Few other question’s raise such an intense reaction from people as the shape of Planet Earth. It is the ultimate tinfoil crown of bat-shit crazy conspiracy talk. It is a step too far for most people to take.

When you journey into rabbit holes, you start to see the many layers of lies we have been buried in. You dig the gems from the knotted root systems and bring them to the surface, in turn, people avert their eyes from the glare.

People feel reassured in their beliefs and customs,  safe that the treasure of truth has been buried for good reason.

Have we become so deeply embedded with idolatry of our teachers and leaders we are unable to be confronted with the possibility that we may be worshiping false deities?

The general belief is that planet Earth is a spinning sphere, 71% covered in water, 29% covered in land masses, islands and polar regions. Earth is believed to have formed over 4 billion years ago, a product of some kind of hypothesized “Big Bang”.

The Earth is said to be revolving around the sun, in a solar system of eight planets.

The Earth is spinning along in the Milky Way galaxy, within a group of at least 46 other galaxies, forming an observable universe of more than 100 billion galaxies. All of this is located within an un – observable universe.

Humans have pondered the planet for  many thousands of years,asking what is Earth and what is beyond the blanket of stars enshrouding it.

The Mesopotamian’s revolutionized agriculture with the the seeder plow, seeding and plowing simultaneously.

In 3500 B.C. the Mesopotamian’s created and utilized the wheel, the creation of that wheel brought about all human industry.

Humanity so readily adopted the Mesopotamian’s customs that our very survival is now dependent on these tools.

The Mesopotamian’s also believed the the world was a disk floating in the ocean, but we would now say that is insane.

Pythagoras believed that knowledge should remain hidden from the masses and created his own secret society, The Order of The Pythagorean’s.

Leaders were so fearful of Pythagoras’s teachings that to follow or speak his theories was punishable by death.

Using a mix of math and mysticism, Pythagoras hypothesized the spherical shape of the Earth in 500BC.

Pythagoras addressed students from behind a curtain, those who studied under him were to take a five year vow of silence and it was forbidden to put his teachings into writing.

Almost nothing is known for sure about him, yet many of the theories he developed over 2000 years ago are what we accept as fact today.

We learned of Pythagaoras’s teachings as they were passed down by his student Plato.

Some believe that Pythagaron’s were to become what we know today as The Illuminati.

Not all of Pythagoras’s teachings carried through to modern society. Pythagoran’s eschewed the consumption of legumes as sinful and believed in a dictatorial aristocratic government.

Aaron and Melissa Dykes of TruthstreamMedia.com produced a video titled  What They Don’t Teach You About the Most Famous Scientists, delving into the hidden history and untold findings of our scientific forefathers .

In 240 BC  Greek mathematician, geographer, poet and music theorist, Eratosthenes, calculated the circumference of the Earth without having to leave the comfort of his home in Egypt.

He knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in Aswan the Sun was directly overhead. He knew this because the shadow of someone looking down a deep well at that time blocked the reflection of the Sun on the water.

He measured the Sun’s angle of elevation at noon in Alexandria, using a vertical rod and measuring the length of its shadow on the ground.

Using the length of the rod and the length of the shadow as the legs of a triangle, he then calculated the angle of the suns rays.

This turned out to be about 7°, or 1/50th the circumference of a circle. Taking the Earth as spherical, and knowing both the distance and direction of Aswan, he concluded that the Earth’s circumference was fifty times the distance between Aswan and Alexandria.

Not everyone agreed with the theory of a Round Earth, such as ancient China, where the heavens were variously described as being like an umbrella covering the earth (the Kai Tian theory), or like a sphere surrounding it (the Hun Tian theory), or as being without substance while the heavenly bodies float freely (the Hsüan yeh theory), the earth was at all times flat.

In the 2nd century BC, Chinese astronomers inverted Eratosthenes’ calculation of the curvature of the Earth to calculate the height of the sun above the earth.

The Zhoubi Suanjing (one of the oldest Chinese mathematical texts) discusses how to determine the distance of the Sun by measuring the length of noontime shadows at different latitudes, a method similar to Eratosthenes’ but the Zhoubi Suanjing calculated with a Flat Earth and the math added up the same as the Round Earth calculations.

The theory of Flat Earth is not new, it actually proceeds the Round Earth Theory we have all now come to believe as fact. Flat Earth came to be synonymous with Anti Science, in the same fashion that Pythagoras’s teachings and philosophies found such a hostile audience thousands of years before.

Some of the most well known modern day flat-earth believers were members of The Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in the city of Zion, Illinois. Zion was founded in 1900 by a Scottish evangelist and faith healer, John Alexander Dowie.

When Dowie died in 1907 the church was run by Wilbur Glenn Voliva, one of America’s most prominent Flat Earth believers of the 20th Century.

Skeptical of secular public education, Zion officials set up a system of private religious schools where Flat Earth was taught until the 1930s. Zion, Illinois was the American center of Flat Earth theory, reaching its peak in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

But the rulers of education do not take kindly to teaching outside of the box (or ball, as it would be) not then and not now.

Rob Boston, Director of Communications for Americans United ( an organization that advocates separation of church and state) is quoted in a 2017 article “Americans United opposes teaching creationism (in all its variants) in public schools because we believe sectarian instruction belongs at home and in houses of worship, not in taxpayer-funded schools that serve all children. But there’s a side benefit: a good science education opens doors (and minds) and prepares young people for the careers of tomorrow. Put simply, it is a disservice not to teach our children modern science.”

But what then, when “modern science” itself, is proven incorrect?

Anthony Abreu Mora repeated Eratosthenes’s calculation using modern technology and mapping systems in 2012.

The result was 24900 miles, which is 41 miles difference from the currently accepted polar circumference of the Earth, effectively disproving both theories.

Game on.

In 2016 astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson found himself entrenched in a rap war with rapper B.o.B, debating the shape of planet Earth through “diss tracks” via twitter.

Actor/engineer Bill Nye took aim at athletes like Kyrie Irving and rappers like B.o.B, who had recently been questioned about their Flat Earth beliefs.

During a segment of Complex News, Nye challenged B.o.B to visit Cape Canaveral and view a rocket launch from Carl Sagan founded and NASA funding giant, The Planetary Society.

 

B.o.B responded to Nye’s offer with a video message saying – “You know, I can point you to some books if you want to look more into it, but, you know, I think it’s time that you stop picking on rappers and athletes and really step up to the plate and talk to the big dogs. Why don’t you sit down with Eric Dubay , my friend? NASA be tweeting me, all their astronauts be tweeting me, don’t tweet me! Talk to Eric Dubay, you know what I’m saying? I just rap. I’m an information guy. I can just point you to the information.”

Eric Dubay is a 30 something American living in Thailand where he “teaches Yoga and Wing Chun part-time while exposing the New World Order full-time”.

He is the author of five books and is the president of the International Flat Earth Research Society. Eric has compiled a list of evidence into his fifth and most recent book 200 Proofs Earth is NOT a Spinning Ball.

Why wouldn’t an attention seeker with a history of science, like Nye or Tyson, jump at the opportunity to have the upper hand in a public debate with Dubay?

Neil deGrasse Tyson is all too happy to publicly ridicule or claim to “debunk” Flat Earth, so why not settle it once and for all?

Tyson sat down with Joe Rogan of The Joe Rogan Experience, claiming he would Debunk Flat Earth and Conspiracy Theories in February of 2017.

Tyson stated that his two best questions for Flat Earth Theorist are “What is your best single bit of evidence to prove what you are claiming?” and “What would it take to show that you are wrong?”

Tyson tells a story about an acquaintance of his that is skeptical that we have been to the moon, when Tyson asked his friend what evidence would convince him that we had been to the moon, Tyson’s friend said he would need to see photographs of the landing site.

Tyson responded with images that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter had collected of the Apollo landing site in 2009.

His friend pointed out that those images had all been crafted and or manipulated.

Tyson ended the debate, saying it was pointless, as his friend “was not ready to be convinced” and gives this as reason to not even enter into debate with Flat Earth Theorist.

Ten months later on December 12, 2017 Joe Rogan announced,  Tyson and Dubay had agreed to a Skyped debate.

That same day, Dubay’s YouTube channel was suddenly terminated.

It has been rumored that Dubay’s channel was not terminated due to his Flat Earth theories, but due to a video he created titled Adolf Hitler vs. The Jew World Order, questioning the official account of the Holocaust as well as delving into the history of some pretty brutal Jewish traditions.

It is possible that Tyson retracted to avoid any association with a rumored anti Semite,  but the timing of Dubay’s channel being terminated on the very same day that a future debate was announced, seems dubious.

It has also been rumored that Tyson was fearful that Dubay had contacted musician and healer Tchiya Amet, who has accused Tyson of drugging and raping her while they were at UT Austin in 1983, on October 18, 2014 on her blog Tchiya Amet El Maat .

The story was not widely publicized and the fear of image tainting accusations could be enough for Tyson to back out of a podcast debate.

The risk could have been just too great, versus the reward.

This leads us to the biggest hurdle that Flat Earth theory has to clear, NASA photographs of planet earth.

In order to even question Round Earth theory one has to believe that there is a vast global conspiracy. A generation spanning ruse, carried out and covered up by governments and scientist.

Is that possible?

Numerous inconsistencies in NASA’s observations, along with admitting to not only manipulating  but even completely fabricating images, has only led to further doubts.

Images of the earth may seem commonplace but there are no clear, actual photographs of the entire planet.

Pale Blue Dot was an image taken of planet earth on February 14, 1990 and is the only photograph we know of the whole earth.

Voyager 1, completed its primary mission and upon leaving the Solar System they were commanded by NASA, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, to turn their camera around and take a picture of Earth.

In the photograph Earth’s apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera’s optics.

The Blue Marble is among the most widely distributed images in human history and much of what we assume about this image is quite simply untrue.

It isn’t an actual photograph, the image is a composite of four months of light data collected in 1,429 mile wide bands, as NASA’s Terra satellite orbits from pole to pole with the earth rotating beneath it.

This data is then stitched together and applied to the surface of a digital sphere. This image is then then modified in layers in Photoshop.

Robert Simmons  Lead Data Visualizer and Information Designer at Goddard stated in a 2014 Quartz article “Without these alterations, the image wouldn’t look very earth-like.”

Simmons said he based his manipulations on reality, “in the sense that I’ve looked at a lot of imagery to see how thick should that be, how blue should that be.”  Simmons states “It’s more hyper-realistic than realistic.”

A video titled They Fake Reality Because We Let Reality Be Faked shows inconsistencies found in NASA images of Earth, like major discrepancies in the size, shape and placement of entire continents.

The video was created by Jeran on his YouTube channel Jeranism. There are YouTube channels dedicated to nothing else but to “Expose Jeranism” he has in turn, debunked the debunker’s.

In They Fake Reality Because We Let Reality Be Faked, Jeran goes through one of his detractors proofs and is able to discredit the evidence.

Jeran also has a section of his blog Jeranism dedicated to answering any question posted. At last count he had answered 1,250 questions.

Jeran is a researcher who states on his website “I am on a mission to bring down these deceivers that have a majority of the population worshiping them even though they have spent billions, even trillions on faking space instead of spending that money on true investigation of the world we live”.

Matt Procella is another YouTube creator exposing inconsistencies in the official story. Matt is transparent about his difficult and criminal past.

While serving time in Colorado’s Buena Vista Correctional Facility in 2007, Matt came across the book, Behold a Pale Horse written by Milton William Cooper in 1991, and his life was forever changed.

After Matt was released from prison in 2009 he continued his research and  his pursuit of finding truth. Wanting to share the knowledge he had uncovered, Matt started a YouTube page called ODD TV in 2015 and immediately started receiving backlash.

Matt’s video titled NASA Fails Again & Again shows live feed video from the International Space Station  full of obvious green screen glitches.

Inconsistencies in answers from NASA when questioned about things like the bubbles that are released when the ISS hatch opens or whether you can see stars while in space, are noted.

Matt answers why he thinks people are so put off by questioning NASA – “Some refuse to acknowledge deception, in fact many people hold the idea of outer space and NASA so near and dear to there hearts, so much so, that when they are shown this evidence their ego won’t allow them to accept that space is a hoax. Years of psychological programming through various media doesn’t help.

You are maybe thinking “This guy is a criminal, why should we listen to him?”

Lets turn that around and look at some history of the people we have listened to.

In a fearful response to the Soviet Union’s October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA on July 29th 1958.

NASA became operational on October 1, 1958 receiving an average of $17 billion dollars of federal funding per fiscal year.

Behind closed doors and in the middle of the California desert, the US Government had been experimenting with rockets and launchers years before the declaration of NASA.

Jack Parsons is regarded as among the most important figures in the history of the U.S. space program, while his honors as one of the most significant figures in propagating Aleister Crowley’s occultist Thelema religion across North America, is kept a little more quiet.

John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons was an American rocket engineer, rocket propulsion researcher and chemist. He invented the first rocket engine to use a cast-able, composite rocket propellant and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.

In 1934 Parsons was one of three founders of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT) Rocket Research Group, working under Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory chairman Theodore von Kármán.

In June of 1939 the GALCIT Group gained funding from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to work on Jet-Assisted Take Off (JATO) for the U.S. military. This made Parsons group the first U.S. government-sanctioned rocket research group.

By 1942 Parsons had become one of Crowley’s proteges and at Crowley’s bidding he led the church from his mansion at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue, later christened The Parsonage.

Science Fiction writer and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard was also close friends with Parson’s and lived for some time in the Orange Grove house.

The police were often called with neighbors complaining of lewd behavior and the slaughtering of livestock in the yard.

On March 19, 1942 Aerojet Engineering Corporation was launched by Theodore von Kármán, with Jack Parson’s and the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky .

Following American entry into World War II Aerojet developed and sold their JATO ( Jet Assisted Takeoff) technology to US Defense.

By 1962 Aerojet grew from six people with a capital of $1200, into a 700-million-dollar a year business with a staff of nearly 34,000 and a key role in the modern defense of the United States.

In 1943 GALTIC Group changed over to JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) becoming an Army facility operation, under contract by the university of Caltech.

Kármán stated as a scientist he found the military “the most comfortable group to deal with'”

Parsons came to believe that Thelemic magick could be explained through quantum physics and adopted the Thelemic motto of Thelema Obtenteum Proedero Amoris Nuptiae spelled out T.O.P.A.N. also serving as the declaration “To Pan”.

During rocket tests, Parsons often recited Crowley’s poem Hymn to Pan and would perform rituals.

Due to his black magic rituals and his affiliation with communist political groups, Parsons was unable to retain the security clearances needed to work for his own company.

Theodore von Kármán followed Parsons, leaving Caltech to head the Scientific Advisory Group on October 23, 1944.

Parsons continued to be seen as a specialist in rocketry and acted as an expert consultant in numerous industrial tribunals and police and military investigations.

By March 1951, Parsons and his wife Cameron had moved to the coach house at 1071 South Orange Grove, while he began work at the Bermite Powder Company, creating explosives for Hollywood.

Parsons and Cameron were preparing to travel to Mexico, then on June 17, the day before they planned to leave, Parsons allegedly dropped a bottle of fulminate of mercury in his laboratory.

Parsons was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead.

Cameron never believed that Jack had died from an accident or suicide. She suspected that he had been killed by anti zionist  due to his sharing of US missile technology with Israel.

But Israel wasn’t the only foreign power that Parson had a relationship  with.

In September of 1945, under contract through the U.S. Army, Wernher von Braun and 120 other Nazi specialist were brought to the U.S. as part of Operation Paperclip, creating the National Security Act of 1947, that would then become what we now call the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The NSA connects to Temple Of Set founder Micheal Aquino, who gained fame on the late 1980’s talk show circuit, as well as his connections to child sexual abuse.

New World Order Wiki states  – ” He is famous for being accused in sworn testimony by 83 different children of being the owner/operator of the primary child sex ring that is backed by the CIA. In the Franklin Case, Aquino was the focal point of victim testimony that the U.S. government was able to sweep under the rug.  Aquino was charged and found guilty of the crimes against him, but was able to use an alternate defense that allowed him to plead insanity and receive mental health treatment rather than execution. Although the justice system was manipulated and Intentional Disinformation Campaigns like Wikipedia will tell you that his primary accuser Alisha Owen was sent to jail, it fails to mention that she was awarded several million dollars in justified damages. Aquino remains on the job and is very active with Luciferian interests.”

During the following five years,Wernher von Braun directed high-altitude firings of V-2 rockets at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and was project director of the guided missile development unit at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Wernher and Parsons had much in common, strong belief in the dark arts and a love of explosives. They became fast friends and were known to be quite chatty over the phone.

In May of 1947, Parsons gave a talk at the Pacific Rocket Society where he predicted that rockets would take humans to the Moon.

The same year, Parsons professed to embody an entity named Belarion Armillus Al Dajjal that had “come to fulfill the law of the Beast 666 “.

In Arabic the word Dajjal means deceiver or liar and is equivalent of the Christian Antichrist.

It is said that the Dajjal will move at super speed, traveling the world riding a white donkey whose ears will be forty hands apart, bringing about the Day of Judgement.

All of this could make you skeptical of Mr. Parsons true role as one of the architects of the space age.

William Burrows was the only non-scientist, working on the National Research Council’s, Near-Earth Object Survey and Detection Panel.

He has been honored as a recipient of the American Astronautical Society, John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award and has authored a number of books.

During a 1998 speech, Burrows said that he came to realize that he was not dealing with business or military, he was dealing with members of a religion.

He tells about a National Association for the Advancement of Science conference he had attended. They were giving out buttons that read “The meek shall inherit the earth, the rest of us are going to the stars!”.

It was then when he then realized that the people who fuel and fund these missions, were true believers. It was not so much the monetary or military answers they were seeking, they were seeking transcendence.

When we inject religion into the debate we conveniently ignore the connections that Science shares with Mysticism, Satanism or the Occult.

These connections are shown all throughout the history of scientific discovery, all the way back to Pythagoras in 500 BC to NASA today.

The upper echelons of the Nazi party were rumored to be members of the Thule Society, studying translations of old Tibetan, Indian and Greek texts, they came to believe that Earth is hollow and inhabited within.

German aviator Peter Bender, Geo Kosmos author Karl Neupert, and Johannes Lang author of The Hollow World Theory had all published works advocating the Hollow Earth hypothesis through the 1920’s.

Polish explorer and university professor Dr. Ferdynand Ossendowski wrote in his 1922 book titled Beasts, Men and Gods, about a subterranean kingdom that exists inside the Earth, known to Buddhists as Agharti.

Hollow Earth theory has appeared in mythology, folklore and legends throughout human history. Tibetan Buddhist text reveal the belief in an ancient city called Shamballa, located in a subterranean realm.

In Native American mythology  it is said that the ancestors of the Mandan people in ancient times emerged from a subterranean land through a cave at the north side of the Missouri River.

Ancient Greeks also believed there were caverns under the surface, which were entrances leading to the underworld.

Germany was extremely interested in Antarctica beginning in the 30s and created Base 211.

In early 1939 German voyages were carried out in a modified research vessel named The Swabia, carrying construction materials and rail tracks from Germany to Antarctica.

By 1942 inhabitants began being transferred to the Antarctic region that the Germans had named New Swabia.

In January 1943 Nazi Germany Grand Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Karl Donitz, is quoted as saying “Our submariners have found the true paradise on earth. The German submarine fleet is proud, at the other end of the world we have made an impregnable citadel for our leader”

On 30 April 1945, after the death of Adolf Hitler and in accordance with Hitler’s last will and testament, Donitz was named Hitler’s successor as head of state, with the title of President of Germany and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.

Between 1943 and 1945 the British launched a secret wartime Antarctic operation, code-named Tabarin.

Special Air Services Regiment (SAS), Britain’s covert forces for operating behind the lines, appeared to be involved.

Then in 1947 the US Navy funded Admiral Richard Byrds 4th expedition into Antarctica code-named Operation High-jump.

Labeled as a scientific expedition but appearing much more like a US Naval invasion, with an aircraft carrier, 12 surface ships, a submarine, more than 20 airplanes and helicopters and a crew of over 4,000 people.

The six month expedition abruptly ended after only two months when the US inexplicably lost a destroyer, almost half of their carrier based aircraft, as well as dozens of sailors and officers.

The only explanation given for the early termination of the mission was provided by Lee van Atta of International News Services and published in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio on March 5th 1947 stating “Adm. Byrd declared today that it was imperative for the United States to initiate immediate defense measures against hostile regions. The admiral further stated that he didn’t want to frighten anyone unduly but that it was a bitter reality that in case of a new war the continental United States would be attacked by flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds. Admiral Byrd repeated the above points of view, resulting from his personal knowledge gathered both at the north and south poles, before a news conference held for International News Service.” This led to questioning the possibility that Nazis had advanced alien technology they were hiding in Antarctica.

Fighter pilot John Sayerson, witness and crew member of the expedition described the events of February 26, 1947 saying “The things popped out of the water like they were being chased by the devil and flew at such high speeds between the masts that the antennae between the wind eddy ripped. Some airplanes that were able to get into the air off the Casablanca were hit moments later by unfamiliar blasts that came from the flying saucers and crashed next to the ships. I was on deck the Casablanca at the time and was totally taken aback. These things did not make a single sound as they flew between our ships and spit deadly fire. Suddenly, the torpedo boat destroyer Maddock, which was about 10 cable lengths (less than 2 miles) away from us, went up in flames and began to sink. Rescue boats from other ships were sent despite the danger. The nightmare lasted about 20 minutes. When the flying saucers dove again under the water we began to count our losses. They were appalling.”

On March 3 1949 the head organizer of Operation High Jump, United States Secretary of the Navy and the first US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, gave his resignation.

He met with President Truman on the 10th requesting that White House personnel take possession of his hefty diary, given the amount of classified material it contained.

On March 28th President Truman presented the retiring Secretary with the Distinguished Service Metal, unable to respond to the President’s words of praise he was led speechless from the room and had a private conversation with Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington.

Whatever it was that Symington had said left Forrestal seated at his desk several hours later, staring at the wall and repeating the phrase, “you are a loyal fellow.”

Forestal spoke with his friend Ferdinand Eberstadt (who would later be instrumental in the creation of the CIA and the NSC) stating that certain persons in the White House had formed a conspiracy to “get him,” and had finally succeeded.

The two traveled to Florida together to stay at the estate of their mutual friend Robert Lovett (who was a Skull and Bones member as well as the core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as The Wise Men).

Forrestal is said to have attempted to commit suicide several times over the next three days. The Navy sent Chief of Neuro Psychiatry, Captain George M. Raines to conduct an examination of Forestal, but at the insistence of Forrestal’s family, Dr. William C. Menninger was to be the psychiatrist of record.

After both doctors examined him it was concluded the best course of action was confinement at Bethesda.

Menninger, then flew back to his clinic and while regularly briefed, never saw his patient again.

Forrestal was admitted to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and secured in a twenty-four hour Marine guarded room on the sixteenth floor.

Forrestal called Monsignor Maurice J. Sheehy, a highly regarded prelate at the Catholic University in Washington, asking for the Monsignor to help return him to the church.

By mid May Monsignor Sheehy attempted to visit with Forrestal six different times and was repeatedly refused.

Monsignor Sheehy met with Secretary of Navy John Sullivan on May 20 and was assured that he would be able to visit with Forrestal.

Two days later Forestalls body was found on a third-floor roof, below the sixteenth-floor kitchen, across the hall from his room.

He was clad in his pajama pants, with his bathrobe sash tied around his neck. The priest never received the opportunity to fulfill Forestalls wish to reunite with the church.

On May 25th Josephine Forrestal returned to Washington from Paris, where she had remained throughout her husbands ordeal.

She absolved anyone of blame and that afternoon 57 year old James Forrestal was buried at Arlington Cemetery with full military honors.

Forrestal’s last written statement, thought to be an implied suicide note, was part of a poem from W.M. Praed’s translation of Sophocles’ tragedy Ajax

Fair Salamis, the billows’ roar,
Wander around thee yet,
And sailors gaze upon thy shore
Firm in the Ocean set.
Thy son is in a foreign clime
Where Ida feeds her countless flocks,
Far from thy dear, remembered rocks,
Worn by the waste of time–
Comfortless, nameless, hopeless save
In the dark prospect of the yawning grave….
Woe to the mother in her close of day,
Woe to her desolate heart and temples gray,
When she shall hear
Her loved one’s story whispered in her ear!
“Woe, woe!’ will be the cry–
No quiet murmur like the tremulous wail
Of the lone bird, the querulous night…

The word nightingale was left unfinished and it was assumed that the word was used as a trigger word to activate Forrestal’s sudden onset of madness.

“Nightingale” was also the name of an anti-Communist guerilla army made of Ukrainian refugees recruited and trained by the CIA to carry on a secret war against the Soviet Union (like the “moderate rebels” that were used to assassinate Gaddafi in Libya).

As a member of NSC, Forrestal had authorized the operation.

The little that is known about the death of James Forrestal was not released until 2004. There was never a full investigation into his death and despite his many accomplishments few people are familiar with his name.

There is also little to nothing known about the events in Antarctica in February of 1947, all files relating to Operation High Jump remain strictly classified.

There are many assumptions and suspicions.

Some seem sensible; rumors of uranium mines, rumors of massive reserves of coal, fear of Germany or Russia taking control of those possible natural resources.

Some sound delusional; secret Nazi underground bases, UFO’s buried under the ice, an opening into the Earth.

A 2015 Intellihub article links to recently released FBI documents proving that not only were Hitler and Eva Braun’s suicides faked, the infamous pair might have had help in their escape from the Swiss Director of the United States OSS,  Allen Dulles.

Even with evidence placing the German sub U-530 on the Argentinian coast and plenty of eye witness accounts of German official being dropped off, no one investigated.

In 2009 an archeologist from Connecticut State, Nicholas Bellatoni, was allowed to perform DNA testing on the skull fragments of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun that had been collected and stored by Russia.

Not only did the DNA not match any recorded samples thought to be Hitler’s, they did not match Eva Braun’s familiar DNA either.

Evidence of the Nazis escape from Germany has been mounting since the end of WW2, finally culminating into undeniable proof that the US Government, not only lied about Hitlers demise, but played a role in his escape and safe harbor.

Why should we not automatically assume they are capable of lying about everything else?

The idea of the Nazis having advanced technologies given to them by alien beings hidden under the ice may seem a stretch, that is until you look into the actual history of it.

The occult Thule and Vril societies, credited with being the original founders of the pre Hitler Nazi party, set about creating an inter dimensional flight machine based upon information received by both of their churches mediums.

They received funding from both German business and Government and work on the machine was started in 1922.

It is not entirely clear if the machine was successful in flight , but the construction of this machine has been well documented.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, he approved further funding to the development of the disc.

Former Polish military journalist, Igor Witowski has authored several books on the subject of weapons and weapons systems unknown to the general public.

A modern day eight grade science text book teaches that the earth is made of several layers with a solid core. We used to believe that the core of the earth was molten, until Danish seismologist, Inge Lehmann, wrote a paper on her findings while studying the waves of a 1929 earthquake and theorized the Earths core was solid. These findings were retested in 1970 so that is the story we now stick with.

Science teaches us each layer of Earths measurements are –

Crust 35 kilometers = 21+ miles
Lithosphere 100 km = 62+ miles
Asthenosphere 700km = 434+ miles
Lower Mantle 2885 km = 1792+ miles
Outer Core 5155 km = 3203+ miles
Inner Core 6371 km = 3958+ miles
15246 km = 9473+ miles

We are taught that the distance to the inner core of the Earth is 3,958 miles, to give you a visual perspective, that is the distance from Ohio, USA to Sydney, Australia. If we can travel the distance around a ball, why can’t we drill straight down?

The largest man made excavation in the world is the Kennecott Copper Mine in Utah. Land was broken and the mine began production in 1906, spanning 1,900 acres and 0.6 miles in depth, it produced more copper than any other mine in history.

Kennecott may be the largest pit in the world at 0.6 miles in depth, but the deepest hole created by man is 7.5 miles into the Earths crust.

Remember, 8th Grade science teaches that the Earths crust alone is 21 miles in depth, meaning we have barely scratched the surface.

On the Kola Peninsula of Russia the Kola Superdeep Borehole was established in 1970.

Soviet scientist set out to probe deeper than humanity has ever done before and spent the next 24 years drilling into the Earth.

While data produced by the Kola drilling project continues to be analyzed, the drilling itself was forced to stop in the early 1990s when unexpectedly high temperatures were encountered, as well as unexpected decrease in rock density causing the rock to behave more like a plastic making drilling impossible.

By 2005 no plans were approved, the project was officially shut down and the borehole was welded shut.

The findings from this research disproved the theory that there would be a transition from granite to basalt at about 3 to 4 miles in depth.

There was also the surprising discovery of fossils within the granite, which had been thought not possible. Unexpected reserves of natural gases such as helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, were found all along the borehole.

The most surprising discovery was layers of marine deposits, almost four miles beneath the surface, that were dated at two billion years old and which contained the fossil traces of life.

Science had stated that there would be no water below 6 to 7 thousand feet underground, but large reserves of water were found all throughout the drilling process.

It has been rumored that when the workers reached the 7.5 mile point there was an explosion of gases and heat released carrying demons.

It has also been rumored that when the workers reached a point where they could hear the screams of tortured souls, they ran from the site and were said to have been drugged to help them forget the nightmarish incident.

Perhaps, or perhaps the discovery of vast oceans of clean water would best be kept secret. As a natural resource with decreasing access, clean water is sure to become a major commodity.

If Russia knew it has access to the largest clean water resource the world has ever dreamed of, they would be wise to not advertise it.

Nations have been occupied and destroyed for their natural resources, why would there be a sudden change in the script?

“Life is what you make it” takes on a deeper meaning when you consider recent discoveries in quantum physics.

To break the idea of Holographic Reality down into an easily digestible bit, matter only exists when it is observed.

In the early 1800s English scientist  Thomas Young conducted the double slit experiment, allowing light to pass through a slit in a barrier.  When the light was allowed only one slit it would be observable as a single band with greater intensity at the center. A single beam of light, as was to be expected.

That light then passed through a pair of slits in another barrier. Each slit then diffracted the light as if they were also individual sources of light. Which came as a big surprise.

This left the question of whether light traveled as a particle or a wave?

If light exists as particles, the intensity of both slits will be the sum of the intensity from the individual slit. Meaning the particle split and went through both slits.

If light exists as waves, the light waves will have interference, creating bands of light and dark .

Is light a wave or a particle?

A Wired article states that most physics textbooks tackle this with  “ This is a difficult question – the answer is that in some situations light behaves as a particle and in others it behaves as a wave.”

Think of the photograph Pale Blue Dot taken of Earth from Voyager 1.

The experiment was again performed in 1989 by the Hitachi Group. With their advanced technology, the Japanese scientist were able to shoot electrons through the slits and observe the effects.

When observed on the board, the electrons traveled as the light had traveled.

But electrons, do not travel in waves. So you would assume that the electron was some how splitting before it reached the double slits.

Then scientist were able to  measure or observe the electron hitting the double slit barrier. When the electron is being observed it reacts differently.

The electron does exactly what you would assume it would do, break into two pieces and travel to the observation board as two bands when not being measured.

The electrons traveled like particles when not being observed, but would change course and travel as waves when attempts of observation was made.

If you are confused, don’t feel bad, this continues to baffle scientist.

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does it still make a sound?” is finally answered, if no one observes it, it never existed.

It is an extremely difficult idea for people to grasp. You know you exists, how do you exists? What makes a tree, a tree, in the first place?

The findings of the slit experiment sent off a wave of philosophical questioning. What does it all really mean? That matter only exists when it is thought into existence, measured, or observed.

Author of Quantum Conscience, Matthew McKinley, creates video diaries on YouTube. Matt used to have a YouTube channel called Texas Shrugged where he would discuss various questions about world. The channel was shut down and Matt can now be found on his newer channel Quantum Conscience.

There was a video on his Texas Shrugged channel, titled The Fish Tank Reality (or something very similar). In the video Matthew gave a very clear description of how people who want to question are thinking on a different string.

He describes how fish are in a fish tank. The fish in the fish tank only know the bounds of the tank they are in. The fish can not conceptualize an ocean.

If one of the fish some how gained knowledge of ocean and started communicating this idea to the other fish, they would have no way to understand what he meant.

They would surely think he was crazy.

It is also been theorized that there are multiple strings of reality running parallel to each other. That time travel is what is also known as quantum jumping, having the ability to consciously jump from one string of reality to another.

The television program Quantum Leap gives a predictive story line in more then one instance. The show is about time travel, but is really a simplistic version of quantum jumping.

If reality is what we make of it, if matter only exists when we observe it, why are we always at war? Why wouldn’t we all imagine a better world, free from all of the inconveniences? What is stopping us?

If the Earth is flat, why would that be hidden? NASA can not be explained away with “it was a miscalculation” it would be something that they would have to know. So, why would that reality to be hidden?

Whether Antarctica holds the edge of the Flat Earth, or the entrance to the Hollow Earth, or nothing but unstable ice shelves, why is no one allowed to traverse it?

All of the theories of what this world is are born from spirituality, denied spirituality, and then are born again in the minds of the questioning.

Are these things hidden for fear that the answer is, we are created.

And is the fear that whatever/whoever created this world, has some kind of control over us?

Is the fear that we have been so trusting and all the while we have been deceived? No one wants to look like a sucker.

In Monster 3 we will dive into the Science vs Mysticism and question who is pulling the strings of this reality.

 

 

 

 

Otto Warmbier anagrams to Wartime Robot. If Otto is the robot, then who is in charge of the controls? A cruel and vengeful dictator? A Methodist Church? A secret society used as a CIA grooming center? The US Government? As we chase Otto’s tale down the rabbit hole we fall into the hidden warrens and meet with the characters who have become trapped in this story.

 

First we meet, drunken dormouse, Dennis Rodman. On June 13th 2017, the ex-NBA star made his fifth visit to the DPRK. The trip was sponsored by Pot-coin, a peer to peer crypt o currency, with ambitions to become  the main form of decentralized payment for the cannabis industry. I was surprised to learn that hemp is legally grown in the DPRK. The hearty growing plant serves many purposes for the North Korean economy. It is used in agriculture, textiles, drainage, industrial materials and a cheap alternative to tobacco. Hemp contains only trace amounts of THC (the main component found in cannabis that gets you high) but the plants are indistinguishable from each other to an untrained eye.

It makes sense for North Korea to be open to doing trade through a decentralized currency. The US has been progressively tightening sanctions against North Korea since 2008. North Korea being able to sell a plant that grows wild along its railroad tracks while Pot-coin is able to trade without federal oversight, with a decentralized currency, the sanctions would be of little concern.

But with the tricky language around US International trade law and ever changing sanctions, it may prove difficult to be sure you are operating within the boundaries. Washington DC attorney, Jared Marx, says in a 2015 Coin-desk article “ How much contact with the United States does a company need for US laws to apply to it? That can be a fact-intensive question, but a good shorthand is that if a web-based company has any users who are located in the US, there’s a good chance that a judge would agree that they’re subject to US law, at least with respect to the company’s interactions with those US-based persons. What, then, if a company avoids US customers altogether? This is a surer route to avoiding US law, but still not bulletproof. Federal prosecutors sometimes assert jurisdiction based on hooks like the use of a US bank, or an allegation that a company conspired with a US person.For example, the US terrorist financing statute makes it a crime to participate in terrorist financing anywhere in the world, as long as the financing is “directed toward” an attack against the United States.”  With such loose language, I wonder, could a North Korean website be considered breaking sanctions, if they had any US subscribers? Could, in turn, any of those US subscribers then be charged with doing business with terrorist sympathizers?

Speculations were raised on the true intentions behind Rodman’s Pot-coin funded trip, that just so happened, to be on the very same day of Otto Warmbier’s release from the DPRK prison.  Pot-coin stated that they sponsored the trip for “world peace”. Rodman has both denied that his visit had anything to do with Otto’s release, while at the same time hinting Otto’s release would not of happened without his involvement. The Warmbier family and the US Government deny that Rodman’s visit had anything to do with the release of Otto. All thanks went to Rex Tillerson and State Department Special Representative Joseph Yun, acting under the Trump administration.

This was not the first time that an American held in North Korea was released around a timely visit from Rodman. In February of 2013 Rodman traveled to the DPRK to promote Basketball Diplomacy. Then, three months later in May of 2013, Rodman tweeted a request to Kim to release Kenneth Bae ( a 45 year old, Korean – American Evangelical Christian Missionary also known as Pae Jun-ho ).  Bae had been arrested in North Korea in  November of  2012 and then six months later he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor on April 30th of 2013 (just one month prior to Rodman requesting his release). Bae was the first American ever to be sentenced to hard labor in North Korea.

In January of 2013, Bill Richardson the governor of New Mexico and Eric Schmidt the chief executive of Google, visited with DPRK officials urging North Korea to shed its self-imposed isolation and allow its citizens to use the Internet, or risk being left behind economically. North Korea has connected to the internet through China based Unicom. Mr Richardson handed officials a letter from Mr Bae’s son, but was not allowed to visit with him.

Dennis Rodman and fellow ex-NBA players were on the  Basketball Diplomacy  tour, during a January 7th 2013 Chris Cuomo interview, Rodman let loose about  Kenneth Bae’s crimes in North Korea. Rodman shot out “ Kenneth Bae did one thing … If you understand what Kenneth Bae did. Do you understand what he did in this country? No, no, no, you tell me, you tell me. Why is he held captive here in this country, why? … I would love to speak on this.” Rodman then told Cuomo that he “didn’t give a rats ass  what he thought”.

After a February 10th, Daily Mail headline announced “Dennis Rodman got drunk, vomited and defecated all over a North Korean hotel ” the media and public were able to easily shrug off Rodman’s hints that Bae may not have been innocent of wrongdoing in North Korea, as an alcohol fueled rant.

Agent and activist, David Sugarman of Sugarman Productions traveled to North Korea with the Basketball Diplomacy tour as a representative of retired NBA star Kenny Anderson. Sugarman offered himself in trade for Bae, stating “Human to human, I’m asking you to release Kenneth Bae. I’m going to take it a step further: If the North Korean government actually needs somebody in North Korea, take David Sugarman. Allow me to go there. I’m younger. I’m healthier. You have released prisoners before, and I’m asking you to release Kenneth Bae.”

President Barack Obama called for Bae’s release at the national Prayer Breakfast, saying ” We pray for Kenneth Bae, a Christian missionary who has been held in North Korea for 15 months. His family wants him home, and the United States will continue to do everything in our power to secure his release because Kenneth Bae deserves to be free.” Jumping on the #BringBaeBack bandwagon, disregarding North Korea’s customs and laws, as well as Kenneth Bae’s own admission to spreading what the DPRK considers anti – government propaganda.

“Dennis Rodman could do a lot of good by advocating for Kenneth to Kim Jong-un, but instead he has decided to hurl outrageous accusations at my brother, insinuating that Kenneth has done something sinister.” said Bae’s sister Terri Chung, during a CNN interview. Kenneth had openly admitted that he was conducting anti government activities during his trips to DPRK, but the US Government and media continued to say that Bae was being unjustly held by the DPRK.

Bae was charged with –

*Working with evangelical organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM);

*Bae is accused of preaching against the North Korean government in American and South Korean churches.

*Planning an anti-North Korean religious coup d’état called”Operation Jericho” (a reference to the biblical city whose walls were toppled by the sound of the Israelite’s trumpets), which began in the US, South Korea, and China long before Bae traveled to North Korea.

-side-note-  Operation Jericho is also the name of a controversial military action in WW2-

*Setting up bases in China for the purpose of toppling the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

*Encouraging North Korean citizens to bring down the government.

*Conducting a malignant smear campaign.


Bae was arrested after North Korean officials found a hard disk containing sensitive information about the country in his possession. Bae stated that the hard drive was filled with “prayers and pictures of starving North Korean children” and that he was not “held without reason”. He apologized to the North Korean government while admitting to conducting anti-government activities. He said he had not been abused and added, “I believe that my problem can be solved by close cooperation and agreement between the American government and the government of this country.”

The US government and Bae’s own family were quick to label anything Bae said as coerced confessions. Claiming that the North Korean government had framed Bae and was using him as a diplomatic pawn.

Bae was interviewed at the North Korean prison on July 3 2013. When asked if prison life was bearable, he replied: “Yes, people here are very considerate. But my health is not in the best condition, so there are some difficulties. But, everyone here is considerate and generous, and we have doctors here, so I’m getting regular check-ups.”

Bae’s thin appearance worried his sister Terri Chung “He’s back to eight-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week hard labor. We can’t help but be concerned about that.” In August of 2013, he was moved to the prison hospital and remained in the hospital care for 6 months of his 13 month imprisonment. Bae’s Mother was allowed three, two hour visits with her son during a five day trip to North Korea in October of 2013. Bae returned to physical labor in February of 2014.

Bae had existing health problems upon entering North Korea, he was diabetic, had an enlarged heart, liver problems and back pain. Unsurprisingly, after two months of a strict diet and physical labor he had shed 50 pounds from his chubby frame.

Bae spent time in Washington State, but was based in China, in the city of Dalian. He had  traveled to North Korea over 18 times through a tour group called Nations Tours. The company’s website was taken down shortly after Bae’s arrest. It appears they wanted to to hide the fact that Bae, was the actual owner of  Nations Tours.  Bae’s Facebook page (which has since been shut down) had links to the Joseph Connection, an Ohio-based, not-for-profit, Christian missionary program.

In a 2013 Sino NK article,  Adam Cathcart speculated “ If Bae’s goal was to help orphanages, doing so in conjunction with the North Korean authorities for the final delivery of aid, as other NGOs present in the country do, such pictures would then have been taken with the full knowledge of Bae’s North Korean guides. Never has such a situation before led to the arrest of a foreign visitor to North Korea. (Indeed, the heaviest sanction is that the pictures are erased at the request of the North Koreans.) However, had the photos been taken in secret, then they could have had a purpose other than humanitarian action. But a single snapshot usually does not justify taking the [extreme] measure of arresting the photographer: the penalty would be a simple expulsion, after the confiscation of equipment and the offending photos.”

 

 

April 10 (just over three months after Rodman’s explosive 2014 interview) Matthew Todd Miller entered DPKR on a tourist visa he purchased from New Jersey based, Uri Tours.  Known as a loner, Matthew opted for the more expensive independent tour of the Hermit Nation. He retrieved his ticket in Beijing and then traveled on chasing white rabbits, unaccompanied to North Korea. He was met at the Pyongyang airport by North Korean employees of Uri Tours. While waiting to go through customs at the Pyongyang airport, Matthew dramatically ripped up his travel visa and asked for political asylum.

He had prepared a memo book in advance of this action. He had written “I am seeking asylum to avoid imprisonment. My agenda is to remove the American military from South Korea. In this process I attempted to access files from the bases (of the) American military in South Korea. The American military is expanding its influence in Asia which I oppose.” Matthew also claimed to have obtained military secrets in South Korea and claimed to be working with Wikileaks.

Matthew had traveled from Bakersfield California to South Korea in 2010 to visit with his brother, US Air Force Major and elite F-35 test pilot Robert Dean Miller. It is suspected that Matthew spent between 2 to 4 years in South Korea. He was unemployed and had no close friends. He was reported to have been teaching English in Seoul. Hur Sung – doh (who organized a weekly debate group) said of Matthew Miller “He was just a mysterious character. He said nothing unless I asked questions.”

The Japan-based Choson Sinbo newspaper attended Miller’s trial and said he answered to the court that he lived in Seoul and that he was unemployed. Most of Matthews whereabouts during this time are unconfirmed and/or unknown. Matthew used a British accent and went under the alias of Preston Somerset. He said he was a journalist and newspaper publisher from London. Notes he had written into his memo book also stated that he had recently traveled to many other countries, including London.

Metamorphosing Caterpillar, Matthew Todd Miller gave numerous and ever changing reasons for his visit. He claimed to be in possession of US military intel to share with the DPRK. He had claimed to be a journalist who was hoping to be arrested and to expose the brutality of North Korean prison system. He said he had heard so much rhetoric about North Korea that he wanted to visit and experience one on one conversations with North Korean people. Asking of their day to day lives and allowing the same to be asked of himself. Any of these claims could be true, as well as all of these claims being true at the same time. Just who is PS London/ Preston Somerset/ Matthew Todd Miller and why have we heard so little about his experience in the DPRK?

Matthew also contacted and commissioned various artist to assist in his creation Alice in Red, an anime adaptation of the 1865 fantasy novel  Alice in Wonderland  written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the more well known, pseudonym Lewis Carroll.  Fellow DeviantArt.com collaborator and  American based Japanese erotic artist  Francis Cole, working under the name Eirhjien, was commissioned to create artwork for Matthews project after being contacted via email from PS London another online alias of Matthew Todd Miller’s. Seoul based artist and studio director Mike Stewart met with Matthew after receiving an email from Preston Somerset  inquiring about studio rental at the Jankura Art Space. “He seemed very birdy, like ready to bolt at any minute, like he didn’t know what to say and things like that .” said Stewart of his meeting with Matthew. Matthew paid cash up front for the space, yet never returned to the studio. Various other ghost writers, gaming programmers and visual artist were commissioned by Matthew. With no detectable income, one has to wonder, who was funding Matthew Todd Millers travels and philanthropy? Cole is quoted to say “Where his funding came from was never discussed, and we have to tread lightly on this one do to the legal strategy the family seems to be following. You can guess who was giving him the money to stay in Korea based on that last statement.”

Journalist Nate Thayer,  stated that Cole lists his only formal employment on his Linked In profile as in 1999 “selling IT and telecommunications security through the AF (Air Force)and DOD (Department of Defense).”

Matthew was the youngest of 4 sons of Bill and KC Miller, both, said to be petroleum engineers working in the California area. Perhaps they were well off and able to finance their baby boys artistic endeavors? Little is known of the Miller family. It appears that Matthews family went to great length’s  to erase any online history of Matthew Todd Miller. Neighbors and friends were asked to not discuss Matthews story with the media and they complied. Matthew falsified his paperwork when asked for an emergency contact and no one was searching for him during his detainment in North Korea. It has been stated that no one was even aware that he was there ( which may make him more of the Cheshire Cat, then the Caterpillar ).

At first Matthew had asked for no US Government involvement in his release, going so far as to writing it in his memo book while in China, in preparation for his detainment. Matthew then asked for an envoy to plead for him during his trial. Matthew was sentenced to 6 years of hard labor for committing acts hostile to the DPRK while entering under the guise of a tourist under Article 64 of the North Korean Criminal Code.

Matthew Todd Miller’s confessions of his treatment under the DPRK did not follow the US narrative that the North Korean government is a pariah dictatorship known for its extreme cruelty to prisoners. Miller said he was initially held in the Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang, where North Korean officials urged him to leave the country, but he refused. The DPRK tried several times to convince Matthew Todd Miller to board the next plane out of North Korea, but he simply would not leave. He was not formally detained until his third week in North Korea.

He was then moved to what he described as a guest house, where he said fellow American Kenneth Bae was being held along with several other unidentified prisoners. Miller would ultimately stay there for five more months. What has been described in the US media as hard labor was what Matthew Miller described as “Eight hours per day digging around in the dirt“. Which sounds more like an average day for a regular laborer to me. His sentence of six years hard labor, turned out to be less then 3 months of manual labor.

Matthew stated to media from his home in California “This might sound strange, but I was prepared for the ‘torture’ but instead of that I was killed with kindness, and with that my mind folded and the plan fell apart.”

 

Jeffery Fowle left from his Ohio home with a Bible in his pocket and a plan in his mind and headed off to North Korea. It is unconfirmed what tour group Mr. Fowle went through but Connecticut based Koryo Tours is the most likely. When asked if they were in fact the tour group that Jeffery Fowle had traveled with, Simon Cockerell, a longtime tour leader for Koryo Tours, told the Wall Street Journal that the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang asked the company not to comment on the case.

Mr. Fowle had left an English- Korean bible in the restroom of a nightclub in the port city of Chongjin, praying that God would direct a Christian to it. Instead it was found by the DPRK police. First, Fowle claimed it likely fell from his pocket when he was using the restroom, but the Bible was found stuffed under a waste basket. Finally, Mr. Fowle confessed he had left the bible and was guilty of the crime. He states that he was acting alone, not through his Bethel Baptist Church, the US Government, or any other entity.

Mr. Fowle had written his full name, phone number and address onto the front page as well as leaving several family photographs, which left little doubt of who the Bible belonged to. He was then whisked off to the 36th floor of the same Yanggakdo Hotel where Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae were being held. He was held here for for 3 1/2 months of his 6 month detainment. He was isolated and questioned daily, but said he suffered absolutely no physical abuse and was fed three meals a day. After 2 weeks of detainment his interpreter would join him in 30 to 40 minute walks. Mr. Fowe was then moved to the guest house that had been described by Matthew Miller, for the remainder of his detainment in DPRK.

During this time, Sony pictures released a comedy titled The Interveiw , that makes light of a CIA orchestrated assassination of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un. With the US’s history in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., it is understandable that the film would increase tensions between the two nations. How would the US Government feel about an Iranian comedy about the assassination of a US President getting international viewership? I would bet, not so good.

Jeffery Fowle was released on October 21st 2014. A few weeks later, on November 8th, both Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller were also released. All three releases were facilitated by the Swedish Embassy, as the US does not have diplomatic relations with DPRK. All thanks went to James Clapper who was acting Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017. Clapper made a top secret trip to DPRK on November 8th 2014, helping to facilitate the release of Miller and Bae.

All three prisoners did not show any sign of abuse when they were released from North Korea. Kenneth Bae later did claim that he suffered from the physical labor and verbal abuse. His story has received a lot of media attention and he has published a book about his time in North Korea, titled Not Forgotten.

After Matthew Todd Millers release he was quoted as saying “I sincerely apologized to North Korea, it was not coerced at all,” Miller said. “Before going I did not think I would feel guilt for my actions toward North Korea. Over time that changed and I did feel guilt for the crime, so in that sense I consider what I did to be a mistake even though I did achieve [my] goals.” and then Matthew disappeared from the public eye.

Jeffery Fowle suffered no physical or verbal torture during his detainment. He is back home in Ohio, starting a new job. The media lost interest and his story faded into the background.  Joshua Hunt’s Holiday At The Dictators Guesthouse is a thorough look at Jeffery Fowle and his reasons for his actions in North Korea. I highly recommend taking the time to read it.

Norwegian artist and director Morten Traavik organized a concert in Pyongyang to wrap up the DPRK’s 70th annual Liberation Day, a festival starting on August 15th, with two days of commemoration of North Korea’s liberation from the Japanese colonial rule. Slovenian industrial band Laibach were to perform their version of The Sound of Music at the city’s Ponghwa Theatre and an acoustic set at a local music school. This would be the first rock band to ever perform in the DPRK and signified the increase of diplomacy through cultural exchange.

At that same time, 21 year old Ohio native Otto Warmbier a third year University of Virginia student of finance, was price comparing two tour groups –  UK Koryo Tours and UK Young Pioneer Tours. He decided on Young Pioneers for the less expensive $1200 fare. Otto paid $800 and his father Frederick Warmbier agreed to pay the remaining $400. Otto’s application was confirmed and he booked his visit for the end of December to coincide with a University of Virginia sponsored finance class in Hong Kong, scheduled for January of 2016.

On September 23rd, what was to be a young mans curious adventure into mysterious lands, took a dark turn. Otto states that he went to have dinner with his close friend and high school classmate Stefan Webb. Stefan’s and Otto’s childhood homes were within walking distance and the two had a close friendship for over 10 years. Otto had moved from his home state and was renting an apartment in Charlottesville near the University in Virginia. Stefan had stayed in town and was attending Ohio State University.

Stefan’s mother Sharon Webb joined the two for dinner and Otto told his friends mother about his anticipated adventure to mysterious North Korea. Sharon was a deaconess at the Friendship United Methodist Church and stated she agreed with her churches stance against the government of North Korea. Sharon then made Otto an offer. If Otto was able to steal an important political slogan from North Korea to be hung in her church as a trophy, she would reward him with a used car valued at $10,000. Sharon said that if he was detained and not returned the Friendship United Methodist Church would pay $200,000 to Otto’s mother Cindy Warmbier  in the way of charitable donations. But Otto must not ever mention the church or else the money would not come. Sharon then showed Otto the churches official bank account statement with a $42 million total.

At first, Otto was fearful and hesitant to agree to anything. He stated that the church continued to pressure and allure him to commit the act. In early October, he said he decided to tell his mother Cindy Warmbier about some of his ideas and possible plans. He told her that he was planning to steal something precious from North Korea and that if he was to be detained, she would receive transfers into her bank account from The Friendship United Methodist Church. Otto said his mother wept and said not to do anything dangerous.

In late November, Otto decided to share his idea to a fellow student and member of the secretive Z Society. What is the Z Society you ask? Its a secret, but Otto goes on to explain ” The Z Society is the most secret organization at the University of Virginia, all members and activities are strictly confidential. The large Z crest that are found scattered around the campus of the University of Virginia are put there by the Z society who donates millions of dollars to the university. After graduation, members go on to become very wealthy with jobs in politics, business and religion.” Otto adds that there are currently 10 student members of the Z Society and former members include US President Woodrow Wilson and a former head of the CIA. The Z Society donated $30,000 to the UVA Faculty Forward Program. The home page of the website describes the Faculty Forward Program as a “$130 million fundraising initiative to help fund near-term faculty recruitment efforts while also building the endowment to sustain the long-term excellence of the academic core in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.”

Otto wanted very badly to become a member of the Z Society and saw this as an opportunity to prove his commitment by accomplishing this brave act, as well as to help with the Z Society‘s goal to spread freedom and eliminate tyranny. The Z Society encouraged Otto and said it would help him to gain membership into their secrets. A member of the Z Society was said to even suggest they could help to put pressure on North Korea if Otto was caught. But, Otto was expected to keep the Z Society‘s involvement hush, hush.

The temptations from the Friendship United Methodist Church and the Z Society solidified Otto’s plan and he got right to work.
 Otto honed his sign stealing craft on the streets of Charlottesville Virginia until December 23 of 2015. Hiding his treasures under his apartment bed and preparing his luggage to hold and veil his DPRK stash. He also did extensive Google image searches for “North Korea Slogan” and noted the large, red, rectangular signage, printed on a thin, tin, sheet. He believed he would be able to fold the sign enough to fit into his suitcase. He planned his excuses in case he was caught. He could claim to have purchased the sign in a souvenir shop, or claim that he was drunk along with his fellow Young Pioneer Tour group members.

On December 27th Otto landed in Beijing and spent the next two days exploring the city. On December 29th he met with his tour group at the Beijing International Airport and landed at the Pyongyang International Airport that afternoon. The tour group checked into the Yanggakdo International Hotel and spent the next two days touring the DPRK.

Photos that have been released of Otto’s short time in the DPRK show a group of happy tourist, laughing and having snowball fights. In the midst of all of this merriment, Otto asked of his UK tour guide “Where do they keep all of the important slogans in the hotel?”  Which you would think would set off some red flags, but it didn’t. The tour guide noted that the slogans were displayed in the employee only areas of the hotel.

Around 1:30 am Otto joined his tour group at the hotel bar and then slipped away to the employee only area where he located the banner he had planned to take. As Otto pulled the slogan down, he realized it was much heavier then he first suspected . He got spooked and abandoned his mission. In his hasty exit back to his room, he left the slogan upside down and resting on the ground.

On the second day of 2016, the Young Pioneers Tour group headed off to the Pyongyang International Airport to depart from their tour of the DPRK. The group was hung over from the previous nights celebrations and they joked and chatted as they made their way through customs. As they were boarding the plane, Otto was approached by DPRK Police. Danny Gratton, Otto’s roommate during his stay in DPRK, said of Otto’s arrest “He was tapped on the shoulder by a guard. No words were spoken. We got on so well that I sort of laughed toward Otto and said , we mightn’t see you again. Of course I didn’t realize the irony of them words.”

On March 1st of 2016, North Korea released a video of Otto Warmbier’s confession to various international media, said to be filmed on February 29th. The next day, March 2nd, Swedish diplomats were reported to have visited with Otto in North Korea and to have sent his parents a letter that he had written to them. Otto’s parents stated this was the only contact they had with their son over his eighteen months in DPRK. On March 17th, Otto was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor. He turned twenty two on December 12th, while in custody of North Korea.

President Donald Trump requested Secretary of State Rex Tillerson obtain the release of any Americans being held in North Korea, in February of 2017. In an April television interview Frederick Warmbier accused US Diplomats of doing little to help facilitate Otto’s release. Fred and Cindy gave several interviews asking the Trump administration to do,what the Obama administration seemed unable to do, secure Otto’s release from the DPRK.

Sports agent/activist, David Sugarman, was reported to have met with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ambassador on April 22 in New York City and created his #WEWANTWARMBIER social media campaign (rivaled only by his #BringBaeBack campaign).

The Obama administration had suggested that the Warmbier’s lay low and not do anything that may anger the North Korean Government, while the administration worked on obtaining Otto’s release. The Warmbier’s followed the advice of the administration and continued to wait. Obamas presidency ended and the time of silence came  to an end and the Warmbier’s made the media rounds. After months of quietly waiting, the Warmbier’s spoke out on the Tucker Carlson show and action started to take place.

Two months later in June of 2017, North Korean diplomats visiting New York alerted the US Governments Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Otto had been in a coma since March of 2016. North Korean officials said that Otto was suffering from botulism and had taken a sleeping pill. Who had administered that medication, or what the medication was, was not mentioned. Otto never would wake from that slumber. The Diplomats were then mugged by members of the Department of Homeland Security at the John F. Kennedy Airport and stripped of a diplomatic package. Contents, unknown.

 

 

Fred had received a call saying his son Otto, had been in a coma and was believed to have been in that condition since March of 2016. He was out of town with his son Austin Warmbier when the call came through. They immediately headed home to tell Cindy of the bad news. On June 13 th 2017, Merry Ol Saint Dennis Rodman showed up with his Pot-coin swag and his press gaggle in tow, at that same time, Otto was being placed onto a US aircraft and flown from North Korea to Japan. He was then flown from Japan to Cincinnati Lunken Airport, arriving at 10:15 pm .He was then transferred to UC Health in Cincinnati.

There were three interviews that then took place on June 15, about 40 hours after Otto’s return to the US.  First, Tucker Carlson was invited into the Warmbier home to speak with Fred about Otto’s reunion with the Warmbier family, as well as an update on his medical condition. Tucker asked Fred “Do you know what happened to him in North Korea?”

Fred replied, “I don’t and so watching his confession and seeing the things we’ve seen in North Korea which, none of which was true. And then hearing what I think, was, they said with Otto apparently…um…the day after he was sentenced he went into a coma for whatever, some, for some reason. Um, I don’t have any particulars. I wouldn’t trust, that, well, listen Tucker, Otto had been terrorized and brutalized for 18 months by a pariah regime in North Korea. We are thrilled to have him back home. He is with his family. His Mom is with him right now and I will be with him later today.”

Later that same day Fred gave a press conference,  proceeding an update from the medical team overseeing Otto’s care. Fred stood wearing the same tan sports jacket that Otto wore during his confession in North Korea. With a tear in his eye, Fred joked “But I am not confessing now, I am speaking.”

Fred thanked Ohio State Senator Rob Portman for his support and said the family had received a phone call from President Trump around 10:00 pm the night before. Fred stated that Dennis Rodman had nothing to do with Otto, saying, “ It’s a diversion. This is all planned.” No one asked “What is it a diversion from?” or “Who’s plan?”

The final question touched on Bae and Fowle, whether theirs were similar experiences and if they had been in contact with the Warmbier family. Fred seemed almost offended while answering,” We see absolutely no similarities. And, and, have we communicated with Jeff Fowle and the others. Um, no, Otto and the other’s, Otto is, what Otto was a young university student, who’s on a tour with other university students. He’s never been in trouble in his life, he wasn’t trying to do anything in the country, there just weren’t similarities. Otto was considered a war criminal, we weren’t looking for confirmation that, oh, this is the way things are. It’s our son, its unique and we knew it was unique and it is unique, so you know, no and we’ve, they’ve reached out to us and I think they only wanted to help but, were fii…thats not what we are looking for.”

No one asked “What about Matthew Todd Miller?” Who was the same age as Otto. Had the Warmbier’s ever spoken with the Millers? What set Otto apart? Were the others held in North Korea guilty of working against the DPRK and Otto wasn’t?

When asked to comment on Otto’s confession, Fred responded  “North Korea has proven they are not natures noble men. Again, do you believe my son needed a used car? Do you think, believe he, he’s not even a member of the church that he was accused of stealing a banner from, so, again, um, I, I, I don’t really, we are not burdened with what North Korea says or does any longer. The Warmbier family is not and I am so happy for Cindy, myself, my community, this community has been amazing. We have been forced to be quiet and act different because we didn’t want to offend them and so I don’t know if that answers your question, but that’s my feeling.”

 

 

The answers only left more questions, that no one seemed to want to ask. Otto’s confession seemed overly scripted, so it would be easy to dismiss it as forced. But, lets look at some of the circumstances around Otto’s confession, in comparison to what we have been told to think. With an international press gaggle present, all members wore language translation headphones. Otto’s careful speaking style could be attributed to the delay during translation, interrupting the natural flow of speech. Top this linguistic hurdle with the fact that Otto would want to carefully word his responses. Not only being sure that his voice was clearly heard and understood, but also to account for the translating software to be able to translate to an equivalent word when translated to the listener.

At Otto’s request, an international press conference was held. Otto started by thanking all present for their time, made an apology to the government of the DPRK and begged forgiveness. He told of his scholastic accomplishments (which were grand and numerous) as well as his love for adventure.

Otto had traveled to Cuba, Israel, London and China, after starting at the University of Virginia in 2014. This isn’t mentioned during his confession, but illustrates his love for travel and adventure. Also, it shows that he wasn’t unfamiliar with international travel.

Otto listed his residence and spoke of his family. He said his father owned a very small factory called Cincinnati Black Oxide. Otto said his fathers business barely made enough to support his family.

Lets start there. If this is true, then we can answer the question Fred asked at the press conference after Otto’s release, “Do you believe that my son needed a used car?” If Otto’s family was suffering financial struggles while he was away at college in Virginia, then yes, I believe he needed a used car.

How were finances for the Warmbier family? During Otto’s confession, he stated that he was expected to pay $200,000 towards his two siblings $400,000 college cost. Two hundred thousand dollars was the amount Otto stated that Sharon Webb had offered by way of the Friendship United Methodist Church. I have never heard of this. Is this something that happens in some cultures or communities, the older sibling taking on half the cost of his siblings education? With so much talk about college debt and then add the additional $200,000 responsibility to your siblings. I would find that stressful at age 40! Imagine having that stress at the age of 22.

The Warmbier home has a Zestimate value of $951,000. Fred Warmbier is also listed as co owner of a business called Tiger Shark Marine LLC. The company was registered at Fred’s home address in 2010, has two employees and an annual revenue of $168,476.

Fred is listed to have purchased a 2010 Nissan 370Z convertible. The car sells for around $18,000.

In March of 2010 the car was sold to the first owner with title # 3106161508 and the odometer reading 98 miles.

Then three years later the car was listed for sale with a new title # 3106960110 with only 12,611 miles.

The car was then sold on May 16th of 2013 with the title # changed to 3106983336.

Eight days later the car was listed for sale, on May 23rd, with title # 3106989164.

The vehicle was purchased by the third and last listed owner on May 30th with title #3106993374 and only 17,398 miles on the odometer. The registration is reported to have been updated when the owner moved the vehicle to a new location.

That would mean that the car was only driven about 5,800 miles per year. The average mileage that a citizen drives per year is 14,000 miles. Perhaps it was a luxury item, just used on the weekends for recreation. Perhaps Fred was planning on giving the car to Otto. I am not sure about when the car was purchased by Fred or if he is one of the sellers, but he was one of the owners. The vehicle is not listed to have ever been registered outside of Ohio, so the title # changes remain a mystery.

Fred’s company Cincinnati Black Oxide also falls under the name of Finishing Technology, Inc. The division is listed to have certifications to contract with Military, Aeronautical, and Automotive Specifications. The company has contracted with Toyota, GM, Chrysler Corp, Ford, Proctor and Gamble and has worked on GE Aircraft Engines. Those are some pretty big names for doing business with a small local factory.

Things were looking so good that Fred was able to step back from his business to spend more time with his wife and children, traveling the globe and enjoying time together. Fred started to ride bikes and make use of his new found free time. Like father, like son, Fred exceeded at all he did and received a surprising amount of accolades. Fred was recognized in September of 2013 by the Federal Aviation Administration with inclusion into the prestigious FAA Airmen Certification Database, which names certified pilots who have met or exceeded the high educational, licensing and medical standards established by the FAA. Fred was able to purchase a personal aircraft and received his Authorized Aircraft Instructor license in October of 2015.

So you see all of that and the thought that Otto would say that his family was having financial problems seems pretty ridiculous, doesn’t it? Well, lets not be so quick to dismiss Otto’s words and close the book. Fred was also recognized and given a blog to write about his business experiences, as starting as a small company and then expanding. You’re the Boss was launched July 23, 2014 and acts as a sort of guideline of the Warmbier’s finances.

In Fred’s first article Introducing Managing: Something Had to Change he talks about how his business had started booming in 1998, how he decided to take on some debt to expand and then how it started to all come crashing down around 2013.

Otto was working summers in his dads business. Saying that makes you think of a college kid, sweeping up around the shop to earn some extra cash while he is home for the summer. Otto’s LinkedIn profile paints a different story. Otto worked as Finance/Operations Intern starting in June of 2010 and ending his employment to travel and attend the University of Virginia. Otto received certification for ISO 90100 aerospace auditor and had listed his job duties around his dads shop as –

-Analyzed past sales and organized suggestions for improved sales mix
-Calculated ROI for potential investments
-Created a budget and reported expenses for a three month period
-Analyzed past sales and organized suggestions for improved sales mix
-Trained in MAS-90 (now SAGE 100) Accounting Software, ISO 90100 certified aerospace auditor

In 2014 Otto headed off to his first year of college and move into his apartment at 600 Preston Place, Charlottesville Virginia, listed as being owned by the Xi Chapter Alumni Assoc Theta Chi Frat Inc . Later in the year Fred took to his blog and wrote about his experiences at an Aileron small business advocacy group conference, where he learned about Dr. Deming’s management methods and the Deming Institute. He wrote about how he wanted to find meaning in his work or to find work doing something meaningful. As you read through the blog entry, you can see that 2014 brought some great financial risk to Fred’s business.

His September 30th entry talks about the increased cost of keeping up with technology and competition, the company expansion cost and then a big client (too big to loose and remain viable) was unable to pay on a large order. To make matters worse, Fred got a double whammy when another large client demanded costly inspections and they expected Finishing Tech. to cover those cost. Things started to look bleak and by November of 2014 Fred was carrying the heavy weight of possible lay offs. His final post on You’re the Boss on December 17, 2014 Fred talked about the stresses of paying healthcare cost. The Obama years weren’t kind to entrepreneurs but Fred continued to be optimistic while he spoke on a panel at the 2015 Annual International Deming Research Seminar.

Otto took a Birthright funded trip to Israel with The Brody Jewish Center, Hillel at the University of Virginia late in December of 2014. He then took an advanced level economics course at The London School of Economics and Political Science in 2015. Otto was an Analyst Group Associate at the prestigious McIntire Investment Institute since September of 2013 and also acted as Managing Director of Special Situations Group and Coverage Director at the Alternative Investment Fund. At some point Otto also passed the CFA Level 1 exam.

With all of his financial knowledge, maybe Otto saw something that Fred didn’t. Maybe Otto didn’t believe his Fathers business would be able to rise from its slow crumble and decided to take some kind of action, despite the obvious risk, maybe Otto decided to take the gamble.

 

 

Recall the dinner that Otto had with his friend Stephan Webb on September 23 2015.  Sharon Webb joined the two and made the offer for Otto to procure a trophy from North Korea in trade for a used car and $200,000 through the Friendship United Methodist Church as well as further and unspecified enticements from the church.

At the June 15, 2017 press conference when Fred was asked about the possible connection to the church, he responded “he’s not even a member of the church that he was accused of stealing a banner from”. To have participated in the Birthright trip to Israel, Otto had to be of Jewish decent. So, no, he was not a member of the Methodist church, but these questions may be answered in Otto’s confession.

Otto stated “ I was easily manipulated since my family suffered from severe financial difficulties, and since I am a non believer, the church thought it could deny it’s involvement if my crime would become public news.”

Looking at the timeline of events, this sounds legitimate to me. If caught, of course the church would want to have an easily displayed cover. The fact that Otto was Jewish only helps to add to the ridiculousness, of implying he would go to such great lengths for a church that wasn’t even in line with his own belief system. Brilliant!

Asking, why in the world would the Friendship United Methodist Church want to be involved in such dangerous pranks? When Otto was asked during his press conference/testimony, to explain the details of the Friendship United Methodist Church he answered-

“The Friendship United Methodist Church is not a typical church. It is very wealthy, with $42 million. That is why, it has very close connections with the US Administration. This church made a plan to enter into anti-Christian countries, which the US Administration dislikes, with the aims of increasing its power, and it is implementing this plan. Several democratic Congressmen visit the church regularly to collect political fund donations and assure their continuous support to the church’s policies. It is said that in 2008, around $10 million, around 2-3 % of Barack Obama’s total election costs, was collected from this church. That is one of the reasons why the US Administration works closely with the church and connives at all acts, including my crime. The politicians and US Administration works very closely with the Friendship United Methodist Church to harm the DPRK by all dirty means and ways. The Friendship United Methodist Church gave me the crime task, which is matched to the US hostile policy against the DPRK, in order to spread Christianity in the DPRK and to increase the support from the US Administration. Therefore, my crime task was the expected output of the US Administration’s consistent hostile policy against the DPRK and its implementation by the Friendship United Methodist Church.”

The Center for Responsive Politics estimated the cost of the 2008 presidential race at $2.4 billion, and reported that fundraising by the presidential candidates was double that of 2004. The Obama campaign shattered fundraising records raising a total of $744.9 million.  During the primaries its biggest month was March 2008 when it brought in $55.4 million; it far surpassed that in the general election, raising over $150 million in September 2008. Two percent of Obama’s total 2008 campaign cost would be $14 million. If what Otto stated earlier, that The Friendship United Methodist Church had a total of $42 million it isn’t outrageous to think they could donate $14 million.

Was The Friendship United Methodist Church or Sharon Webb ever questioned about these accusations? I could not find any evidence of that. I reached out to The Friendship United Methodist Church asking

– Was Sharon Webb a deaconess at Friendship United Methodist Church and if so, during what dates?
– Did the Friendship United Methodist Church contribute to Barack Obama’s 2008 election cost?
– Has the Friendship United Methodist Church ever been questioned pertaining to Otto’s confession? 

They have yet to comment.

Could the Obama administration’s financial ties to The Friendship United Methodist Church be the reason the Warmbier family was asked to keep a low profile? North Korea officials claim that the Obama administration never asked for Otto’s release. Obama spokesman Ned Price stated “During the course of the Obama Administration, we had no higher priority than securing the release of Americans detained overseas. Their tireless efforts resulted in the release of at least 10 Americans from North Korean custody during the course of the Obama administration.”

Was there an investigation of any connections between the Obama administration and The Friendship United Methodist Church or The Z Society?

 

 

When Otto was asked to detail the Z Society, he stated “In order to become members, they must have good grades and leadership, and most importantly, they must commit a brave act to help with the Society’s goal of spreading freedom and eliminating tyranny. Once again, all members and activities are strictly confidential. It is clear that the members of the Z Society knew of my good grades and leadership. It is clear that they also knew I eagerly wanted to join the Z Society in order to solve my family’s desperate financial problems. Because of this, they expected me to commit a brave act to help eliminate tyranny. I planned to show my braveness through my crime in the DPRK in order to gain membership in the Z Society.”

Members of the Z Society worked to distance the organization from Otto. A member of the Z Society at UVA told CNN the organization sought to anonymously recognize students who contributed positively to the university. The source said the group had never had any contact with Warmbier and he’d never been approached to be a member.

Otto stated in his confession “I was clearly given the task by the Friendship United Methodist Church. The Z Society encouraged my crime. The US Administration already knows about my act through the CIA, which is closely linked to the Z Society, and connived at my crime. My crime is very severe and pre-planned.”

“There’s just not even the semblance of a relationship between a group of undergrads who get together to eat hummus and write nice things about people, and the CIA,” the Z Society member said  to CNN.

As difficult as it may be, to question two secretive organizations about their possible connections…has anyone attempted to investigate this? When contacted by CNN, a University of Virginia spokesman said: “The university is aware of recent media reports and remains in close contact with Otto Warmbier’s family. We will have no further comment at this time.”

Dr Leonid Petrov, a Korean Studies researcher at the Australian National University is quoted saying “He was in North Korea (twice before), he obviously knew the place. He went to a restricted area, an area a lot of people don’t know exists. He’s not naive, he’s not a victim. He is a victim in the eyes of Americans.”

 

 

Mr. Warmbier’s parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier said on the day of his release they wanted “the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime“, and expressed relief he had been returned to “finally be with people who love him”.

Otto died on June 19th 2017 he would never be able to tell his story, in his own words about what had happened to him in North Korea. The US Media were quick to familiarize the population with the words to use – Terrorist – Pariah – Regime – Brutalized

Four days earlier on June 15 at the request of the Warmbier family Dr. Daniel Kanter, Dr. Jordan Bonomo and Dr. Brandon Foreman gave a press conference, 40 some hours after Otto’s return to the US.

After introductions, Dr. Kanter started with describing Otto’s physical condition “ Vital signs stable on arrival and has remained so. Requires no supplemental oxygen or respiratory assistance. No signs of infection or dysfunction of all non neurological organs.”

Sheryl Stoleberg of The New York Times asked “American Intelligence officials have stated he was singled out for particularly brutal beatings, is it your opinion he was not beaten? Are there any body scars?”

Dr. Kanter said there were “minor skin blemishes consistent with medical care. No fractures and no skin indicating mistreatment”.

Ann Saker from the Cincinnati Enquirer asked “Can you tell if he has been given good care for the last year plus, since he has been in this condition?”

Dr. Kanter replied “ Upon arrival his skin was in good condition and he was well nourished.”

Dr. Kanter stated “Among the battery of test we performed, we examined all of the body, a skeletal survey.  We looked at the bony structure of the ribs, the pelvis, the skull and he has had CT Scans of the chest, abdomen and pelvis. In these scans we see no evidence of an acute healing fracture, including the skull.”

Otto was in perfect physical health but had suffered severe neurological damage. His neurological condition was described as “Unresponsive wakefulness, spontaneous eye opening and blinking, however, no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding. He did not speak or engaged in any purposeful movement. His exam shows a spastic quadriparesis, a profound weakness and contraction of the muscles of his arms and legs.”

To be clear, Otto was in a vegetative state, not in a coma. Unresponsive wakefulness is described as a vegetative state that some people suffer after being in a coma.  –  Some patients awaken from coma (that is, open the eyes) but remain unresponsive (that is, only showing reflex movements without response to command). This syndrome has been coined vegetative state. We here present a new name for this challenging neurological condition: unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (abbreviated UWS).

So, what happened to Otto? What was the cause of current condition and then death only 4 days later? North Korean medical officials had sent two disc of all of medical imaging Otto had undergone in their care dated from April and July of 2016, as well as pages of laboratory values (numerical values of various blood test).  There were no signs of botulism and there were no signs of poisoning, torture, or otherwise.

“We have no certain or verifiable knowledge of the cause or circumstances of his neurological injury. This pattern of brain injury however is usually seen as a result of cardio pulmonary arrest, where the blood supply to the brain is inadequate for a period of time resulting in the death of brain tissue. We received copies of the brain MRI images from the medical personnel in North Korea from April in 2016. Based upon our analysts of those images the brain injury likely occurred in the preceding weeks.”

It appears that Otto suffered a heart attack within a few days after his confession, that then led to respiratory arrest, that then led to a lack of oxygen to his brain and his brain tissue began deteriorating . At this point, he either fell into a comatose state or he was put into a medically induced coma.

What could have been the cause of a healthy 21 year old young man with no previous health problems to suddenly have a heart attack? Linzie Janis of ABC News asked about previously mentioned respiratory arrest and what would trigger that?

Dr. Bonomo answered “Could stem from intoxication, trauma, there could be other causes in a young healthy person, but in general respiratory arrest in a young healthy person is a rare event and generally caused by something like intoxication or a traumatic injury.”

Dr. Kanter stated “The type and pattern of damage we see on the MRI’s is consistent with cardio pulmonary arrest. Not the normal type we see with traumatic brain injury.”

The medical team found no indication that Otto was abused, mistreated or neglected, but that did not prevent the media from continuing to report that Otto had been brutalized by a terroristic, pariah regime.

 

 

Everyone seemed to agree with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, when he said ” there should be an investigation into what happened to Warmbier leading to this “tragic situation.”

Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco  stated that her office received and examined Warmbier’s body, but the family objected to an autopsy and the coroner only performed an external examination.

Otto’s funeral and memorial were held on June 22nd 2017 at the same Wyoming Ohio High School, that he had graduated from only a few years prior. An estimated group of 2,500 people attended the service. Otto was then laid to rest  in Oak Hill Cemetery at Spring Grove in his home town of Cincinnati Ohio.

We didn’t hear much from the Warmbier family. Who could blame them for wanting to go back to just trying to live their lives, enjoying some form of privacy and autonomy after such a trying, tragic and publicized event?

 

 

Tensions between the US and North Korea continued escalating. Missile launches, rumors of threats from both sides, further sanctions, the US starts to strong arm China to end any trade with North Korea, on and on, impossible to ever list every crazy event that occurred during this time.

A September 3 2017 Department of Defense release stated – The Korean Central News Agency announced that North Korean scientists had carried out a test in the country’s northern nuclear test ground of a hydrogen bomb built to sit on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile, describing the device as a two-stage thermonuclear weapon.

And how did the US, land of freedom, diplomacy and purveyors of peace, react in these pissing matches? On September 19th 2017 President Trump spoke at the UN. The same President Trump who had promised non intervention and America first,  poked North Korea to react. Stating ” The US has great strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or it’s allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The US is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be necessary.” As if North Korea had tested nuclear weapons in US waters.

Well, Minister for Foreign Affairs of North Korea, Ri Young Ho responded in kind, saying “I feel forced to comment on the speech uttered four days ago by some one called the US President, that rendered this sacred UN Arena tainted.” He went on to describe all of the threats the US has made to North Korea since the Korean War in the 50’s. How the US was the first country to have a nuclear weapon and the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon.

 

 

These two grown men, these two nations leaders had a twitter war. Throwing accusations and petty name calling, Kim Jong Un responded to Trump’s verbal Rocket Man assault saying “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.” and both leaders continued on in their cat fight, leaving the citizens of both nations unsure of what to believe.

Then, suddenly on September 26th of 2017  Fred and Cindy Warmbier appeared on CNN and Fox News to share an important message with the American people. The Warmbier’s opened up about their experiences and what had happened to Otto. Cindy (who seems to take the back seat to Fred in these interactions with the press) stated that they only knew that Otto had suffered severe brain damage but they were not prepared for the condition they found him in. She said that ” We hoped, with good American healthcare he would improve.” Cindy then let Fred take over from there to discuss Otto’s medical condition. Fred started “Otto was tortured and intentionally injured by Kim and his regime. This was no accident.”

The Warmbiers were angry that North Korea was quoted to say that ” it was North Korea who were the victims in this and that the world was picking on them.” to which Fred responded “as a witness to the terror of their regime, North Korea is not a victim.”

Brook Baldwin of CNN did what CNN never does and she asked the tough questions that people wanted answers to. When asked “Why opt out of an autopsy?” Cindy replied “That’s a really good question.” and then Fred stepped in –

“Absolutely. Otto and our family have been through enough. Otto was abandoned by his family, his country and the rest of the world. He was kidnapped in North Korea. He was isolated from his family and the world. Paraded in front of their public, he was humiliated. Our family and Otto, we were humiliated by North Koreans. Enough! Tortured and essentially murdered, enough.”

Cindy adds – “Our coroner did a visual and she’s the one who brought up that huge scar on his foot.” Brook then ask “What happened to his foot?” To which Cindy responded “We don’t know.”

And there is the problem, we don’t know. We don’t know what happened to Otto in North Korea. There is no evidence of torture or even foul play. Otto’s attending  physicians stated so during the press conference, that the Warmbier’s had requested. So why publicly conflict with what the very Doctors they had requested speak to the public stated?

 

 

September 26 2017 one day after the interviews aired Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco, made a public statement at a press conference in Ohio. Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco stated the reason for calling the press conference ” There seem to be more questions than answers, so we are hoping to provide you with some of those answers.”

In the previous days interviews Fred and Cindy Warmbier made statements about Otto’s condition that contradicted with both the medical team that over saw Otto’s care  as well as the coroner. Some of these statements and the contradicting statements were –

• It looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth

Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco states that they consulted with their forensic dentist to review the scans, specifically of the bottom teeth and enamel. There was no sign of trauma by either imaging or physical examination.

• Otto was abandoned, isolated and alone. He was not given top notch medical care.

Dr. Kanter had stated  “ Upon arrival his skin was in good condition and he was well nourished.” As well Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco stating that ” Bedridden patients require a great deal of care, constant rotation as well as skin conditioning to avoid skin breaking down. He had to have had around the clock care to maintain his condition.” Otto did not even display any kind of bed sores, which normally occur with bedridden patients.

• Guttural howling, inhuman sounds, jerking violently, eyes as big as saucers darting around.

Dr. Kanter had described Otto’s condition as “spontaneous eye opening and blinking, however, no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding. He did not speak or engaged in any purposeful movement. His exam shows a spastic quadriparesis, a profound weakness and contraction of the muscles of his arms and legs.”

Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco stated ” Patients who have chronic brain damage, there are involuntary movements and sounds and grunts and so forth. If you are not familiar with patients who have that kind of brain damage, it’s going to be alarming.”

• Tortured and essentially murdered

When asked how Otto was kept alive for a year in this condition in North Korea and then died only 6 days after returning to the US? Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco answered ” Nothing specific was done but he was put on comfort care measures.” She was then asked what exactly that means and she responded ” That means keeping him comfortable and in this specific case to stop the interventionist feeding.” So, he was allowed to die, the feeding tube came out and he was receiving hospice care? and Dr. Sammarcostates nodded in agreement.

It had been stated by multiple medical professionals that Otto had suffered a respiratory arrest that was suspected to have occurred due to a heart attack. Dr. Bonomo had earlier answered how this could happen, saying “Could stem from intoxication, trauma, there could be other causes in a young healthy person, but in general respiratory arrest in a young healthy person is a rare event and generally caused by something like intoxication or a traumatic injury.”

We know from all of the scans, imaging and physical checks that Otto did not show any signs of suffering from any kind of physical abuse, neglect or trauma. Did Otto die of alcohol poisoning?

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism states on their website – Even if the victim lives, an alcohol overdose can lead to irreversible brain damage. Rapid binge drinking (which often happens on a bet or a dare) is especially dangerous because the victim can ingest a fatal dose before becoming unconscious.

Could the Warmbier family be so overcome with anger and grief, that their perception of what really happened to their first born son in North Korea may be skewed?

That seems very plausible. The Warmbier family have appeared  to be a tightly knit and highly ambitious group. I am sure it is unbelievably painful to loose a child, especially a child that is on the cusp of becoming a very successful young man. It would be easy to allow your mind, to point fingers of blame at someone else, rather than accept that such an ambitious young man would loose his life to binge drinking.

Journalist Isaac Stone Fish interviewed several of Otto’s traveling companions. One of the fellow travelers stated that they thought to themselves of Otto “Oh gosh, he’s really out of his league here.” The Young Pioneers Tour group is known as a heavy drinking tour and North Korea is known for it’s micro brews and many breweries. Some selling pint’s for $.50.

Putting all of these puzzle pieces in order can really change the way the story appears.It seems much more likely that Otto went into respiratory arrest due to alcohol poisoning, rather then him being murdered by Kim Jong Un and his regime.  If he was not a big drinker to begin with and then drinking heavily to calm his nerves to perform his crime, he would be suffering  an intense hangover while going through customs. If he was vomiting or even seemed unsteady, that would explain the airport officials pulling him from the flight. I saw a gentleman get escorted from a flight here in the US, due to the fact he was too ill to travel. It isn’t unusual. Was it after this, that the video of Otto attempting to steal the poster was discovered, or were the officials seeking him out to question him about the crime?

The Media and the Warmbiers used the word kidnapped over and over. But, Otto wasn’t kidnapped. Otto was arrested. He was aware that he was committing a crime. Andrew Byrne, who had taken the same trip with the Young Pioneers Tour group this past spring stated “They breif you on how to behave, what not to do , what’s expected of you. They are very clear.”

And why did the Warmbiers feel it necessary to return to the spotlight and contradict the medical professionals they had overseeing Otto’s care? The Warmbier’s stated in their September 2017 Fox News interview, that they wanted to send a message to the US government to place North Korea on the State Sponsors of Terror list. During the same interview the Warmbier’s said, they hadn’t ever and did not now, want any involvement in political affairs.  So why put themselves into political affairs?

To say that a nation should be suspected of terrorism, because 1 out of the 5,000 tourist traveling to North Korea annually, died ? That seems rather ludicrous. Add to that insanity, that there is absolutely zero evidence showing that Otto suffered any mistreatment from the DPRK Government. If anything, the evidence all points to the DPRK giving a foreign prisoner in their country the best care possible.

At the closing of Otto’s confession he stated “After this press conference, my family will come to know about my current situation. I am worried that they may be harmed. And, like I was manipulated by the US Administration, I am worried that my family may be harmed or threatened by those from the government. I beg for any kind of public protection for my family.” And that makes me wonder, are the Warmbier’s being forced  into making these kind of public statements? Could that explain the repeating of the words, Brutal – Terror – Pariah Regime, like some kind of weird mind control technique?

There seems little reason to pour resources into attacking North Korea. With all of our military might and technology I do not see how they can be viewed as a military threat.

The US reported $1,686 billion dollars spent on defense, 2.2% of our total GDP. North Korea spends an approximated 15 to 30% out of their $6 billion annual budget on defense. Compare those numbers with South Korea spending $36.8 billion, 2.7% of their GDP, and you start to wonder what is really going on here?

Noam Chomsky tells of both the Obama administration and the Trump administration, instantly rejecting a proposal from North Korea to freeze all of it’s missile and nuclear weapon’s systems. Why wouldn’t either US administration agree to the proposal? Because in return for North Korea ending it’s missile and nuclear weapon’s system, the US would have to agree to end threatening military maneuvers along North Korean borders.

Chomsky reminds us that US Military literally flattened North Korea in the 50’s as well as committing the war crime of bombing dams. You can’t blame the DPRK of being suspicious, when the US is flying nuclear capable B – 52’s along their borders.

South Korean citizens have been protesting the  US military’s  continued deployment of more missile defense weapons, reported on RT earlier in September 2017.  With 28,500 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in South Korea, dating back to 1957, are further deployments and military might, needed in that region? If so, what are we not being told about North Korea?

I hope, that as a nation, we are able to stand back and use logic and reason in both our support and in our protest to what our government does in our name.

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With hopes of mediating peace in the middle east, Ex US president Jimmy Carter visited with Syrian President  Bashar al Assad and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal  in April and then again in December of 2008 [B2]. In late October of that year, in the midst of President Carters discussions, four US helicopters crossed the Iraqi border into eastern Syria and launched the first, of many, US attacks.

Major General John Kelly, who was the commander of US forces in western Iraq at that time (Major Kelly would then proceed to become the Head of Homeland Security and was just recently named White house chief of staff, replacing Reince Preibus ) said of the attacks “Iraq’s borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan were secure, but the Syrian borders were uncontrolled from the Syrian side.” The commando raid was said to be aimed at fighters, crisscrossing the border to mount attacks in Iraq.

I would assume that if the US was polite enough, to have given fair warning, we could have avoided any “messy misunderstandings”?  It feels like the administration was saying ”Yeah, we attacked people in your country, but don’t take it personally, they weren’t from there.” and we expect, its all cool? There was no official comment from Washington [C2].

SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency) reported ,“The helicopters deployed soldiers that carried out an attack on a civilian building under construction.The US opened  fire on workers inside the building, leading to the death of eight civilians.” [C2*]

Syria responded to the attack by closing The US Embassy American School and Cultural Center, located in the capitol city of Damascus. Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, also condemned the US incursion. The always questionable, “anonymous sources”, from within the US military, said, “US forces shot several armed men and either wounded or killed a man they identified as a leader of al-Qaeda.” [C2**] CBS News, national security correspondent David Martin reported the raid as a successful targeting and murder, of Abu Ghadiyah. Said to be a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq, responsible for funneling foreign fighters and money into the country [C3] 

In 2009, despite the United Nations Security Councils demands for a cease fire Israel continued launching assaults on the Gaza strip. President Carter denounced Israel for these attacks. Both the UN and The Red Cross pulled out of Gaza, after both agencies were reported to be targeted and attacked. At least two medical workers were reported to have been killed in bombings in Gaza [C2***]. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, called for a probe into the US funded attacks. Stating that the administration had violated the 1976 Arms Export Control Act, by arming Israeli forces with US weapons during the assault on the Gaza strip. It was noted “such pro – Israel measures are never subject to the normally objective committee hearing process, but instead, glorify all things pro – Israel and vilify all things other” [D0] .

Some will say that the US is controlled by Israel. Some will say it is a long term Zionist plan to control global economy. Some will equate all actions related to Israel as part of religious doctrine or part of diplomacy in the middle east. I have heard, that Christians feel it is just,  to protect Israel as a Holy land for the Jewish people. I am not knowledgeable enough on Israel to make educated statements about our relationship with them, but I have a sneaky suspicion that it is all about strategic control of natural resources,currency and borders .

In shocking opposition of the Bush administrations refusal to negotiate with Hamas, the Obama administration was reported to have met with Walid Sharaby and Mohammed Gamal Heshmat. Both men had publicly endorsed terrorist organizations and had connections to Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, who had just met with Jimmy Carter a few months prior.

Walid Sharaby posted onto social media sites, “They arrest you, they kill you, they beat you, they burn you,they falsely accuse you. They prevent you access to muslim scholars and they imprison you freedom. They know that there is a world of conspiracy against you. They arrest your leader whom you have elected…and if you come out of your closet in anger, they call you extremist. But why should I not be extremist towards my religion and Islam? Is this an accusation deserving that I flee? The hell with you, you prostitutes ! ” [D0*].

US senate overwhelmingly supported the attack in Syria. Both Majority leaders, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell approved and applauded the US support of the Israel invasion. More and more US citizens started taking notice of the lack of reason and evidence, explaining the US’s involvement in these attacks. We started to take note of all of the ways that we were being forced to fund actions that were never voted on or approved. Anytime we demand the government use our tax money for things that would benefit us, they can’t afford it. Give them some bombs to drop and they are suddenly hemorrhaging cash.

The US Government Accountability Office released a report on March 31, 2009. Four countries designated as sponsors of terrorism received $55 million from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s [D0*1] Technical Cooperation program. Between 1997 and 2007, Iran received $15 million, Sudan and Cuba received $11 million each, Syria received $14 million. On top of funding terrorist, US taxpayers were now helping to pay for Iran’s nuclear program [D1].

The State Department strongly opposed diminishing the funding, fearing that doing so would “anger states in the developing world”. In the same week he had sent two senior officials to Damascus to explore better relations with the President Bashar Assad, Obama also extended the Bush administrations 2004 sanctions on Syria. Talk about “mixed messages”. Syria rejected the renewal of economic, and diplomatic, sanctions and urged Washington to abandon, “Foolish policies” [D1*].

Father and son,Abdul Nasser Khan Tumani and Muhammed Khan Tumani,were captured by Pakistani officials while escaping from Syria, traveling through Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan with 10 other family members. After being detained in Pakistan they were given over to US authorities in early 2001.The father, Abdul was identified as an explosives expert who had served in the Syrian military. He was also identified as a suicide operative and linked, along with his son, to al Qaida and the Abu Musab al – Zarqawi Network. The Center for Constitutional Rights reported that Abdul and Muhammed, were tortured and held separately for nearly seven years in Guantanamo. The US Government never charged either man with a crime and for years neither man had access to legal counsel [D2]. (One can hardly help to note, the push for retribution at the recent release and untimely death of Otto Warmbier, but, don’t even get me started on that ).

Detainee, Moammar Dokhan, was an admitted member of al – Qaida and the Taliban , as well as a suicide operative. Dokhan stated “he will engage in hostilities and kill Americans anywhere in the world upon release from US custody.” Dokhan was also a Syrian citizen, escaping through Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan (small world).

With a helping hand from Portugal, Obama was able to start nudging his way closer to closing Guantanamo. During a June visit with US Special Envoy Daniel Fried, Portugal and US administrations reached an agreement. Portugal offered to rehouse cleared prisoners from Guantanamo and the Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Amado declared in a letter to other EU leaders, “The time has come for the European Union to step forward. As a matter of principal and coherence, we should send a clear signal of our willingness to help the US government in that regard, namely the resettlement of detainees. As far as the Portuguese government is concerned, we will be available to participate.” The EU would later come to regret this decision. UK taxpayers were outraged when they learned of government funding of the detainees was being funneled to terrorist organizations [D3].

Dokhan and Muhammeds release to Portugal, was approved by congress and enacted in August [D2*]. The elderly father, Abdul Tumani remained in Guantanamo. There was no official comment from Washington. Wikileaks published “The Gitmo Files”, where you can read reports on most of the prisoners held at Guantanamo [D2**]. I am equally appalled at the thought of anyone being held without access to legal counsel and without charge, as I am skeptical of the US administrations motivations in both the detainment and the release.

During a February 2010 meeting in Damascus, Syria and Iran defended their 30 year alliance and vowed increased cooperation.When asked about Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s comments that ”the US is troubled by Syria’s relationship with Iran,” Bashar Assad answered, “ We hope that others do not give us lessons about our region and our history. We are the ones who decide how matters will go and we know our interest. We thank them for their advice.” Iran’s leader, Ahmadinejad, stated, “ The Americans want to dominate the region, but they feel Iran and Syria are preventing that. We tell them, that instead of interfering in the regions affairs, to pack their things and leave.” [E2] .

Obama dangled a bauble of diplomacy in hopes of winning Syria’s trust back. In early 2010, Bashar al- Assad, opened the door and eyeballed the gift, meeting with the US under secretary of state William Burns, to discus the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the two countries [F2]. The US wanted Syria to break its military alliance with Iran, end its support of Hizbollah and to help the US with intelligence gathering. Recall, Graham Fullers think piece “Bringing Real Muscle To Bear Against Syria” and you can guess the next movements. The script was written and the stage was set [F3]

In late December of 2010,feeling insecure about being able to secure the votes needed,President Obama bypassed the senate during a congressional recess and appointed Robert Ford as ambassador to Syria [F2*]. Recess appointments are made when the senate is not in session and last only until the end of the next session. Senate had clearly stated their doubts of placing an ambassador in Syria and had failed to act on the nomination.Stating “sending an ambassador to the country would reward it for bad behavior”. Almost a year later, in October of 2011, Senate had an amazing change of heart and confirmed Ford by unanimous consent. No longer serving under recess appointment, Ford could hold his position until the end of President Obama’s term.

Just four months of Ambassador Fords presence in Syria and trouble started. “ As – Shhab / Yoreed / Eskaat el nizam!“ which translates to,“ The People want to topple the regime!“ was spray painted onto the side of a grain silo. On March 6, 2011, Fourteen year old Naief Abazid, was apprehended in Daraa, an arid farming town in Syria. A total of 23 boys were arrested. The arrest and 14 days of apprehension of the boys was the strike of the match that ignited the Syrian civil war [20]. Several of the boys were given the title of, “The boy who started the Syrian revolution” [20*]. Another 14 year old boy in Daraa, named Mouawiya Syasneh had spray painted “ It’s your turn Doctor Bashar al – Assad” on a wall at his school in February of 2011.Unlike Naief (who is now living in Austria) Mouawiya’s tale, led him to work with rebel forces in Syria [20**] [20***].

The boys,were arrested and detained under General Atef Najeeb, a cousin of president Bashar al – Assad. Protest to release all of the boys started on March 6th.  All 23 boys were released and pardoned by Assad on March 20t h.These same small acts of rebellion, are what has been credited to be the tipping point in other “Arab Spring” style uprisings,happening in Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and the beginnings of such manipulations here in our own country. Both boys now admit they were copying slogans and ideas from Arab uprisings they saw on television. Both also admit that they regret their actions and the many lives that have been lost or destroyed, due to what could be described as “school boy pranks”. But also both note, change was necessary. Journalist Mark MacKinnon was able to track down a number of the boys and report on where they are now and how their lives have been affected six years later [20A].

Soros has funded uprisings and revolutions across the world. Those who think he is just a “liberal philanthropist” who gives generously to social causes, need to take a deeper look into George Soros and how his involvement has destroyed nations and economies. Starting with something that appears to be citizen motivated, like the  Women’s March or the BLM protest. They always seem to start as a grassroots effort but quickly start to spiral into something far more funded and managed. A powerful fear mongering manipulator, these groups all have the same appearance and feel. They seem practically scripted to me. [20A*]. For a deeper look into Soros manipulated uprisings, I recommend this Corbett Report video discussion of the DC Leaks publishing of Soros emails [CR] .

George Soros may have had an influential hand in both President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s plans for Syria and the Assad government. Soros has been a long time friend of the Clinton’s and he had contributed generously to both candidates during the 2008 Presidential Elections and beyond [20A**]. Obama still appeared to only want to deal with Syria through sanctions and dialogue.

Secretary Clinton was in disagreement with the President on this and she did little to hide it. In July of 2011, while civil war was waging in Syria, Secretary Clinton stated,“President Assad is not indispensable and we have absolutely nothing invested in him remaining in power.” Kim Ghattas with the BBC said that, “Clinton’s statement was cleverly worded – as it might convince more citizens to abandon Assad, while allowing Washington to take no action and appearing to say it is up to the Syrian people to choose their leaders.” The Syrian foreign ministry called Secretary Clinton’s statement, “Provocative and an attempt to interfere in the countries domestic affairs ” [21]. As, it obviously was.

Syrian media reports accused Ambassador Ford of the formation of death squads, similar to those in Iraq. Ex-CIA man, Michael Scheuer described Fords strong support of the Syrian uprising as,” running around the country trying to encourage groups to overthrow the Syrian government” [20 B]. Scheuer is also quoted, as saying Ambassador Roberts position in Syria ”nothing more than a globalist destabilization expert who is merely taking over from his mentor John Negroponte, who became quite refined as an enabler of mass slaughter in Central America and Iraq.” [I2]

The US state department called for Ambassador Fords return to Washington on October 24th, 2011, siting “credible threats” to his safety. In the US, Ford was painted as a brave champion of the Arab spring. According to US officials, Ford had been attacked by an armed, pro Assad mob and there were concerns that the Ambassador would be killed by the Syrian government.

At the same time in the US, 47 year old Alex Soueid (aka Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid or Anas Alswaid) a Syrian born, naturalized US citizen was indicted on espionage related charges by federal prosecutors on October 6, 2011. Alex was allegedly sending coded messages to officials in the Syrian government containing information on names, addresses and connections of Syrian and American anti Assad protesters.

Alex had immigrated to the US when he was 17 years old, with $600 in cash. He worked at a Mercedes Benz dealership in Virginia earning a hefty yearly salary of $300,000 affording him a 2007 built, million dollar luxury home situated on 13 acres in Leesburg Virginia [MS1], [MS2], [MS3]. By 2008 Alex joined along thousands of Americans in filing bankruptcy and having his house foreclosed on during the financial crisis. A relative living in Paris wired Alex $200,000 to start a limousine service, via an account in the name of a used car dealership [MS4].

On July 20,2012 Alex was sentenced to 18 months in a medium security federal correctional institution in Cumberland Maryland, with 3 years of supervised release and mandatory drug testing waived (?). 7 Months later, on January 31st 2013, Alex was released from FCI Cumberland facility [MS5] and was last listed as residing in Virginia. I am not sure if he ever opened that limo service. I have to wonder how the US would have reacted had Ambassador Ford been found on the same charges and received, what I view, as pretty lien-ant punishment for the act of espionage from the Syrian Government? Would the Ambassador become a resident and citizen of that country? Continue on there? Raise his kids, start a business?

Just a little over a month after his exit, Ambassador Ford was returned to his post in Syria.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met with seven exiled Syrian dissidents in Geneva,spreading her twisted idea of “democracy”, publicly showing support of the Syrian government opposition movement. Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, commented in a speech in Beruit about the return of Ambassador Ford, “We say yes to dealing with the phenomena of corruption, yes to all of the reforms that were accepted by the Syrian leadership and that were called for by the Syrian people. But there are some people who do not want reforms, security and stability in Syria, and neither civil peace nor dialogue. There are people who want to destroy Syria to make up for their defeat in Iraq, and Syria is a partner in defeating the Americans in Iraq.” [G2] It would be interesting to know what Mr. Soueid’s defense was, but most of that information is sealed for “public safety”

“ H: Lots of new intel;possible Libyan collapse.Sid” read the subject line of a March 26th, 2011,email from Sidney Blumenthal, to Secretary of State,Hillary Clinton [23]. The US administration had been wary of a repeat of the Libya scenario, where calls for Muammar Qaddafi to “step aside”, had not seen positive results [22]. The US administration had all of their pots coming to boil at once.

Sidney Blumenthal writes, “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.” (Wasn’t Mr. Blumenthal aware of the US governments support of Iran’s nuclear capability? What did he think those dollars were actually going to?) Questioning how to best benefit the US within the placement of the new UN enforced “ready made” Libyan government. Also discussed, is the weaponizing and training of rebel forces  within Egypt, overseen by French, British and US Special Operations troops.

The rebels were armed to the teeth and ready for battle.Blumenthal list, “knowledgeable sources add that the insurgents have the following weapons stockpiled in Benghazi: 82 and 120 mm. mortars; GPZ type machine guns; 12.7mm. machine guns mounted on 4×4 vehicles; some anti-aircraft batteries type ZSU 23/2 and 23/4 as well as Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS) type SAM7; some tanks type T-72; UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05782401 Date: 12/31/2015 Possibly some fixed wing aircraft, and some light transport/medium helicopters. A seemingly endless supply of AK47 assault rifles and ammunition (even for systems ZSU 23/4 and 23/2). French, British and Egyptian Special Forces troops are training the rebels inside of western Egypt, and to a limited degree in the western suburbs of Benghazi. (Source Comment: These sources add that the MANPAD SAM7 systems appear to be old and badly preserved, and have been judged useless by the rebels.) “ Allies were concerned that the Muslim brother hood or rebel forces would set up “Caliphates” in the oil and gas rich regions of southeastern Libya if they did not take action quickly enough in post Qaddafi Libya. And make sure not to forget Israel and how they would benefit from these actions. With hopes that toppling Libya would lead to toppling Syria, to weaken Iran, to protect Israel. Not from attacks from Iran,but fear of losing its nuclear monopoly [24].

Getting more comfortable in his role and learning his lines,President Obama took some of the limelight from Secretary Clinton and called for President Bashar al- Assad,” to step aside” stating ” my administration is announcing unprecedented sanctions to deepen the financial isolation of the Assad regime and further disrupt its ability to finance a campaign of violence against the Syrian people. I have signed a new Executive Order requiring the immediate freeze of all assets of the Government of Syria subject to US jurisdiction and prohibiting US persons from engaging in any transaction involving the Government of Syria. This E.O. also bans US imports of Syrian – origin petroleum or petroleum products:prohibits US persons from having any dealings in or related to Syria’s petroleum or petroleum products:and prohibits US persons from operating or investing in Syria. We expect today’s actions to be amplified by others” [25].

Genie Energy was able to use acknowledgment of oil rich and disputed Golan Heights as Israel’s land, not Syria’s. This way they could continue oil exploration in Syria while appearing to be doing business with Israel, staying within the sanctions rules. With a list of shareholders with the likes of prominent Rothschild family member and investment banker Jacob Rothschild, Ex Vice President under George W Bush, Dick Cheney and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, you would guess that Genie Energy has influence in the decisions on middle eastern policy [25*].

President Obama summarized, “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al- Assad is standing in their way.” Completely disregarding the fact, that Assad had just been elected to serve another 7 year term,by 97.6% of the vote, in the 2007 Syrian elections.

Just seven months after Sidney Blumenthal penned his informative email to Secretary Clinton, Muammar Qaddafi was killed by rebel forces in Libya. It was October 20, 2011 and Secretary Clinton was sitting down for an interview with CBS News. Long time Clinton employee and chief of staff to Secretary of State, Huma Abedin, handed Secretary Clinton her Blackberry. Reports showing Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed by rebel forces after his convoy was shot at by French air fire. Qaddafi’s capture and torture was captured on film and released to the US’s television viewing  public [26].

On a side note, I find it very odd that video of Qaddafi being sodomized by US backed terrorist with a bayonet was deemed fit for public consumption in 2011. Yet ,the audio of Omar Mateens 911 call during the Pulse nightclub shooting is deemed “ too sensitive” for public release in 2016.

Secretary Clinton’s initial response, caught on camera during a break in a television interview is not only telling of her true intentions in the middle east, but was in shockingly poor taste. “We came, we saw, he died” would haunt Secretary Clinton into the 2016 presidential campaign. The Secretary had just visited Libya a week before, where she is quoted as saying to the Libyan people ” We hope he can be captured or killed soon.” [25**] . Everyone has a dream and Hillary Clinton’s vision always seems to included the falling of a nation [26*] . By openly calling for the assassination of a foreign leader, Secretary Clinton joined the ranks of American political criminals. Ignoring Executive Order 11905 of 1976, which prohibits any member of the US government from engaging or conspiring to engage in any political assassination anywhere in the world [25***] . I am continually amazed at how many laws, our lawmakers break without ever paying any consequences.

Its all very confusing and will only become more mind boggling,as we delve into the destruction of Libya, the Behngazi years and the effects these events had on Syria, in the third part of “Our sanctimonious start in Syria and the middle east” part 3.