Civil Defense Perspectives 33(2): March 2018
After spending untold millions of taxpayer dollars, the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller has yet to turn up any evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian regime to steal the Presidential election from Hillary Clinton.
If Democrats care about foreign (especially Soviet or Russian) infiltration of our government, the focus and timing is indeed odd. Overwhelming evidence of Soviet influence from the days of Franklin Roosevelt forward has already been gathered (see Diana West, American Betrayal: the Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character) and generally ignored. If members of Congress had to pass a background check on foreign influences, how many could be seated?
The purpose of the open-ended Mueller investigation is evidently regime change—this time here rather than over there. It is part of a many-front campaign to obstruct Donald Trump’s stated agenda to “drain the Swamp.” In his book Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump, Jerome Corsi exposes relationships involving anti-Trump forces and Mueller’s activities.
The term “Deep State” was coined in Turkey, according to retired congressional budget analyst Mike Lofgren in his 2016 book The Deep State: the Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government. It is said to be “a system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary, and organized crime.” It “operates according to its own compass regardless of who is formally in power.” Its commitment, Corsi writes, is to a globalist New World Order, which aims to destroy U.S. sovereignty, under world governance.
An aspect of “Russian collusion” that Mueller is not investigating is the convoluted scheme of Uranium One, allegedly involving espionage, extortion, bribery, racketeering, and pay-toplay arrangements with the Clinton Foundation. Mueller himself delivered a sample of highly enriched uranium to Russia in a secret mission for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, writes Corsi, for obscure reasons. Clinton’s “Russia reset” strategy also involved sale of military technology to Russia. Players also allegedly included the Obama Administration, John Podesta, and the Podesta Group, a lobbying firm headed by Tony Podesta.
Russia and “Green” Groups
Elections aside, Russia has a huge interest in undermining American energy independence—another Trump priority.
Thanks to new technologies, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) now supports 4.3 million jobs and generates about half a trillion dollars in economic benefit to the U.S. every year. Additionally, natural gas prices have dropped in half, saving American families an average of $200 a year. Fracking produces more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil a year—more than half of the total U.S. oil output—and is the major reason why the U.S. is on pace to become completely energy independent by 2020 (Newsweek 1/29/17, https://tinyurl.com/jx7mpex).
Growing U.S. gas exports threaten the profitability of Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned oil and gas monopoly, its major source of revenue. Buried within the U.S. intelligence community’s report on Russian activities in the Presidential election is clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing antifracking propaganda in the United States, in an effort to increase oil and gas prices, destabilize the U.S. economy and threaten America’s energy independence (ibid.).
Over 7 months in 2015, RT, the Kremlin’s major international propaganda outlet, ran 62 different anti-fracking television stories and news reports, in addition to an hour-long, largely discredited anti-fracking documentary that airs regularly on RT in America and around the world. According to former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Moscow also conspired with environmental groups to block fracking activities in Romania, Lithuania, and Bulgaria (ibid.).
Purported harmful effects of fracking on the local water supply have been debunked in studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Geological Survey, the Groundwater Protection Council, and geologists at the University of Cincinnati. “It seems the only folks left attacking fracking are puppets of the anti-science, anti-American Russian propaganda machine,” writes Drew Johnson, a senior fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (ibid.).
The money trail that leads from Russia to attacks on fracking and pipelines winds through the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Sierra Club Foundation, which received millions of dollars in grants from the Sea Change Foundation, which received anonymous donations funneled through a Bermuda-based shell company, Klein Ltd. Another “pass through” public charity that donates to NRDC and Sierra is the Energy Foundation, which distributed $1.2 billion to 12,058 grant recipients between 1998 and 2015. Domestic environmentalists are suspected of willfully cooperating with Russia, writes Kevin Mooney (Daily Signal 4/22/18, https://tinyurl.com/y9qw73d9).
Anti-pipeline policies in Massachusetts forced the state into a position where it had to rely on imports of Russian liquified natural gas during peak cold periods this past winter.
New York’s 10-year ban on fracking could be viewed as an example of successful Russian espionage,” said Ken Stiles, a CIA veteran of 29 years. Espionage is defined “an operation that is planned and executed as to conceal the identity of, or permit plausible denial by, the sponsor” (ibid.).
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, in a June letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, said that allegations of Russian financial support for U.S. environmental groups “are ripe for an investigation” by the Treasury Department (ibid.).
Clear Energy Alliance describes the relationships in a brief video (https://tinyurl.com/y8fyoyc6).
Russia makes extensive use of social media to encourage protests against pipelines. Its Internet Research Agency (IRA) created more than 4,000 accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (https://tinyurl.com/ydculepg).
In the 1980s, President Reagan’s work to slow or block the construction of huge natural gas pipelines in Siberia was one of the most devastating forms of economic warfare against the Soviet Union, writes Paul Kengor (tinyurl.com/ybmwap3g). Are our domestic forces working willingly with Vladimir Putin to damage our economy? Or are they merely dupes?
PCD Radiological Defense Project
During the Cold War, every fire department had radiation meters and training. The program was complex and expensive. Now both the meters and the training are gone, and most fire departments have nothing. Even big city departments have only a few meters and perhaps a dozen of 500 firefighters with nuclear response training.
Because of technologic advance, $1 can accomplish as much as $1,000 did in the past. Physicians for Civil Defense has created an expedient radiation monitoring network for Arizona, Utah, and Nebraska (youtube.com, search “roadman911”), and has made and supplied expedient meters and training to more than 40,000 firefighters in 24 other states. The next target is New Mexico. It costs about $10 to contact a fire department and send an expedient meter and training card.
Our Special Projects Director Stephen Jones estimates that PCD could create a nationwide expedient network that might save 30 million lives for about $200,000—less than a “prepper” might spend on a bunker to protect his family. If you would like a very cheap insurance policy to improve your chance of survival by having some prepared first responders in your county, count the number of fire departments in your county. For $10 each, we will provide a meter and training for each.
Passport to Hiroshima
Toshiharu Kano (see DDP Newsletter, January 2018) plans to bring radiation monitors for attendees at the upcoming DDP meeting. His book, Passport to Hiroshima: The Unthinkable, Inspiring Journey of a Japanese-American Family Based on a True Story, is based on survivors’ recollections of the atomic bomb and its aftermath. Japanese preparations for American incendiary bombs were useless against the raging fires from the atomic bomb, and the radiation sickness from the detonation and the black rain that followed was an unanticipated, mysterious horror. Japanese doctors improvised. Tosh’s father received a regimen of raw onions, garlic, and an injection of unknown type—and recovered.
One victim of extensive burns was thought to be doomed, but his wife persisted in using any burn remedy anyone could suggest. Finally, she tried daily applications of human ashes and ground-up bone from the crematorium—and struggled to remove the maggots that appeared in the wounds. Amazingly, the patient recovered, and without scarring. Tosh tells me that in addition to debriding wounds, maggots secrete a substance like human growth hormone. [Genetic engineering of green bottle fly larvae to produce antimicrobial and growth factors is under study (ScienceDaily 3/23/16) https://tinyurl.com/hymlh4r)].
NEJM Still Opposes Nuclear Preparedness
An article in the Mar 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine asks “Are We Prepared for Nuclear Terrorism?” The answer is obviously “no.” (See PCD press release at https:// tinyurl.com/y9ozjec3.) The authors argue against too much preparedness for incidents that go beyond terrorism, such as the detonation of multiple nuclear weapons in war, because it “is likely to be ineffective and possibly dangerous in fostering the impression that we can respond successfully.” No radiation meters? Maybe we can later figure the dose by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of smartphone display glass….
Local Civil Defense
Lee Hieb, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon who spoke at the 2016 DDP meeting in Omaha, writes: “My new office is in a strip mall, and there are no basements in the buildings. So I contacted ‘Emergency Management’ in Douglas County and asked, ‘Is there a list of civil defense shelters for Douglas County?’ Aaron Alward, Emergency Management Specialist in Omaha, responded: ‘Thank you for your inquiry…. There are no nuclear/tornado shelters listed or maintained by Douglas County.’”
Omaha, she points out, is in tornado alley and is the home of the Strategic Air Command.
Numbers
- $36.86: the value of the electricity generated so far by a $4.5 million “solar roadway” project in Sandpoint, Idaho. Willis Eschenbach observes that driving semi trucks over solar panels tends to damage them; 25 of the 30 panels have had to be replaced at least twice (https://tinyurl.com/ycuvt2tu).
- 48,000: excess deaths in the UK attributed to worst winter in 42 years. (Daily Star 4/7/18, https://tinyurl.com/yctgx2tb).
- 63%: increase in output by coal-fired plants during the Bomb Cyclone storm at the end of 2017 to prevent failure of the largest independent system operator (ISO) in the U.S., which maintains the stability of the grid. Natural gas plants increased output over the planned amount by 20%, nuclear by 5.3%, and seldom used oil by 26%; wind and solar fell 12% (TWTW 4/14/18, org).
- $2.5 trillion: cost of storage needed to supply 80% of U.S. energy reliably with wind and solar (Energy Advocate, March 2018).
- 173: re-uses required for a cotton bag to have an environmental impact as low as single-use plastic bags (com/yapekh85).
War in Africa
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC or Zaire) in central Africa, ten of 26 provinces are embroiled in tribal armed conflict. Congo is rich in natural resources, and is the world’s leading producer of cobalt, which is in great demand for electric vehicles. Congo was ruled by U.S.-backed tyrant Mobutu Sese Seko from 1965 until 1996, when he was deposed in an invasion by Rwanda. The 1996 war drew in the governments of neighboring Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan, and the current conflict is likely to spread. The UN may demand U.S. involvement, writes Richard Maybury (Early Warning Report, May 2018). Washington has had an Africa Command since 2007, with troops in 50 of 54 African nations.
Bioweapons in Russia
According to the book Biosecurity in Putin’s Russia, by Raymond Zilinskas and Philippe Mauger, reviewed by Gary Ackerman (Nature 3/8/18), “Russian ostensible rejection of new research on bioweapons is equivocal.” And Russia ramping up its disinformation campaign suggesting that the U.S. is violating the Biological Weapons Convention. The whole biosecurity infrastructure, encompassing Biopreparat, multiple military facilities, and other entities, is largely intact. Ackerman’s guess is that Russia is capable of working on any pathogen, with any technique, from CRISPR gene editing to gain-of-function research.
Civil Defense Perspectives 33(2): March 2018 (published May 2018)