John Michael Greer,
DOCUMENT: EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON,
I have spoken so much of the Vril Staff that my readers may expect me to describe it. This I cannot do accurately, for I was never allowed to handle it for fear of some terrible accident occasioned by my ignorance of its use; and I have no doubt that it requires much skill and practice in the exercise of its various powers. It is hollow, and has in the handle several stops, keys, or springs by which its force can be altered, modified, or directed—so that by one process it destroys, by another it heals—by one it can rend the rock, by another disperse the vapour—by one it affects bodies, by another it can exercise a certain influence over minds. It is usually carried in the convenient size of a walking-staff, but it has slides by which it can be lengthened or shortened at will. When used for special purposes, the upper part rests in the hollow of the palm with the fore and middle fingers protruded. I was assured, however, that its power was not equal in all, but proportioned to the amount of certain Vril properties in the wearer in affinity, or “rapport” with the purposes to be effected. Some were more potent to destroy, others to heal, &c; much also depended on the calm and steadiness of volition in the manipulator. They assert that the full exercise of Vril power can only be acquired by the constitutional temperament—i.e., by hereditarily transmitted organisation—and that a female infant of four years old belonging to the Vril-ya races can accomplish feats which a life spent in its practice would not enable the strongest and most skilled mechanician, born out of the pale of the Vril-ya to achieve. All these wands are not equally complicated; those intrusted to children are much simpler than those borne by sages of either sex, and constructed with a view to the special object on which the children are employed; which as I have before said, is among the youngest children the most destructive. In the wands of wives and mothers the correlative destroying force is usually abstracted, the healing power fully charged. I wish I could say more in detail of this singular conductor of the Vril fluid, but its machinery is as exquisite as its effects are marvellous.
I should say, however, that this people have invented certain tubes by which the Vril fluid can be conducted towards the object it is meant to destroy, throughout a distance almost indefinite; at least I put it modestly when I say from 500 to 1,000 miles. And their mathematical science as applied to such purpose is so nicely accurate, that on the report of some observer in an air-boat, any member of the Vril department can estimate unerringly the nature of intervening obstacles, the height to which the projectile instrument should be raised, and the extent to which it should be charged, so as to reduce to ashes within a space of time too short for me to venture to specify it, a capital twice as vast as London.
Certainly these Ana are wonderful mathematicians—wonderful for the adaptation of the inventive faculty to practical uses.
I went with my host and his daughter Zee over the great public museum, which occupies a wing in the College of Sages, and in which are hoarded, as curious specimens of the ignorant and blundering experiments of ancient times, many contrivances on which we pride ourselves as recent achievements. In one department, carelessly thrown aside as obsolete lumber, are tubes for destroying life by metallic balls and an inflammable powder, on the principle of our cannons and catapults, and even still more murderous than our latest improvements.
My host spoke of these with a smile of contempt, such as an artillery officer might bestow on the bows and arrows of the Chinese. In another department there were models of vehicles and vessels worked by steam, and of an air-balloon which might have been constructed by Montgolfier.
“Such,” said Zee, with an air of meditative wisdom—“such were the feeble triflings with nature of our savage forefathers, ere they had even a glimmering perception of the properties of Vril!”
WATER CONTROL
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
Multinational companies taking control of the world’s water supply? Sounds like a Blofeld plotline in an 007 movie of Sean Connery vintage—but it is real. The globe’s water is being privatized at a staggering rate. Blue water is the new black. The Bushes and Pickens of Texas are far from being the only oil baronage buying up aquifers, and some of the water industry players are way bigger than Bush Inc. They include Swiss combine Nestle, French conglomerate Veolia, and US agribusiness giant Monsanto.
Why buy into water? Easy. H2O is a commodity that is scarcer by the day. On the Blue Planet just 3 per cent of the water is freshwater and this, on the one hand, is being contaminated by agri-chemicals and industrial pollution, and on the other hand is being “abstracted” by farmers, factories (the average auto uses 350,000 litres of water in its manufacture) and an ever-increasing number of thirsty people. There is less water, and it is often bad water beyond human use. About 2.5 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. Control of this vital resource will, especially in the industrialized and emerging industrialized world (India, China, Brazil), be a source of guaranteed profits. Already the water business is worth over a cool $100 billion per annum.
Where’s the conspiracy? Well, most people consider water a natural resource, free, and even God given. Few, if any of the speculators or companies buying water admit to buying water. They just happen to buy the land above—and when they own the land above they own the water below. The effect on the communal environment can be catastrophic. Take Nestle’s pumps for “Ice mountain” bottling plant at Stanwood, Michigan. These suck up the groundwater that should feed Lake Michigan. Truthout.org reports the following, which may be a tad connected to Nestle’s pumping, pumping, pumping:
That the water levels in the upper lakes are falling is certain. Data from the Army Corps of Engineers website indicates that Lake Superior has almost reached its record low, set in 1926. Roger Gauthier, a project manager at the Great Lakes Commission, an intergovernmental body representing eight states and two Canadian provinces, said water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron had dropped three feet since 1999 and were about seven inches above the record low set in 1964. The persistence of low water in
For the right to withdraw water from near Lake Michigan Nestle plays a paltry $100 a year.
Of course, he who controls the water controls what goes into the water. About 60 per cent of Americans, and 10 per cent of Brits have fluoride added to their drinking H2O. Now, some elements in the dental industry consider fluoridation a good thing because it (allegedly) prevents tooth decay, particularly in children. On the other hand, General Jack D. Ripper in
Contra Jack D. Ripper, some conspiracists consider that fluoridation is a plot by the candy industry to allow kids to eat all the confectionery they want. Or is even a CIA-inspired campaign to make a mindless America, with a little help from some old Nazi friends. Sodium fluoride was used in Nazi mind-control experiments in the Third Reich; in 1945, US scientist Charles Perkins visited the IG Farben chemical works in Deutschland and concluded about the work done there:
IG Farben chemists were then reputedly exported to the USA under Project Paperclip to show the CIA MKULTRA teams how to make a Manchurian Candidate.
The list of alleged fluoridation conspirators goes way beyond the Commies, the Nazis, the CIA. Fluoride is a by-product of aluminium/uranium/steel production, and is estimated by many scientists to be a toxin. Putting fluoride in the people’s drinking water is simply a way of the metal industry dumping its toxic waste under the cover