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William
Thomas is an ocean sailor, former member of the U.S. military, and an award-winning
independent investigative journalist with 35 years’ experience covering crucial
“under-reported” stories. He is the author of ‘Scorched Earth’, ‘Bringing The
War Home’, ‘Alt. Health’, ‘Chemtrails Confirmed’, and ‘All Fall Down: The
Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion.’
Step 1: Stand together. Love and support one another.
Calmly and compassionately correct the misinformed privately and personally.
Never attack people and organizations working with good hearts and intentions
on the worldwide web. Do not forward or
contribute to hurtful gossip in e-mails or on Internet chat rooms.
Step 2. Ignore mass media mesmerizers. Learn to read between the lines
of newspapers -- or don’t read them at all. Network news is 9/10
dis-information and distraction. Turn it off. Televised negativity sent hypnotically
into your central nervous system cannot be “edited” out. It is spiritual and
physical poison.
Step:4:Support independent authors, reporters, documentary filmmakers
and independent media. Recent polls show that the majority of Americans with
Internet access are ignoring network “managed news” in favor of direct access
to firsthand news sources, commentators and analysts on the worldwide web.
Cross-check all information with your heart as well as your head. Does it “ring
true”? Does it resonate? The most reliable reports include references and
sources. Consider the blinkered,
built-in bias of mass media. Understand the symbiotic synergy of an
out-of-control Military-Corporate-Entertainment establishment that battens on
bloodshed. Since the slaughters in Vietnam, Panama, East Timor, El Salvador,
Tibet, Kosovo and the Persian Gulf it is clear that broadcast and newspaper
chains have become self-censoring sales arms of nine multinational owners: Time
Warner, Disney, News Corp., Viacom, Sony, Seagram, AT&T/Liberty Media,
Bertelsmann, GE. With assets greater
than most treasuries of once-sovereign nations, weapons-makers such as General
Electric (NBC) must “sell” attacks on former allies and henchmen in order to
market, manufacture, deploy and detonate obscenely expensive weaponry.
Cheerleading broadcasters (CNN) boost ratings and ad revenues by glorifying weapons
and warfare. This self-perpetuating war economy enriches weapons makers, while
impoverishing entire nations. Now
moving toward the “high ground” of orbital space, a Pentagon monopoly on increasingly
destructive and robotic weaponry is intended to keep the world’s “have nots”
from claiming their share of resources enjoyed by a wealthy minority. This is
folly. You cannot eat, inhabit or make something useful out of an ICBM buried
in the ground. It is unnecessary. If we are conscientious in our consumption,
there is still plenty to go around. Fear
and lies perpetuate this planet-threatening scam. World trekkers who find
lodging among local populaces know that most people in all cultures are friendly
and warm hearted. Contrary to incessantly negative news reports, travelers like
myself have found that random violent death is unknown in most communities, and
that almost everyone everywhere wants only to see their children grow and
prosper in peace.
Demand new directions in the spending of your tax dollars. The
money, talent and resources squandered annually on armaments that failed to
protect America from an alleged few fanatics armed with Exacto knives is enough
to eliminate the scarcity, female oppression, environmental degradation and illiteracy
that drive most conflicts.
Step 5: Remember who and where you are as a crewmember operating a
fragile, bio-connected space colony hurtling through the cold, irradiated
vacuum of deep space. Every Trekkie knows it makes sense not to rip apart the
solar radiation shielding, pave over water-purifying wetlands, cut down oxygen-replenishing
forests, or pour carcinogenic and DNA-altering poisons into fresh water
re-circulators. There are no lifeboats. Respect your ship. It’s the only one you have.
Step. 6:Long live the ‘Net! In the credibility wars currently
being waged over the survival of Spaceship Earth, the attacks on Afghanistan to
secure oil and heroin routes; efforts to escalate the bombing of Iraq (one
million dead so far); the Sept. 11 deception; and ill-advised attempts at “climate
control” to maintain petroleum pollution and profits (instead of switching to
more efficient and renewable energy) -- are now running head-on into the Internet.
And losing.
The world is waiting for good-hearted Americans to wake up to the
cynical deceptions practiced on them at Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, the “incubator
babies” of Kuwait, 9-11 and the (s)election of a president who immediately
proclaimed his preference to be dictator. The tyranny of an unchecked
Superpower presidency backed by a compliant and complacent media will end when
the present-day Internet becomes accessible through TV sets in every home.
There is major money driving the fiber-optic revolution toward mass Internet
access. Watch for it soon.
Protect your cyber freedom now. Beware newly instituted “Cyber
Security” offices, and attempts by any government to install Communist
China-style official “filters” on all Internet and Email access. Fortunately,
would-be government censors in North America and the European Union know that
any attempt to restrict free access to Email traffic and the Internet will instantly
impact the digital information and cash-flow on which nearly every business
depends. While threats to Internet access remain moderate at this moment,
efforts by the Military-Corporate-Entertainment establishment to control all
public information have gone into hyper-drive since Sept. 11. Anyone hosting truth-telling websites can
consider setting up “mirror sites” on the computers of friends in at least four
countries. Each replica site is capable of being activated within minutes if
their North American site is “taken down” by government pressure on servers, or
a “hack” attack.
If necessary, limited Internet access can be delivered by
commercially available Single-Sideband radio. Check the ocean-cruising
(sailing) sites for more info.
Step 7: Vote “yes” for reality. If you like it, celebrate it. If
you don’t like it, change it. Remember why dope is called “dope”. Take yourself
and your children off Ritalin, Prozac and Paxil. Keep vaccination needles out
of your children’s arms, and your own.
As Edward Abbey echoed Walt Whitman: “Resist much. Obey little.”
Enjoy and protect your freedoms by exercising them in responsible ways every
day. Learn to differentiate chemtrails
from contrails. Call local authorities and the media if you spot chemtrails
being spread over your community. Call them back. Support the revival and
immediate implementation of U.S. House Resolution 2977, which calls for a ban
on space weapons, electromagnetic warfare, mind control technologies and “chemtrails”. Know that power has nothing to do with
megatons or megabucks. Real power is instantly and only accessible through the
truth of an open heart. Do not fear would-be warmongers and controllers. Though
they can be immensely destructive, evildoers always collapse from their own
corruption, conceits and contradictions. This is the law of karma. There are no
exceptions.
Step 8: Express your gratitude aloud at every opportunity. Laugh
often. Remember that well-informed ridicule is the surest way to skewer
arrogant authorities who overstep legal, ethical or spiritual bounds.
· Be vigilant without becoming
paranoid. Authorities caught in their own fearful projections are most likely
far too busy to notice you. Taking sensitive information public is your best
defense against those who want to restrict it.
· Be thankful. Always support,
encourage and congratulate conscientious officials. Exercise every available
democratic process to hold the rest accountable. After all, you are paying
government officials, police and military personnel to serve and protect you
and your community.
· Be accurate. Help reporters do
their jobs. Use proper punctuation and capitalization in news messages. For
rapid referencing in clogged “Inboxes”, include immediately recognizable
descriptions in Email “subject” lines. When posting articles, provide sources—time/date
and name of publication or news broadcast, title and author’s Email and URL if
available.
· Be careful. Seek second opinions on
the most alarming information you receive online. Reflect on
hysteria-heightening messages for at least 24 hours before forwarding widely or
posting on the Web. Misinformation can be dangerous. Issue full retractions
immediately. Remember that information cannot be recalled like faulty tires. No
matter how quickly errors are caught and corrected, once posted they can haunt
the sender for months. (I know!)
· Be helpful. Accompany all issues of
public concern with suggested solutions, including descriptions of working
alternatives already in practice. Include access phone numbers, URLs and mail
addresses to publications and organizations that address public problems in
ways that affirm and protect life.
· Be passionate! Show your outrage at
injustice in creative, constructive and nonviolent ways. Avoid expressing or
supporting hatred, which leads to blind intolerance. Foster and learn from
diversity in gender, customs, locale and individual viewpoints. Remember that
the most contagious and subversive act is a smile.
Step 9:Love your home planet. Respect and learn from your
elders. Remember that all children are in our care. Honor their trust. Our
shared future is either enhanced or encumbered by every choice you make. Thank
you for your choices.
Step 10:We are all in this together.
STEP 11, the master number. MASTER the art of creating
interesting send outs. For instance, do
you know how to send a graphic? A JPG? a
GIF FILE? FIRST You need to know how to look for them and save them. a.) CREATE
DIRECTORY using file manager. http://www.ztree.com
is one, name it “PICTURES. ”b.) go to Google
images and.. c.) instruct it to find
something you want. d.) I wanted a picture of God, it gave me a choice! I SAVED
several ON MY PICTURES DIRECTORY. It was called something else but I titled it ‘Godhand’ Bet you put those words in google image page
it gives you that one, too!
NEXT LESSON, how to stick THAT IMAGE in an article or poem. Since
you write prose poetry! Makes people stand back in AWE. Also gives your poetry
a ‘consummate master at work’ feel. You
know how americans love ILLUSTRATED BOOKS since when they were
children. They take illustrated works SERIOUSLY!! for some obscure
reason!