricate that he doubts that any one individual has the complete layout of the place in his or her mind.

Interestingly, only a few miles away from Camp Peary in Tidewater Virginia, at nearby Fort Eustis, the U.S. Army's Transportation Museum possesses A.V. Roe Aircraft Limited's Avro Car, a prototype flying saucer that was under R&D during the 1950s by the Canadian and USA militaries. The official story is that it did not work well, and so the flying saucer project was scuttled due to the disappointing results. Personally, I believe this effort may have been a cover operation for far more secretive and successful R&D work on UFOs that has been kept out of the public eye for decades.

The Avro Car flying saucer was profiled in LOOK Magazine's 14 June 1955 issue, which asked: “Is This the Real Flying Saucer?” One of the things I found interesting about it, was that the article included an illustration of a large, underground, flying saucer base, buried beneath a mountainous terrain covered by a coniferous forest, in what looked to be a western region of the USA. I will come back to this a little later.

As I said the CIA is a hybrid organization from its inception, born in 1947 of the union of the NAZI Gehlen Organization spy agency and the USA's OSS (Office of Strategic Services).

I have already mentioned the CIA's well known Langley headquarters in northern Virginia, but there is another Langley in Virginia --- Langley Air Force Base just to the north of Hampton, Virginia – only a short drive from Camp Peary. This matters to this account, because NASA astronauts trained at Langley AFB in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the very period when NAZI involvement at NASA was at its height. Can it be coincidence that scarcely 10 years after the creation of the CIA – a hybrid, half NAZI organization from the very start, and the establishment of the CIA's main training base at Camp Peary, Virginia that NASA's main astronaut training facility was just a short drive away? Just to the north of Langley AFB, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, on the Delmarva Peninsula is another NASA facility on Wallop's Island, the NASA Wallop's Flight Facility, where many rockets and missiles have been launched over a period of decades. So both northern Virginia and southeastern Virginia have been hubs of espionage and high-tech R&D for post-WW II “ex”-NAZI elements, principally via NASA and the CIA.

Finally, just across the interstate highway from the CIA's main training base at Camp Peary, is Colonial Williamsburg, the 18th century town restored to its British colonial vintage condition with Rockefeller family money. Perambulating the area you would think yourself transported back almost two and a half centuries to an earlier era. As you look around you see men and women in colonial dress, you might see and hear a British or Continental Army fife and drum corps in period dress parading down the street, or horse drawn carriages, 18th century muskets and cannon, a windmill, or colonial government and royal administrative buildings. You would almost think yourself caught in a sort of time warp, or maybe a sort of time machine.

Are you? Is this what a functioning time machine looks like? Yes? No?

Would you know a time machine if you were looking at it? Yes? No?

Is Colonial Williamsburg perhaps an elaborate set-up or charade to permit discreet passage to and from the 18th century on the East Coast of North America? How deep does the rabbit hole go?

New Mexico

Of course New Mexico is famous for the so-called Roswell UFO crash and recovery in 1947. (The fact that there was likely more than one UFO crash and retrieval in New Mexico in mid-summer 1947, and that none of the UFO crashes and recoveries actually happened in Roswell itself is not my concern here.)

What does interest me is that in the summer of 1947 there was a large contingent of NAZI scientists and engineers working at the nearby White Sands Army Missile Range in south-central New Mexico. I doubt very much that that was a coincidence. I do suspect some sort of NAZI connection to or involvement with the events surrounding the so-called “Roswell Crash” in 1947, whether before, during or after the fact, and even, who knows? – potentially in all three phases.

Also nearby, is the so-called underground Manzano Base, just southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Construction of this underground base began – you should be able to guess by now – in June 1947, the same year the CIA was established, the same year of the Project Paperclip memos which are the focus of this blog post, and the same year of the so-called “Roswell UFO crash” and retrieval. I doubt that it is a coincidence that all of these things happened in the same year.

Recall that the Project Paperclip memos that I cite (and reproduce in full in my book, Hidden in Plain Sight) specifically call for Xaver Dorsch and three other NAZI technicians to assist with the USAF's “Underground Plant Program.” The Manzano Base was one of the USA military's first, major deep underground bases. Begun shortly adter WW II. The other was at what is now Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas (more about that a little later). The fact that this base was begun at precisely the same time (1947) that Project Paperclip requested Xaver Dorsch (1947) is surely no accident. He was perhaps the premier expert in the world at that time on major, underground base construction, having been explicitly tasked with that duty by Adolph Hitler in the closing months of WW II. I suspect he may very well have also been secretly brought to New Mexico under Project Paperclip to assist with the Manzano Base construction. Remember that we have the 1947 memorandum asking for him, he was in American military detention after the war, the Manzano Base was begun in mid-1947, and scores of other Paperclip NAZis were working in New Mexico at that time. The circumstantial evidence therefore points in that direction.

I have discussed the Manzano Base in my books and you can find information about it in them. There is also more information at this link.

Note that in addition to being an underground nuclear weapons storage and assembly factory, the base was also a Presidential underground shelter during the Eisenhower administration. I have reason to believe there is a great deal more to this facility than that, however. One of my high-level sources has told me that the Manzano Base is truly vast. This is from a source not given to hyperbole or exaggeration.

I was also contacted by a woman some years back who told me that her father made a death bed confession to his family that he had helped build an underground city in New Mexico when she was a child. He had frequently gone away from the family on work related business for prolonged periods of time in the post-WW II period, and never explained to the family the reason for his his long absences. But as he lay dying he opened up and the story poured out. He described an elaborate, almost sci-fi sort of underground city with advanced features that most buildings don't have even today, such as light switches embedded in the walls that you merely waved your hand at to turn on or off.

I have spoken to others who have been inside this facility, including one man who helped with the construction in the 1940s and 1950s. He was a life-long hard rock miner for the USA government. He told me that when he and his crew went into the mountain to begin their shifts they were always blindfolded. When they were shifted underground from one part of the mountain to another, they were always blindfolded. In other words, not even the men who excavated the tunnels and chambers of the Manzano Base knew the lay-out of the underground base they had built.

One of the stories I heard more than once is that the Manzano Base also includes an subterranean air base for jet fighters that can be scrambled from an underground runway and launched right from the side of the mountain through a camouflaged opening. While I cannot say if this is true or not, what is true is that there has been documented UFO activity in and around the Manzano Base in past years.

I definitely think that the Manzano Base must be considered a prime candidate to be the underground UFO base depicted in the 1955 LOOK Magazine UFO article, because it is located in western, mountainous terrain, covered by a coniferous forest that closely resembles the illustration that accompanies the LOOK article.

There are also underground facilities beneath White Sands Missile Range, where the Operation Paperclip NAZIs worked. My research indicates this includes at a minimum underground laser R&D facilities, and extensive, deep underground tunnels.

I lived in New Mexico for several years and I encountered many people during my time there who have seen a wide variety of UFOs and flying saucers. I also had some very clear UFO sightings of my own while living in New Mexico. It is very easy for me to believe that some, a lot, or maybe just about all of the UFO activity in New Mexcio is related to the underground bases and tunnels that lie beneath that state.

I want to say something more about the NAZI presence in New Mexico before I go on. It is well established that Wernher von Braun and his team of 118 scientists, engineers and technicians worked at White Sands Missile Range in the post-WW II period. They were put to work assembling and test firing V-2 rockets that had been brought over from Germany at war's end. The interesting thing is that there was one and only one V-2 launch complex at White Sands, launch pad No. 33. Of course, this is an echo of the heavy importance of the number 33 in the esoteric lore of Free Masonry. This, again, is not a coincidence. There was deep Masonic involvement with the early days of NASA, and its predecessor agency, NACA. Much of this connection ran through the House of the Temple, the 33rd degree Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on 16th Street, in Washington, DC, about a mile north of the White House. The Project Paperclip NAZIs like Wernher von Braun and Kurt Debus fired V-2s at Launch Complex No. 33 at White Sands after WW II, and later in the 1950s and 1960s they worked at the highest levels of a space program with strong 33rd degree Scottish Rite Masonic ties. I don't think this is a coincidence.

In case you are of the opinion that the New Mexico connection to UFOs is ancient history, perhaps you would like to reconsider your ill-advised bias and read the following: Haunted Roswell: Huge, Cloaking Aerial Disc Encounter by NM State Prison Corrections Officer

Texas

The Texas connection to this whole, mysterious, decades-long affair is strong and convoluted. First of all, the NAZI Paperclip scientists, engineers and technicians who were first brought to the USA in 1945 with Wernher von Braun were brought to Fort Bliss, in west Texas, north of El Paso, where they were housed as they worked at White Sands Missile Range in south-central New Mexico, where they continued working with V-2 rocket technology for the American military, in the late 1940s.

Other NAZIs also came to Texas. Hubertus Strughold, the so-called father of space medicine, went to Randolph Air Force Base, near San Antonio. Dr Walter Paul Emil Schreiber was also brought to Randolph Air Force Base, but then was soon sent by the USA military to Argentina, when his presence in Texas became publicly known. (I mention a little more about Argentina below. Argentina was also a focus of NAZI activity in the post-WW II era.)

The NAZI connection to Texas is interesting for a number of reasons, not least of which is the decades-long tie of the Bush family political dynasty to Texas, in both the political and corporate realms. The business and banking ties of Prescott Bush (father and grandfather, respectively, of George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush) to the NAZI regime, both before and during WW II, are a matter of record.

As it happens, there has been a sizable, ethnic German population concentrated in the Texas Hill Country for almost two centuries, beginning with a wave of German immigration in the 1840s. I do not at all mean to say that as a group that ethnic, Texas Germans are NAZIs – quite to the contrary!

I raise the point, because I cannot fail to mention Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, a native German speaker, who was born in 1885 in Fredericksburg, Texas, the county seat of Gillespie County, Texas. Fredericksburg is in the very heart of the then heavily German-speaking Texas Hill Country. Of course, Nimitz was Commander of American forces in the Pacific Theater during WW II. Interestingly, he went to privately visit German Admiral Dönitz, the commander of the Kriegsmarine during WW II, after Dönitz's release from prison in 1956. (More about Dönitz below.) Did Nimitz just extend pleasantries and condolences to his imprisoned NAZI counterpart, or did they have weightier matters to discuss? Perhaps even pertaining to the subject of this article? Remember that Nimitz was a native German speaker and by virtue of his rank and position would have been privy to the very highest levels of war-time intelligence. He was uniquely qualified to debrief Dönitz, in a way that virtually no one else on the American side would have been. It also must be mentioned that Nimitz was appointed the Chief of Naval Operations after WW II, and it was in this capacity that less than a year after the conclusion of hostilities in WW II he issued the orders for the well-known Antarctic Operation High Jump. Operation High Jump has been the subject of much speculation in both UFOlogy and NAZI conspiracy circles concerning the possible presence of a remnant, post-WW II, high-tech NAZI redoubt in the Antarctic region, perhaps incorporating a flying saucer base. I personally do not know if this is the case or not. Who really knows? A great deal of what happened just before, during, and just after the conclusion of military hostilities in WW II remains very murky, to this day.

With respect to Admiral Dönitz, remember that he commanded the German Kriegsmarine during the last two years of WW II, and that in the closing days of the war, Adolph Hitler appointed Dönitz to be Reichspräsident. Admiral Dönitz was, thus, de facto and de jure head of state of the Third Reich for the last week of its existence, in the first week of May 1945. Recall that, according to Joseph Farrell, the Bell program was conducted at a very secretive level by powerful elements of the SS, but was in reality also a securely compartmentalized Navy (Kriegsmarine) program. Farrell also points out the importance that mercury seems to have played in the Bell technology. As it happens, in the closing stages of the war, no less than three German U-Boats were dispatched to Japan bearing cargoes of mercury: U-864 with more than 60 tons of mercury in steel flasks, as well as jet engines, parts and technical drawings, U-234 with 562 kg of uranium oxide (interestingly, U-234 is also the notation for one of the isotopes of uranium), also mercury and optical glass in its keel, and U-859 with 31 tons of mercury. All of these German submarines were either surrendered or sunk in the last months and days of the war, so their cargoes are known.

Were other German submarines loaded with mercury or other exotic cargoes also underway at or near war's end, but perhaps completed their missions without being captured or sunk, and thus both their cargoes and destinations remain unknown? In that regard, it is noteworthy that German Submarines U-530 and U-977 both surrendered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, months after the formal cessation of military hostilities with the Third Reich. Did either of these submarines deliver a special cargo or special passengers to Argentina or another destination in the region, or is it simply that their commanding officers wished to surrender in Argentina. Who knows? But this is not the first or only time that Argentina has come to public mention as a destination for NAZIs fleeing Europe after WW II.

Given his close Texas Hill Country connections, and the continuing post-WW II immigration of Germans to the Texas Hill Country, including unknown numbers of SS officers, who knows what Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz may have known or been told? Who knows whom else he might have known, whether in an unofficial or official capacity? People like Nimitz and Dönitz were not ordinary men; the positions they held were not ordinary posts; the things they did were not the sorts of things that ordinary people do; and a lot of distinctly non-ordinary events occurred during, and just after WW II. Both Nimitz and Dönitz would both have been privy to an awful lot of Top Secret information during the war and at war's end. So what did Dönitz and Nimtz talk about? Did Nimitz fly all the way to Germany just to say, “Es tut mir leid”? ("I'm sorry.") I am inclined to think that their conversation probably involved more than a handshake and the exchange of social pleasantries.

Joseph Farrell also spends a lot of time on the assassination of President John Kennedy, which conspicuously occurred in Texas, and the probable involvement of a shadowy NAZI faction in the background machinations behind the hit, ultimately with the objective of keeping secret the revolutionary new technologies that they had discovered and developed, and which they feared Kennedy's policies of increased openness in the American space program would expose. To be sure, when you ask, at a pragmatic political level, cui bono? with respect to the JFK murder, the obvious answer, first and foremost, is that Lyndon Baines Johnson benefited by succeeding to the Presidency of the USA before the day was done.

Coincidentally, Lyndon Johnson also happens to be a native son of Gillespie County, having lived in Stonewall, Texas about 10 miles east of Fredericksburg, Texas, where Chester Nimitz was born and grew up. Johnson was a U.S. Congressman during WW II representing a Texas Hill Country district. He was also a Naval Reserve officer who played a high profile role upgrading the U.S. war effort in the Southwest Pacific Theater, serving as a prominent liaison between President Roosevelt, Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal, General Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. Senate and others. Obviously, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Chester Nimitz certainly knew each other personally, and certainly would have interacted face to face on multiple occasions, both having been born and grown up in the same, rural Texas county, both having been prominently involved at the highest levels in U.S. Navy operations in the WW II Pacific Theater, and both having played a prominent role in the public life of the nation.

Because of his lifelong Texas Hill Country ties, Lyndon Johnson is also likely to have known of, and quite possibly to have directly known ex-NAZI SS officers resident in his Congressional district. I worked and lived in that region of Texas for more than ten years. I got to know some of the Texas German old timers, and the inside scuttlebutt that I heard was that the last, known SS officer in the Texas Hill Country died in, or about, the year 1999. So if there really was NAZI SS involvement behind the scenes in the JFK hit, and if there really were “ex”-NAZI SS officers quietly living in the Texas Hill Country in the decades after WW II (as I have been told there were), then whom did Lyndon Johnson know, and when did he know them and what, if anything, did they talk about?
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Remember that when Johnson became President he moved NASA's mission control center from Cape Canaveral, Florida to Houston, Texas. Remember also, that in those days there was very heavy ex-NAZI leadership of NASA, at the very highest levels. Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus (whom Farrell reveals to have had personal involvement in the SS Bell project), Arthur Rudolph and others were in charge.

I mention this in part, because one of the stories that has come my way over the years, as I have pursued my secret underground and underwater bases research, is that there is purportedly an actual NAZI undersea base in the Gulf of Mexico, replete with large Swastika banners on the walls, just offshore from the Houston- Galveston area. I received this story second-hand, and while I cannot prove that it is true, I am willing to consider that it may be, especially in light of the documented NAZI ties to Texas that my research has uncovered. Moreover my research has indicated that the Gulf of Mexico is one of the bodies of water in the world where secret undersea facilities do exist.

An added consideration is the strong historical ties of the Bush family to both the NAZI Party and the Third Reich, and also to the Houston area, and to the powerful petroleum industry in Texas. The offshore petroleum industry in the Houston area certainly has the money, technology and trained personnel to construct undersea facilities. I believe that that has happened. As for the Bush family's NAZI ties, recall that Prescott Bush, father of George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush, both of whom became President of the USA, was a Wall Street banker before and during WW II with NAZI business ties Please see: How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power for his involvement in helping to facilitate the industrial foundation of the Third Reich's war effort, and the profitability of his efforts for the Bush family's subsequent financial fortune.

Note that Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were all three inducted into the super-secretive Skull and Bones Society at Yale University, which originated in the 1800s as a branch of a never-publicly-named German secret society. I duly note that the skull and bones insignia was prominently used by the NAZI SS during the Third Reich, and also by certain units in the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe.

Before leaving Texas I have to add that there was another major underground base built in the post-WW II period, in this case at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, at the same time that the Manzano Base in New Mexico was being built. I have been told that the underground base is near the Robert Gray Army Airfield, which is on the Fort Hood military reservation. I communicated with a man who was stationed there during the Vietnam War. He informed me that his underground duty station was located at a point two miles inside an access tunnel. I asked him what happened inside the underground base and he said that what happened there could be interpreted as having to do with a type of “Gray” operation. Given the context of our communication I understood that he meant that the USA military was carrying out a project at the Killeen underground base having to do with the so-called “Little Grey” aliens in some wise, or with their technology.

Ohio

I earlier mentioned Ohio, in connection to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which played a huge role in the Pentagon's UFO related research and programs, not only with regard to the Roswell affair, but in other respects, as well, some of which I have mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. Indeed, I have talked with one of the physicists (not a publicly known man) involved with the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book program who flatly told me that when he worked at Wright-Patterson that the US Air Force was secretly flying two UFOs of their own manufacture right out of Wright-Patterson AFB. He said that they would open the hangar doors in the dead of night and fly them right out of the hangars at full bore. According to him, one was a large circular vehicle and the other somewhat resembled a 1950s-era automobile.

I accept that the USA military has had UFO technology for decades. The Pentagon is just lying about that, like it lies about so many other things.

One of the reasons I accept that is because Ohio is also the home state of T. Townsend Brown, a 20th century, genius-level scientist, engineer and inventor who discovered and carried out extensive R&D work on electrogravitic and antigravitic technologies, with direct application to UFO technology. He worked for a variety of military and aerospace agencies and organizations, on research in this vein. At one time he worked for Dr. Vannevar Bush, whom many have linked to the Top Secret MJ-12 UFO organization. His early work demonstrated that an x-ray vacuum tube containing ionized particles would exert a force when connected to a high voltage source. The force was not attributable to the x-rays that were generated. This is strongly reminiscent of what the NAZI SS was said to have done with their “Bell” technology, which involved a sealed cylinder containing ionized mercury that was subjected to very high voltages. This force came to be called the Biefeld-Brown effect. I am sure that the NAZI scientists and engineers would have been aware of T. Townsend Brown's earlier work in the 1920s. During the 1950s Brown concentrated on electrogravitic and antigravity research. In the mid-1950s he was working in France for Projet Montgolfier which unabashedly had to do with levitating circular, flying-saucer shaped metallic objects. See some representative photos here. Brown reportedly made significant breakthroughs during his period of flying saucer propulsion research in France.

I accept that this is true without reservation or qualification whatsoever. During my own extensive literature search through the post-WW II military and engineering technical documentation I noticed that during the 1950s there was a flurry of research associated with electrogravitics and antigravity and then by 1960 or so, the references in the technical literature dwindled away. I believe this is because important breakthrough were made in antigravity and electrogravitics and the R&D effort was taken Top Secret into the hermetically compartmentalized world of black budget operations. I have no doubt that T. Townsend Brown was part of this secret R&D program, that must have included the NAZIs, too.

Interestingly, it is the case that Zanesville, Ohio, the hometown of T. Townsend Brown, also popped up in my research as the proposed site for a deep underground military excavation back in the early 1960s. Given Ohio's close connection to the UFO phenomenon through Wright-Patterson AFB, and through the life work of T. Townsend Brown, it would not surprise me in the slightest if an underground base was constructed far below Zanesville, Ohio that is somehow related to or connected to UFOs or UFO research.

New Hampshire

Jospeh Farrell also mentions the peculiar UFO abduction case of Barney and Betty Hill, because it explicitly raises the issue of NAZI involvement with secret UFO activity in the post-WW II period. The book, The Interrupted Journey, by John Fuller, describes in detail the September 1961 abduction of Barney and Betty Hill by beings in a glowing, cigar-shaped craft in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In my first book, Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide?, the White Mountains of New Hampshire were one of the locations which my research had revealed the USA military looked at in the early 1960s, and regarded as favorable for deep underground construction. I believe that deep underground facilities have, indeed, been built in New England, including in the White Mountains.

I point this out, because under hypnotic regression Barney Hill describes the commander of the group that abducted him and took him aboard the UFO as being a NAZI, specifically a NAZI in a black uniform. This is interesting because the Waffen SS officers did wear black uniforms. It is indisputable fact that Project Paperclip did bring large numbers of NAZIs to the USA, including a lot of SS officers, so I am open to the possibility that the commander of the group that reportedly abducted Barney Hill may really have been a NAZI officer. As I recall, Barney also reported that one of the other abductors was an Irish man, but could he have been slightly mistaken? Maybe the other man was not actually Irish, but Scottish? Perhaps a Scottish Rite Free Mason? The curious thing is that by this point I really do not think I am joking, because at that precise historical juncture in the USA there were influential NAZIs and 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemasons working closely together at a very high level on the American manned space program. One of Joseph Farrell's premises is that this close cooperation between high-level NAZI operatives and Free Masons may have extended into the hermetically compartmentalized world of Black Operations, specifically as regards UFOs and unconventional UFO-like technologies. I am in close accord with Joseph Farrell on that point. I would go further and hypothesize that this cooperation could also extend to working with one or more off-planet species or groups, conceivably non-human beings, or even human beings from other planets. And, yes, I have heard, seen, read and been told enough that I now accept that there are multiple planets, conceivably myriad planets in this galaxy, with resident human populations that very strongly resemble Earth humans.

The truth is that not all prominent UFOlogists are good researchers, so for whatever reason, certain aspects of Barney Hill's story have not been given the serious treatment and investigation that they deserve. I believe this has been a grave oversight. To his credit, Joseph Farrell is one of the few researchers and writers to have recognized the importance of the NAZI aspect of Barney Hill's experience.

Alabama

Not to forget Alabama, in particular the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville. After leaving Fort Bliss, Texas and the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Wernher von Braun and his team were sent to the Redstone Arsenal to continue working.

Early on in my research back in the early 1990s I had run across 1950s-era plans by the U.S. Army to build a large underground rocket base beneath Green Mountain, near Huntsville, Alabama. At the time I was puzzled by that, but now more pieces are falling into place. Wernher von Braun and his team were at Redstone Arsenal in that period. This was also the period where the USA military was really ramping up its post-WW II program of major, underground base construction, and the U.S. Army no doubt wanted Wernher von Braun and his team to have the same facility to work with that they had in Germany, during the Third Reich. Recall that the last year of the war, V-1 and V-2 rocket production had been moved underground into the Mittelwerk production facility in the southern Harz Mountains. The Pentagon was simply mimicking the Third Reich's playbook. Hitler had had an underground rocket factory, and the American generals wanted the same thing. I don't know if Xaver Dorsch was still being debriefed by, or consulting with or for the U.S. Army at that time, but the Pentagon would certainly have gotten detailed information from him about the NAZIs' extensive underground military and industrial production facilities.

There were also military plans to build an underground base beneath Kennesaw Mountain, in northern Georgia. Given the documented U.S. military interest in building underground bases in the southern Appalachian region, I assume that that has been done. If there are bases beneath Green and Kennesaw Mountains, they are clandestine.


Egyptian Project Paperclip

Many people are not aware that there was also an Egyptian analog to the American Project Paperclip. Hundreds of ex-NAZI scientists, engineers and technicians worked for years in Heliopolis, not far from Cairo. For a time Eugen Sänger was in charge of the research in Egypt. Recall that the services of Eugen Sänger were also explicitly requested by Operation Paperclip in 1947. Sänger was the father of the technology that ultimately led to the NASA space shuttle program. Walter Dornberger brought technical plans and schematics for this prototype technology with him when he came to the USA under Project Paperclip. I discuss this in my book, Kundalini Tales. Otto Skorzeny, the high-level SS operative who was seemingly everywhere, doing everything during WW II, was at least as active after the war, in organizing the international activities of “ex”-NAZI officers after the war. Skorzeny also was involved with the Egyptian “Paperclip” project, albeit in an unexpected way. Amazingly Skorzeny, the high-level “ex”-NAZI SS officer, was actually hired by the Mossad (Israeli Intelligence) in 1963 to finger ex-NAZIs working in Egypt. You can't make this stuff up!

But the Egyptian connection is interesting. As a House of the Temple docent patiently explained to me one sweltering summer day in 1997, Scottish Rite Freemasonry traces its roots back to the masons who created the ancient monolithic architecture in Egypt. This is a salient point, because 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemasonry had a close connection to the NASA space program (and its NACA forerunner) in the 1950s and 1960s. The House of the Temple, the headquarters for the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the USA, just north of the White House on 16th Street, in Washington, DC, had an especially close tie to the early NASA manned space program. In other words, in the formative years of NASA, high level Free Masons and high level NAZIs worked very closely together, and the connection ran through one of the most powerful Masonic lodges in the world, that considers that its historical antecedents trace back to ancient Egypt. At the same period, other NAZIs were at work in Egypt, on another technological R&D program. Coincidence? I suspect not.

Consider that the numbers 33, 33 and 1/3 and 333 are much beloved by high-level Free Masons. I don't know why, but they are. They positively revere these numbers.

I mention this, because the Egyptian Project Paperclip was based at “Sakr” Factory 333 in Heliopolis, just outside of Cairo. The meaning of the Arabic word, sakr, is “falcon” or “eagle.” One is reminded of the Apollo 11 lunar module, “The Eagle,” and Neil Armstrong's famous words upon setting down on the Moon's surface: “The Eagle has landed.” One is equally reminded of the NAZI eagle prominently perched over the Swastika on NAZI banners, medals, insignias, statues, and so forth. The modern Egyptian national flag also prominently displays an eagle. Coincidences? Perhaps not.

For more on the large NAZI presence in Egypt after WW II please see:
Postwar Arab links to the ODESSA network

To my knowledge, the NAZis are not still there at Sakr Factory 333 in Heliopolis today. (Though who knows?) Today, there is a Sakr Factory For Development Industries in Heliopolis, still producing missiles and other ordnance for the Egyptian military, and its mailing address is, you guessed it: P.O. Box 33.

The 33rd degree Masonic connection also arises at one point in Farrell's discussion, as he cites a memo that appears to allude to 33rd degree Masonic funding for highly Top Secret, MJ-12 related UFO research as it relates to a sprawling, international post-WW II exotic technology R&D program.

At one time there was a fair amount of information about the “Egyptian” Operation Paperclip at Heliopolis available online, but some of that appears to have vanished from the Internet in the past few years, or at any rate to be harder to track down than formerly was the case.

Before leaving Egypt I cannot fail to mention Dr. Farouk El-Baz. El-Baz is a native Egyptian, with a genius-level IQ. His PhD is in geology, but he has PhD level expertise in a variety of fields including remote sensing and photography, and more. He is a brilliant polymath with a formidable intellect. Let me explain his connection to all of this.

First let's look at a brief chronology of his career.

Born 1938.
1958 BS in geology and chemistry from Ain Shams University in Cairo
1958-1960 taught geology at Assiut University in Egypt
1961 MS in geology from Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
1962-1963 research at MIT in Boston
1964 PhD in geology from Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
1964-1965 taught geology at University of Heidelberg, Germany
1966 worked as petroleum geologist for Pan American-UAR company in Gulf of Suez, Egypt
1967 was put in charge of the surface lunar component of NASA's Apollo space program

Got that? He was just 29 years old, a newly minted PhD in geology, who had briefly been an adjunct professor, like a lot of young academics, and had spent a year working as a petroleum geologist.

From there he went directly to the very top of the NASA power structure, working at the highest and most sensitive level of the most important American scientific and engineering undertaking since the Manhattan Project. A 29 year-old Egyptian geologist, leapfrogged over myriad senior American engineers and scientists to be a) Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning, b) Secretary of the Landing Site Selection Committee, c) Principal Investigator of Visual Observations and Photography and d) Chairman of the Astronaut Training Group.

Remember that this was at the height of the Cold War. And a 29 year-old Egyptian was brought in to run the lunar manned space program. He was in charge of everything that happened on the Moon – landing site selection, lunar photography, astronaut training, lunar science planning.

I have spoken with one of the other men on the Apollo landing site selection committee and he remarked to me with disgust that the landing site selections were not made on the basis of scientific criteria, but were governed by "political considerations". I pressed him a bit, but he wouldn't elaborate on that cryptic statement. Given what I know now those "political considerations" could well have been NAZI or 33rd degree Free Mason "considerations", or even publicly unknown, perhaps esoteric, Egyptian "considerations".

So who is Farouk El-Baz? (I mean in the essential sense.) I don't presume to know with specificity, but he is very well connected at the highest levels in Egypt and obviously in the USA, as well. In 1978 he was appointed science adviser to the late-President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. For many years, he has also been a close friend and associate of Zahi Hawass, until this year the long-time Director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, with oversight over all of the ancient monuments such as the Sphinx, the Pyramids, Luxor, etc. Farouk El-Baz's brother, Osama El-Baz was also a senior advisor to Hosni Mubarak, the recently deposed, former dictator of Egypt. So he and his family are very well connected politically. Since his NASA days, Farouk El-Baz has held a variety of high level, prestigious, scientific and engineering positions. He currently is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.

But to come to the point, why was he suddenly brought into the very highest level of NASA in 1967? Remember that in that era NASA was being run at the highest levels by a NAZI SS faction and also had a strong tie to 33rd degree Scottish Rite Free Masonry, which traces its roots back to ancient Egypt.

The obvious conclusion is that Farouk El-Baz was groomed as a young man to be the point man between the 33rd degree Masons, the NAZIs and the hidden political power structure behind the Apollo program (whatever that may have been). El-Baz must have been uniquely privy to esoteric Egyptian information or lore that both the NAZIs and the 33rd degree Masons accepted as crucial to the success of the Apollo program. How else to explain his highly improbable, meteoric rise to such great scientific power, prestige and influence at the young age of 29 years?

The German connection is there in his two years at Heidelberg University in 1964-1965. Remember that the period 1960-1966 was also the time of the Egyptian Project Paperclip, when hundreds of NAZI engineers and scientists were brought to Egypt by Gamal Nasser, to run his rocket and missile program at Heliopolis. It is an absolute certainty that these German scientists and engineers personally knew their Project Paperclip counterparts in the USA. This was only 15 to 20 years after WW II and a great many of them would have worked together during the Third Reich, at places like Peenemuende.

I doubt that it is a coincidence that the last director of Sakr Factory 333, in the period of 1965-1966 or so, was Eugen Saenger, the father of the technology that ultimately resulted in NASA's space shuttle program. Saenger started working on this concept all the way back in the 1930s and 1940s, during the Third Reich. In Saenger's scheme the manned orbital unit was called Horus. Of course, Horus is one of the best known Gods of ancient Egypt. I don't know how all of this fits together, but it can't be coincidental that Eugen Saenger turned up in Egypt the year before Farouk El-Baz was sent from Egypt to the USA to collaborate with Saenger's “ex”-NAZI colleagues on NASA's Apollo program.

The obvious Masonic connection is there in the numerical designation of Factory 333 as the R&D site of Nasser's “ex”-NAZI-led missile and rocket program. To this day, the successor factory has a P.O. Box 33, a conspicuous 33rd degree Masonic calling card.

Conclusions

There is no question that there is a highly secretive, furtive, stealthy, immensely well-funded, exotically high-tech, parallel society that has a vampiric or parasitic relationship to the broader society in which most contemporary Earth humans live. This parallel society has constructed numerous underground and undersea bases and tunnel complexes, both in the USA and elsewhere around the world. It has also developed non-conventional electrogravitic and antigravity technologies. It has an extensive footprint off the planet, as well as underground and undersea here on Earth. It has likely established bases and/or colonies on the Moon and Mars, and perhaps farther afield than that. It probably has a working relationship with one or more extraterrestrial species or civilizations. It is sucking money and raw resources out of the global economy like nobody's business.

The NAZIs are involved, high-level Masonic factions are involved, major corporations and military agencies are involved, the big banks and financial institutions are involved, espionage agencies such as the CIA and NSA are involved, and for all I know secretive factions of certain Mormon and Roman Catholic organizations are involved, too. This is just a partial list of some of the likely players in this scenario. Clearly this network extends beyond the USA, indeed it supersedes the official policy and power apparatus of the USA government and military agencies, or of any other government or military institutions. The typical American president or senator is likely to know comparatively little (maybe even nothing) about these matters. In fact, I probably know more about these things than the vast majority of politicians do, not because of any unique quality or ability I have, but simply because I have inquired into the topic.

I take seriously the idea that these exotic electrogravitic and antigravity technologies also have an effect on the time stream, i.e., that they can be used to engineer or render plastic the flow of time, or the experience of time.

As far as I can see, there is a grand, multi-dimensdional chess game underway, with multiple competing factions contending amongst themselves across a vast stretch of space and time, leaping back and forth, not only spatially, in a geographic sense, but also temporally, skipping back and forth through time, tweaking the sequence of events, endeavoring to guide the whole grand time-space pageant on their preferred trajectory.

I think everything is in play, not just the control and destiny of this planet, or of this solar system, but conceivably of the whole galaxy, and beyond. This is a high stakes match for keeps, a power play for all the marbles.

In that regard, the year 2012 looks to be shaping up as an especially crucial year in this tangled equation. The wild card is the collective or planetary consciousness of the great mass of humanity.

How many people are there who are awake, or awakening? And exactly how awake and aware are they? What will humanity do as greater and greater numbers of people awaken? How does that affect the flow of the game?

Does that potentially create a checkmate, and a resetting of the multi-dimensional chess board? Perhaps the abrupt abandonment en masse of the chess match entirely, in favor of a wholly different approach to life and time-space?

To wit: we, the great mass of contemporary humanity on planet Earth, have been, and are now still being massively lied to. What are we going to do about that?

Food Crisis 101: Planting Tomorrow's Meals Today

I have had many gardens over the years, even though I've never owned any land of my own. But that has never stopped me from growing a few vegetables. There's always a place you can stick a few plants, along a wall, in a container – there's always a place you can grow something.

I learned to garden as a boy in Virginia, working in the family vegetable plot and yard. Over the years I have raised radishes, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, sweet corn, egg plants, tomatoes, strawberries, ground cherries, watermelons, Swiss chard, asparagus, green beans, Lima beans, peas, mint tea, squash, carrots, sweet peppers, hot peppers, cabbage, turnips, beets, turnip and mustard greens, and more. I learned by doing – hoeing, weeding, planting, transplanting, harvesting, etc.

It's relatively simple to garden. By that I mean that practically anyone can dig, hoe, plant, weed, water, etc. But there is a learning curve. You do have to learn how to garden and the only way to learn is by doing it! And there is no better or more important time to start than now. Even master gardeners are constantly learning new gardening tips and techniques, though everyone starts at the same place, with their first garden.

No two gardens are the same; no two years are the same. You learn something new every time you put seeds in the ground and care for whatever sprouts up. These days, interest in home gardening is on the increase again, as food prices rise and the specter of possible future food shortages rears its head. The impending, global financial crash, which in reality has already begun, is going to play havoc with the global agricultural system, with direct, negative consequences for food supply in communities all over the world. As we head deeper into the great financial collapse, food will be of paramount importance. Those who have food will survive. Those who lack food, well, they won't fare as well.

Which reminds me - - I have read the stories and have seen the photos in recent days of the rowdy, unruly hordes of so-called Black Friday shoppers, who stormed the stores in the USA, looking for bargains on cheap Chinese imports, as the frenzied Christmas shopping season moves into high gear. They are looking for all sorts of plastic baubles and trinkets, cheap consumer electronics, video games and so forth, that they will lavish on themselves and others in the coming weeks. Many of them are going hundreds, or even thousands of dollars into debt to buy a bunch of cheap, plastic junk. From an anthropological perspective it is a very primitive, peculiar tribal rite, indeed.

Better that they should have had the foresight to invest that same money into garden seeds and simple gardening tools. What will they eat in the coming time of trouble? Will they gnaw like rats on all that plastic junk that they spent their money on? If ever there were a time to be thinking less about throwing away money on needless Christmas junk, and more about devoting financial resources to ensuring future food security for one's family, now would be that time.

Of course, the time-honored method of guaranteeing food security is to produce your own. The Earth is bountiful if we give it half a chance, and work with it, instead of against it. I have never seen a garden that did not produce food. If you can plant a seed, you can plant a garden, and grow food. I know this is so, because I have done it myself many times over the years.

The better the soil, the more productive the garden, and nothing enriches the soil like good compost. Here's a small pile of it that I made earlier this year. You can easily make your own and dress your garden with it. I use a simple recipe – one-third soil, one third manure (cow, chicken, horse, rabbit – whatever I can get) and one-third plant organic matter such as tree leaves, grass clippings, peanut hulls, etc.

I mix it all up together and turn it a couple of times. It's ready within several weeks. One of the things I've done over the past year is to mix a few tons of compost for gardening here in Ecuador. It's a lot of work, but you'll get results if you are willing to invest the time and energy. The nutrient level in your produce will also be higher. I got a ton of chicken and cow manure for $20.

Oftentimes you can find materials for compost for low cost or maybe even free. Municipalities or tree services may actually give away shredded limbs and trees. Many towns have more tree leaves than they can dispose of in the autumn. Farmers may have more bedding straw and manure than they know what to do with. Look around. Keep your eyes peeled. You may find what you need close at hand, for the mere asking!

If you can also dress your plot with a good quality rock dust (granite dust, for instance) your garden will produce even better and yield fruits and vegetables of a superior nutritive quality. This is because rock dust contains the trace elements that are vital to physiological health-- both for plants and animals. The plants will take up the trace minerals from the soil, and you will ingest the trace minerals when you consume the fruits and vegetables that you have grown. You can readily find suppliers of rock dust by doing an online key word search.

I like the French method of raised-bed, intensive cultivation, as it reduces the need for stooping and bending over, once the initial work of making the beds is complete. It's easier to walk alongside and do the planting, watering, weeding and harvesting. For the sides of the beds you can use wooden planks, rocks, bricks, concrete blocks, whatever you have at hand. Then fill them with your compost. Keep the beds narrow enough that you can readily reach in to do your work. You can use straw, leaves or dried grass clippings for mulch to retain soil moisture. As the mulch decomposes it enriches the soil with organic matter and improves its tilth and fertility. You simply add more as needed. At the end of the season you just dig it in.

I prefer to plant heirloom varieties, or at least varieties that are not genetically modified and that yield plants with fertile seed that can be collected, saved and planted to yield another crop. The heirloom varieties usually have better hardiness and genetic strength and resistance to disease, pests and climate variation.

Here are some heirloom sweet pepper plants that I started from seed. I'll simply transplant them directly into the prepared bed and in a few weeks they will yield tasty peppers.

These squash are also an heirloom variety that produced prolifically. The flavor was delectable and they produced a lot of seeds for replanting.

This tomato plant is actually from a volunteer that sprouted from a seed in a rotten tomato that was thrown away. It was transplanted to this large container and produced tomatoes!

The bottom line is that you can plant a garden, even if you have never done it before. I have done it many times, and you can too. Even if you have no land, you can give garden seeds to a friend or family member who does have land, and cooperate with them on growing a garden. Also, it is eminently possible that in this time of coming trouble and likely food supply crisis, heirloom, organic garden seeds will be a very valuable commodity indeed. You can plant the seeds and produce wholesome, nutritious food, which unlike gold and silver, can be eaten for life sustenance. Garden seeds could also be a valuable barter item.