I’ve written repeatedly that the Cult of EMP Crazy is notoriously manipulative.
It plays to the extremist crank, as if craziness and fractured ideas need to be encouraged and amplified in American society. It captivates fundamentalist religious zealots who welcome the end times because of the punishments they think will be meted out to everyone not on their “to-be-saved” lists.
In fact, if you’ve followed Cult of EMP Crazy videos and newspaper claims on this blog, you’ll have sensed the undercurrent.
The Paul Reveres, the proper followers of Jesus Christ, the survivalists and the stalwart GOP rump are kind of hoping for an electromagnetic pulse attack so they’re vindicated and the unbelievers are struck down in one blow. And they won’t share their stash of pemmican with such scum when civilization fails
Anyway, it also hypnotizes stupid white guys in baseball caps. Guys training to work in homeland security.
DD knows the next video is hard to endure.
Our Paul Revere in a Guinness cap waves around the book of William Forstchen. He has the script memorized although his delivery is stumbling. And then the good parts: Our enemies will pounce. Al Qaeda will get the EMP scud in a tub. The Russians will come out of Venezuela. The Chinese will come out of Panama.
Heck, the Chinese will storm out of the port of Los Angeles or the yards in Long Beach! He knows, he grew up on southern California. Boy, are there lots of Chinese people here.
And here are the grinning fundamentalists, Jack and Rexelle van Impe, their smiles revealing they’d be pretty tickled if 90 percent — all the heathen — were killed off after an electromagnetic pulse disaster.
Naturally, one expects exploitation from the Heritage Foundation and the GOP. It’s called inspiring the base.
Here National Geographic gets into the game, massaging its ratings for the last couple of weeks, hoping to pick up the viewers who fall into the baseball cap man demographic.
Coming from what used to be regarded as an august source, it’s more mainstreaming of extremism in 2010 America.
In the blink of an eye the Huffington Post has established itself as another flugel horn for the Cult of EMP Crazy. As well as a place where posters couldn’t be bothered in the slightest to read what their compatriots are writing on the same subject. Just as long as it all gets into the Google News feed, pronto.
“Learn more about what would happen if an EMP bomb were ever detonated in the video below,” teases Bianca Bosker.
It’s the double opportunity for National Geographic-style info-adver-tainment and catastrophism.
Dig the title:
How an EMP Bomb Would Be a Deathblow to Life as We Know It
Readers may recall DD’s mention of Fox News singing the praises of the books of Ayn Rand yesterday.
It was during Glenn Beck’s show and came in connection with the host pushing his new book, The Overton Window. Rand, Beck — the same — both stalwart pushers against ubergovernments and philistines attempting to suppress truth, individuality and the creative genius that drives the productivity of America. John Galt strides the land.
Beck also went into a tizzy over a Washington Post book reviewer’s slag.
Today, Beck was absent but Fox ran a taped segment of him promoting The Overton Window again, linking it to rubbish I couldn’t follow, said concept of Overton Windowing having been allegedly invented by a think tank going by the name of Mackinac.
DD considers Glenn Beck an idiot. He immediately underlined it by mispronouncing the name of the joint he was promoting, calling it “Mack-in-Ack,” while the guest, who was actually from the place, used the customary parlance.
Since I couldn’t follow the logic of said Overton Window (discussion samples: if the socialist government continues on its current track, charity giving and private schools could be made illegal, Grover Cleveland was a great president because he hated the idea of government support, etc) except that it was invented by someone at “Mack-in-Ack,” I Googled Beck’s book and came up with this entry at the Post.
Wrote Steven Levingston:
Thriller author Glenn Beck attacked The Washington Post reviewer, er, me, personally on his Facebook page, saying he feels bad for Steve Levingston because “he soooo clearly wants to be an author, but, it seems, he just doesn’t have the talent.” He takes issue with a few other elements of the review.
Media Matters, which monitors and analyzes the conservative media, has assessed Beck’s criticism of my review, while Huffington Post reports that Beck’s book resembles a 2005 self-published techno-thriller by a computer programmer named Jack Henderson. Chris Kelly points out that “The Overton Window” is very much like Henderson’s “Circumference of Darkness,” except that “the villains planning the next 9/11 [in Henderson’s tale] are an ultra-right militia movement. In Overton Window, the right wing nuts are the heroes.” The piece notes another strange coincidence: Henderson turns up in Beck’s acknowledgements and is warmly praised “for pouring his heart and soul into this project.”
Coincidentally, Henderson asked me to provide a blurb for Circumference of Darkness a few years ago. I complied and it wound up on the back of the edition I have.
Henderson is a reader of DD blog and from time to time we’ve had friendly chats.
A year or so ago we spent some time discussing general breakdown in the US and why Americans never seemed to be up to bringing about any kind of beneficial change or improvement. Consdering the news on The Overton Window, it retrospectively generates a fairly decent “Hmmmm.”
Anyway, at the time, Henderson told me he was doing a writing gig for someone famous, a name he couldn’t disclose.
Given today’s news and what I remember about the conversation, and Jack’s comment that he hoped I wouldn’t think askance of it when I saw the eventual product, I infer he was actually the ghost-writer for Beck’s The Overton Window. Or something along those lines.
It’s no surprise.
Given what I’ve seen of Glenn Beck’s shows, the incoherent and/or
nonsensical arguments delivered daily, it would be a stretch to expect lucid print from Beck sans substantial propping up.
The final graf of Levingston’s review of Beck’s The Overton Window reads:
The danger of books like this is that radical readers may take the story’s fiction for fact, or interpret the fiction — which Beck encourages — as a reflection of a reality that they must fend off by any means necessary. “The Overton Window” risks falling into the tradition of other anti-government novels such as “The Turner Diaries” by William L. Pierce, which became a handbook of extremists and inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. As Beck tells his soldiers in the voice of Noah: “Put up or shut up . . . go hard or go home. Freedom is the rare exception . . . not the rule, and if you want it you’ve got to do your part to keep it.”
In February of 2009, I wrote briefly about Beck, his fascination with
encouraging revolution and his fondness for story lines similar to the arc of The Turner Dairies.
Regular readers will see the common themes, still touched upon weekly in the mainstreaming of extremist beliefs that the US will collapse, that the government will prove to be helpless or an enemy, that some manner of catastrophe is imminent and — ever more often — revolution, maybe violent, is the answer. (See here.)
“Maybe the Washington Post is out of line to compare it to ‘The Turner Diaries,'” wrote someone at Salon on Tuesday.
Media Matters, on Jack Henderson and Beck on the 14th, via admission in USA Today:
On the title page, Beck shares credit with three contributors. He calls the conspiracy novel “my story,” but he says Jack Henderson, one of his contributors, “went in and he put the words down.”
None of it makes Beck any less one of the bad guys in the current national narrative.
Jack, if you’re reading this, yep, I got your e-mail. And I was still dithering over a reply when this came up.
The new story which the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy now regularly shills is that of the angry sun.
The sun is waking up from a long period of quiet — which is true — and erupting solar storms and mass ejections may shatter advanced civilization, it goes.
Just like in “The Road,” the movie nobody went to see (or maybe “The Book of Eli,” another apocalypse-themed flop).
“Some of us read the book ‘The Road’ [a post-apocalyptic tale by Cormac McCarthy],??? said Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI). “Lots of different scenarios are out there. We need to be prepared.”
And Fox News has covered it, using the screen headline “Solar Flare Could Mean End of Life as We Know It.” All explained by the current dancing bear of ‘science’ as infortainment on cable TV, Michio Kaku.
It’s a new meme, a fresh piece of groupthink for non-thinkers.
You’ll see it everywhere because it panders to entrenched American extremist beliefs in tech superstitions and catastrophism. (Bubbling underneath are messages that white people will lose their piles to ravening hordes unleashed by the fall.) And the entertainment industry and parts of the corporate national security biz can monetize this by peddling titillation and fear, respectively.
Which brings us to the Huffington Post, a place where anyone can repeat what someone else said five minutes ago and get it in the Google News feed.
The sun is growing unquiet, writes D. K. Matai. This caused bad juju in lightning bolts:
1. BP temporarily suspended siphoning operations on its Gulf of Mexico oil gusher after a drill ship collecting the oil was hit by lightning;
2. A 62 feet — six storey [sic] — tall statue of Jesus Christ in Ohio came to a blazing end when it was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm and burned to the ground; and
3. A bolt of lightning struck a local gasoline storage tank in North Carolina, erupting into a wall of flames that leapt as high as 100 feet and belched a plume of smoke in the shape of an arch across eight lanes of US interstate highway.
To this stew is added the news of a ‘brown dwarf’ nearing or entering the solar system, the Nemesis object popular with fans of end-of-times tales set for 2012:
Some scientists believe an incoming brown dwarf star, several times the mass of Jupiter, is responsible for disrupting our solar system’s heliosphere. The brown dwarf has disturbed Pluto’s orbit. It is also disturbing the orbit of Jupiter and the rest of the celestial bodies in our solar system. The sun is emitting Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) during the last few months that are having a significant impact on the earth’s geomagnetic axis and electromagnetic field.
Matai runs a company called mi2g. And he used to be infamous for press releases warning about Y2K and cyberterror.
“The chief charge against mi2g is its regular predictions of withering cyber-assaults which, critics say, rarely seem to materialise,” wrote the Register a number of years ago in a piece entitled “Why is mi2g so unpopular?”
However, the disturbed angry sun story is now ascendant.
“Several causal factors are now in play that could bring life as we know it to a stand-still,” writes Nora Maccoby at something called the WIP.
“My husband and I are both extremely concerned about a catastrophic disruption to our electrical grid,” she adds. “Though the government and military have emergency plans in place, when you look at what happened with Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill response, it is egregiously naive to believe that the government will be able to handle the impacts of an event that will collapse the power grid.”
Iran might launch an electromagnetic strike via ballistic missile. This is the old and common overused story, beloved by the Heritage Foundation.
Or it could be much worse:
While details remain classified, some scientists believe an incoming brown dwarf star, several times the mass of Jupiter, is responsible for disrupting the solar system’s heliosphere, as well as celestial bodies throughout our solar system.
“We have bought property in the mountains, we are working out bartering arrangements with neighbors, and we are planting fruit trees and growing our own food,” asserts Maccoby.
“Deep in California’s Mojave Desert, about halfway between Barstow and Las Vegas, a real estate entrepreneur is counting on a big catastrophe,” reports one newspaper. “He’s building a string of luxury disaster shelters. Investors believe it’s their best hope in the event of natural disaster, terrorist attack or worse.”
“If your house burned down because of wildfires, you’ll have to find other accommodations,” the disaster bunker developer tells the newspaper reporter. “This is a mega-catastrophe facility … ”
“Think nuclear war. Or an electromagnetic pulse attack that knocks out electrical grids across the U.S.”
At $50,000 per person, the bunkers are marketed to those who can’t quite afford them — specifically, I’m talking about chumps. The rich, after all, can buy much more spacious disaster resorts.
Or as the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday, they buy contiguous and adjacent compounds in Bel-Air.
“The middle class may be able to buy Louis Vuitton bags and nice holidays but they can’t buy two mansions in Bel-Air,” reads one prime quote. “This is the way the global elite differentiate themselves.”
However, the newspaper story on the electromagnetic pulse doom bunker developer reveals a much more prosaic and overstretched class of buyer:
[A] 40-year-old former civilian military employee is married with three kids. [The man] says he wants to be ready, and more importantly he wants his family to be safe. Hodge is trying to pull together the $25,000 needed just to reserve spaces in the Terra Vivos bunker. It’ll cost another couple hundred thousand dollars to actually close the deal. He may dip into family savings, or seek a bank loan. If it sounds risky to put up your family savings for a piece of property you may never use, [the buyer] doesn’t think so.
It’s the stuff of science fiction. A strong blast of energy from outer space knocks out electricity over much of the planet, imperiling millions of lives.
But it’s not fiction.
The danger of geomagnetic storms and a human-produced electromagnetic pulse is the subject of “Electronic Armageddon,??? a show airing Tuesday on the National Geographic Channel. John Kappenman of Duluth is one of the experts featured in the program.
Common sense would seem to dictate that leaders of corporations ought not to be empowered by the US government to provide threat assessments which stand to directly enrich their interests.
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A report just issued by the Energy Department and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, known as Nerc, an industry group that polices the power grid, lists three categories of threats to the grid: coordinated cyber- and physical attacks, pandemic disease and electromagnetic damage.
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What [a New York Times reporter] does not mention, or perhaps has failed to notice, is the “report??? [had] essentially been written by the small interests which make up the Cult of EMP Crazy, with government workers as their staff.
Three of the report’s authors are part of the bomb Iran/ballistic missile defense lobby.
These include John Kappenman — billed as being part of something called Storm Analysis for the report, William Radasky of Metatech and Michael Frankel of Roscoe Bartlett’s old EMP Commission.
“Electronic Armageddon also looks at the damage caused by the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear device,” reads the Duluth newspaper. “The electromagnetic pulse would have effects beyond those of a geomagnetic storm, including gamma rays that would fry computer chips.”
DD has written about beliefs in catastrophism as it relates to the Cult of EMP Crazy previously. Most recently, here in “Scared Stupid.”
It read:
One of the more dubious ‘gifts’ of the Cult of EMP Crazy – a richly manipulative group, if there ever was one — is the cruel brain haircut it imposes on its lessers. Think of it as a cynical tax on the IQ reserve for the sake of the missile defense/Bomb Iran lobby.
It’s quite the accomplishment. Thanks to the Heritage Foundation’s press machine, GOP voters in a placid place like Lancaster, Pennsylvania, think they have to worry about national collapse.
The reason the Obama administration does not want to enforce our immigration laws is that they want to make Democratic slaves (voters) of these illegal immigrants …
The WaTimes should ask Ted to delve into the gray cells more deeply. He’s not giving them their money’s worth, as this has been so much a favorite of the GOP it qualifies as a golden oldie.
The next Tedly excerpt invites readers to play a game of anemic ‘logical’ constructions:
If we can put a man on the Moon, we can surely stop the invasion of illegal immigrants pouring across our porous border …
You can play along, too. DD will show you how with a few examples.
1. If we can put a man on the Moon, we can surely stop the Deep Horizon oil spill!
2. If we can put a man on the Moon, we can surely fix mass unemployment!
3. If we can put a man on the Moon, we can surely eliminate the growing need for food stamps in this country!
4. If Ted Nugent made “Cat Scratch Fever,” he can surely write another album that will put him back in the stadiums!
Ted’s WaTimes columns are so unintentionally hilarious, it’s clear he must spend virtually no time on them.
That’s because he’s busy — on tour in the heart of the nation this summer, playing places like the Donna Corn Maze, a surf ballroom in the middle of Iowa and Fort Smith, Arkansas.
“Ted Nugent will perform at 8 p.m. July 13 at Neumeier’s’ Rib
Room & Beer Garden, 817 Garrison Ave., and those attending will
hear great music and see what possibly could be an unscripted,
rock-and-roll experience,” reads the Fort Smith newspaper.
Venue owner Bill Neumeier told the newspaper:
Uncle Ted always gets wild on stage … Ted Nugent will be the biggest star to have ever played on the Rib Room’s stage … Now to have him on my stage, well, it’s a dream come true, and I hope it’s a dream come true for fans in Fort Smith.
Common sense would seem to dictate that leaders of corporations ought not to be empowered by the US government to provide threat assessments which stand to directly enrich their interests.
And sometimes people then come to the conclusion that the US government is only a tool for the accelerated transfer of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of such mentioned businesses.
Which is a pity.
The latest example, a smaller one than the national Minerals Management Service, comes to you courtesty of the Department of Energy and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (or NERC).
A report just issued by the Energy Department and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, known as Nerc, an industry group that polices the power grid, lists three categories of threats to the grid: coordinated cyber- and physical attacks, pandemic disease and electromagnetic damage.
What Wald does not mention, or perhaps has failed to notice, is the “report” has essentially been written by the small interests which make up the Cult of EMP Crazy, with government workers as their staff.
These include John Kappenman — billed as being part of something called Storm Analysis for the report, William Radasky of Metatech and Michael Frankel of Roscoe Bartlett’s old EMP Commission.
For the past couple of years this group has been given short shrift. Under the wing of Roscoe Bartlett, members of the EMP Commission went before Congress repeatedly, only to be appropriately brushed off.
And the only hedge against its usual nonsense comes in the title of the
report: High Impact, Low Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System. [Emphasis mine.]
Conspicuously, the “report” cites the “research” of one of its own steering members, Radasky of Metatech.
Metatech’s business is allegedly in defending against the threat of man-made electromagnetic pulse attacks on businesses and the nation.
So getting to help write a government report on the danger of electromagnetic attacks on the nation, and what ought to be done, is convenient.
On Metatech’s website some time is spent vaguely describing the threat of intentional electromagnetic attack. (See here.)
As another example, see this PowerPoint slide — from a presentation given to Poles in 2000 — of how criminals allegedly use malicious electromagnetism.
Notably, the DoE/NERC report contains a Metatech graphic of a notional attack by an electromagnetic pulse weapon.
It reads: “Of course [sic] other scenarios are possible including briefcase weapons taken inside by a visitor or disgruntled employee.”
Briefcases and suitcases of electromagnetic pulse were discussed here and here yesterday and today.
Wald’s blog at the New York Times is advertised as “about energy and the environment.”
A closer look by the Times might have shown that, in this — ahem — brief case, the real news is really not about either of those.
Overnight, tales of the electromagnetic pulsing suitcase begat the cure for everything on American borders.
This due to the well-known phenomenon in which journalists never have to see anything work or even consult the long and whack history of such claims to proclaim the future has arrived.
“[The stupidity and ignorance] of Americans has long been a topic of hilarity in Europe,” wrote Paul Fussell in BAD, DD’s book of the week.
It’s an explanation.
However, one thing Fussell closed his book with was one of the things that was not BAD in 1991. And apropos this post, today it’s just sad.
“Some things, indeed, range from good to VERY GOOD, like the American open borders when they’re not being compromised by follies … and the American assumption that its citizens are free, and indeed are practically invited, to travel the world,” he wrote.
Sadly, on the electromagnetic pulsing briefcase — which still has not been properly used to assail Wall Street — from the political blog known as The Hill:
Two Texas congressmen want the government to consider using new technology at the border that would allow law enforcement officials to remotely disable the engines of boats and vehicles they are pursuing.
Republican Michael McCaul and Democrat Henry Cuellar said in a statement Tuesday that the so-called electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device – which fits inside a suitcase – generates electric fields that can disable electronics …
“This is cutting-edge technology to meet the spectrum of 21st century threats facing our borders and ports of entry. Technology like this puts one more tool in the toolbox for our federal law enforcement at the borders. It’s empowering equipment to combat illegal activity.???
The device fits in a case developed by Applied Physical Electronics of Austin, Texas.
The Pentagon has been using electromagnetic pulsing briefcases and suitcases for a long time, even though the rest of us have somehow missed it.
“Similar prototypes from the firm have been used by the Pentagon during the last 12 years,” adds the Hill, without a hint of satire.
“The lawmakers, who sit on the House Homeland Security Committee, witnessed a demonstration in which the device was used to remotely disable a computer,” it added.
“It’s really hi-tech equipment … ”
DD wagers their must be some Randy “Duke” Cunningham or Jack Murtha-type thing going on to explain the hard sell on the junk.
The EMP Suitcase Compact 2100 Series, developed by Austin-based Applied Physical Electronics, emits high-amplitude electronic fields powerful enough to disable various devices “without causing permanent physical damage or endangerment to individuals,” as Cuellar’s Web site says. Similar devices have been used by the Defense Department for the past 12 years.
“Advertising is the sine qua non of BAD, of course, for BAD depends upon and arises only out of it,” wrote Fussell in 1991. “To have a fraud, you have to have a large distance between the touted grand appearance and commonplace actuality …”
With the possible exception of the tobacco industry, no industry is held in more contempt and scorn than big oil. This is strangely foolish … I’m convinced the energy business could make mining for energy virtually risk-free, thereby making the risk of an oil spill very low. Few if any coal miners would ever get hurt or killed again. However, if such a risk-free model were adopted, the cost of energy would skyrocket and kill the American economy. Seven dollars or more for a gallon of gas, anyone? BP and other energy companies are not evil enterprises that are out to rape the environment.
In conclusion:
Don’t be an American energy idiot.
Drill, baby, drill; demand state-of-the-art intelligent preparation and hold the ineffective, criminal decision-makers [of Fedzilla] accountable.
Good news, lads! Good news! We can stop a computer a yard away with the electromagnetic pulse suitcase of death! Gulf Oil spill, though, not so much.
And DD can total a PC with a ballpeen hammer made in China for a couple bucks.
Anyway, the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy has been populated with small businesses promising revolutionary weapons for as long as I can remember.
Two members of Texas’ congressional delegation on Tuesday toured a technology company that is developing a system that could be used for border security.
U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo , and Michael McCaul, R-Austin , said the technology in development at Applied Physical Electronics could stop smugglers in their tracks by shutting down vehicles’ electrical systems. Some workers likened the device to an electronic weapon.
The equipment is being developed in several sizes. Engineers are working on a handheld device that would be used at a very close range. There are also more powerful versions that could be mounted trains plains automobiles on boats, automobiles and aircraft and be used from a hundred or more yards away.
The Department of Defense already has been testing the Spicewood company’s gear, which works by sending crippling electromagnetic pulses that disable electrical systems, the company said.
For the last fifteen years, electromagnetic pulse ray technology has always been cutting edge, always desired by the military, always promised soon, always a Swiss army knife full of security applications.
And then another years go by and the world is not transformed.
“[The Texas politicians lobbying directly for money] — both of whom serve on the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism — said the system could be an effective tool for border agents to stop the boats, cars and other vehicles used by drug smugglers and human traffickers,” added the newspaper.
Plus, the electromagnetic pulse suitcase is a hedge against potential EMP suitcase gap.
“Located on a nondescript lot off Texas 71, Applied Physical Electronics was founded in 1998 and has 16 employees,” continues the news article. “Its annual revenue is about $3 million a year, the company said. In addition to developing security devices, the company also is working on countermeasures against similar electronic weapons that other countries are developing.”
News flash: The small company tinkerer isn’t going to change the world of weapons technology by any order of magnitude.
Years and years and years of electromagnetic pulse crazies and promises — from the archives.
One notes that if electromagnetic pulse crazy funding had to be justified by some actual test of usefulness to society, some people would just be plum s— outta luck.
Paul Fussell on BAD ideas, from the book – BAD: “Bad ideas are those that are palpably unsound, like constructing a building from the top down or like trying to run a car on water with a pill in it. Some people can always be persuaded to accept such notions but most would argue that except as material for jokes, they are a waste of time.”
The kook parade that’s the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy will always be with us. It possesses a solid underground.
And it is up for display regularly on the premier radio show for nutcases who believe in the paranormal, Coast to Coast with George Nori.
If you’ve ever watched SyFy channel’s Ghost Hunters for more than five minutes and felt your intellect being amputated, enduring Coast to Coast will give your brain an even more radical haircut.
Here’s a segment from a recent show. Newt Gingrich pal William Forstchen is a guest. This clip begins with a caller who gets talking about how Ahmadinejad could become the anti-Christ and put an end to humanity.
A little further in an old lady calls to inquire about the building of secret bunkers so that the government can ride out electromagnetic pulse doom. Or something like that.
Well, maybe not so much. The agency certainly ain’t what it used to be.
Can you name one astronaut or scientist not from the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo programs (or one who didn’t die in a space shuttle disaster)?
Didn’t think so.
Jumping back to last week, we take another look at a different specie of EMP extremist, William Saxton and his civilian national security group for worrying about electromagnetic pulse as well as spying on Muslims so that the impurifying of the precious bodily fluids of textbooks used to teach children be curtailed.
It’s a whole different breed of paranoid crazy, seemingly more high button than what’s delivered by Coast to Coast.
If one surfs to Saxton’s Citizens for National Security group, one sees Peter Leitner, mostly infamous for a bit before Congress about a decade ago, delivered during a House hearing on electromagnetic pulse which became notorious for the amount of frank lies and rubbish disseminated.
I wrote a few days ago:
At the time, the Chinese were said to be sending in sleeper agents to contaminate southern California public schools.
Why? To make our kids feel bad.
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[Testimony] — presented by author Dr. Peter Leitner on alleged Communist Chinese “yellow peril???-like subterfuge: “I’ve heard rumors . . . One I found particularly disturbing . . . [and] I haven’t seen any recorded documentation of these incidents . . . where very young-looking Chinese students were going to the United States and placed in high schools in the U.S. except their ages were 24 – 25 years old . . . They were brilliant students . . . Well, it turns out it’s an example of a sleeper agent, somebody who is put in position. He already has advanced degrees before coming in, then is put into the position as a seed and then is allowed to flourish in a totally unfair competition with U.S. student counterparts.???
Dan Pipes, who recently advised that Obama could save his presidency by bombing Iran, is also listed as a Citzens for National Security adviser.
CFN’s “task forces,” described here , aim at spying on various Muslim groups and compiling files on them.
“Once we have compiled this treasure-trove of persuasive evidence, we will offer it to those who need it most: prosecutors, law enforcement officials, media reporters, judges, congressional staffs, college professors, government at all levels, think tanks, public school administrators – the list is endless,” reads the mission statement.
And here’s a recent Fox News segment on electromagnetic pulse doom in 2012 due to solar flare — a new meme, one featuring an alleged “NASA scientist” (actually, Michio Kaku’s primarily a cable television fringe personality) who has been seen on TV trying to explain how he would make a flying saucer.
“Each 30 minute episode [of his TV show] discusses the scientific basis behind such imaginative schemes as: time travel, parallel universes, warp drive, star ships, light sabers, force fields, teleportation, invisibility, death stars, and even superpowers and flying saucers,” reads the man’s bio on Wiki.
“Solar flares could mean of the end of life as we know it,” reads the Fox News caption.
