The Global Political Awakening of the Profane Masses

When the target of the American patriot community announced the “global political awakening” from the podium to the members of his ilk during the Council on Foreign Relations conference in Montreal, the patriot radio stations went ballistic in the info-war and began streaming the same portion of his speech to their info-hungry audiences. Of course the speaker was Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Advisor and the author of the notorious works The Grand Chessboard and Between Two Ages. In the neo-patriot/resistance movement Dr. Brzezinski is known as the geopolitical mastermind, “the gatekeeper” to the higher sciences and the man who worked on the project to provoke the Soviet Union to enter into Afghanistan in 1979 (see Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998). The speech on the awakening movement was swiftly picked up by every patriot radio station which did not cease to mention it every week during their regular broadcasting periods.

Nevertheless, many social fundamental questions remain unanswered and a continuous replay of Brzezinski’s speech does not act as a catalyst to move closer to the answers. What is the correct interpretation of Brzezinski’s “global political awakening” speech? What does it mean to be awake? Is there a difference between a deep awakening process of the individual and a reactionary movement of the masses? Perhaps the public is merely reacting to the immediate social changes and adapting to them in the process. The following essay will address these and other questions in the context of the general analysis of the contemporary American society.

Due to the growing influence of the alternative media and patriot radio stations any social study cannot afford to ignore certain contributions they made to the perception and behavior of the American citizens. Any influential group must be put under close scrutiny of the social observer in order to formulate the radius and estimate the magnitude of the ripple effects they are producing. Therefore it is utterly important to understand the content of the messages that are being disseminated by patriot groups in the US.  

Before proceeding to the author’s discussion on the realities of the awakening movement few comments are needed to draw the frame of references and define the “awakening” terminology.

To be disgruntled about the current economic situation, outraged after being laid off, generally dissatisfied with social institutions, i.e. family and church, angry from going into the foreclosure are not the evidence for the person’s “waking up” situation. These are reactions to the crunching circumstances, the outbursts of discontent and the expressions of anger. When the person is being squeezed tighter the squealing intensifies. It is quite natural for political/economic/social burdens to cause a cascade of negative reactions in the public. “I lost my job, my unemployment benefits are about to run out, I no longer trust the government, I lost my trust in the President I voted for…I am awake now!” These are the usual expressions of callers on the radio who claim to be “awake”. When the market prices and government taxes go up the wallet of the consumer is drained and the mood suffers respectively. Being kicked in teeth and then punched in the eye does not add smartness to the victim. What has stopped them from being “awake” before? Were they sufficiently satisfied with bread and circuses?

George Orwell gave two examples in his famous 1984 novel that illustrate different levels of the awakening process. I am under assumption that my reader is familiar with this work and I will not belabor him or her with the tedious summary. After the main character Winston Smith understood that something was terribly wrong in his world, he began to make inquiries to find out about the general conditions that existed before the Big Brother System came on the scene. He needed some kind of an idea of the past to compare it to the contemporary circumstances and determine if it is better at the present, as the Big Brother system claims it is, or worse. Winston went to the proles’ district and searched for the oldest person. The old rugged man was waiting at the bar stand, Winston approached him kindly and started to converse with an old fellow, asking questions. What was it like before Big Brother; does he remember things from his young years? The only things the old man could recall from the distant past were that the beer was better and he might have won in the lottery. He had nothing of value to impart. Winston was asking the right questions about the past and the system of the present and he was genuinely curious and eager to learn. But the wisdom of an old man was as useless as the three legged chair, because all of his years were spent on booze, women and playing the lottery.

Another story is found in the narrative of Winston Smith’s illicit romance with Julia. The intellectual rebellion against the Party helped Winston to develop the hunger for knowledge and information. And Julia’s rebellion consisted only in satisfying her carnal desires that were prohibited by the Inner Party. Winston often read to her the excerpts from the aged pages of books and newspapers, but Julia usually fell asleep. She did not have enough wit or desire to understand the orthodoxy that she was forced to regurgitate in public. Her rebellion was “from the waist downwards” as Winston liked to say. Julia was one of those people who knew when to cheer and when to boo at party meetings. She was aware that the Party was lying but did not care to grasp the meanings of the crude distortions of the objective reality.  The adherence to the political correctness of today is reminiscent to Julia’s disposition.         

According to the writings and interviews by Zbigniew Brzezinski the meaning of the “global political awakening” concept differs from what is understood by the patriot community. The 20^th Century will go down into the annals of history as the century of mass education, mass proliferation of literature and when the precedent of the political awakening extended across the globe. The political awakening in the sense of the process in which the people are becoming politically aware and of the world in which the subject of politics has entered into everyone’s household. The politics are being discussed by the working class Americans on par with sports, entertainment and social affairs. The newspapers and books on the political issues can be purchased at any bookstore and are affordable to any working person. There are enough publicly available studies and data on any subject, but the only thing that is lacking is the number of concerned individuals. Anyone can become educated and informed on issues in order to fulfill their citizen duties. But how many do that? How many Americans do you know who can recite at least five amendments to the US Constitution? Therefore, the masses cannot fathom to pose any intellectual challenge to the elites. The core of the problem is in the public itself which is too easily distracted by the banalities on the television sets. Furthermore other innate obstacles prevent the genuine awakening to take place in the minds of the populace. For example, examine how easy it was to convince the public of the WMDs in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the former friend of America, on the basis that he was simply a “bad man”. Brzezinski’s collection of papers called The Geostrategic Triad and his article in Foreign Affairs January/February 2010 Issue in addition to the political awakening concept mention the “trivialization of news” and the “CNN effect” which makes every crisis relevant. The statements by the geopolitical experts on the rising complexities of the global order do not imply any insurmountable problems. The complex world can be defined as the multifaceted, interdependent and intertwined global order in which the establishment of the new world order is only the beginning.

The indefatigable repetition of the term “new world order” by the neo-patriots will not postpone the emergence of the global system. And those who are not familiar with the globalization nomenclature in the first place will not be psychologically inclined toward the anti-globalist stance. In addition to that what they have failed to realize is that the World Government is the next logical step from the National Central Government. The nation-state emerged from the amalgamation of princes’ and barons’ owned provinces under one polity, which in turn emerged from the integration of dispersed tribes and villages. For example, Pushkarev’s A Survey of Russian History explains that under the threat of outside barbaric herds small Russian regions were united into the larger political bodies in the early stages of the Russian history. In America the states were unified under one Federal Government after the Civil War. And the nation building in France began under the reign of Louis XIV who enticed the noblemen and the clergy to unite under one polity. It is humorous to hear certain leaders of the patriot community and their enthusiastic remarks on the global awakening: people are getting smarter, the elites are panicking, there is an actual possibility of victory over the ruling elites and the forestalling of the “globalist agenda”. The Congress cannot even audit the US Federal Reserve Bank or Fort Knox, the US has no private property to speak of ( the property taxes nullify the very concept of private property), all the rights are being turned into privileges through licensing, etc. This has been going on for at least 100 years and the globalists’ plan is not being grinded to a halt.

If there is an actual global awakening taking place and everyone is getting smarter, we would not be in a mess we are in right now. And what has stopped them from doing that before? America had more opportunities in the past to nip the creeping globalization in the bud. The anti-globalization rhetoric is the primary milieu of any patriot radio station and so far their resistance is proving to be futile. In the background we are witnessing the continuous process of domestication of the American public. When the public is unaware about the basics of their own country, how can they comprehend the intricacies of the global picture? Many voice their opinions on Democracy. But according to Founding Fathers America is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic, in which the rights of the individual supersede the stampeding desires of the majority.

The members of the John Birch Society and many other researchers have warned Americans about the impending global government for decades and its explicit death sentence to the national sovereignty. Despite their numerous jeremiads the vitality of the New World Order has not been drained. The globalization trend which was launched in the 13^th Century AD was never reversed and we are on the march toward an integrated international system. Jacques Attali, the France’s high-level bureaucrat, gave a historical account of the globalization phenomenon in his A Brief History of the Future. After the thorough examination of the movement of Capital and its designated elites Attali affirms that history flows in the stubborn direction and that not even Napoleon or Hitler could deflect it. The average person does not stand a chance against the prevailing global trend.     

The very concept of the “New World Order” is becoming passé; every politician, every big social leader and every mind molder uses it quite profusely. World leaders propagate the idea of the world government as the foremost solution to the world’s problems and a firm foundation for world peace. “Global problems require global solutions!” And what are “smart” Americans doing? Corporate revenues are a great indicator for that: eating in McDonald’s and watching sports.

One cannot claim ignorance for his or her defense when it comes to dangerous food additives, preservatives and GMO. There are so many informative documentary movies one can watch on the dangers of junk food and horrible food processing practices. Food, Inc. (2008) on the corporate food processing practices and their harmful impacts on the environment, The Future of Food (2004) about the threat that the genetically modified organisms pose on the biodiversity, The World According to Monsanto (2008) on the bankrupting of small farmers by the leading company specialized in the GM seed technology and Super Size Me (2004) on the effects of McDonald’s food upon human health. Furthermore if I were to step into a McDonald’s fast-food place and ask people: “How many of you believe that fast food is bad for you?” At least 70%, if not all of them, will raise their hands. What is wrong with that picture?      

There are many so-called radical right-wing groups in America who assign the guilt for all the problems and sufferings in the world on the international elitist families, i.e. Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Astors, Du Ponts and others. However, if one looks deeper into this conundrum he or she will find the cause in every American who supports this diabolical system through passive acquiescence or passionate justification. For example when they buy goods shipped from the Chinese slave factories, eat at McDonald’s, buy Tyson’s industrial meat, pay $150 a month for TV brainwashing, justify the atrocities committed against the Iraqi and Afghani civilians and put their personality profiles on facebook.com. Do you know that it takes several dozens of Chinese and Indian industrial slaves to manufacture your electronics, weave your clothing and make your shoes. The American consumer is a distant slave master, taking the crème from the world’s wealth, eating the fruits of somebody’s labor and keeping the surplus of production. Americans are now being told that the world is entering into an era of Global Competition. How can an American compete with 5-25 cents per hour Chinese worker?       

Americans are too preoccupied with sports and cheap entertainment and they have no time to be engaged in the public discourse or in the study of their supposed republic. However, a sports fan remembers all the game scores, keeps track of all players, he or she can go into elaborate sentences on picking the best players and placing them in the suitable positions to win the game. The brain capacity is there, but it is not utilized for more elevated purposes. It is not considered “cool” or “trendy” to study history, examine the preponderance of the US and related geopolitical imperatives throughout the world, read holy scriptures and conduct private research.

Can I speak with an average American about genetic engineering, the “great crash of 2008”, Goldman Sachs and its unlimited supply of personnel to the United States Department of the Treasury and the emergence of the Bretton Woods System Part II? Can I speak with an average Christian about the Talmudic interpretations of the first chapters of the book of Genesis, certain unsavory portions of the Old Testament, the zodiacal parallels with the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ and the Bible being ridden with sexual symbolism?

After several years of spirited Bible devotions at the age of eighteen I became a Christian zealot and made witnessing for Christ my personal duty. Every minute of my social life was devoted to the task of spreading the Gospel and sounding warnings about the impending Day of Judgment. Frankly, I would have had more success preaching to the sheep than to the stubborn nominal Christians. I had spent two years on the journey to spread the word which taught me a valuable lesson about the human nature and the overall social gradation. My discovery was not new to the history of thought. It was a mere personal understanding with strong spiritual connotations. People within each and every group are intellectually divided into two unequal parts: leaders and followers, independent thinkers and dull observers, actors and spectators, people with inquiring minds and those who “float” through life. If you are catching my drift, you will be of an opinion that sentient beings constitute a minority and the rest of the mass are blind followers of somebody’s bright idea. Therefore the entire structure of society depends on the wit of its leadership which can be either benevolent or tyrannical and the masses go with the flow and ride with the tide.

When I spoke with my fellow Christians about some of the Biblical content, I received either a stare or a sense of the complete lack of knowledge on the dogmatic stances. Some would relate a personal story to hold the conversation and avoid a deeper discussion on the postulates and principles of the Christian faith. Christians are not interested in the Bible and those who do show an interest are immediately placed into the pre-structured and preconceived interpretations of the scriptures. It will take another essay to explain how the interpretations of the Bible differ from one group to another and the asinine internal strife among Christian sects. The Church is treated as a social club, where people can congregate for general human interaction, build friendships and find a suitable mate. Very few individuals pursue knowledge and truth. In addition to that, the Christians who claim to be “truth seekers” are simply searching for evidence to reinforce their existing belief systems. The intellectual horizons cannot be expanded beyond the sect’s given philosophical frames. By the way, this is a premise of the Christian fundamentalist. The undesirable and contradictory evidence is discarded in order to preserve a cordial relationship with his or her predetermined ideology. The more ardent and knowledgeable “truth seekers” become leaders in the protestant communities and sometimes they are blessed with a large following.

The New Testament of the Christian Bible is explicit when it comes to comparing the people with a flock of sheep. Jesus Christ in the Four Gospels made it clear that people followed him because he gave them food and healed the sick, i.e. the provision of bread and entertainment. “…it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” (Genesis 6:6) The mediocrity and the feeblemindedness of people have been noted many times in history. “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you?”—the words of anguish uttered by Jesus Christ in the Gospel of St. Matthew to the commoner’s request to heal his son.

After I delved into the subjects of history, sociology, philosophy and comparative religions, my educational horizons began to expand and the number of topics in my discussions with the average person swelled. As a consequence two societal instances were unveiled to me: first, people’s knowledge is limited to the education they received in their schools and second, the pursuit of the factual information is directed toward the areas directly pertaining to their professions.

The masses are not interested in the global processes and trends which contribute to the formation of national and global structures. Every person lives inside a small circle of acquaintances and stays within these boundaries for the rest of his or her life. The burden of solving national and global problems is transferred to the elected officials to whom people lend their power. Thus, more time is freed for fun and games. The fundamental question of survival is neglected in the process and people become more prone to be misled by the cunningness of the elites.

An individual who is truly awake has qualities peculiar to the wild animals. Alertness, carefulness, responsiveness to the changes in the surroundings and individualistic dimensions are all sound qualities of the sane person. According to the work by Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Charles Darwin, The Next Million Years, the human beings who have retained to their original wildness are the only ones who deserve and who are fit to survive. The survival of the fittest is the basic concept of the Darwinian evolution and everyone abides by it regardless of the participant’s faith in it or lack thereof. But the fundamental question of survival has been disregarded by the majority of domesticated Americans. Henceforth, this is the true “secret” [obviously I am alluding to the popular self-help book by Rhonda Byrne The Secret] behind the success of a handful of families who control the majority of wealth in the U.S. One of the first graphs the professors in colleges show to their students in Economics 101 courses is the wealth distribution graph. 95% of the entire US wealth belongs to less than 1% of the US population. So much for the equality in the great U.S. of A.! This situation is reminiscent to the George Orwell’s scenario in the Animal Farm: “All are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Another forgotten truth in our modern civilization is that the only protectorate of the mind is the conscious self. You are the guardian of your mind and you are the only one who will be held responsible for the corruption of your mind. When the primitive types of defenses are down, which are responsible for survival, the person becomes susceptible to all forms of malicious influences. Hence, the personal walls can be breached and the mind conquered. The easy way through life is to be guided by an appealing leader, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many follow it. The narrow way, which leads to life, few find it (The Gospel according to St. Matthew). “Let the dead bury their dead” (Luke 9:60). This is a common expression found in the lexicon of philosophers and sages who designated all the unawake and uninitiated people as the walking dead, spiritually asleep and the profane bunch.

 One of the first things I stumbled upon in my stages of independent learning is the concealment of certain information by many organizations and the prevailing secrecy on certain topics. For example, the overriding power of the Federal Reserve Bank and its non-federal but private status, the 100 ruling families in the US and the real prospects of the single world government. It was both puzzling and nerve-racking. Many independent researchers from the patriot groups label the elite’s secrecy as the greatest threat to America and the rest of the world. I was of kindred spirit until I read the work by W. L. Wilmshurst The Meaning of Masonry. The author of the book [which was conveniently reprinted by Barnes&Noble in 1999] makes an argument for keeping certain truths away from the public’s eyes. The truth is too sacred to be unveiled before everyone. When the truth is released to the public, it immediately becomes corrupted, perverted and distorted beyond recognition. Wilmshurst contends that the public has a tendency to misunderstand many profound ideas and principles expressed by the world’s greatest teachers. Jesus Christ was a supporter of such a worldview when he spoke in parables and only the chosen pupils could understand him. Jesus also said metaphorically during the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matthew 7:6) In other words, do not throw the gems of wisdom to the unwashed masses, because you will pay a dear price for that. The knowledge is too sacred to be handed out like thanksgiving turkeys in the food pantry.

In my opinion it was a huge mistake to let the Holy Bible out of the monastery to the unprepared peasants in the Western World. When the Bible was first translated into the vulgar or common languages and allowed to be read by the laymen, these occurrences gave rise to the revolutionary changes in Europe. It was a turning point for Christendom when hundreds and thousands of rivaling groups appeared, each battling to push through their interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. Instead of brotherly charity and kindness, there are numerous sectarian battles springing up from the differences of opinion over a single Bible verse. Each protestant group claims exclusivity and superiority in their understanding of the Bible and believes that they will occupy the first row in Heaven. These are not the signs of spiritual maturity or greater cosmic understanding.

The above mentioned observations are not some unimportant personal remarks or isolated incidents, but a set of prevalent sentiments which are becoming the perils of our modern civilization. There exists an innate inability of the large percentage of the population to come out from the ignorance and spiritual darkness into the illuminating light of knowledge and higher levels of understanding. Therefore I will make a postulation similar to the one made by Wilmshurst: it is dangerous and erroneous to give out sacred truths to laymen like Halloween candy on the streets.

Generally speaking the awareness spreads unevenly, few individuals here and there raising their heads from the ground and for the first time starting to think for themselves. It is a rare and almost a religious type of experience. Buddha’s, Lao-Tzu’s and Jesus’ message was never meant to be accepted en masse. When it is given to the larger segments of the population the original doctrine is usually watered down and remolded to be attractive and sellable to the Joe Shmoe. The average person is a cheering or a booing spectator. The average listener of the “truth” radio station is waiting to be intrigued by the latest exposé, the dirt under some politician’s fingernails and, my god, somebody is going to take over the whole world. They are tuning in for entertainment reasons and not to amplify their global understanding or reach the next level of discernment.               

What happened to the America’s industrial base? Why products are suddenly all made in China? It is not that I want to work in the steamy factory, but apparently there is a growing nostalgia about the great productive American past. According to the Foreign Affairs articles [e.g. January/February 2009 Issue and others] the door to China was opened and all US industries started to move out overseas in the early 1970s after Kissinger and Nixon initiated activities with the Chinese government in secret. What was America doing at that time? America was in the deep recession, inflation and unemployment were skyrocketing and everything else was summed up in the cliché “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll”. They were busy having fun, copulating left, right and center. The whole country was in the one psychedelic dream. Nowadays, when the industries are totally gone we are forced to consume Chinese goodies which break the moment you get them out of the box. Wired magazine, May 2009 Issue, had a short article on page 52 written in small print stating that there are scientists who work on formulas to ensure that the electronic gadgets go out of order and break right after the warranty expires. The product lifespans are deliberately lowered to increase sales. The best brains work on techniques to compel consumers to dish out their hard earned money and buy products which they do not really need and are not meant to last.

Another set of best brains works on Wall Street, manipulating the stock market prices and earning bonuses for sinking the entire economy. However the only thing that the public still knows how to do is to be disenchanted about the corruption, the injustice and the inequity. Time magazine, March 11, 1974 issue, in the Letters section included a complaint from a reader who was decrying the ridiculously high salaries and bonuses the executives of the oil companies were receiving. Remember this was going on in the midst of the oil crisis. And in the midst of the financial fallout of 2009 the Americans were complaining that the CEOs of large corporations and banking firms were receiving bonuses while the economy was suffering from the financial crash of September 2008. I guess the times do not change and people never learn.

From the days of the passage of the National Security Act and the creation of the CIA the techniques of the psychological and informational warfare had become known to every peculiar researcher. However, little attention has been given to the levels of success of the brainwashing campaigns upon the populace. Aldous Huxley, a well known English writer and philosopher, clarified in the non-fictional book Brave New World Revisited that not everyone is susceptible to the workings of propaganda and persuasion campaigns, but the large bulk of the population does succumb to the state approved ideas and views. The acquiescence of the overwhelming majority was well understood by Edward Bernays, who used it to create the Consumer Society in the US. For further details on the exploitation of human weaknesses to produce happy consumers watch The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis, a British documental filmmaker and writer who currently works for BBC.        

A large number of deep thinkers and philosophers issued dire warnings on the dangers stemming from the obsession with the technological advancements. Neil Postman, who was a professor of Media Ecology at New York University, argued earnestly in his books that it is a Faustian bargain to accept a new technological breakthrough, because the new electronic device brings forth both advantages and disadvantages. Professor Postman was also aware of the indifference about such thoughts that exists in America, the country which celebrates and feels proud about its technological society. Couple it with other insightful and exhaustive works by social critics, participants and culture engineers: The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard on the workings of advertising on the human brain, Propaganda by Edward Bernays on the engineering of consent in the democratic state, The Impact of Science on Society by Lord Bertrand Russell on the scientific techniques employed by the central government to control the masses and The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul on the standardization of culture and its impact on men and women. These and other valuable books carry enough insight to wake anybody up and begin resisting the standardization of thought. I wonder sometimes how many Americans have read them.

Human beings were created to be an intimate part of nature and given a job of stewards of the Earth, to care and tender for her and become the wise guardians of her eternal treasures. We can only reap adverse consequences from the transformation of pristine forests into the concrete jungles of the city. We were made to live on open spaces, be spread out and gaze at a distance. Conversing with nature and our fellow species is the practical cure to all diseases and mental ailments. There is no need for a psychiatrist when you have an opportunity to listen to the soothing melodies of the creek, the sounds of the forest and the chirping of birds. The above narrative is not a digression from the article’s main theme but a vivid example of the level of detachment of people from reality. For instance, I have a great concern for the food I eat and upon my discovery that all apples on store shelves are covered with wax type of compound I started speaking out. One day standing at the store’s register I brought the wax-covered apples subject to the store’s employee and without any hesitation he gave me a shocking response. Apparently all apples naturally release a wax-type of liquid and cover themselves for protection. Finally I went to the Whole Foods’ store manager and her response was of no greater merit. She kept repeating that the apples are certified organic and all the standards were met. Others were simply indifferent to my remarks. I cannot change people who are willingly ignorant and do not look for the cure from their profane states of being. These instances are illustrative of the conditions in which the majority of the public dwells in. The conditions of blissful ignorance.

For the past 50 years Americans have complained about Big Government. The alternative media, including various patriot groups, specialized in exposing government cover-ups and sounding alarm bells on the looming one world system. However, the indignation alone did not produce any tangible results. The first step of the awakening process is getting indignant against the evils of the system, but it is not the last step. Howard Beale expressed these sentiments succinctly in the movie Network (1976) and the words of his speech that he delivered on the air are surprisingly relevant today: “I don’t have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the streets. There’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat! And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that’s the way it supposed to be! We know things are bad! Worse than bad, they’re crazy! It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV, and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything! Just leave us alone!” Well, I’m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest, I don’t want you to riot, I don’t want you to write to your congressmen because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write! I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians, and the crime in the streets. All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad! You’ve got to say, “I’m a human being, God damn it, my life has value…I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”

Unfortunately the sheer madness and complaining will not resolve the societal and political quagmires. The author’s suggestion to the patriot groups and everyone who still resists the planetary empire is to inject a healthy dosage of pragmatism into your resistance movements, unite under the common front and tackle the beast you are fighting against. The only enemy of the international elites is your individuality, your mind and the belief that human life is sacred. By grasping those things you will place your foot on the narrow path of profound understanding. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6) is the warning to those who made the choice to remain willingly ignorant and found refuge in the acquiescence to the popular streams of thought. Challenging the conventional wisdom is the sign of the thinking individual, regardless of how correct or faulty the new proposition is. Start thinking for yourself and the path of awakening will illuminate before your eyes.                                  

Written by Arseniy A. Kozlov

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The title of the presentation: Geoengineering: Mitigation or Menace?

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Have you looked at the skies lately?

http://www.infowars.com/have-you-looked-at-the-skies-lately/ 

If you haven’t, I urge you to do so. Observe the sky for couple of weeks and see if you notice something different, something strange there.

What am I talking about?

Long white trails emitted by the commercial aircrafts and other high flying aerial vehicles. Since the utilization of jet engines, we became accustomed to the sight of pencil-thin and short contrails that the airplanes leave behind. However, within the last 15 years the appearance of contrails has changed dramatically. Those who are a bit older might remember that condensation trails used to disappear within minutes and that was the case up until mid 1990s. Now the new types of contrails persist for a longer period of time and do not dissipate. Eventually they spread out and form eggshell color blankets, which will hang in the sky for several hours. Occasionally a careful observer will notice that the sky is being crisscrossed by the airplane condensation trails and thereby forming checkerboard patterns. Consequently, the skies above us become hazy or mushy. There are many other various patterns, colors and forms that contrails create. Unfortunately the lack of official public explanations created a breeding ground for speculation on the nature of these changes. Nevertheless, a flotilla of evidence regarding the new strange occurrences described above could be found in the scientific and government sources that are seldom looked at by the general public.

First of all, the new development in the sky must be identified and the difference between an ordinary and a more recent phenomenon of contrails has to be understood. Ordinary condensation trails from the jet airplanes are produced when the exhaust water vapor condenses on dust particles at high altitudes then turns into ice crystals and dissipates within 20 minutes. However, the new phenomenon of contrails has a vast visual difference and longevity. The term chemtrails was coined to explain the condensation trails which persist in the sky for hours, spread wider than in the past and eventually multiple chemtrails form milky veils or create cloud like formations. Various unusual chemtrail patterns can be observed daily in many parts of the North America. They appear to be denser, have an off white color and different hues can be created when the sunlight goes through one of the chemtrails. Furthermore, there is evidence pointing to the fact that the new type of contrails has a different chemical composition and no longer consists of a mere water vapor.

Sometimes chemtrails could be seen slowly falling toward the ground and samples can be collected. Dr. Len Horowitz has submitted chemtrail samples to the EPA but they refused to analyze them. Nevertheless, concerned citizens provided samples to the several independent laboratories which have conducted tests and the particulates of Aluminum oxide, Barium, Magnesium were detected in them.  

Equipped with test results the concerned members of the public requested various government agencies to produce a reasonable explanation for this new strange phenomenon, but to no avail.

Why are the earth-based chemicals being delivered into the atmosphere by airplanes? The only rational answer to this mind-boggling question came forward from the global warming activists, who call it a Geoengineering option.    

In the last couple of years the leading voices in the climate change awareness movement began to discuss more openly an emergency strategy to combat global warming. This scenario is now called the Geoengineering, and it is primarily based on the chemical sprayings of the atmosphere via high altitude aerial vehicles. According to the climate change leaders the geoengineering option will be carried out when all other attempts to reduce CO2 gases in the atmosphere have failed and the planet was at the brink of an environmental catastrophe.

For instance, Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, introduced a geoengineering idea on the TedTalks in February 2010. After his speech a question was raised regarding the implementation of the “emergency measures” when all other programs to reduce the CO2 gases in the atmosphere have failed. Bill Gates answered and spoke of geoengineering as the last option on the table to delay the heating of the planet. 

Geoengineering is an artificial way to alter the global atmospheric chemistry under the pretext of curbing global warming. It will be accomplished via cloud seeding with aerosolized sulfites, chemical sprayings of the jet stream and deflecting sun’s rays with a variety of means. This option was announced by experts and promulgated by philanthropists who deemed it to be the “emergency strategy” and a last resort against global warming. Geoengineering is part and parcel of climate control technologies, various weather modification schemes and weather warfare techniques.   

The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2007 issue, published an eye opening article with a headline “The Climate Engineers” pertaining to the large-scale weather modification experiments which are being carried out under the banner of geoengineering. The author presents an analytical summation of the scientific research on the weather control technologies, the rainmaking capabilities, the diversion of weather storms and the relevant applications thereof in the civilian and military fields. The article traces a number of scientific attempts to control the weather from the American Civil War to the present day propositions of the National Academy of Sciences on the artificial alteration of the climate. The experts from the various fields and disciplines made striking propositions and received an adequate government funding for geoengineering options. The options consist of cloud seeding with silver iodide, launching huge mirrors into the Earth’s orbit to deflect sun’s rays, for B-747s to deliver different chemical compounds into the upper atmosphere and to make clouds thicker by pumping whipped ocean water into them.

After the severity of global warming was exacerbated by a number of White House reports, the scientists began their search for a “technological quick fix” to the problem of climate change.   

The physicist Lowell Wood, who among other things worked for Pentagon as a chief weapons designer and threat analyst, made a peculiar declaration at one of the NASA’s conference. Wood offered an idea of creating a “global thermostat” to control earth’s climate. In order to achieve that he proposed to use large cannons to shoot highly reflective sulfate aerosols and “specially engineered nanoparticles” into the Arctic stratosphere. Supposedly the result of such geoengineering measures would be an “instant climatic gratification”.

Since World War II the enthusiastic scientists were experimenting with the cloud seeding techniques by dropping dry ice and other chemicals from airplanes into the clouds to cause or enhance precipitation. During the Vietnam War the US Military, with a full support of both presidents Johnson and Nixon, conducted a covert operation under the name POPEYE. The Air Force delivered cloud seeding particulates over the Ho Chi Minh Trail with a purpose of reducing enemy’s traffic ability.  

Thus, the geoengineering stems largely from the research on the weather warfare technologies.       

James R. Fleming, the author of “The Climate Engineers”, makes frequent references to the government and university documents and a UN publication to validate the point of how serious is the discussion on the weather control. The summarized scientific papers and White House proposals have many common aspects, including cloud seeding and the sprayings of the jet stream with various chemical compounds. The rationale behind the schemes of geoengineers is to overcome the potentially disastrous consequences from the uncontrolled climatic changes on the planet.

The schemes listed above fit exactly with what we are witnessing in the skies, when chemtrails spread out, become cloud like and either create of enhance weather storms. The chemtrails tend to whiten the sky and create haze, which persists for hours and then transforms into clouds. After four to five days of continuous chemical sprayings, dark clouds begin to gather together and precipitation follows.

The Foreign Affairs periodical, a literary arm of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, carried a revealing essay in its March/April 2009 issue entitled “The Geoengineering Option”. A panel of professors and University directors described the possibility of utilizing the climate modifying technologies to reduce the harmful impact of carbon dioxide gases on the earth’s atmosphere. The authors introduce the topic of geoengineering through a standard climate change experts’ argument. The rapid and severe climate change will produce catastrophic consequences, the greenhouse gases are not being reduced fast enough, and therefore the governments all over the world will be forced to undertake emergency strategies for curbing the effects of global warming.

The first presidential report on the dangers of global warming was made in 1965 and the geoengineering was prescribed to be the only remedy. Henceforth, the geoengineering on the planetary scale is presented to be the only feasible solution for the world in the state of environmental crisis.

In the years after WWII the US and USSR developed an intense interest in the weather warfare, and the geoengineering schemes emerged mainly from the research on the weather control techniques.  For example, the US military proposed to use nuclear explosions to create a “nuclear winter” which could considerably cool down the planet. The rest of the elaborate strategies against global warming were based on the “cloud seeding” to reflect sunlight or to thicken the clouds.

“So far, launching reflective materials into the upper stratosphere seems to be the easiest and most cost-effective option. This could be accomplished by using high-flying aircraft, naval guns, or giant balloons. The appropriate materials could include sulfate aerosols (which would be created by releasing sulfur dioxide gas), aluminum oxide dust, or even self-levitating and self-orienting designer particles engineered to migrate to the Polar Regions and remain in place for long periods.” (p. 69)

The above proposals were based on the observations of volcanoes, which after eruption and the release of soot and other chemicals were known to produce a cooling effect all over the globe. According to geoengineers the creation of the “chemical shield” around the planet is bound to create a similar volcano-like effect. Another scheme involves launching huge clouds of “thin refracting discs” into the earth’s orbit to deflect sunlight in order to considerably slow down the global warming effect on the planet.  

Just to add to these horrific scenarios, the last section of “The Geoengineering Option” essay is headlined “Brave New World”, alluding to the Aldous Huxley’s dystopic novel published in 1932.     

The literature summarized above has some common threads. The articles lead the reader to believe that such radical options were seriously discussed by scientists, but never came into fruition and the geoengineering remains a mere consideration in the array of possible solutions to the looming climate change.

Nevertheless, Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, a 1991 publication that was released by the National Academy of Sciences and is referred to as a “global warming Bible”, dedicated an entire chapter to the large-scale geoengineering projects and the current implementation thereof.

“It is important to recognize that we are at present involved in a large project of inadvertent "geoengineering" by altering atmospheric chemistry, and it does not seem inappropriate to inquire if there are countermeasures that might be implemented to address the adverse impacts.” (p. 433)

Therefore, the combination of the personal observations of the skies and the authorized literature on the geoengineering/weather modification programs raises the unequivocal conclusion that the chemical sprayings of the atmosphere began in ‘90s and continue to this day.

Can there be unintended and catastrophic consequences due to tampering with the earth’s extremely complex climate system? What are the detrimental effects of chemical sprayings in the atmosphere upon human physiological and psychological states? Is it known to produce respiratory problems, create new forms of allergies and cause other ailments? Why do jet planes deliver the earth-based chemicals into the atmosphere in the first place? These are the pertinent questions which are not properly addressed in the above publications.    

We need to become fully aware of the grand experiments under which we are being subjected. We must demand answers and the public forum has to be opened to discuss any “emergency measures” against global warming.

Similar experimentations took place in 1940s trough 1970s in England by the Ministry of Defense (“Millions were in germ war tests”, The Observer). Dangerous chemicals and biological agents were sprayed in the populated areas of the country, resulting in the massive health problems and fatalities. Also look at “French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment”, Telegraph.

We cannot let this happen again and become the next group of guinea pigs for the curious scientists.

Written by Arseniy A. Kozlov   

     

Geoengineering: Mitigation or Menace?

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While we are shivering from the threat of global warming, the international managerial body is collaborating with many countries to establish a sustainable planetary regime. The climate change hysteria is permeating every governmental department, scientific body and academic circle. This crazed hype is spreading like a wild fire, consuming our minds and molding us into the proper subjects for the new pantheistic age. Coupled with the emerging holy mantras: Go Green, Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Consume Less and the like. The experts in white lab coats make assertions that science is the panacea for a perilous human kind. Blinded by this belief the scientists have been experimenting over our noses, altering our climate and wrecking our ecosystems, with the hopes that some day they will control our planet Earth.

While stubborn politicians and zealous environmentalists actively discuss the reduction of greenhouse gases, some scientists are eager to offer an alternative to tackle the climate change conundrum. “CO₂ reductions. Forget about it,”— the enthusiastic scientists will say. “We have a quick technological fix for you.” Make the Earth brighter, send highly reflective particles into the atmosphere, bounce sunlight back to space and launch huge clouds of mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Create a “planetary thermostat”. It seems like a radical idea, but it no longer belongs to the realm of science fiction. In fact, the geoengineering on the planetary scale is presented to be the only feasible solution for the world in the state of environmental crisis. Geoengineering is being discussed by experts from various academic disciplines in the context of mitigating climate change and preventing a cascade of global environmental cataclysms. 

Before proceeding to the nitty-gritty stuff about geoengineering and immersing the reader into author’s analytical summation of white papers from various science programs, the historical background has to be painted. To elevate the understanding of climate engineering, one must be equipped with a wider historical perspective on the weather modification technologies.

One of the first attempts to modify the weather for a specific purpose could be traced back to the 19^th Century.  James Pollard Espy, aka the Storm King, was the first meteorologist employed by the US government. He is credited with the discovery of the thermal theory, which became an integral part of meteorology. Espy believed that the weather storms are driven by what he called “steam power”. The sun heated air ascends in a column, the surrounding air rushes in, then it cools, condenses and precipitation follows. Under this premise, the thermal theory of storms, Espy suggested to burn large forest areas to raise huge columns of warm air to trigger the creation of clouds and cause precipitation. I suppose, the Greenpeace and tree huggers were not around back then, and he was able to continue with his research on rainmaking techniques in Washington, D.C. under the funding of US Navy. Espy became a pioneer in weather modification technologies and others followed suit. 

Moving forward to the 20^th Century in the years after World War II the weather modification proposals began to gain momentum. The research Institutions across North America started to steam roll ahead with new propositions on climate projects. The US Military and its Soviet counterpart developed an intense interest in the new Cold War weapon.

In 1946, Vincent Schaefer, a laboratory technician, witnessed something extraordinary at the General Electric Research Laboratory in the New York state. Schaefer dropped some dry ice into a home freezer, which he used as a cloud chamber, and to his surprise the moisture from his breath transformed into tiny ice crystals. He created an ice cloud from “supercooled” water droplets. This was a crucial breakthrough point for understanding cloud properties and cloud formation. For a larger experiment Schaefer rented an airplane, flew over Mount Greylock in the nearby Berkshires, dropped six pounds of dry ice pellets into a cold cloud, thereby creating ice crystals and the snow fell along a three-mile path. On the next day, The New York Times and The Boston Globe published articles narrating a new cutting-edge research on artificial snowstorm manufacturing. Schaefer’s colleagues at MIT performed similar experiments by employing silver iodide flares to trigger an explosive ice growth in the supercooled clouds. This chain of events marked a historical moment when the use of dry ice, silver iodide and other chemicals were known to produce a chain reaction in the clouds and either create or enhance weather storms.

In China Lake, California at the naval weapons testing center the scientists have been working on the weather modification projects, developing rainmaking capabilities with the purpose to impede enemy’s movement and to disrupt their supply routes. One of the first successful campaigns unfolded during the Vietnam War under the full support of both Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. The U.S. Military conducted a full-scale operation to prolong the monsoon season over Laos. The Air Force delivered cloud seeding particulates over the Ho Chi Minh Trail to reduce enemy’s traffic ability and to hinder the movement of personnel and material goods from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. This covert operation was carried out under several names, including POPEYE and Intermediary-Compatriot.

The experimentations described above were among the first successful cloud seeding techniques and geoengineering stems largely from the development of the weather warfare technologies.
  

 

Cloud seeding (Picture from Wikipedia)     

As research circles started to expand and more of the qualified personnel were needed, the information on environmental weaponry started to leak out to the public and the governmental bodies were compelled to discuss it and eventually to impose restrictions on these potentially dangerous programs. In the John F. Kennedy’s speech to the United Nations in 1961 there was a call for an international cooperation on “weather control”. Consequently, in 1970s the UN organization drafted the convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD), which was ratified by nearly 70 nations and came into force in 1978. The Article III states that the convention allows the utilization of the “environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes” and calls for an international collaboration on these matters. With a full understanding that the advances in technology will open doors to climate modification, the preamble to the convention is enthusiastic about the use of such techniques to improve the “interrelationship of man and nature” and for the “preservation and improvement of the environment”. The ENMOD prohibits the hostile use of environmental alteration techniques, but provides leeway for non-lethal civilian applications, i.e. geoengineering. Fortunately, one of the signatories of the ENMOD convention left a note requesting the clarification of the ill-explained difference between “military or any other hostile purposes” and “peaceful purposes”.

The first presidential report found to exacerbate the “global warming” scenario was released in November 1965. The Environmental Pollution Panel and the President’s Science Advisory Committee prepared a white house report entitled Restoring the Quality of Our Environment. This publication was among the first to establish the linkage between the increases of CO₂ gases from fossil fuel combustion and the rise of surface temperatures. One of the subpanel reports lists the dooming environmental impacts associated with the rise of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide gases, e.g. the melting of the Antarctic ice cap and the rise of sea levels. Surprisingly the only remedy that the panel of experts prescribes is “raising the albedo, or reflectivity, of the earth […] by spreading very small reflecting particles over large oceanic areas” (p. 127). The dispersed particles are assumed to remain close to the sea surface, have high reflectivity and produce the necessary changes in the amount of reflected sunlight. In addition, the injection of cloud condensation nuclei into the atmosphere will contribute to the formation of cirrus clouds at high altitudes. According to the report’s findings, these “geoengineering” methods have the potential for “modifying atmospheric circulation” to curb the warming effects associated with the increasing carbon dioxide gases. Due to the inexpensive aspect of spreading aerosolized particulates in the atmosphere, the white house science panel calls for “an early development of the needed technology” that can also be utilized for the diversion of hurricanes in the tropics.

Geoengineering is presented by professors from the world’s leading Universities as an option of last resort against global warming. This is evident from the numerous workshops and briefings conducted at the Council on Foreign Relations and the submitted white papers by the weapons scientist Edward Teller and his protégé Lowell Wood. In summation, geoengineering is an artificial way to alter the global atmospheric chemistry, which is being carried out under the pretext of offsetting global warming from greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It will be accomplished via cloud seeding techniques to thicken the clouds by injecting highly reflective aerosols at the top of the atmosphere. The leaders of the climate change movement are propagating the near-apocalyptic worldview of the global climate reaching the catastrophic tipping point, and the science committees are convincing the governments that an “emergency measures” will have to be undertaken to overcome any “climate surprises” which were not foreseen in the computerized climate simulations. Most geoengineering schemes involve a controlled enhancement of the earth’s albedo, thus more sunlight can be scattered back to space. The cloud albedo modification will be accomplished through the atmospheric dispersion of the ice nuclei and various chemical compounds to affect cloud properties and cool down the climate.
 

Geoengineering proposition meets ridicule in 1991

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From Wilson Quarterly Spring, 2007.

If one decides to gain an understanding about geoengineering schemes, first the reader of this article must grasp the technical fundamentals. The scientific basis is provided and articulated by several primary sources. Any diligent researcher will notice that geoengineers in their research papers often quote and refer the technical staff to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4, 2007) and Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, 1992 publication by the National Academy of Sciences. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) prepared and submitted the Synthesis and Assessment Product to the President and the Congress in January 2009, titled the Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts, which was built upon the IPCC AR4, 2007. Although the report does not mention geoengineering, it lays the technical groundwork for an additional research and possible future applications. CCSP’s staff summarizes the current scientific understanding of aerosols global distribution, their properties and climate impacts.

Atmospheric aerosols are minute particles of different shapes and sizes suspending in the air. The natural sources of aerosols are volcanoes and the anthropogenic (manmade) sources are a variety of combustion activities, e.g. burning coal. Aerosols travel long distances and exert a global influence, e.g. pollutants originating in China can very well end up in North America. The measurements of aerosol properties can be obtained via satellite remote sensing and field campaigns that engage in the direct contact with the object of study. This methodology is also used to measure aerosols dynamics, evolution and spatial distribution. The obtained and analyzed microphysical properties of chemical particulates grant the insight for distinguishing different types of aerosols. The gathered data is later introduced into climate models and simulations are run to calculate the climatic impacts of aerosols. By the second assessment report the IPCC started to include data on the aerosol properties to determine if the cooling effects of aerosols can compensate for the positive radiative forcing of greenhouse gases. Levitating aerosols play a role of cloud condensation nuclei or ice nuclei on which water droplets form. Due to the fixed water content the increase in aerosol particles will lead to more cloud droplets, diminished droplet size and the outcome of brighter clouds, also known as the enhancement of “cloud albedo”.  

The sun is the main engine for the earth’s climate. About 30% of sunlight is immediately reflected back into space and the rest is absorbed by different land surfaces. The reflected fraction of sunlight is called the “planetary albedo”. The large-scale studies and climate models suggest that by spreading highly reflective substances in the stratosphere, a space-based sunshade can be created and the earth’s albedo will increase.

The conclusive remarks of the US CCSP are that aerosols exert a negative radiative forcing and produce a net-cooling effect. Therefore additional large-scale deployments of aerosols are bound to induce a cooling effect and curb the greenhouse warming process.    

Geoengineering claims are substantiated by citing numerous examples of volcanic eruptions in the past and their impact on the earth’s surface temperature. For instance, in 1991 the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines injected large quantities of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The chemicals remained in the upper levels of the atmosphere for several years, positively contributing to the formation of high cirrus clouds. The amount of reflected sunlight away from earth has increased, causing a cooling effect on the global scale of 0.5°C. Some scientists suggest that the greenhouse warming associated with CO₂ emissions was delayed in ‘90s because the volcanic eruption added sulfate particulates with backscattering properties to the stratosphere. If similar mechanisms are replicated up to par in a controlled manner, climate engineers believe to produce results akin to the natural volcanic activities.           

There are three prominent scientists who have led the climate modification techniques into fruition and civilian application. Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, Lowell Wood, Teller’s protégé and one of the Pentagon’s chief weapon designers and threat analysts, and Paul J. Crutzen, the Nobel prize recipient for chemistry. This high-class troika pulls the carbon-friendly carriage with the burden of climate engineering promotion in an attempt to resolve a global warming policy dilemma. The advocates for climate engineering label weather modification as a remedial or mitigating action against the severe climatic changes and promise to cure the earth’s ills with an innovative technological approach.   

Edward Teller, Lowell Wood and Roderick Hyde of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the University of California have prepared a white paper in 1997 under the name Global Warming and Ice Ages: I. Prospects For Physics-Based Modulation of Global Change. Since the programs to reduce fossil-fuel production and putting limitations on burning carbon based fuels are awfully expensive, this research paper proposes to apply novel, inexpensive techniques and avoid all climate failures in the process. The major challenge is to cancel the magnitude of greenhouse warming and to affect the rise of global mean temperature. The insolation-modulating scattering systems must be applied to accomplish the reduction of the incoming solar radiation. Different types of scattering material can be introduced at various altitudes in order to scatter sunlight back to space. Furthermore, the scattering material can be successfully recalibrated to be used in the project for preventing another Ice Age. The stratospheric deployment of several million tons of chemical material into stratosphere can reach the goal of 1% reduction of incoming sunlight and prevent the rise of world-wide average temperature by 3±1.5°C in the 21^st Century. According to the studies conducted at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, it is technologically feasible to disperse large quantities of sulfur or aluminum oxides in the atmosphere to delay the greenhouse effects of CO₂ emissions and induce global cooling. While most scattering systems were designed to be deployed at close proximity to the Earth, there is one option under review comprising the deployment of small metallic discs to the final destination between the Earth and the Sun. The highly durable metallic scattering materials will remain in outer space for indefinite period of time and be endowed with a capability to direct sunlight toward the earth for warming or backscatter sunlight for cooling purposes.      

Suffice to say, the common themes which are prevalent in the geoengineering literature have not escaped this piece of work: the dispersion of aerosolized sulfates, the deployment of electrically-conducting sheeting in low Earth orbit and the call for an international cooperation on the research phase of these types of projects.

Due to the continuous propagation of Global Warming via mass-media the dangers of greenhouse warming have been instilled in our minds and displaced a more relevant menace to mankind: the next Ice Age. The conclusive words of the world’s preeminent scientists are: “Greenhouse warming of the Earth due to human activities is a possibility. […]In contrast, Ice Age-severity cooling…is a practical certainty” (p. 17). The scientists believe that a technology-based approach will prevent the global climatic failures of all types.

In the editorial essay “Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to resolve a Policy Dilemma?” an atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen argues that the warming of the earth can be countered by backscattering solar radiation to space by increasing the cloud albedo. Based on the calculations from climate models, the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and other CO₂ emissions are already being countered by sulfate particles originating from natural sources. Naturally occurring sulfate particles act as cloud condensation nuclei affecting cloud properties and in end result increasing cloud albedo. The imminent threat of global warming and the failure to swiftly reduce anthropogenic (manmade) CO₂ emissions by 60-80% will prompt governments to provide an alternative solution to this dilemma. The artificial enhancement of earth’s albedo by adding sunlight reflecting aerosols in the stratosphere is a quick mitigating response to the unraveling climate change. The task can be achieved by burning S₂ (disulfur) or H₂S (hydrogen sulfide) to produce SO₂ (sulfur dioxide) and deliver it up into the stratosphere using artillery guns or balloons. Sulfur dioxide in the upper layers of the atmosphere will be converted through various chemical and micro-physical reactions into microscopic sulfate particles with stratospheric residence time of 1-2 years. The aerosols will reduce the amount of sunlight penetrating the atmosphere and compensate for the global warming process from CO₂ gases. Artificially introduced aerosols are measured to be smaller than volcanic or naturally occurring sulfate particles, thereby increasing the amount of time the particles will remain in the stratosphere and reducing the cost of continuous deployment of aerosolized material. In addition to that, Paul J. Crutzen explores the alternatives and substitutes to burning sulfur. For instance, shooting up specially designed reflecting and self-orienting nano-particles, launching large clouds of mirrors between the earth and the sun and to replicate a “nuclear winter” conditions by dispersing soot particles in the atmosphere. In a nutshell, these remedial attempts seek to mimic and supercharge natural processes to deny access to the sunlight and decrease surface temperature. Unfortunately the paper does not dwell on the side effects likely to occur from such radical measures. Lastly, the atmospheric chemist makes a call to intensify research in this area, and refers for further reading to the National Academy of Sciences 1992 publication, Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming.        

Scott Barrett, a professor at Columbia University, argues in his seminal paper The Incredible Economics of Geoengineering that climate engineering to combat global warming is one of the cheapest alternative options to the poor governmental attempts at general reductions of CO₂ emissions from burning fossil fuels. The feasibility of deliberate manipulation of the climate is substantiated by the low dollar value, easily attainable and cheap deployment schemes. The techniques to control global climate are receiving proper attention among leading scientists and technicians at major laboratories work tirelessly on the implementation phase of this grand project.

Dr. David W. Schnare from Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy stresses, in the testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works, the inevitability of utilization of large-scale geoengineering projects.

Essentially the climate engineers seek to replicate natural processes and geoengineering is presented in the publicly available documents as a solution for uncontrolled climate change. However, there is an ominous dimension to a “climate change Manhattan project”, speaking in the frightening words of Jay Michaelson (JD Yale). Apart from whitening the skies and making sunrises and sunsets more vibrant, the geoengineering has a host of adverse impacts—dangerous and unintended consequences upon humanity and ecosystems. Generally the geoengineering schemes focus on the amplification of the Earth’s albedo and not on reducing the concentration of CO₂ gases in the atmosphere. Henceforth, the acidification of oceans, the depletion of ozone layer and acid rain from burning sulfur are the most frequently mentioned side effects and undesirable consequences stemming from the deliberate addition of aerosols into the stratosphere.

The psychosomatic effects upon human beings are seldom explored in the literature copiously cited above. One can only engage in a meticulous study of statistical data supplied by national and global organizations to determine how ill people are getting in a new changing global environment. New types of allergies, widespread bronchitis, asthma developing in the adulthood and various respiratory diseases appear almost daily in the medical journals. According to the Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (2007), published by the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the prevalence of asthma has been steadily rising from 1970s to the present times. Air pollution is listed as one of the exacerbating environmental factors linked with the significant increase of the rates of asthma.

One of the most concerning impacts of aerosolized chemicals is the detrimental influence upon human respiratory system. This predicament of grave importance is not properly elaborated upon in the publicly attainable sources on climate engineering. Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts mentions briefly that aerosols “when concentrated near the surface, have long been recognized as affecting pulmonary function and other aspects of human health” (p. 12), unfortunately the statement does not unfold into greater details.

If the idea of spraying dangerous chemicals over our heads is not enough to cause indignation, consider the effects of climate engineering on the global hydrological cycle. The gathered evidence from the past volcanic eruptions, e.g. Mount Pinatubo in 1991, indicates the possible hydrological impact from the injection of aerosolized sulfites into the upper layers of the atmosphere. Climate models suggest that the creation of the chemical shield by the planetary geoengineering will cause droughts and flooding in many regions, thereby impacting fresh water supplies and disrupting agricultural production. Human tampering with the global complex climate system may result in the decrease of precipitation over tropics and increase of precipitation over sea areas.

Since many folks are visually oriented nowadays and watch plenty of movies I will end this list of detrimental effects caused by geoengineering on the sci-fi note. Sooner or later the scientists can permanently wreck the sky and induce a constant precipitation akin to the movie Blade Runner (1982), where in each scene it was raining. The Matrix trilogy is hopeless as well, the clouds were artificially thickened and darkness covered the earth for many generations.

Regardless of what one believes about the reality of global warming, the geoengineering is extremely relevant today. As alarm about climate change is spreading, the Universities and various think tanks are submitting proposals, announcing projects and conducting workshops on climate control. According to the National Academy of Sciences the geoengineering on the planetary scale is being currently deployed; the scientists are busy working in the field campaigns to study the impact of aerosols on the climate. The Texas Department of Agriculture supports the climate modification projects in some parts of the state and the US Air Force announced in their 1996 research paper, Weather as a force multiplier, that by the year 2025 they will “own the weather”. It is utterly important to start practicing your civil duty, i.e. being informed on issues, and demand the opening of the public forum to discuss weather modification projects under the condition of equal participation from the working class people. Given the sophistication of such technologies and their futuristic appeal, the military and private institutional implementation thereof is inescapable. Thus the procrastination of the American citizenry on this crucial subject is destined to become an instrument of our own demise.       

Written by Arseniy A. Kozlov