Federal Controls Arise over Faith Based Initiatives
By Joel Skousen
According to the NY Times, "The Bush administration declined a request today from the Salvation Army, the nation's largest charity, to exempt religious charities that receive federal money from local laws that bar discrimination against homosexuals." Any church that wants to maintain their religious standards on abortion, restricted priesthood ordinations or homosexuality is going to have to keep their fingers out of the federal money pot.
TACTICAL EMP TESTED IN CENTRAL TENNESSEE?
A story swept over the Internet with the claim that some entity of government may have tested a small tactical Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon in the small town of Hartsville in north-central Tennessee--about 50 miles northeast of Nashville. Upon investigation I have come to the conclusion that this was not the case. It will be useful for my subscribers to go through the analysis of this situation with me, to aid in your understanding of these kinds of weapons. Because of the future threat of war, which will be initiated by EMP strikes, all Americans need to know how to recognize the signs of an attack.
The event occurred at approximately 10:45 AM on July 6, 2001. They only reason we know about this was that one of the victims of the damage was a country music radio station--WJKM--which published the details of the damage. There are three possibilities that could explain what happened: lightning, birds shorting out a transformer, or a very small EMP attack. First, let’s examine the damage reports according to witnesses.
1) The radio station's power lines were knocked out, as well as those of the local newspaper next door (Hartsville Vidette).
2) A main power transformer some distance from the radio station was burned out,
but the smaller one directly feeding the station was not. The damaged
transformer was so overheated that it was billowing smoke.
3) All phone lines in a small radius, including those at the newspaper and the
local farm co-op, were knocked out.
4) The high power field-effect transistors and the entire output tuning network
in the radio station’s transmitter were destroyed. (It takes a lot of surge
power to do that kind of damage.)
5) All computers at WJKM, specifically motherboards and network cards, were
damaged
6) The station’s ISDN internet cable was knocked out.
7) There were numerous dead and damaged birds around the stations showing signs
of high power electrical shock (burned wings, feet and tails). See photos of
damage to the birds on the station’s website at http://www.1090wjkm.com
I spoke with the Hartsville newspaper and they confirmed this story, adding some crucial details. Apparently, there were two power surges, about a minute apart. The first was not very powerful and the power reset itself almost instantly. The second was stronger, knocking out the power for two hours and damaging electronic equipment. Both surges were accompanied by a low vibrating, humming sound which increased steadily until reaching a crescendo when the power went out. One witness at the newspaper also saw a large flash of light coming from outside after the second pulse.
ANALYSIS: A localized lightning bolt could have caused all of the described damage, but there was no lightning in the area, no clouds, and no explosive sound that would have accompanied such a direct hit. A normal power spike could have caused the computer and phone system damage, but not the damage to the main transformer or the burn damage to the birds. There were several damaged birds all in the same area, some still alive. Their burns could not have been caused by normal electric currents on high-tension lines (which birds land on regularly) but only by getting caught within the flashing arc of some short circuit of high power. This could have been created by lightning, EMP, or their wings contacting and shorting the terminals of a high power transformer. It is possible one or two birds under the right circumstances could have caused a short between the leads on the transformer, especially if they were flocking together on the unit. The flash could have been explained by the explosion of a pole-mounted fuse above the transformer, which would tend to blow when a short occurs or when lightning strikes.
OTHER THEORIES
What about the possibility of an EMP attack? There are two main types of weapons capable of generating EMP. The more powerful are nuclear weapons set off above the earth’s atmosphere that give off huge amounts of free electrons. As these electrons blast through the atmosphere, they cause a huge wave of energy, called a Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (NEMP), to blanket the earth below. As this electromagnet wave passes through power lines, telephone lines, or any electrical conductor (like the electrical cord leading to your TV or computer) it cause the electrons in the wire to be rapidly displaced and shot down the line, setting up a powerful and near instantaneous surge that blows out everything in its path.
This is the type of EMP attack will most likely be used by Russia immediately before a direct nuclear strike on the US. Its function will be to knock out communications and other vital electrical equipment in the US to help ensure the success of the nuclear strike. Perhaps the only warning you will ever have prior to a Russian nuclear strike is a widespread blackout of electricity, radio, and TV, and damage to your computers and phones. An EMP pulse has a rise time of less than 2 nanoseconds so it jumps through surge protectors that aren’t designed to clamp down on such a rapid pulse. (When you buy a surge arrestor, check the label to make sure it has a clamping time of less than 2 nanoseconds if you want some nominal protection against moderate doses of EMP.)Your cars will most likely not work either since they are controlled by ignition computers. (I would advise you to buy a spare one and keep it in a closed metal case).
The attack that occurred in Hartsville could not have been a high-altitude NEMP because such an explosion would have affected an area about 300-500 miles in diameter. Smaller, non-nuclear tactical pulse weapons have been invented that use powerful electrical capacitors and antennas to direct blasts of EMP energy toward localized targets on the ground. The Hartsville phenomenon could have been caused by a tactical EMP weapon mounted inside something as benign looking as a tractor-trailer rig.
WHAT ABOUT HAARP?
Some have hypothesized that the power surge could have been caused by a HAARP (High frequency Active Auroral Research Program) transmission. I don’t think so. The HAARP system is not capable of concentrating a narrow beam of energy into a small area such as the Hartsville incident. For those who are unfamiliar with HAARP, it controls a huge radio transmitter system consisting of 180 crossed dipole antennas arranged in a rectangular, planar array, and linked to a powerful 3.6-million-watt transmitter . It is located near the town of Gakona (150 miles NE of Anchorage) just off of Hwy 1. For some official pictures and views of its purported research purpose see: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/.
The HAARP antennas are oriented to be trained upward. Ham radio operators can track when HAARP is operating because it interferes with or completely dominates the radio frequency spectrum around 3.39 Mhz. If you have a broadband shortwave radio you can listen to it too. There is a website run by a "Brother Jonathan" that tells you when HAARP is operating and allows you to listen to its sound: http://www.geocities.com/brojongazette/index.html.
There are numerous claims within the patriot movement that HAARP has a dark, secret purpose beyond (or instead of) the supposed scientific cover. Weather modification and mind-control are some of the usual claims. Regarding the allegations of mind-control, I have never bought into the theories that external forces can control the human mind. Forces or drugs can harm and damage the mind, or reduce its resistance to interrogation, but I have never seen credible information that proves that specific ideas can be transmitted or controlled electronically against the will of the normal person.
Weather modification is a remote possibility, but unlikely due to the non-directional nature of HAARP’S antenna array and the fact that even 3.6 million watts would not even put a dent in the weather’s natural energy equation. There is a theory, however, that links HAARP transmissions to the chemtrails being spread over certain areas by military tanker aircraft that could be plausible. If the chemtrails were testing minor concentrations of biological or chemical warfare dispersants, as still suspected, why would they be laying them down at 30,000 feet of altitude where they could drift hundreds of miles before settling to the earth? On the other hand, if those aerial spray patterns were laced with metallic based reactants that could interact with the HAARP transmissions to alter weather, then there might be a correlation between the non-specific transmissions of HAARP and the specific targeted areas of chemtrails (which have included almost every part of the US at one time or another). I’ve witnessed at least two chemtrail incidents (and as a pilot, I know the difference between regular condensation trails and these chemtrails). I have not, however, noted any specific weather change after the sprayings. So, unless such sprayings are having long range weather effects, I’m not sure this theory is true. That the government is spraying chemicals into the atmosphere, and lying about it, I am sure—but for what purpose, I still do not know.
The above-mentioned Brother Jonathan website has another scientific explanation for the purpose of the HAARP system. The author has traced down one of the HAARP patents and published it on his website. According to the patent the HAARP system is capable of generating a concentrated particle beam of ionized particles in the upper atmosphere that in turn generates a electromagnetic pulse that bounces back and forth between the North and South poles--creating, in effect, an umbrella shield against a Russian missile attack. Incredibly, he points out that the patent lists the "missile shield" as one of the patent’s purposes (which I was able to confirm). In a similar manner as the EMP weapons described above, HAARP is capable, according to the author, of creating a large concentrated channel of electromagnetic energy in the ionosphere which can damage computer control and release mechanisms in an ICBM--thus supposedly protecting us against a Russian missile attack. However, this patent may well be planted as disinformation. Even though his theory is backed up by the publicly available patent material, which has been legally assigned by the government to the contractor who built HAARP, I’m still skeptical of this explanation. There are several tactical military factors that make this kind of a missile shield highly unlikely or ineffective:
THE ANSWER TO OUR STORY: I spoke with the local utility and they confirmed that there was a problem at that time and date, but that it was due to a shorted transformer which caused a very high voltage spike. The birds were the culprits and the flashing arc was the blowing of the fuses above the transformer when the birds shorted the unit the second time. The surge was so great that a portion of the line had to be replaced. The voltage spike that took out the station’s electronic equipment was probably caused by the initial surge after the first partial shorting of the transformer when the power recovered on its own.
So, while this story has a normal ending, the future threat of EMP attack is real. I want to direct my readers to a new website on the Internet that has a tremendous amount of background information on this future threat which you should all read. It is called The Final Phase and is featuring this week a major piece I wrote on the growing window of vulnerability we face due to the Bush administration’s decision to pursue unilateral disarmament. Check it out at http://www.thefinalphase.com.
WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF (excerpt) July 13, 2001 Copyright Joel Skousen. Quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief. Website: http://www.joelskousen.com
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