Begich/HAARP update, and the death of Gael Flanagan
Jim Shaffer, Jr. ( (no email) )
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:06:25 -0500
>Earthpulse Press Incorporated
>Dr. Nick Begich
>P.O. Box 201393
>Anchorage, Alaska 99520 USA
>Internet: www.earthpulse.com
>Fax 907-696-1277
>
>November 17, 1998
>
>An Open Letter to our HAARP Supporters:
>
>I ran into the HAARP story quite by accident in 1994. At the
>encouragement of my friends Gael and Patrick Flanagan I wrote the
>first significant article on HAARP and co-authored a book about the
>technology with Jeane Manning, Angels Don't Play This HAARP. That
>story led to research in non-lethal weapons, electromagnetic systems,
>environmental weapons, new types of biological weapons and related
>technologies.
>
>For four years my wife, children, a few close friends and I processed
>tens of thousands of inquiries related to these subjects, wrote and
>responded tointerviews for hundreds of publications, were aired on
>thousands of radio programs and gave lectures on the subjects in
>twenty states and twenty countries. By 1995, I had left my position
>with the Anchorage School District in order to keep up with the
>demands of the HAARP story.
>
>By the end of 1995 we had begun to move back into the other areas of
>interest to us yet HAARP continued to pull large amounts of time and
>energy. Since that time, we have allowed HAARP related work to
>dominate much of our time at the expense of other work. We felt that
>the subject needed this level of commitment in order to reach a high
>level of public and political debate. As an author and publisher I
>realized that the freedom of the press means more than the right to
>print what it wants to print. It has more to do with the idea of
>maintaining an informed population through open public debate and
>discourse, particularly on topics related to public policy.
>
>We built a significant database of research materials on weapon
>systems which we disseminated around the world to news organizations,
>elected officials and scientists.
>
>I had an interesting and in some ways an unsettling past few months.
>I was in Brussels in early October reviewing some draft resolutions
>of the European Parliament in opposition to HAARP, certain non-lethal
>
>technologies and new electromagnetic weapon technology which can
>debilitate human health. While finishing this work I received word of
>the death of one of my dearest friends, Gael Flanagan, who was in
>large part the inspiration for the book Angeles Don't Play this HAARP.
> Gael spoke with my wife often
>in the days before she died and strongly encouraged me to withdraw
>from the HAARP debate and leave it to others to resolve the issue.
>There comes a time when others who hold positions and citizens
>generally have to decide if the issue is important enough to take
>action on.
>
>While in Europe, I was informed that the US State Department had sent
>someone there after my testimony in the Security and Disarmament sub-
>committee of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.
>This was a hearing in early February which NATO refused to attend and
>debate the
>issues when asked by the Chairman of the Committee to provide
>information. The State Department official spent some weeks in
>Brussels but was unsuccessful in dissuading our supporters, who now
>have extensive documents on these matters. Presently, the inevitable
>is happening here in Alaska.
>The military in cooperation with our Congressional delegation has
>begun the process of locating and funding a new ICBM Defense system
>here in Alaska. The project is to be funded at $11.4 Billion USd. In
>addition, a number of other related installations are being expanded
>and funded here.
>
>We have continued to reinvest all of our organizations revenues into
>expanding our work and increasing the scope of our activities in the
>belief that an activist media organization like ours is needed. As a
>family and small organization we are limited in what we can do. As an
>activist publisher we have to balance our time commitments in order
>to continue to bring forward leading information in many areas of
>science, technology and politics.
>
>I have attached some excepts from recent communications to further
>clarify our position in these matters. I personally want to thank you
>for your interest and help in brining these issues forward. We
>appreciate your support on the HAARP problem and ask that you stay in
>touch with us through our publishing and communication efforts on the
>other important subjects of Earthpulse.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>Always In Service,
>
>
>Nick
>November 17, 1998
>Excerpts from Private communique
>
>In February, when I was giving testimony in Europe, and on this most
>recent trip, the issue of the US building a new Star Wars defense
>system was discussed. These are the most recent developments:
>
>1. Alaska is one of the two primary locations being considered for a
>11.4 billion dollar ICBM missile defense system which would violate
>the agreement with the former Soviet Union. The rationale is that
>"the USSR does not exist so neither does the agreement." Last year
>over $1 billion was spent to develop the system specifications. The
>appropriation will likely be coming in the next defense budget. Ted
>Stevens, an Alaskan Senator together with other members of our
>delegation chair the Senate
>Appropriations and several other key committees in the Congress. The
>project is going to happen. Clinton has indicated support for Alaska
>and Hawaii's inclusion in a defense shield (the existing system does
>not cover these two states). The additional rationale is fear of
>China and North Korea and, as a result, Japan is reported to be
>supporting a deployment in Alaska as it will protect Japan as well.
>
>I have attached a couple of articles which further illustrate the
>points made here. The articles are crafted to avoid significant
>discussion of the other components of the project. They mention the
>recent rocket launch to test early warning systems and allude to
>their inadequacy. It should be noted that a significant part of this
>project is not the interceptor missiles which the military draws to
>our attention but, rather, the radar systems which will be installed
>which draw on the research technology advanced by HAARP. It should
>also be noted that the target dates are narrow and could be pressed
>forward very quickly. If there are to be international discussions on
>this technology they should begin soon.
>
>2. Alaska's new missile launch facility just launched its first
>Minuteman missile 1100 miles south to be tracked by interceptor
>systems following the trajectory of over-the-pole launches. This new
>missile launch facility is part of an increasing number of military
>expenditures in Alaska. The Minuteman is also being considered for
>use in attacking targets with conventional non-nuclear payloads, as
>noted in one of the articles I left with you. This would allow the US
>to hit any target in the world while launching from US soil.
>
>3. Alaska is getting at least two new phased array radar facilities.
>One is being built in Kodiak and another is being planned for King
>Salmon. These are in addition to HAARP and HIPAS which are already
>located here. Program planners are being told to not mention HAARP in
>conjunction with these
>new systems.
>
>4. Alaska is getting an upgraded computer system which will give
>military and academic communities access to the best super computer
>in the world.
>
>Basically, what is now happening is what we have been suggesting for
>the last four years would take place - the deployment of a ground
>based star wars system in Alaska. This did not happen absent the
>attention of our seated Governor as some discussion had to take place
>between his office, our Congressional delegation and the military. I
>testified in the Committee in February that if the European community
>did not begin to deal with these matters that the US would begin to
>deploy these new systems and that much of that deployment would be
>achievable within 18-24 months from the date
>of the appropriations. The clock has started ticking based upon the
>release of information in the Federal Register...
>
>We asked the Committee to look at both HAARP and new non-lethal
>weapons and I presented many documents to support our position. The
>US government chose to avoid the debate and send an individual from
>the State Department to the European Parliament to attempt to
>discredit me after the hearing. I believe that the volume and content
>of the materials are sufficient to make the case considering thus far
>the only thing the military has done is have their surrogates from
>academic institutions send in a few e-mails.
>
>I am restating some of what was in my last letter in order to clarify
>my position in some of this work:
>
>"Gael Flanagan was one of the two people who motivated me to rise out
>of my station in life and pursue the truth and actualize the change.
>Without her continued and sustained encouragement the story of HAARP,
>non-lethals, and now the multi-faceted work we are involved in may
>well have never been
>started, the truth never told, the information never collected or
>communicated. In the days before her death, and while I was in Europe,
> she was speaking to my wife, Shelah, four or five times a day by
>phone. The circumstances and conversational detail are too much for
>this note and unnecessary now; however, with each call she issued a
>loving warning about my work right now, my priorities and greater
>purpose in life as a communicator and originator of ideas. As Patrick
>and Gael's staff went through her things there was much written
>caution given."
>
>"My government, the United States, is exposed and stands naked before
>each of you with the evidence we have collected and presented. We
>have many who have aligned themselves with the evidence and I believe
>there can be a very effective plan implemented now to change the
>direction of these technologies to one of greater progress for
>positive change. I thought about my conversations with each of you in
>my visit there. I thought about the attacks of my government on me
>personally regarding my opposition
>efforts on HAARP and non-lethal technologies. My government has tried
>to characterize it as a political vendetta, some kind of grudge or
>commercial engagement because this is the only way they can see the
>world. They can not begin to comprehend the meaning of true human
>service - they are too busy looking for a poll, creating a spin or
>finding that ever present "plausible denial" or deceit. You are each,
>daily, engulfed in the politics of this age which hides the truth and
>runs from the evidence and yet
>have tried to maintain the courage to stand firm."
>
>"The government has suggested that I am a "crusader" of some kind,
>mad or perhaps just misinformed. Sometimes there is a need for a
>crusader - a communicator - someone who refuses to hold knowledge
>without action and will risk everything in favor of what he believes
>is right and true. I do not care for recognition, I have never sought
>anything but an opportunity to try and make a difference by pouring
>myself into my work as a free, empowered independent human. I have
>only tried to live the example which I was raised with - that those
>with the knowledge of service should explode themselves into their
>professional work and maintain effort in the direction of the truth.
>I am now being made "the issue" in the battle over HAARP and new
>technologies and this can not be permitted to be the case. The
>problems of new weapons in the face of the alternative of peace is no
>longer an acceptable direction and the "spin" must be replaced by
>transparency. I am withdrawing from certain aspects of this debate so
>
>that I can not be made the issue."
>
>"While in Europe this trip I got to know many of you on a very
>personal level and know that you know me well in many different ways.
>I had a number of conversations about the possibilities of making
>meaningful contributions, the impacts of life changing events and
>things coming in the future of politics and the world. The most
>striking thing for me was to be able to count so many people, on all
>levels of organizations, who are committed to the cause of peace and
>who rise to the privilege of service. I was also reminded now in the
>death of my friend that we can not do it alone, we can not work
>endlessly, we can not do it at the expense of our family and friends
>but must be the catalyst for change by motivating
>others to rise out of the ashes of their own apathy. This was my
>reason for engaging the challenge of my last five year's work and is
>the focus of my future. I do not believe in accidents or fate. I do
>believe that all people find themselves in the places where we need
>to be and that all things work together for good when service is
>central to life. Thank you for your kind considerations."
>
>Where do I stand in all of this? I am not a "lone crusader" but am
>not in a position to spend the kind of time, energy and resources in
>this area as I have spent in the last four years. The US government
>is now moving forward with a $11.4 billion + project which can not be
>stopped by only a few people. My personal position has always been
>not necessarily to stop the project but to make sure it will operate
>safely and not cause more problems than the ones the system is
>designed to guard against. As an
>investigative and activist publisher we have done what we can do with
>this subject and can not carry forward the battle while sustaining
>ourselves with our other
>work. Our other work must move forward. We have given the information
>to the world and a number of legislators while environmental
>organizations, peace activists and other traditional NGO's sat on the
>sidelines "seeing which way the wind would blow." There is a
>hurricane brewing and it is time for these organizations to commit
>the necessary resources to the battle for a sane world in these areas.
> Unlike these kinds of organizations we are not externally funded
>through grants, awards or the normal activities of similar
>organizations. We fund our activist work from our commercial actions
>which is what we believe has been effective in bringing these matters
>to the public. As a result, more time and resources have been
>committed to this effort than can be sustained from our activity
>while providing the necessary stability for my organization. I have
>to move forward into other areas in order to sustain myself and
>activism. Where is the right activity award when you need one?
>
>I am completing my public work on HAARP by granting closing
>interviews to the electronic media outlets I have worked with and a
>written statement to my subscribers and print media organizations we
>have worked with over the last four years. We are no longer
>responding to any individual requests
>for information except by form letter with a copy of our sign-off
>statement on the project. We will not grant new interviews on these
>subjects to the media except as close out statements of our position.
>We will continue to work as an information source for seated elected
>officials and by providing raw documents to the media without comment
>from me. We will continue to carry the book, Angels Don't Play This
>HAARP, but do not plan any further promotion of it beyond that which
>we are contractually committed to via licenses granted on the title.
>We will leave posted all essays on the subject as additional public
>information on our web site.
>
>I personally do not regret any of my efforts the last four years but
>am going to honor the last request of my friend as I have outlined in
>this letter. Given the items contained in this letter I think there
>is
>sufficient reason for politicians to be concerned and to move forward.
> When does the reporting and sounding the alarm end and change begin?
>
>
>The resolutions I saw should be passed. Direct inquiry of my
>government should be made. The issues they should respond to are the
>facts which we have presented..."
>
>
>Dr. Nick Begich
>P. O. Box 201393
>Anchorage, Alaska 99520
>Voice Mail: 907-249-9111
>Earthpulse Press
>DrNick@alaska.net