Oakland City Council Approves Regulations For First-In-The-Nation Industrial Marijuana Production Facilities

by NORML
July 29, 2010

Oakland, CA: Oakland city council members last week approved legislation authorizing the private, large-scale production of medical marijuana by commercial providers.

Under the measure, the city will license four production warehouses where marijuana would be grown, packaged and processed for medical use. The privately owned facilities would not be limited in size. However, the regulations will require applicants to possess a minimum of $3 million worth of insurance, hire security, and pay a $211,000 annual permit fee to the city.

Members of the city council said that they will vote this fall on similar regulations to oversee the licensing of smaller size grow operations.

Voters in neighboring Berkeley will decide on a similar municipal measure in November that seeks to license up to six area medical marijuana production facilities.

In a separate Oakland city council vote this week, members rejected a proposal to tax medical marijuana cultivators and dispensaries – instead electing to put the measure before voters this November.

For more information, please contact Dale Gieringer, California NORML Coordinator, at: (415) 563-5858 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (415) 563-5858      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

Sources: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8277
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WikiLeaks Q&A With Daniel Ellsberg

by: Gloria Goodale The Christian Science Monitor Report
Thursday 29 July 2010

Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the most significant leak in Pentagon history – the 1971 Pentagon Papers – spoke to the Monitor about how important the WikiLeaks documents are and whether WikiLeaks is the Afghanistan war's Pentagon Papers.

Before WikiLeaks, before the Afghanistan war, before the Internet, a defense analyst named Daniel Ellsberg rocked America in 1971 when he leaked to the newspapers of the day a top-secret study of US decisionmaking in Vietnam. The documents came to be known as the “Pentagon Papers.”

Some 7,000 pages in all, the Pentagon Papers have long been considered the most important leak in Pentagon history, showing that senior Pentagon and administration officials were misleading Americans about the course of the Vietnam War. They recast perceptions of the war and and charted new legal ground, with President Nixon going to the courts in a failed attempt to try and stop The New York Times from publishing later installments.

Now, as WikiLeaks releases 91,000 classified documents about US military involvement in Afghanistan, the Pentagon Papers are once again entering the American lexicon. Are the WikiLeaks documents the most important Pentagon leak since the Pentagon Papers?

The Monitor's Gloria Goodale talked to Mr. Ellsberg, who now lives in Kensington, Calif., for his unique perspective.

On the Size and Nature of the Leak

This is the first really large-scale, unauthorized disclosure leak since the Pentagon papers. There has been nothing like it in the 40 years in between. So, I’m glad to see that new technology being exploited here. I couldn’t have released on this scale 40 years ago. In fact, I couldn’t have done what I did do without Xerox at that time. Ten years earlier I couldn’t have put out the Pentagon Papers. But this is much larger in volume and it’s more current....

On the Similarities Between the Pentagon Papers and the WikiLeaks Documents

[The documents] look very familiar to me. Different places and names, but they are describing a war that is as thoroughly stalemated as was the case 40 years ago and more in Vietnam.

On the Differences

The Pentagon Papers were high-level, top-secret documents of decisionmaking estimates. They were alternative strategies. They were being debated, and they were presidential decisions of various kinds. It was a more revealing set of documents about the way in which the country was being deceived into continuing a hopeless war. So, you could say that the Pentagon Papers of Afghanistan remain to be revealed, and I hope someone does that. And, for that matter, the Pentagon Papers of Iraq we have yet to see. But this is a very good start. The drama of such a huge volume being released is giving the public media attention and the public attention that President Nixon’s injunctions gave to the Pentagon Papers. So, I’m glad to see the press really is taking the content of these documents seriously so far and not focusing solely on the question of the leak itself or the process.

On Why it Is Important That This Kind of Information Gets Out

One of the most important messages or conclusions to be drawn from the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago is what they didn’t reveal, and that was: In some 7,000 pages of high-level discussions, they didn’t reveal a single compelling or even remotely realistic basis for continuing the war. Nor did they answer the question of: Why are we there? And that’s the conclusion: that there wasn’t an answer to be given. It couldn’t be inferred from a very small release of papers, say 10 pages or 20 pages. You really had to see that, year after year, nobody was coming up with or reporting any kind of success.

And the same is true with this six-year compilation to show that, year after year, the process really isn’t changing, and that the more we increased our presence in Afghanistan, the stronger the Taliban was growing. I’m sure, by the way, that this is still the case. A leak I would like to see right now is what the change in Taliban strength has been over these past seven months of President Obama’s new strategy. Don’t wait for the administration to release that because I’m sure it would be very embarrassing to the strategy. I’m sure that their official estimates of Taliban strength as of July are greater than the estimate in December when Obama initiated that strategy.

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Now, why does that have to be leaked? Because that undercuts the demand by the administration for more money. It indicates that the more money we put over there, and the more troops we put over there, and the more airplane missions we fly killing civilians as reported in these reports, the stronger the Taliban gets. In effect, we are recruiting for the Taliban, and we are recruiting much faster and broader than we are killing or depleting or discouraging them. That was true in Vietnam.

But what these documents do show with all their limitations as field reports is that’s what has been happening for six years, and there is no reason for that to change. So, the money that Congress just voted yesterday [Tuesday], there is every reason to believe that that will recruit more Taliban, and we should ask ourselves: Can we afford this? Can we afford to strengthen the Taliban over there? At this vast expense, and at the cost of the lives of our soldiers and many more civilians and Afghans? That’s a rhetorical question. And yet Congress – the majority, at least – seem determined to ignore it....

On Where to Draw the Line on Protecting Secrets in the Interest of National Security

We do have laws against revelations about communications intelligence. There were leaks of things under [President George W.] Bush that should not have been released. Things like Condoleeza Rice confirming that we did have a mole high in Osama bin Laden’s outfit – that shouldn’t have been confirmed. Sen. [Richard] Shelby [(R) of Alabama] should not have confirmed that we were listening in on bin Laden’s communications. That was covered by that law and of course, that didn’t lead to any prosecution in either of those cases. We have a law against revelation of covert, CIA-type intelligence operations. Valerie Plame, for instance – the White House should not have released that, and her role was necessarily secret as she was investigating proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that had and should have been kept secret. There was where the line should have been drawn. Those are laws that should have been obeyed. We have a law against the revelation of nuclear-weapons data, and I’ve always supported that law. For instance, when the Progressive magazine was accused under that law – of revealing how to build a hydrogen bomb – I refused to support that revelation, and, on the contrary, condemned them for doing it.... So, in general, it’s not that hard to decide what should be kept secret.

If Bradley Manning [who is charged with leaking a video of an incident in the Iraq war to WikiLeaks, and is a suspect in the new Afghanistan leaks] is quoted correctly by the person who informed on him, he said he was willing to go to prison to tell the American people the truth about things that had sickened him to learn, and that he felt were criminal in a war that he felt should be ended. When I read that, I recognized the first person I had read of in 40 years that was in the same state of mind that I was in in 1969 and '71. I expected to go to prison for the rest of my life, and I thought the risk was worth taking....

On Whether He Ever Regretted What He Did

No, I have regretted that I waited. I wish very much I had put it out before we escalated in Vietnam – that I had put it out in '64. In '69, I gave it to the Senate, and I do regret that I didn’t give it to press right away, because another year and a half was wasted waiting for them to take the political risks of holding hearings, which they initially promised and which they backed off from because of the charges they thought they would face. They would be accused of risking lives by putting out this information – as The Times was accused by Nixon, falsely, as it turned out....

When I hear these charges that it is irresponsible to have done this by [WikiLeaks founder] Julian Assange ... I don’t think that charge comes very well from from people who are so irresponsible as to put our troops in harm’s way in Afghanistan. The charge we hear – that his release is risking lives – is almost ludicrous....

On Whether the Internet Would Have Changed the Pentagon Papers

No, because they were published in their scale by newspapers and Beacon press, which paid a very heavy price economically for publishing them, although it survived. So they did get out. But information on this scale couldn’t have been available then. In a way, it was good that they didn’t all come out at once, because the president was tempted to enjoin them – which was unconstitutional and was rejected by the Supreme Court, but it gave the whole process a drama it wouldn’t have had otherwise. So it was good that Nixon tried to enjoin them, because it attracted the attention of the public to what the papers were saying in a way that might not have happened otherwise.

In this case, there are questions that can be raised by such a large-scale disclosure. It’s not something I would advise in general – to put out information they haven’t had the opportunity to read entirely and judge themselves as I was able to do with the Pentagon Papers. But the volume has had the effect of dramatizing those and drawing attention to what is not there to be revealed, which is: a good reason for staying [in Afghanistan]....

On What Questions the WikiLeaks Documents Raise

Two are beginning to be asked and deserve consideration by congress. One: Is our presence not continuing to strengthen the Taliban, and has anything changed in last six months? Second: [Sen. John] Kerry [(D) of Massachusetts] seems to show some willingness to investigate the real role of Pakistan.

What really needs to be investigated is not whether Pakistan has a separate foreign policy from the US. They are a separate country and are entitled to see their interests differently from the United States. But exactly what are they doing? We know apparently they are supporting the Afghan Taliban, which they created with our encouragement, even while they have been opposing the Pakistan Taliban, which is a separate entity. They are taking credit for opposing [the Pakistan Taliban] because they threaten [Pakistan]. They are opposing the people who threaten regime change in Pakistan. We’ve been trying to encourage them as seeing Afghan Taliban as their enemy, but they don’t see them as their enemy.

So the question is: What does that say about our chances of suppressing the Afghan Taliban? With Pakistan supporting them, we will not be able to do it. The winnability of this war is zero. So what do we do then? Should we be giving Pakistan money to oppose our own efforts in Afghanistan? That isn’t too hard to answer, but it seems to be too hard for our Congress to answer. Congress should investigate. What should our policy be in light of the fact that we are at odds with our ally? It deserves investigation, and it hasn’t happened. Apparently, the leak here to the Times has stimulated new interest in investigating that in the Senate.

On Whether He Is Optimistic About the Power of Raw Information in a Democracy

I still put my hopes in it, and in democracy – our democracy. A democracy requires this information. Unauthorized disclosures are the lifeblood of a republic. That remains true. We can’t rely only on the authorized handouts from the government any more now than we could under [British King] George III. The First Amendment was a marvelous invention, one of our best contributions to human society. And it deserves to be instituted in every country. Not many have a First Amendment, we are very lucky in that....  

Sources: http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-qa-with-daniel-ellsberg61831
image: Daniel Ellsberg. (Photo: jdlasica)
 

Administrative Note: It is readily apparent that if one is awake and aware that we should be able to judge a government by how its citizens judge themselves and how they judge those they govern. Currently the American Citizens only have 11% confidence level in Congress. We see the life and death of government through our own lives and deaths. Governments, especially the personnel of the bureaucracy, are shaped by those who hold the resigns of power choose to exercise that power and administer as commanded. I have coined a Bureaucocrat to be one within a Bureaucracy, relegion, or other organizations that who you think things are wrong and actually takes ACTION on their principles. Irony can sometimes mask one's assumptions in everyday life, but the power of wrong assumptions by those who issue orders and those who must execute them is readily apparent in history. Also there are the Following Horrific Wars. I am not being Ironic; but call one's self to lift thy head from the trough of mindless media mush and look at how are Government's Laws and Managed Media reflected in your heart. One must beware any regime based on any religion, governmental, bureaucracy, imperialistic system that will ultimately behave like all other such they have degenerated towards cowardice , mediocrity, inertia, and self-satisfaction. When the people see that those who rule them but fatten themselves and have used them as pawns, there is a restless uneasiness in the genes. Our past assumptions on HOW we got to be where we are are crumbling, and the brutal truth is an inner one we dare not confront because it makes one realize HOW we have been duped. Breathe in Breathe out...get used to it. The two speeches today from M³I³C³ were wrong minded. When the policy is wrong and based on a lie, the powers that enabled that lie should neither be surprised, nor should attack the human with a heart and a conscious knowing a clear path for his soul upon death. The Two Operational Power Structures (TOPS) that operate our “Secret Government” should learn the lesson that warfare for profit and ideological blackmail attempts to use its Eminent Domain of its Founding Fathers to Embrace the Whole of the Earth within its reach worked. It has accomplished that. Breathe in Breathe out...get used to it. It is becoming a new “Mime”. Many think those who have been in power too long, lust after it and thus looses touch with their humanity, thus enabling them to act counter to themselves and our collective “Consensus Reality” interests. The ruling elite of the planet have but digital wealth, documents on paper might soon disappear from the human equation as easily as those did in the Pentagon's New “Enhanced” Room to store budgetary documents, and the paperwork for the California Enron Scandal and so so so many other nefarious governmental activities went down in WTC Building 7. Under the current regime, of TOPS, this has happened. We will remain firmly and forever on the OIL's Teat for the Economic Profit of the few top Illuminated family lines.

The Afghan Diaries are needed throughout our systems of government. From ALL branches of those who wield power over others.

After the Release of the Afghan Diaries I am sad to say, but not surprised that NONE of the MEANSTREAM MEDIA, nor the Prattling Politicians, nor the Babbling Bureaurcrats, nor the Conniving Capititalists, nor the Pious Pope's People,  have had the common sense to ask HOW we got there in the first place.  I was saddest of all when Chris Matthews said saying John F. Kennedy was killed by Oswald early this week when it is no

w PROVEN to be otherwise: who-killed-jfk http://ow.ly/2hyH6

Let's follow the SCIENCE and leave the bloodshed of the politics of what we've done come once we know the full extant of the American Government Conspiracy of JFK's “Magic Bullet” and the “Miracle Moon Feather - Hammer Drop” of WTC Bldg 7...NEVER fully explained by the US Government.

rewind: Hammer Feather Moon Gravity Experiment http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6926891572259784994#
WTC7 in Freefall--No Longer Controversial  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Qp5QWRMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4/
WTC Building 7 was 610 feet tall, 47 stories. It would have been the tallest building in 33 states. Although it was not hit by an airplane, it completely collapsed into a pile of rubble in less than 7 seconds at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11, seven hours after the collapses of the Twin Towers. However, no mention of its collapse appears in the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." Watch the collapse video above. To date, many years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.

Until EVERY single Press Conference asks what happened to WTC Bldg 7?  Where are the Washington DC Metro Tapes of the Highway overlooking the Pentagon SEIZED within minutes of a missile hitting the office wall holding ALL the paper documents for Pentagon funding...for more than 50 years? 

We have NO "Press Corps"...we have "Press Whores"

Until these questions are asked by even YOU folks...we, and you, will remain economic slaves of royalty rather than free thinking humans working toward OUR own common good. 

Military Manipulated Media Industrialized Imperial Intelligence Corporational Control Complex.

M³I³C³  aka “Mickey...They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something.  Then tell you there was nothing...move along.”

Reality must be truthful to be useful

If there's nothing to hide...why hide the information, objects or gag people or documents or loose emails violating Federal Law?

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Don't make promises and policies you don't intend to keep and to keep the policies and promises you do make.

ACTIONS speak louder than words.
ACTIONS are PROOF of intent.
ACTIONS are the final judgment of character.

It REALLY is that simple.

Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) Sets Record Straight Regarding Prop. 19

By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:26:11 

On Tuesday I penned a commentary for the Los Angeles Times rebutting Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s public condemnation of Prop. 19 — The Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Initiative of 2010.

Now the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), which provides non-partisan fiscal and policy advice, has come out with their own repudiation of Sen. Feinstein’s claims. Specifically, it sets the record straight regarding opponents allegations that passage of Prop. 19 would not result in significant cost savings, and counters the senator’s groundless argument (which nevertheless will appear in the 2010 California voter guidebook) that the measure is “a jumbled legal nightmare that will make our highways, our workplaces and our communities less safe.”

You can read the entire LAO summary here. Below are some key excerpts regarding what the passage or Prop 19 would and would not do. (Note: sections are set in bold for emphasis by the editor.)

Proposition 19 — Changes California Law to Legalize Marijuana and Allow It to Be Regulated and Taxed
via the California Legislative Analyst’s Office

State Legalization of Marijuana Possession and Cultivation for Personal Use
Under the measure, persons age 21 or older generally may (1) possess, process, share or transport up to one ounce of marijuana; (2) cultivate marijuana on private property in an area up to 25 square feet per private residence or parcel; (3) possess harvested and living marijuana plants cultivated in such an area; and (4) possess any items or equipment associated with the above activities. … The state and local governments could also authorize the possession and cultivation of larger amounts of marijuana. … State and local law enforcement agencies could not seize or destroy marijuana from persons in compliance with the measure.

In addition, the measure states that no individual could be punished, fined, or discriminated against for engaging in any conduct permitted by the measure.

[E]mployers would retain existing rights to address consumption of marijuana that impairs an employee’s job performance.

[T]he measure would not change existing laws that prohibit driving under the influence of drugs or that prohibit possessing marijuana on the grounds of elementary, middle, and high schools.

Authorization of Commercial Marijuana Activities
The measure allows local governments to adopt ordinances and regulations regarding commercial marijuana-related activities— including marijuana cultivation, processing, distribution, transportation, and retail sales. For example, local governments could license establishments that could sell marijuana to persons 21 and older. … As discussed below, the state also could authorize, regulate, and tax such activities.

… Whether or not local governments engaged in this regulation, the state could, on a statewide basis, regulate the commercial production of marijuana. The state could also authorize the production of hemp, a type of marijuana plant that can be used to make products such as fabric and paper.

Impacts on State and Local Expenditures
Reduction in State and Local Correctional Costs. The measure could result in savings to the state and local governments by reducing the number of marijuana offenders incarcerated in state prisons and county jails, as well as the number placed under county probation or state parole supervision. These savings could reach several tens of millions of dollars annually.

Reduction in Court and Law Enforcement Costs. The measure would result in a reduction in state and local costs for enforcement of marijuana-related offenses and the handling of related criminal cases in the court system.

Impacts on State and Local Revenues
The state and local governments could receive additional revenues from taxes, assessments, and fees from marijuana-related activities allowed under this measure. … To the extent that a commercial marijuana industry developed in the state, however, we estimate that the state and local governments could eventually collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in additional revenues.

NORML’s Outreach Coordinator Russ Belville also has recently posted a line-by-line analysis of Prop. 19 here for those of you who have any lingering questions or concerns.

Sources: http://blog.norml.org/2010/07/22/legislative-analysts-office-lao-sets-record-straight-regarding-prop-19/

Will Climate Change Lead to Mass Immigration from Mexico?

by Bradford Plumer
July 27, 2010

Will a hotter climate mean more immigration? In some places, yes, that's quite possible. Earlier this week, a team of researchers led by Princeton's Michael Oppenheimer published a study suggesting that as global warming causes agricultural yields in Mexico to decline, an additional 1.4 million to 6.7 million Mexicans could migrate to the United States by 2080. (The team analyzed data on emigration, crop yields, and climate from 1995 to 2005 in order to make their forecasts.)

As always, caveats abound. The social consequences of global warming are always the hardest things to predict. Immigration rates are never driven by physics alone, but depend on plenty of other factors, such as U.S. border policies or the changing structure of Mexico's economy. And it's always difficult to tie specific social trends to climate change. People in rural areas have been migrating for a long time, whether to seek out work or because the rainfall's dried up or the soil's eroded. Global warming will exacerbate these pressures, yes, but it's hard to attribute any single event—or single migrant—to man-made climate change. That's one reason why forecasts of "climate refugees" vary so wildly.

Still, climate-driven migration is a concept that's received a lot of attention in recent years. As the planet heats up, droughts spread, and sea levels rise, millions of people are going to be uprooted from their homes and farms and move elsewhere. According to a 2007 World Bank report, the vast bulk of this migration is expected to take place within developing countries, with people moving from rural villages to urban centers. One big concern here is that places like Lagos or Dhaka are already swelling exponentially, and their infrastructure can barely keep up, which is why so many "megacities" now sport massive slums.

But there's also likely to be a fair amount of migration between countries—and the consequences there are much harder to predict. As the rising oceans chomp away at Bangladesh, for instance, as many as 15 million people may have to abandon their towns and villages by mid-century. Partly in response, India has been constructing a 2,100-mile long fence to barricade itself against the predicted influx of climate refugees. This old Greenwire piece by Lisa Friedman features a number of national security experts in India openly fretting about how rising seas will destabilize the borders between the two countries.

There are even consequences for Western politics. Over in Europe, a variety of ultra-right-wing nativist groups take these climate-migration forecasts very seriously. In his excellent book Forecast, Stephan Faris talked to members of Britain's BNP, which is trying (unsuccessfully) to forge an alliance with greens. A lot of them rant on about how immigration is terrible for the environment, since a person's carbon footprint swells when he or she moves from a poor country to a rich country. Similarly, in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front has started hitting on environmental themes of late. Few actual environmentalists want anything to do with these parties, and there doesn't seem to be anything comparable in the United States, though if global warming does put pressure on immigration, it's certainly possible that green nativists could find a toehold here. 

Sources: http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/76587/immigration-and-climate-change

Politics guides NASA future

Decisions won't come until after elections

BY BART JANSEN  FLORIDA TODAY
July 27, 2010

WASHINGTON — Decisions on whether NASA's future flies aboard commercial rockets or government rockets likely will be based more on politics than science.

But don't expect a resolution soon. A decision likely won't come until later this year, after the fall elections.

"At this point in time, it's moved beyond the space community and it's very much a political story," said Roger Launius, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and former historian at NASA.

He added a note of optimism, however.

"All the people who are in this debate want the right thing to happen," Launius said. "They just aren't sure how to make that happen."

President Barack Obama's proposals for NASA calls for using federal money to help commercial companies develop rockets and spacecraft that could carry crews to the space station, while NASA prepares for future missions beyond Earth's orbit.

Obama wants to spend

$312 million next year to help such companies develop rockets to carry cargo and $500 million to help them prepare to carry people. He would spend $3.3 billion over a three-year period to foster commercial crew services, with the total growing to $6 billion over five years.

The Senate science and appropriations committees agreed to spend $312 million next year supporting commercial cargo rockets and $300 million supporting commercial crews. The combined amount would increase to $500 million in 2012 and 2013, for a total of $1.6 billion over three years.

The House science committee was stingier, agreeing to $14 million for cargo rockets and $50 million for crew rockets, with a $100 million loan program for commercial rocket developers. The three-year total wouldn't reach $1 billion.

The question now is whether members of the House Appropriations subcommittee governing NASA will go along with the amounts approved by their colleagues on the science panel or will choose those approved by the Senate committees, a compromise that also has the administration's backing.

"Certainly the House and Senate authorization committees are on very different pages," said John Logsdon, a former member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and a professor emeritus at George Washington University. "What really counts is the appropriations."

While the dollars start small, the policy decisions will ripple for years.

"The stakes could not be higher," Launius said. "Whatever decisions are made are going to directly affect human spaceflight for the next generation."

While the debate has been rancorous, it could still end amicably.

Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, said bipartisan agreement on Obama's proposed $19 billion fiscal 2011 budget for NASA has been "very positive" for the agency and could lead to a detailed compromise.

"I don't believe differences over the pace of funding for the commercial crew program will be a fundamental barrier to passage of a new NASA authorization bill and appropriations this year," Pace said.

Obama's plans for NASA would expand research and extend the life of the International Space Station from 2015 to 2020. He also wants to cancel the Constellation return-to-the-moon program as underfunded and unrealistic, an idea that has provoked widespread opposition in Congress.

The proposals also have sparked concerns on Florida's Space Coast because they coincide with the retirement of the shuttle program and the anticipated loss of 8,000 local jobs as a result. Both the House and the Senate have called for adding one more shuttle flight beyond the two already scheduled.

But lawmakers have struggled to reach agreement. And with a spotty schedule between now and the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year, policy decisions are expected to wait until after the election.

"It is a bit of a mess," said Leroy Chiao, a former astronaut who served on a presidential commission last year that studied NASA.

"However, I am hopeful that we'll get something through and keep going down a good path. The worst thing in the world is to have uncertainty. What we have in spades right now is uncertainty."

Sources: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100727/NEWS02/7270322/1007/NEWS02/Politics+guides+NASA+future
images: file

Administration Note: Bah! It is time for NASA to come FULLY clean about its relationship with the Department of Defense in light of the realeses of the basic unreliability of people to believe what Govennment, in general, tells us as "Truth", especially when independant sources come forth and eventually FORCES the Press Whores to cover through various topics of Governmental Coverup on topics of importance to the average citizen's education and knowledge.

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Americas Nuclear Flying Saucers

http://www.commonsensecentral.net/howtocats-rb/Americas_Nuclear_Flying_Saucer.htm

Military Manipulated Media Industrialized Imperial Intelligence Corporational Control Complex.

M³I³C³  aka “Mickey...They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something.  Then tell you there was nothing...move along.”

AE911Truth Engineer Does for Free what NIST Couldn’t for Millions       

News - News Releases By AE911Truth 
Written by Dick Scar    
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

One of several burning questions surrounding the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 was: “Where did the sulfur come from that melted some of the structural steel members from the building so much that they looked more like “Swiss cheese”? Sulfur reduces the melting point of iron by producing a eutectic mixture. The New York Times called these pieces of melted steel “perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation.” FEMA documented the “intergranular melting, rapid oxidation, and sulfidation” of the steel members in Appendix C of their May 2002 Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT) Report, yet offered no explanation for this phenomena which required temperatures far in excess of that which office fires or jet fuel could have provided.

Some government officials have attempted to explain the issue away by alleging that the sulfur came from normal building materials like gypsum wallboard. But gypsum wallboard has been used for a hundred years to protect steel structural members and has never “attacked” it before.  Independent scientists have found evidence that the sulfur most likely came from thermate.  Sulfur is added to thermite (an incendiary used by the military to cut through steel like a hot knife through butter) to make thermate. Scientists and engineers have urged the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to perform experiments to determine the source of the sulfur. But despite spending over $20,000,000 NIST failed to do any experiments or provide a working theory.

Enter Jonathan Cole, P.E., Civil Engineer, who has three keys to success: a desire to know the truth, a lot of determination, and a big back yard.  He wanted to know if normal building materials, including wallboard, diesel fuel, and aluminum, could release the sulfur needed to attack the steel. View the dramatic video of this creative no-holds-barred backyard experiment that proves, for free, what NIST could not, or would not, for $20 million.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQDFV1HINw

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Sources: http://www.ae911truth.org/news/41-articles/321-ae911truth-engineer-does-for-free-what-nist-couldnt-for-millions.html

Administrative Note:  After the Release of the Afghan Diaries I am sad to say, but not surprised that NONE of the MEANSTREAM MEDIA, nor the Prattling Politicians, nor the Babbling Beaurcocrats, nor the Coniving Capititalits, nor the Pious Pope's People,  have had the common sense to ask HOW we got there in the first place.  I was saddest of all when Chris Matthews said saying John F. Kennedy was killed by Oswald early this week when it is no

w PROVEN to be otherwise: who-killed-jfk http://ow.ly/2hyH6

Let's follow the SCIENCE and leave the bloodshed of the politics of what we've done come once we know the full extant of the American Government Conspiracy of JFK's “Magic Bullet” and the “Miracle Moon Feather - Hammer Drop” of WTC Bldg 7...NEVER fully explained by the US Government.

rewind: Hammer Feather Moon Gravity Experiment http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6926891572259784994#
WTC7 in Freefall--No Longer Controversial  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Qp5QWRMQ

We have NO "Press Corps"...we have "Press Whores"

Until these questions are asked by even YOU folks...we, and you, will remain economic slaves of royalty rather than free thinking humans working toward OUR own common good. 

Military Manipulated Media Industrialized Imperial Intelligence Corporational Control Complex.

M³I³C³  aka “Mickey...They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something.  Then tell you there was nothing...move along.”

Reality must be truthful to be useful

If there's nothing to hide...why hide the information, objects or gag people or documents or loose emails violating Federal Law?

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Don't make promises and policies you don't intend to keep and to keep the policies and promises you do make.

ACTIONS speak louder than words.
ACTIONS are PROOF of intent.
ACTIONS are the final judgment of character.

It REALLY is that simple.

The Afghan War Diaries

Sunday, July 26 5pm EST.

WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan.

The Afghan War Diaries an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the United States military. They include the number of persons internally stated to be killed, wounded, or detained during each action, together with the precise geographical location of each event, and the military units involved and major weapon systems used.

The Afghan War Diaries is the most significant archive about the reality of war to have ever been released during the course of a war. The deaths of tens of thousands is normally only a statistic but this archive reveals locations and key events behind each of these individual deaths. We hope the impact will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the war in Afghanistan and modern warfare in general.

These reports have been primarily written by soldiers and intelligence officers listening to reports radioed in from front line deployments. However the reports also contain related information from Marines intelligence, US Embassies, and reports about corruption and development activity across Afghanistan.

Each report consists of the time and precise geographic location of an event that the US Army considers significant. It includes several additional standardized fields: The broad type of the event (combat, non-combat, propaganda, etc.); the category of the event as classified by US Forces, how many were detained, wounded, and killed from civilian, allied, host nation, and enemy forces; the name of the reporting unit and a number of other fields, the most significant of which is the summary - This is an English language description of the events that are covered in the report.

The Afghan War Diaries is available on the web and can be viewed in chronological order by over 100 categories, which were assigned by the US Forces such as: escalation of force, friendly fire, development meeting reports, etc. The reports can also be viewed by "severity", where severity is proportionate to the number of people killed, injured or detained. All the incidents have been placed onto a map of Afghanistan and can be viewed on Google Earth limited to a particular window of time and place. In this way, events of nearly the entire war may be seen.

The Afghan War Diaries show how cover-ups start on the ground. When reporting their own activities US Units are inclined to classify civilian kills as insurgent kills, downplay the number of people killed or otherwise make excuses for themselves. When they report on other US Military Units they are more likely to be truthful but still provide excuses. Conversely, when reporting on the actions of non-US ISAF forces they tend to be frank or critical and when reporting on the Taliban or other rebel groups, bad behavior is described in comprehensive detail. The behavior of the Afghan Army and Afghan authorities are also revealed.

These reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces activities. The reports do not generally cover top-secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations. However when a combined operation involving regular US Military occurs, say with US Special Forces, other ISAF Forces or the CIA occurs the details are often reported. For example a number of bloody operations carried out by Task Force 373, a previously secret US Special Forces assassination unit, are exposed in the Diary -- including a raid that lead to the death of seven children.

This archive shows the vast range of small tragedies that are almost never reported by the press but which account for the overwhelming majority of deaths and injuries resulting from the war.

We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually, in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.

Source: http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/

image : http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/fosbury/fosbury2010a.html

Administrative Note: The time has come, the moment is in the NOW, heartbeat to heartbeat, my guitar and brutal truths I know my paths end and been tossed back unto the Earth when I wish to go home.  The Earth must now stand united in opposing this senseless brutality of civil, tribal, religious, but most powerful of all, profitable enterprise mission called warfare.  It's HEART has skipped a beat backward to that September Day in 2001 when the three dominoes fell as planned and the stock trading and financial wealth in a digitized monetary monarchy multiplied and morphed the media into a continued "tale" of masticating mindless mush for a "this atmosphere" society afraid to confront the brutal true science that racism might be genetic generally much less confront xenophobia where we might have been the Martians.  So we muddle the masses with mindless media mush while the digitized monetary monarchies continue to try and control the future with merciless mass brute force to enforce some sense of "freedom" for organized subjugation.  When a persons hours of life are necessitated to be enslaved at a labor not which is pleasant, nor is even safe for life or limb, then one is a slave.  A part of systems within systems which keep the world afloat atop this "Consensus Reality" that it's VERY foundation is based on lies NOT the Bedrock that the 3 Dominoes were built Soundly and Sturdily upon by PROFESSIONAL Engineers Designed by Professional Architects and the backs of thousands upon thousands of proud Americans and most prominently and should NEVER forget the Native Americans who we still have yet to come to PEACE and SOVERIEGNTY with since we STOLE this land with the massive brute force we are now using in Afghanistan.  For all the same reasons and monetary monarchies.  That's because it  has become more profitable to punish the population than to have a governance based on brutal truths.  One thing about truths and facts, they remain true no matter how one tries to question the questioner. 

You stand naked before the universe to bleed or heal.  

 Let's follow the SCIENCE and leave the bloodshed of the politics of what we've done come once we know the full extant of the American Government Conspiracy of JFK's “Magic Bullet” and the “Miracle Moon Feather - Hammer Drop” of WTC Bldg 7...NEVER fully explained by the US Government.

rewind: Hammer Feather Moon Gravity Experiment http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6926891572259784994#
WTC7 in Freefall--No Longer Controversial  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Qp5QWRMQ

We have NO "Press Corps"...we have "Press Whores"

Until these questions are asked by even YOU folks...we, and you, will remain economic slaves of royalty rather than free thinking humans working toward OUR own common good. 

Military Manipulated Media Industrialized Imperial Intelligence Corporational Control Complex.

M³I³C³  aka “Mickey...They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something.  Then tell you there was nothing...move along.”

Witch Hunt against Shirley Sherrod

by KEITH OLBERMANN, MSNBC ANCHOR:
July 21, 2010

With my thanks to Lawrence O` Donnell and my staff, as promised, my special comment on the witch hunt against Shirley Sherrod and those who made it possible. On the 15th of October, 1894, a fervently patriotic, almost jingoistic French man stepped into the office of the Minister of War, in Paris. He had been told he was simply attending a review and he was still not suspicious, even as another man slammed a hand on his shoulder and arrested him for treason. Just 82 days later, he was convicted, stripped of his military rank, sentenced to life imprisonment, and sent to a fortress in Guyana. He was, of course, utterly and totally innocent. All of the evidence against him had been fabricated, some of it literally stitched together, with the parts that would have exonerated him, edited out. But religious fervor and xenophobia had gripped his country, and his ethnic group was in the minority, at a time when the majority was trying to paint that minority as evil and subversive and bigoted beyond all reason against the majority. Those in government who knew his innocence stayed silent in a foolish and ill-fated attempt to govern on behalf of all of the people, even the irrational and the hateful and the prejudiced. Those in the press who did not grab at the circulation and the profits that the hatred and the scapegoating would bring them, were literally chased out of the country. Thus would it be just under five years before the man was pardoned, nearly eleven before he was fully exonerated and restored to active service. His name, of course, was Captain Alfred Dreyfus, and the fortress in Guyana was Devil`s Island.

Well we need to congratulate ourselves. How far we have come. We can pull a Dreyfus faster than the French could in 1894. Eighty-two days until they sent him to Devil`s Island? We did it to Shirley Sherrod in 48 hours. We, the howling fools of the far right, the stand-aside pathetic bureaucrats of the Department of Agriculture, the whole of the cowering media, this network included, the whole of the government, this self- defeatingly above-it-all president, included. It is a merciful by-product of the swiftness with which we can ruin somebody`s life today that the real truth will also emerge at nearly the same lightning-speed if we`re likely. No matter how much of a stretch it is to compare Shirley Sherrod to Alfred Dreyfus, mistake it not; Shirley Sherrod has been to her own Devil`s Island. And thanks to the perpetual fraud machine that is Fox News, and the scum that is this assassin Breitbart, there will be a portion of this country -- the mindless, the hateful, the reactionary, the racist -- to whom she is forever convicted and ever imprisoned. I have sat behind this desk for seven years and pushed back at these counterfeit journalists, as a man might stand at the shore and try to push back the tide. I have been branded an ideologue and a profiteer and a mirror of image of that which I am assailing. I have said it in every way I could think of, and been told I have been over-the-top because I have mocked and shouted and repeated.

And today the proof lies in front of you, bleeding: the reputation of Shirley Sherrod, a woman who 24 years ago saw and overcame the vengeance in her own heart and achieved the kind of true greatness the rest of us can only hope we might express for one moment in the whole of our lives -- a reputation assassinated by Fox News, assassinated by that scum Breitbart, assassinated by all their meager-brained imitators on other channels and other websites, their limp fellow travelers who never asked questions first, but simply shot, and shot, and shot, and shot and laughed!

Let me make this utterly clear: what you see on Fox News, what you read on right wing websites, is the utter and complete perversion of journalism. And it can have no place in a civilized society. It is words crashed together, never to inform, only to inflame. It is a political guillotine. It is the manipulation of reality to make the racist seem benevolent, and to convict the benevolent as racist, even if her words must be edited, filleted, stripped of all context, rearranged, fabricated, and falsified, to do so. What you see on Fox News, what you read on right wing websites is a manipulation, not just of a story, not just on behalf of a political philosophy. Manipulation of a society, its intentional redirection from reality and progress to a paranoid delusion and the fomenting of hatred of Americans by Americans. And nearly every last word of it is never, in any tangible sense, true. Ask Shirley Sherrod.

But this evil has not become institutionalized just because of the hard, soul-less work of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes and the scum Breitbart. Our society has not bought into the premise of this 24-hour parade of feces dressed up as news just because of a clever marketing plan. The assassins of the right have been enabled on the left. The apologies are nice. They provide a thin line of self respect, but only a thin one. The legitimate media did not first look at the whole videotape. We didn`t first ask if the doctored clip perverted by the scum Breitbart did not seem to be leading up to a "however." We didn`t even today, when even this network let this pornographer of propaganda Breitbart come on and spew his lies and his venom and his fraudulent, obviously false self-defense, like a quack doctor attending a life-or-death surgery -- we didn`t once consider the source. "We are appalled by her actions" said the head of the NAACP. "She mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race." Benjamin Jealous didn`t first look at the whole videotape, didn`t first ask the farmer if, as proved true, Ms. Sherrod had saved his farm. "We have been working to turn the page on the sordid civil rights record at USDA," said the Secretary of Agriculture. "This controversy could make it more difficult to move forward on correcting injustices." Tom Vilsack didn`t first look at the whole videotape, didn`t first ask if the event took place when Ms. Sherrod worked for USDA, and not 24 years ago when she didn`t. "We could have waited all day. We could have had a media circus," said the Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House. "But we took decisive action and it`s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere." Jim Messina didn`t first look at the whole videotape, didn`t first ask if the "decisive action" might not have really been like sending Dreyfus to Devil`s Island. "It`s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere."

This atmosphere. This atmosphere exists because the people around him have let this president be dumbed down. The question used to be "fired up?" -- and the rhetorical answer, "ready to go!" The question now is "fired up?" The answer now is, "not ready, because we can`t afford the impression of not looking sufficiently presidential and neutral and inviting a media circus in this atmosphere." To paraphrase President Reagan`s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, Mr. Messina, Mr. Emanuel, everybody else in this White House who is gradually remodeling this President into something generic and safe and electable in 2012 by the slimmest of margins on the strength of being as media-circus-free and better suited to "this atmosphere" as possible: let Obama be Obama! And that advice must be heeded by one man above all others. "Can you give us some -- specifically, some things that he said that would help us," Mr. Gibbs was asked at this afternoon`s press briefing. "Well again," Mr. Gibbs replied, "I think he, he talked about the fact that -- that -- that a disservice had been done here and an injustice had happened." He was quoting you, Mr. President. "Fired up?" A disservice has been done. "Fired up?" An injustice had happened." Mr. President, it is beyond admirable that in your position, and at this time of fearful division in this country, that you view yourself as president of everyone, not, as your predecessor did, only as President just of those who voted for you.

But you must, at long last, sir, come to terms with the fact that while you have spent these first 18 months and one day of your presidency bending over backwards for those other people, they have spent this same time insisting you are not actually president, or you are a Communist, or you are bent on destroying whatever is starring this week in the paranoid fantasies churned out by Fox News and the farcical Breitbart. If only for the arrogance of the irony that this crusade to prove you a foreign influence is led by an Australian named Murdoch and his sons who pretend to be British, and his second largest shareholder, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. Just for that, you, sir, must stand up to this attack on you, and on this nation.

Their game-plan is transparent. They can strand together all the forces of anti-black racism in this country, direct them at you and all for which you and this nation stand, and convince the great unwashed and unthinking out there that not only are they not racists, but you -- you Barack Obama, and Van Jones, and Shirley Sherrod, you are the real racists. And so in opposing you, they are not expressing the worst vestige of our past, they are actually standing up against it. As you stay silent and neutral and everybody`s president, they are gradually convincing racists that they are the civil rights leaders and you are Police Chief Bull Connor. And then some idiot at Fox news barks, and your people throw an honorable public servant under the nearest bus, just for the sake of `decisive action` and the correct way to respond in this atmosphere.

Mr. President, please stop trying to act every minute like some noble neutral figure, chairing a government of equal and dispassionate minds, and contemplative scholars. It is a freaking war out here. And the imagined consensus you seek is years in the future, if ever it is to be re- discovered in this country. This false consensus has gotten us only the crucifixion of Van Jones, and a racist gold-shilling buffoon speaking from the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th Anniversary of Dr. King`s speech. And now it has gotten us Shirley Sherrod. And your answer is to note a "disservice" and an "injustice." Sir, get a copy of the Michael Douglas movie " The American President." When you get to the line where he says "I was so busy keeping my job, I forgot to do my job," hit the rewind button twenty times. "Fired up?" "Fired up?" Anybody? Anybody?

Lastly. Ms. Sherrod? I`ve got no business speaking on behalf of the people of the United States. That`s the President`s job. But frankly I don`t know why he hasn`t done this yet, so I`m going to. We all would like to apologize to you, and ask you to return to work on our behalf. Or if they want to make you Secretary of Agriculture, or especially White House Deputy Chief of Staff. The President could use somebody like you in there tonight. But mostly I want to thank you for being honorably, quietly, and until these last few days, anonymously, such an outstanding American. Long ago, there was harm done to you and you responded as nearly all of us on this planet would have. And one day, 24 years ago, you realized that you were not ending that harm, you were just passing it along through vengeance and blindness. And you stopped. You stopped not with fanfare nor with self-aggrandizing tears, nor in publicized rehab nor on a political stage. You just stopped. And you re- joined the righteous who occupy every corner of our great nation, and indeed every corner of our politics. And even in this hour of undeserved trial and abuse, in your ` Devil`s Island of the mind,` you have maintained your dignity and your honor. Only one of us in all of this, from the mountebanks to the presidential advisors to the unchallenging reporters, only one of us in all this has done her job correctly. You, Ms. Sherrod, know what "decisive action" is and "how to respond in this atmosphere." And thank God somebody does. Good night and good luck.

Sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann#38353508
images: scrn caps

Administrative Note: Is there ANY questions left now why I coined the term "MEANSTREAM MEDIA" and that it applies to ALL  from A-Z...I hold hope for a few single "reporters", my whole faith in real brutal truth news is not gone. It is severely bruised, but I'm waiting in the hall of the ER room at the local level.  Waiting for SOMEONE to simply tell the Brutal Truth and let the politics be damned.  Until someone is willing to put their JOB on the line like I did fighting NASA...there will be fewer people like Ms Sherrod out here willing to listen to reason but the shows put forth by ALL "Imperial Empires". 

When talking with Ms, Sherrod today at 12:30 PM July 22, 2010...President Obama did NOT address how the White House was involved.  I am PROUD of my websites, what I choose for prosperity and real brutal truth history to avoid the hagiographers currently employed to "shape", "manage", and "control" to destroy the REAL events and persons of our history. 

Today President Obama's credibility on ANYTHING has now been PROVEN beyond doubt his moral character is malleable for the political moment.  He stands NAKED...an Emperor without clothes, wounded by himself and asks what to do?

I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.  The greatest palatinate earl and the lowliest stipendiary serf share the same problem.  You cannot hire a mentat or any other intellect to solve it for you.  There's no writ of inquest or calling of witnesses to provide answers.  No servant – or disciple – can dress the wound.  You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.  - Hyatt DUNE 
 

Managed News Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire http://ow.ly/2dKHq

When comes to water-boarding, labels matter http://ow.ly/29JS6

Did 9/11 Justify The War In Afghanistan? http://ow.ly/23Ku9

The fundamental unreliability of America's media http://ow.ly/21sTQ

Truth through a soda straw http://ow.ly/20zkp

Remains of 72 people found World Trade Center site http://ow.ly/22CJR

Hammer Feather Moon Gravity Experiment

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6926891572259784994#

WTC7 in Freefall--No Longer Controversial  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Qp5QWRMQ

WTC Building 7 was 610 feet tall, 47 stories. It would have been the tallest building in 33 states. Although it was not hit by an airplane, it completely collapsed into a pile of rubble in less than 7 seconds at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11, seven hours after the collapses of the Twin Towers. However, no mention of its collapse appears in the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." Watch the collapse video above. To date, many years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4/

Reality MUST be Truthful to be Useful

Speak the truth.  That is always much easier, and is often the most powerful argument.  - Bene Gesserit Axiom DUNE

MEANSTREAM MEDIA...your response is late, lame and other than Mr. Olbermann everything said has been Masticating Mush Mimicking Meek Mumbles from Barack.  You've LONG abonded your "Free Press" DUTIES long before since the "Government's Magic Bullet Conspiracy" and the “Miracle Moon Drop” of WTC Bldg 7 in the "Government's 911 Comission Conspiracy"

Let's follow the SCIENCE and leave the bloodshed of the politics of what we've done come once we know the full extant of the American Government Conspiracy of JFK's “Magic Bullet” and the “Miracle Moon Feather - Hammer Drop” of WTC Bldg 7...NEVER fully explained by the US Government.

rewind: Hammer Feather Moon Gravity Experiment http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6926891572259784994#
WTC7 in Freefall--No Longer Controversial  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Qp5QWRMQ

Until EVERY single Press Conference asks what happened to WTC Bldg 7?  Where are the Washington DC Metro Tapes of the Highway overlooking the Pentagon SEIZED within minutes of a missile hitting the office wall holding ALL the paper documents for Pentagon funding...for more than 50 years? 

We have NO "Press Corps"...we have "Press Whores"

Until these questions are asked by even YOU folks...we, and you, will remain economic slaves of royalty rather than free thinking humans working toward OUR own common good. 

Although you (Tuthout.com) and others have made a valid point that since Iraq's live war-TV of Prince Georgie's “Shock and Awe” n Rumsfeld's “They'll be throwing flowers at us” the Pentagon's “Media Press Relations” has become more “Managed Media” hence and increase in the size of the monster under our beds, conspiring behind closed doors as we read.  Eisenhower was right as I said before but short of vision of the evilness of the Dark Moral Mortals longing for Immortality.

Military Manipulated Media Industrialized Imperial Intelligence Corporational Control Complex.

M³I³C³  aka “Mickey...They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something.  Then tell you there was nothing...move along.”

I'm only surprised YOU folks are surprised about misuse of power, by the Pentagon, President or by other personalities and YOUR unwillingness to FIGHT for the Brutal Truth. It is BECAUSE YOU let these "Government's Conspiracies" stand do we find ourselves in "this atmosphere."

You did NOT fight the Government's LIES to the extant of loosing your 9 year teaching JOB like I have against NASA. 

No cajhones or ovaries to take on the BIG LIES...the one's our "Collective Reality" is based on.  Have the Hagiographers won?

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions.  A strong enough belief system, a suffeciently poweful conviction, can make anything happen.  This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.  - DUNE Reverend Mother Ramallo, Sayyadina of the Fremen

 

S.A.E.T.I. on example Mars Face

A new space odyssey

A report by Walter Hain, March 2009

"The object before which the spacesuited man was posing was a vertical slab of jet-black material, about ten feet high and five feet wide: it reminded Floyd, somewhat ominously, of a giant tombstone... ‘You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth’, Dr. Michaels declared."

This is a part of the wellknown story "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1968. It was a genius story. She leans on, at the general atmosphere on the world by those round circled Earth missiles, Sputniks and satellites. Can however that become reality? What comes about if we found an object actual from extraterrestrials on another celestial body in our solar system?

The year 1968 was also the departure of mankind to another celestial body: the Moon. American astronauts were prepared for the first landing of people on the Earth trabant . It was an incredible atmosphere of departure on the whole world. On July 24, 1969, a year later, the landing was succeesful at the Moon, in the "sea of rest", Mare Tranquilitatis. A mankinds dream became reality. Five landings followed further to the Moon until 1972. The human being now became to space farers!

There was also another atmosphere of departure in 1968. Some researchers and authors were of the opinion, it was already before millennia other astronauts on our Earth. In the myths and legends, Gods which at one time came from the sky are mentioned. What did seem likely than to make these Gods to astronauts. If capable of the people now are space travel to operate why should they not also dominate other living beings on other celestial bodies. And they are perhaps much held over and have spaceships which they can bear through the infinite widths of the cosmos. Too on rock drawings and wall reliefs in temples and at old buildings, strange figures which are reminiscent of astronauts are to be seen.

Already in 1962 and 1965, the French researchers and book authors Luis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier and Robert Charroux means that the Gods were astronauts. Even the angels in the Bible should have been space travellers. However, Erich von Däniken caused the great God astronauts boom in summer 1968. Its first book "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" (later in English published as "Chariots of the Gods") sold itself 20.000 times within a month.

In the year 1975 it began a new space odyssey. The NASA started two space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, to the planet Mars which should search for the first time for life on Mars. One landed on July 20, 1976 in the "land of gold", Chryse Planitia. The other one on September 4, 1976 in Utopia. Both landing units had an automatic bio laboratory on board which should carry out chemical analyses. Life could not then be proved directly. However, something other excited ones the people of NASA at the Jet Propulasion Laboratory, JPL, in Pasadena, JPL, in California. When the space probe Viking 1 flew over the Cydonia area, looked suddenly something from the Mars surface towards her, a human like face. The NASA people had not immediately seen the picture however the space probe made pictures of it which then noticed her about themselves.

Tobias Owen was the first one who held the picture of this face in his hands. He showed it Gerry Soffen, which then presented the Mars pictures to the press with the words: "Oh, my God, look at this! Gee whiz, isn’t that weird!"

The first complete image P-17384 of the "Mars Face" by NASA/JPL.

In the next room, in the meantime, a whole slant of journalists and press people had collected in order to receive the first "live data" from Mars. There were people from every land of the world. Gerry Soffen got up in front of the press and showed them this quirky face and said: "Isn’t it peculiar what tricks of lighting and shadows can do? When we took a picture a few hours later it all went away; it was just a trick, just the way the light fell on it." Somebody made a joke: "The head is telling us where to land." All the reporters present accepted the opinion of the Viking Mission expert. The present press people believed the words from Gerry Soffen. He was a very open scientist and in such a way, nobody moved his words into doubt. No further questions were also put there.

Another scientist, Dr. Harold Masursky, of the US Geological Survey Center, in Flagstaff, Arizona, has made in the news paper "Science News" of August 7, 1976 the funny statement about this face-like structure: "This is the guy that built all of Lowell’s canals." And that was it! Hardly a newspaper, hardly a reporter issued anythging in the next few weeks and months about this peculiarity on Mars. The NASA had meanwhile placed the picture with the number P-17384 (35A72) into the files on July 31, 1976.

On December 15, 1976, I was watching the late news on the Austrian television channel, ORF, when suddenly a special film was screened. The commentator presented the film which was said to have been taken by Viking 1 during its search for a suitable landing site. Till today I don’t know were the film has made. He could also be made by means of the NASA picture by a press agency. I had seen this thing anyway on Mars then for the first time and I immediately made enquiries. From the Austrian televison, I received a photograph outlet of this film in the 35mm black on white format which however was not very informative. It was a pure black and white picture without grey scales. I was convinced anyway so far that on the original NASA picture would be had to be seen more. In such a way, I wrote to different NASA institutions which at this time stood in connection with the Viking mission. Also because no further information about this alleged NASA film could be given to me by the Austrian television.

Whilst the other branches of NASA did not reply, I actually did receive several Viking mission photos from the JPL on October 31, 1977. Apparently, they had no knowledge of a "Mars Face". A gentleman by the name of Don Bane, from the Public Information Office, wrote to me: "Those nicknames you give the picture (like ‘Marsface’) mean absolutely nothing to me – they are your nicknames, not mine." And some lines above in this letter Don wrote: "I send thousands of pictures each mounth to hundreds of people. I can’t possibly remeber what I have sent to anyone." I would absolutely have to quote the archive numbers of the photo, or he would not be able to help me any furher. A must say, that at this time it was not usual to publish the archiv numbers of any picture of the Viking mission. And from this "Face" on Mars did in any case report nowhere.

Text from the letter of Don Bane, JPL, of October 31, 1977.

However, I did not yield. If there should already be a NASA film of this face, a picture would be had to be received nevertheless also from that. And on March 2, 1978, I had received a further letter from Don Bane. He wrote: "At last I know what you mean when you refer to the ‘mars face’ picture!" At last, I had "my Mars Face", and it was a very good picture which featured very good details. Although one half of the Face was still lying in shadow, some "points of light" were discernible and able to be used as the basis for further investigations (see image above).

Text from the letter of Don Bane, JPL, of March 2, 1978.

In this letter, Don also let me know the precise co-ordinates of the object on Mars: 40.89 degrees North latitude and 9.55 degrees West longitude. This imediately enabled me to pinpoint the position of the "Mars Face" to the Cydonia region. Finally, Don offered the opinion in this letter, in reply to my request for more and better shots of this object, that no other picture of it exist. On the back of the photo was added the mentioned press release dated with July 31, 1976 with more precise information on the photo from Viking 1 with the following words:

„The picture shows eroded mesa-like landforms. The huge rock formation in the center, which resembles a human head, is formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth. The feature is 1.5 kilometers (one mile) across, with the sun angle at approximately 20 degrees. The speckled appearance of the image is due to bit errors, emphasized by enlargement of the photo. The picture was taken on July 25 from a range of 1873 kilometers (1162 miles). Viking 2 will arrive in Mars orbit next Saturday (August 7) with a landing scheduled for early September."

 The complete photo caption see here >>>

So for the time being I had no other option but to carry out my own experiments. I designe a model – a reconstruction of the Face. Using a modelling clay, I constructed a face which resembled the one on Mars as closely as possible and illuminated it with a spoptlight exactly as described in the JPL press release. I came to the conclusion that in the original shots, something of the shadowed half of the Face must be visible. However, at this time no corresponding graphics programs were available to me to find out more. I made a drawing based upon the NASA picture with the exact location of the Face and I was surprised about the symmetry. I compared the size of the Face with the size of the Cheops pyramid in Egypt.

Towards the press release, Don wrote to me that the sunlight came in to the Face on an angle of 10 degrees. Through a misunderstanding with "one mile across" I had specified the size of the Face from the "chin" to the "forehead" with 1.5 kilometers. Only years later, according to the American investigations, I had recognized that this is the width of the Face.

At this time, in 1978, I had some difficulties to make at all considerably to the public, the press and experts attentive to this "Mars Face". I decided a book about it and about other hypotheses about the red planet. It went at the end of 1978 at printing and it was ready in February 1979. It was my book "Wir, vom Mars" (We, from Mars), published by a small publisher in Cologne, Germany, with a considerable printing costs subsidy from myself. In October 1979, I presented my book at the wellknown Frankfurter book fair with a large photograph of the Face. The interest was yet very small although visitors quite some surprises they came via the picture but no doubt. Nobody did believe so right that such a thing would be able to be there on Mars.

For this purpose, one must know, that I was a member of the "Ancient Astronaut Society", AAS, founded in 1973 by the American lawyer Dr. Gene M. Phillips of Illinois, in order to find a broader basis for the exploration of indications of extraterrestrial intelligences at the pre-time. Members of the society were people of interest, famous personalities and some scientists. An essential part of it had Erich von Däniken who had already great success with his books about this "prae astronauts".I had informed him of course about the Face on Mars. If the alleged indications for extraterrestrial Gods visits, in the form of other ones intelligences, they should not be convincing enough, no doubt. An artificial subject on Mars would then be the final evidence for the prae astronaut hypothesis. On June 5, 1978, I contacted Gene Phillips about the Face on Mars. In a letter on October 22, 1978, he stated that " the ‘face’ is indeed fascinating but I do not think there is enough substantiation for publication through our society".

After I learned my book was published I wrote again to Don Bane in order to try to possibly procure some more and better photos of the Face. In a letter of September 12, 1978 he wrote to me: "Since you already have a picture of the face, I see no need to load you down with another, and we have no picture that shows that region at closer range." The Face had come into existence trough a combination of wind erosion and sun light.

Text from the letter of Don Bane, JPL, of September 12, 1978.

When my book was published, after March 1979, I published several newspaper articles in Austria and in Germany. Also Erich von Däniken showed a spark of interest after receiving my sample book copy, after an initial lack of interest. In the German edition of the newspaper of the AAS "Ancient Skies" of July/August 1980 I could publish a report about the Face with the title "Kamen die Götter vom Mars?" (Did the Gods came from Mars?) including a photo of the Face and my reconstructive drawing of 1978. The newspaper also announced a lecture by me, presented at a one day meeting of AAS members in Fulda, Germany, on October 25, 1980. The interest was also not especially great according to my lecture. But after the meeting, Prof. Dr. Harry O. Ruppe, specialist for space travel technology at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, announced to us who had presented lectures, that he would intervene in the matter of the Face on Mars. However, that was then unfortunately not the case. One would have been able to already then quite carry out closer scientific investigations on the first Mars picture. However no institute and no university was then interested thereby in Europe.

At this time, I read by coincidence, in the 23rd October, 1980 issue of the Geman magazine "Stern", about two Americans, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenar. These two had produced posters and paper reports about the Face on Mars and were alleged to be spreading the world about contacts between the ancient Egyptians and Martian inhabitants. Since there was no mention in the report about new results in relation to the Face on Mars, and the only illustration was the photo which was now very familiar to me, I did not think it necessary at that time to contact the two Americans. Today, I know that this was a mistake – I could have saved myself considerable hardship.

In January 1981, a reader letter was still published by me in the wellknown German journal "Bild der Wissenschaft" (Picture of Science). where I made attentive to the Mars Face. However nothing resulted further. Also the wellknown engineer Philip J .Klass, employee of the journal "Aviation Week & Space Technology" and book author, was not very impressed by the Face as he has visited me on January 10, 1983. In August 1985, the German edition of the magazine "Penthouse", carried a report by Prof. Harry O. Ruppe about the Face and the other structures on Mars under the title "Monument auf dem Mars" (Monument on Mars). However this report was not known to me at that time. In such a way, I placed my efforts away however I should have a surprise in 1987.

On April 4, 1987, I was sitting unsuspectingly in front of the television, watching the "Incredible Stories" of the Luxembourg TV channel RTL plus. The well-known reference book author Johannes von Buttlar presented his book "Leben auf dem Mars" (Life on Mars). The cover of the book shows the Face on Mars, which was already confessed to me. The author never got in touch with me and I also had no knowledge of his research. He also showed the colored computer images from Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molennar. But the part which was, for me, "incredible", was that he presented a bad photo of my Mars Face model and designated it as a possible forgery. I immediately wrote to the shows’s compare. I was promised that the matter would be put right – but that has not eventuated till today.

But so I have learned, that the two Americans, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, have done a very good scientific work. The two Americans had indeed detected in fact one further photo of the Mars Face of 1976 in the archive of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Washington D.C. And therefore they found out, that this human face is not accomplished on Mars only by a specific incidence of light.

I found out by own enquiries that there were investigations of the appropriate Mars pictures extensive already in 1984, that the American science writer and analyst Richard C. Hoagland had scheduled. An "Independent Mars Investigation Team", existing from several specialists, under it also Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, would exhibit firm that the Mars face and further strange Mars structures would be able to be possibly the factory of Mars inhabitants. In the book "The Face on Mars", by Randolfo R. Pozos, published 1986 in Chicago, I could all that read, after I had received one in 1987. The official title of the report of the team was:

PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT MARS INVESTIGATION TEAM:

NEW EVIDENCE OF PRIOR HABITATION?

(C) 1984 by Richard C. Hoagland, Organizer

Independent Mars Investigation Team

August, 1984 (Revised December 12, 1984)

Of course, I immediately wrote to some of the appropriate persons, nevertheless merely from Vincent DiPietro I received an answer and its corresponding publications - a publication through the Goddard Space Flight Center, where he is a employee, of June 8, 1987, below the title "Unusual Martian Surface Feature" and a pamphlet of 1988 with the same name. In Chicago, in 1989, during a world conference of the AAS, from August 25 to August 27, I had the occasion, to meet Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar in person and I was also later directly at the place of work of Vincent DiPietro in the Goddard Space Flight Center. It was a friendly meeting pleasant to me.

In 1987, Richard C. Hoagland has published a book with the title "The Monuments of Mars". He describes his efforts for the investigations of the Mars things and he appears amazed via a publication of the journal "Soviet Life", dated of August 1984, which might burst in into the middle of the American activities. In the report "Pyramids on Mars?", it is claimed allegedly that the Russians had detected these Mars structures as well as the Mars face already in 1983. After I checked the book of Hoagland, I found a picture of the appropriate report which shows my drawing of 1978. The report was written from Vladimir Avinsky, whose name was already confessed me as a member of the "Ancient Astronaut Society". That was a further shock for me. My publications, without my knowledge, there wander around the world with the contention ones would have detected the Mars structures and the Mars face. During the conference in Chicago in 1989 however, I had a clarifying conversation with Vladimir Avinsky. He has published a book where he mentions my drawing with my name. However that had refrained the journal "Soviet Life". The picture has taken Avinsky from my report in "Ancient Skies" from 1980 without informed me.

On August 3, 1993, I could again during a world conference of the "Ancient Astronaut Society", hold a lecture in Las Vegas, and on September 16, 1994 one in Sydney, Australia. In 1995 was published my book "Das Marsgesicht" through the wellknown German publisher Herbig in Munich in which I describe my discoveries at length. This book was translated into several languages - but not in English. I then held further lectures in Austria, Germany and in Switzerland and published some newspaper reports.

In any way Vincent and Gregory had already in fall 1979 detected a further picture of the Mars face in the NASA archive of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Already in 1977, Vincent DiPietro had seen in an obscure prae-astronautic magazine, a picture of the Mars face, but he was in the opinion that it is a joke. But this new photo, made a month after the first photo 35A72, also made from Viking 1, on August 29, 1976, registered under the number 70A13, however, had convinced him. The sun lay at this time in the West, 27 degrees over the horizon - therefore, the thing was below an other, shorter shadow. It shows a human face rather even more clearly. By different picture investigations, too with the aid of a false colour analysis, the two Americans could find closer details as a pupil in an eye of the Face.

Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar presented its investigation results for the first time publicly by means of paper reports and pictures on May 1, 1980 in a hotel in Lanham, in Maryland. However, the interest was small. Merely a hand full prospective customers, some astronomers of the NASA and some reporters of magazines and radio stations were present. A NASA speaker joked: "I hope you have better luck than we do!". He was rather amused via the small investment of the press and the public, Vincent DiPietro later reported.

On June 16, 1980, the both ones held a lecture during the annual conference of the "American Astronomical Society" in College Park, in Maryland. Several broadcast reporters and press people, which also received photographs of the computer analyses of the two Americans, were present. Already before, on May 26, 1980, appeared a report about the investigation results of the two Americans in the journal "Sunpapers" in Baltimore. Till 1985, there were several publications of the results of the two Americans and they also held lectures. Under that a report in the worldwide known and recognized serious "Washington Post" on May 28, 1980: in the "Los Angeles Times" dated on June 1, 1980; in the science magazine "OMNI" in October 1980 and April 1982; in the "London Daily Telegraph" of November 19, 1984 and during the Mars conferences "The Case for Mars" of the University in Boulder, Colorado, in April and May 1981 and from July 10 to July 14, 1984. By these activities of 1980, the German magazine "Stern" would be allowed to have become attentive. Richard C. Hoagland was also present in 1981 in Boulder and he meet for the first time DiPietro and Molenaar. According to his own words however, he did not imitate made "click" in his head. He forgot for the time the Mars pictures.

The wellknown American astronomer and science author Dr. Carl Sagan, still in the year 1976, with the aid of students, searched after strange and striking objects, by means of numerous Mars pictures, however they discovered nothing – also not the Mars Face. Later, when the pictures were also confessed to him by DiPietro and Molenaar, he wrote in the magazine "Parade" of June 1985, he "might not support the theory that the face in Cydonia was artificially constructed. However, he has not enough evidences against it".

Tobias Owen, together with Donald Goldsmith, published in 1980 a book with the title "The Search for Life in the Universe", nevertheless he mentions the Mars Face with no word. Although he writes about UFO's and about Erich von Däniken. But in their third edition of 2001 the Face is now interesting enough for the authors and they mention it with pictures.

Another American author, David L. Chandler, represents in his book "Life on Mars", appeared in 1979, the opinion of the press speaker of the NASA of 1976 if he writes: "Some hours later, when the solar angle and the shadow changed, this area showed a very usual structure, a fleeting illusion."

In the year 1986, a new Mars Investigation Group, mentioned shortly as "MIG", formed itself, at the University of California in Berkeley. Involved with that team were also Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former American astronaut and Dr. David Webb, a former space travel consultant of the American president. This team came again to the conclusion, that this Mars Face and the other striking Mars structures should be investigated more closely with further space probes. From there, now the Mars Face was relatively well known to the public, it is flowed in into Hollywood movies as in 1986 in "Invaders from Mars", a reproduction of the old film of 1953 and later in the year 2000 in "Mission to Mars".

According to many inquiries in the case of the JPL, among other things by protest rallies of Hoagland supporters, the NASA has itself include the face in a determined manner - if it is possible - with new Mars probes more closely and that was successful on April 5, 1998 with the space probe Mars Global Surveyor. The object shows again the similarity with a human face as that has already followed from the computer analyses of the Viking pictures. This space probe, on April 8, 2001, then succeeded the clearest image, with a resolution of only 1.86 meters. The details are to be seen precisly. Later, further pictures were made through the same space probe and from other space probes like the orbiter 2001 Mars Odyssey in 2002 and 2004, the European Mars Express in 2006 and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in the year 2007. All the pictures let as recognize a similarity to a human face, like the pictures before of the Viking probes - even it is simply an unusual natural rock. However, it is by no means only a "fleeting illusion" and also no a cloud game as some people meant.

The Face on Mars photographed on May 5, 2004 by 2001 Mars Odyssey.

Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen wrote again about the Face: "The resulting image clearly shows that we are dealing with an entirely natural feature of the martian landscape. which resembles a human face only when lighting conditions and the camera viewing angle are just right." (2001, Page 356) This in comparison to the bad and raw images of 1998. The fact is, that this mountain an Mars is visible as a human face under different sun angles from 10 to 27 degrees (perhaps more) and an image of 2001 Mars Odyssey of October 24, 2002, with the sunlight coming from the East, shows also (but indeed not so good) a humaniod like feature.

It is not right if scientists say that people seeing faces were no faces are, the nature makes structures like human faces - or the humans itself carved their own faces in stones and buildings. So human faces on rocks on another planet can be indeed artificial constructed like the faces of the American presidents on the Mount Rushmore.

In the beginnings of the discovery the NASA, like many astronomers, geologists and other scientists, press people and specialized book authors, have this face on Mars completely ignored or taken not seriously - with exception of Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar. Those however had the same fate in America as I had in Europe. For me it was in anyway a true Mars odyssey, that led over many ways around the world and for all others it was a new space odyssey in accordance to the introduction of Arthur C. Clarke. The Mars Face is now an example how we handle an extremely strange discovery that would be able refer to an artificial origin from extraterrestrial intelligences: with mockery and ignorance. The NASA flies to Mars for the search after traces of life and they do not find it necessarily to give more attention to an extremely striking Mars surface feature. That was unintelligible to many people. In the future, we should be more cautious during such or similar discoveries and we should saw at it perhaps more precisely - even if the first impression is a completely usual one.

The Mars Face in the Cydonia area is in anyway the first object outside of our Earth which was examined for a scientifically wise - almost worldwide - ones for a possible factory of extraterrestrial intelligences. In this way, it appertains for search after artifacts from extraterrestrial intelligent, SAETI (Search for Artifacts of Extraterrestrial Intelligences). A term which was created in 1992 by myself - in dependence on the known SETI investigation - and which should occupy a place value in this field. The search will go on even if the probability of a discovery in this direction is very small.

Books to this report:

Buttlar, Johannes v.: Leben auf dem Mars, Munich, 1987.

Carlotto, Mark J.: The Martian Enigmas, Berkeley, 1991.

Chandler, David L.: Life on Mars, New York, 1979.

DiPietro, Vincent; Molenaar, Gregory; Brandenburg, John :

              Unusual Mars Surface Features, Glenn Dale, Fourth Edition, 1988.

Grossinger, Richard: Planetary Mysteries, Berkeley, 1986.

Hain, Walter, Wir vom Mars, Collogne ,1979.

  -„- , Walter: We from Mars, self printed and revised version, Vienna, 1992.

  -„- , Walter: Das Marsgesicht, Munich, 1995.

Hoagland, Richard C.: The Monuments of Mars, Berkeley, 1987.

         -"- , Richard C.: Die Mars-Connection, Munich-Essen, 1994.

McDaniel, Stanley V.; Rix Paxson, Monica: The Case for the Face, Kempton, 1998.

Owen, Tobias; Goldsmith, Donald: Auf der Suche nach Leben im Weltall, Stuttgart,1985.

    -„- ; Goldsmith, Donald: The Search for Life in the Universe, New York, 1980;

             Third Edition, Sausalito, 2001.

Pozos, Randolfo R.: The Face on Mars, Chicago, 1986.

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The Face Page by Malin Space Science Systems, MSSS:

http://www.msss.com/education/facepage/face.html

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How to Write about Haiti

By Ansel Herz (http://mediahacker.org) Port-au-Prince, Haiti
July 23, 2010

Actor Sean Penn, who is helping manage a camp of displaced earthquake victims in Haiti, is making pointed criticisms of journalists for dropping the ball on coverage of Haiti. He’s wrong. I’ve been on the ground in Port-au-Prince working as an independent journalist for the past ten months. I’m an earthquake survivor who’s seen the big-time reporters come and go. They’re doing such a stellar job and I want to help out, so I’ve written this handy guide for when they come back on the one-year anniversary of the January quake! (Cross-published on the Huffington Post, inspired by this piece in Granta.)

For starters, always use the phrase ‘the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.’ Your audience must be reminded again of Haiti’s exceptional poverty. It’s doubtful that other articles have mentioned this fact.

You are struck by the ‘resilience’ of the Haitian people. They will survive no matter how poor they are. They are stoic, they rarely complain, and so they are admirable. The best poor person is one who suffers quietly. A two-sentence quote about their misery fitting neatly into your story is all that’s needed.

On your last visit you became enchanted with Haiti. You are in love with its colorful culture and feel compelled to return. You care so much about these hard-working people. You are here to help them. You are their voice. They cannot speak for themselves.

Don’t listen if the Haitians speak loudly or become unruly. You might be in danger, get out of there. Protests are not to be taken seriously. The participants were probably all paid to be there. All Haitian politicians are corrupt or incompetent. Find a foreign authority on Haiti to talk in stern terms about how they must shape up or cede power to incorruptible outsiders.

The US Embassy and United Nations always issue warnings that demonstrations are security threats. It is all social unrest. If protesters are beaten, gassed, or shot at by UN peacekeepers, they probably deserved it for getting out of control. Do not investigate their constant claims of being abused.

It was so violent right after the January 2010 earthquake. ‘Looters’ fought over goods ‘stolen’ from collapsed stores. Escaped prisoners were causing mayhem. It wasn’t necessary to be clear about how many people were actually hurt or died in fighting. The point is that it was scary.

Now many of those looters are ‘squatters’ in ‘squalid’ camps. Their tent cities are ‘teeming’ with people, like anthills. You saw your colleagues use these words over and over in their reports, so you should too. You do not have time to check a thesaurus before deadline.

Point out that Port-au-Prince is overcrowded. Do not mention large empty plots of green land around the city. Of course, it is not possible to explain that occupying US Marines forcibly initiated Haiti’s shift from distributed, rural growth to centralized governance in the capital city. It will not fit within your word count. Besides, it is ancient history.

If you must mention Haiti’s history, refer vaguely to Haiti’s long line of power-hungry, corrupt rulers. The ‘iron-fisted’ Duvaliers, for example. Don’t mention 35 years of US support for that dictatorship. The slave revolt on which Haiti was founded was ‘bloody’ and ‘brutal.’ These words do not apply to modern American offensives in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Today, Cite Soleil is the most dangerous slum in the world. There is no need to back up this claim with evidence. It is ‘sprawling.’ Again, there’s no time for the thesaurus. Talk about ruthless gangs, bullet holes, pigs and trash. Filth everywhere. Desperate people are eating cookies made of dirt and mud! That always grabs the reader’s attention.

Stick close to your hired security or embed yourself with UN troops. You can’t walk out on your own to profile generous, regular folk living in tight-knit neighborhoods. They are helpless victims, grabbing whatever aid they can. You haven’t seen them calmly dividing food amongst themselves, even though it’s common practice.

Better to report on groups that periodically enter from outside to deliver food to starving kids (take photos!). Don’t talk to the youth of Cite Soleil about how proud they are of where they come from. Probably gang members. Almost everyone here supports ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But their views aren’t relevant. There is no need to bring politics into your story.

You can’t forget to do another story about restaveks. Child slaves. It’s so shocking. There is little new information about restaveks, so just recycle old statistics. Present it as a uniquely Haitian phenomenon. Enslaved Haitian farmworkers in southern Florida, for example, aren’t nearly as interesting.

When you come back here in six months, there will still be a lot of desperate poor people who have received little to no help. There are many big, inefficient foreign NGOs in Haiti. Clearly something is wrong. Breathless outrage is the appropriate tone.

But do not try to get to the bottom of the issue. Be sure to mention that aid workers are doing the best they can. Their positive intentions matter more than the results. Don’t name names of individuals or groups who are performing poorly. Reports about food stocks sitting idly in individual warehouses are good. Investigations into why NGOs are failing to effect progress in Haiti are boring and too difficult. Do not explore Haitian-led alternatives to foreign development schemes. There are none. Basically, don’t do any reporting that could change the system.

On the other hand, everyone here loves Bill Clinton and Wyclef Jean. There are no dissenting views on this point. Never mind that neither lives here. Never mind that Clinton admitted to destroying Haiti’s domestic rice economy in the ’90s. Never mind that Jean’s organization has repeatedly mismanaged relief funds. That’s all in the past. They represent Haiti’s best hope for the future. Their voices matter, which means the media must pay close attention to them, which means their voices matter, which means the media must …

Finally, when you visit Haiti again: Stay in the same expensive hotels. Don’t live close to the people. Produce lots of stories and make money. Pull up in your rented SUV to a camp of people who lost their homes, still living under the wind and rain. Step out into the mud with your waterproof boots. Fresh notepad in hand. That ragged-looking woman is yelling at you that she needs help, not another foreigner taking her photo. Her 3-year-old boy is standing there, clinging to her leg. Her arms are raised, mouth agape, and you can’t understand her because you don’t speak Haitian Creole.

Remove the lens cap and snap away. And when you’ve captured enough of Haiti’s drama, fly away back home.

Sources: http://www.mediahacker.org/2010/07/how-to-write-about-haiti/