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	<title>Dissident Voice &#187; Nicholas Vakkur</title>
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		<title>A HAARP With a Malevolent Tune</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/08/a-haarp-with-a-malevolent-tune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Vakkur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science/Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US government, despite the pledge of Barack Obama and the protracted economic woes decimating our national fabric, continues to sink hundreds of billions into the development of highly secretive weapons programs—as if the world lacked sufficient means to kill.  One recently disclosed program is laser weaponry.  Another, all the more guarded and insidious, is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US government, despite the pledge of Barack Obama and the protracted economic woes decimating our national fabric, continues to sink hundreds of billions into the development of highly secretive weapons programs—as if the world lacked sufficient means to kill.  One recently disclosed program is laser weaponry.  Another, all the more guarded and insidious, is HAARP, an array of microwave antennas located in Alaska that produces an impressive one billion watts, for the purpose of fomenting unusually violent and destructive weather patterns.  (It bears noting that Russia also owns several such machines).</p>
<p>HAARP functions by warming the ionosphere, which permits it to control the jet streams that cause weather.  Contrary to naturally induced weather patterns, HAARP initiates quick and violent weather changes: tornadoes, hurricanes, and winds that change direction rapidly, creating destructive mayhem.  HAARP also focuses violent weather upon particular — or unexpected — regions over elongated periods of time that is not characteristic of naturally formed weather patterns, which remain in one particular area for only a brief period of time.</p>
<p>A record number of Americans died this year from tornadoes, which struck unusual areas, including Massachusetts.  Storm patterns; e.g., record snowfalls and cold throughout America, especially in the North, impacted certain regions with a frequency defying natural probabilities, as noted by meteorologists.  Heavy rains also pounded the Mississippi River region for an unusually extended period of time, producing record floods.</p>
<p>By focusing a series of low 5 Hz, harmonic frequencies on a specific area, HAARP can also produce earthquakes at will.  However, this process leaves behind telltale signs: 1) it emits various colors resembling an Aurora Borealis in the sky, a byproduct of when the microwaves ionize the air, and 2) wavy lines in the clouds, as produced by the same frequency patterns.  HAARP was responsible for the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, China, as well as the massive 9.0 in Japan.  This may be confirmed in part by the widespread accounts — and pictures — of the telltale aurora borealis immediately prior to each quake.</p>
<p>HAARP also destroys nature: the microwaves and electromagnetic radiation have killed birds, fish, and bees in large numbers.  In addition, various animals and insects have become disoriented, an effect that is jointly attributable to HAARP as well as to global cell phone usage, which also involves microwaves.</p>
<p>Linking HAARP to these irregular weather patterns and destructive effects is difficult to prove scientifically — though not impossible.  The key is to carefully evaluate historical weather trends as well as to analyze the behavior of current weather patterns.  Some meteorologists, for instance, have blamed the unusually cold weather upon various oscillator highs over Greenland.  However, it is relatively easy to manipulate even these weather currents by using HAARP to move jet streams in waves.</p>
<p>It is essential that the general public demand that the existence of this ultra-sophisticated weather machine be publicly acknowledged and that its true purpose be publicly revealed: information which would undoubtedly result in HAARP’s abrupt termination.  The lack of any organized grassroots movement to pull the plug on HAARP is a direct result of the fact that its very existence been carefully shrouded in (ultra-top) secrecy.  Internet articles focusing on HAARP are commonly removed, while no mention of it is permitted in the mainstream press.  Alarmed Americans must work quickly and feverishly to prevent this destructive technology from being used any further upon our own nation.  Americans must join together to publicly demand that HAARP be dismantled and destroyed.  Otherwise, America, and the world at large, will continue to be battered by costly and freakish weather patterns — which defy any logical explanation — that decimate our economy just as they destabilize our republic.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Too Big to Fail? The Inevitable Collapse of the US Economy</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/too-big-to-fail-the-inevitable-collapse-of-the-us-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Vakkur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["Third" Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy/Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US economy is swaying, teetering heavily under the increased debt burden imposed by the Iraq War and now the looming banking crisis. President Obama’s proposal to remediate the crisis situation by introducing more debt into the system is now law. The only problem is that, under the present circumstances, President Obama’s therapeutic regimen represents, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US economy is swaying, teetering heavily under the increased debt burden imposed by the Iraq War and now the looming banking crisis.  President Obama’s proposal to remediate the crisis situation by introducing more debt into the system is now law. The only problem is that, under the present circumstances, President Obama’s therapeutic regimen represents, with a very high probability, the very medicine that will strike a mortal blow to the patient — in this case the US economy.</p>
<p>A steep rise in US housing foreclosures is a crucial element of the present credit crisis.  Unfortunately, many of these ‘toxic’ assets are still held by the banks, which are unable to liquidate them from their balance sheets without first going insolvent. No one on the market is willing to buy or sell them, in part as these troubled assets are extremely difficult to price. Even once they are marked down to a selling price, a significant proportion of US banks will still have to enter into bankruptcy proceedings.  This represents a painful but necessary step that must occur should the US economy have any hope for recovery. To prevent the death of the patient and to facilitate recovery, it is absolutely necessary, in medical parlance, to first amputate the diseased limbs of the US economic engine. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Obama Administration’s plan makes impossible the very outcome that is needed for recovery, and therefore unwittingly enables the disease to spread throughout the entire body. Keeping insolvent banks alive with capital infusions from the government merely postpones the inevitable failure of a large segment of the US banking industry, while damaging the rest of the economy. The Stimulus Package, furthermore, rapidly increase debt spending to overcome a problem whose origin lies in excessive debt spending.  If water were previously flooding one-third of the ship, the Stimulus Package makes it inevitable that the rest of the ship will eventually succumb to flooding as well.</p>
<p>The most likely outcome is relatively simple, yet it is one that would be harrowing to most Americans: the US economy — that which has fueled growth throughout the world for over a century—is presently on the verge of collapse.  It is merely a matter of time — not if, but when — that the US will default on its own debt, causing the US currency to become worthless on world markets.  When this happens, the US, like any large corporation that fails, will be forced to restructure, to reorganize under the terms of a new economic system, one that meets the long-term interests of those willing to finance it.    </p>
<p>Sadly, prior to the swearing in of America’s 44th President, this outcome was largely preventable — however painful any economic recovery might have been. However, it would be nearly impossible to prevent the historic collapse of the once-great American economy at this juncture in world history.  So great is the damage that has already been done that “ America the Great” will likely fall prior to the end of President Obama’s first term in office.  This prediction does not factor in the impact, one that is likely, of another major terrorist attack on US soil, which would, for all practical purposes, represent the final nail in the coffin.</p>
<p>Elections have consequences. Americans — 52.7% of them that is — made their preference known in the voting booth. Unfortunately, the most likeable doctor is not always the one that is most capable of effectively addressing the illness. Americans should not lay the blame for this economic demise on their 44th President, but rather on their own inability to put the needs of their nation ahead of their desire to reap personal benefits. Any careful analysis of the Presidential campaign will reveal that President Obama is merely fulfilling a campaign pledge — to provide Americans with the unattainable, no matter what the cost might be to the nation.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Children Deserve Better</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/children-deserve-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Vakkur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not too many Americans receive such a close, birds-eye view into the illicit and potentially criminal activities of a high ranking Catholic official, as have Los Angeles natives regarding the ongoing sex scandal plaguing Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles. Mahony, according to court records released during trial, actively sought to cover up the activity of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not too many Americans receive such a close, birds-eye view into the illicit and potentially criminal activities of a high ranking Catholic official, as have Los Angeles natives regarding the ongoing sex scandal plaguing Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles.  Mahony, according to court records released during trial, actively sought to cover up the activity of priests in the Los Angles Diocese who raped or molested children.  According to court records, several priests openly confided to Mahony that they had raped children.  Mahony responded by transferring them to another parish, where once again they were placed in direct contact with &#8212; if not supervision over &#8212; children.  Astonishingly, Mahony never once sought to warn parishioners or parish officials that these men had abused children in the past.</p>
<p>&#8216;Cardinal&#8217; Mahony&#8217;s actions are not those of a responsible, well meaning high Church official seeking to promote the kingdom of God by facilitating conditions of peace and justice.  Were that the case, Mahony would have immediately called the police and had these men arrested.  However, Mahony could not implicate others in activity he himself was involved in.  Mahony spent $660 million &#8212; the largest amount ever paid to procure illicit sex acts in recorded history &#8212; of parishioners&#8217; money to ensure that the public would never learn the extent of that involvement.  What precisely was in those files may never be known for certain.  However, Mahony paid that sum to ensure that his direct involvement, as a pedophile or an aid to other pedophiles, would never be publicly released.</p>
<p>As a Roman Catholic, few Catholic officials cause me to be ashamed or saddened.  Cardinal Mahony, however, is a public disgrace.  His longstanding display of antipathy and arrogance towards the example and teaching of venerable Catholic leaders from John Paul II to Father Marcial Maciel are widely known and documented.  While working to ensure that admitted child molesters could molest more children, Mahony prevented faithful Catholic organizations that are known for their exemplary work with youth, such as the Legionaries of Christ, from working within the Diocese.  No theory can explain his actions other than that he must be a child molester, or that he relished in the sick actions of warped subordinates.  Either way, Mahony is a monster &#8212; an accessory to child molestation &#8212; and justice demands that he be immediately removed from his current position in charge of the Los Angles Diocese.  Furthermore, Mahony should be charged and put on trial for orchestrating the largest and most expensive pedophile ring in recorded history.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why Mental Illness is not to blame for the Virginia Tech Massacre</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/why-mental-illness-is-not-to-blame-for-the-virginia-tech-massacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 09:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Vakkur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The horrendous massacre of 32 Virginia Tech students by Seung-Hui Cho has caused a frenzy within the news media, talk show hosts, and the general public regarding the long hypothesized link between acts of violence and mental illness. Although the true causal origin of Cho&#8217;s decision to engage in a murderous rampage is beyond the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The horrendous massacre of 32 Virginia Tech students by Seung-Hui Cho has caused a frenzy within the news media, talk show hosts, and the general public regarding the long hypothesized link between acts of violence and mental illness.</p>
<p>Although the true causal origin of Cho&#8217;s decision to engage in a murderous rampage is beyond the grasp of modern science, popular wisdom seems to suggest that his actions were the result of delusional paranoia or psychopathology.  However, this contradicts modern scientific knowledge.  Individuals with a mental illness are far more likely to be the victims, rather than the perpetrators of violence, while the vast majority of people who commit acts of violence against others are not in fact mentally ill. </p>
<p>This rush to stereotype individuals suffering from psychiatric illness as likely murderers is reckless and lacks credulity.  Mental illness has no role in the majority of violent crimes committed in our society.  Alcohol and substance abuse far outweigh mental illness as factors contributing to violence, while the strongest predictor of violent and/or criminal behavior is a past history of violence and criminality, not a major mental illness. </p>
<p>This rush to judgment obscures the fact that violence against individuals with mental health problems is a chronic problem causing ongoing fear, social isolation, and a lack of confidence in those who are victimized.  While it is not easy to overcome false, though deeply held, beliefs, it is essential that this false and misleading rush to stereotype those with a mental illness be confronted with facts.  Otherwise, it will result in increased intolerance and potentially even violence towards the millions of Americans who currently struggle with a mental illness.</p>
<p>Learning the facts about the true association between violent behavior and mental illness is a necessary and important first step in developing a realistic understanding of why some people choose to commit senseless acts of violence against others. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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