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_The 1918-19 bacterial vaccine experiment may have killed 50-100 million people_

by Kevin Barry, President
First Freedoms, Inc.

The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19. What if the story  we have been told about this pandemic isn’t true?

What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?

Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.

In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.

Summary

-   The reason modern technology has not been able to pinpoint the killer influenza strain from this pandemic is because influenza was not the killer.
-   More soldiers died during WWI from disease than from bullets.
-   The pandemic was not flu. An estimated 95% (or higher) of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia, not influenza/a virus.
-   The pandemic was not Spanish. The first cases of bacterial pneumonia in 1918 trace back to a military base in Fort Riley, Kansas.
-   From January 21 – June 4, 1918, an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine cultured in horses by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York was injected into soldiers at Fort Riley.
-   During the remainder of 1918 as those soldiers – often living and traveling under poor sanitary conditions – were sent to Europe to fight, they spread bacteria at every stop between Kansas and the frontline trenches in France.
-   One study describes soldiers “with active infections (who) were aerosolizing the bacteria that colonized their noses and throats, while others—often, in the same “breathing spaces”—were profoundly susceptible to invasion of and rapid spread through their lungs by their own or others’ colonizing bacteria.” (1)
-   The “Spanish Flu” attacked healthy people in their prime.  Bacterial pneumonia attacks people in their prime. Flu attacks the young, old and immunocompromised.
-   When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
-   During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent the antimeningococcic serum to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries, helping spread the epidemic worldwide.

During the pandemic of 1918-19, the so-called “Spanish Flu” killed 50-100 million people, including many soldiers.

Many people do not realize that disease killed far more soldiers on all sides than machine guns or mustard gas or anything else typically associated with WWI.

I have a personal connection to the Spanish Flu.  Among those killed by disease in 1918-19 are members of both of my parents’ families.

On my father’s side, his grandmother Sadie Hoyt died from pneumonia in 1918. Sadie was a Chief Yeoman in the Navy.  Her death left my grandmother Rosemary and her sister Anita to be raised by their aunt. Sadie’s sister Marian also joined the Navy.  She died from “the influenza” in 1919.

On my mother’s side, two of her father’s sisters died in childhood. All of the family members who died lived in New York City.

I suspect many American families, and many families worldwide, were impacted in similar ways by the mysterious Spanish Flu.

In 1918, “influenza” or flu was a catchall term for disease of unknown origin.  It didn’t carry the specific meaning it does today.

It meant some mystery disease which dropped out of the sky.  In fact, influenza is from the Medieval Latin “influential” in an astrological sense, meaning a visitation under the influence of the stars.

WHY IS WHAT HAPPENED 100 YEARS AGO IMPORTANT NOW?

Between 1900-1920, there were enormous efforts underway in the industrialized world to build a better society.  I will use New York as an example to discuss three major changes to society which occurred in NY during that time and their impact on mortality from infectious diseases.

1.    Clean Water and Sanitation

In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, New York built an extraordinary system to bring clean water to the city from the Catskills, a system still in use today.  New York City also built over 6000 miles of sewer to take away and treat waste, which protects the drinking water. The World Health Organization acknowledges the importance of clean water and sanitation in combating infectious diseases. (2)

2.    Electricity

In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, New York built a power grid and wired the city so power was available in every home.  Electricity allows for refrigeration. Refrigeration is an unsung hero as a public health benefit. When food is refrigerated from farm to table, the public is protected from potential infectious diseases.  Cheap renewable energy is important for many reasons, including combating infectious diseases.

3.     Pharmaceutical

In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, New York became the home of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University).  The Institute is where the modern pharmaceutical industry was born. The Institute pioneered many of the approaches the pharmaceutical industry uses today, including the preparation of vaccine serums, for better or worse.  The vaccine used in the Fort Riley experiment on soldiers was made in horses.

US Mortality Rates data from the turn of the 20th century to 1965 clearly indicates that clean water, flushing toilets, effective sewer systems and refrigerated foods all combined to effectively reduce mortality from infectious diseases BEFORE vaccines for those diseases became available.

Have doctors and the pharmaceutical manufacturers taken credit for reducing mortality from infectious disease which rightfully belongs to sandhogs, plumbers, electricians and engineers?

If hubris at the Rockefeller Institute in 1918 led to a pandemic disease which killed millions of people, what lessons can we learn and apply to 2018?

THE DISEASE WAS NOT SPANISH

While watching an episode of American Experience on PBS a few months ago,  I was surprised to hear that the first cases of “Spanish Flu” occurred at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1918.  I thought, how is it possible this historically important event could be so badly misnamed 100 years ago and never corrected?

Why “Spanish”?

Spain was one of a few countries not involved in World War I.  Most of the countries involved in the war censored their press.

Free from censorship concerns, the earliest press reports of people dying from disease in large numbers came from Spain.  The warring countries did not want to additionally frighten the troops, so they were content to scapegoat Spain. Soldiers on all sides would be asked to cross no man’s land into machine gun fire, which was frightening enough without knowing that the trenches were a disease breeding ground.

One hundred years later, it’s long past time to drop “Spanish” from all discussion of this pandemic.  If the flu started at a United States military base in Kansas, then the disease could and should be more aptly named.

In order to prevent future disasters, the US (and the rest of the world) must take a hard look at what really caused the pandemic.

It is possible that one of the reasons the Spanish Flu has never been corrected is that it helps disguise the origin of the pandemic.

If the origin of the pandemic involved a vaccine experiment on US soldiers, then the US may prefer calling it Spanish Flu instead of The Fort Riley Bacteria of 1918, or something similar.  The Spanish Flu started at the location this experimental bacterial vaccine was given making it the prime suspect as the source of the bacterial infections which killed so many.

It would be much more difficult to maintain the marketing mantra of “vaccines save lives” if a vaccine experiment originating in the United States during the years of primitive manufacturing caused the deaths of  50-100 million people.

  “Vaccines save lives … except we may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19” is a far less effective sales slogan than the overly simplistic “vaccines save lives.”

THE DISEASE WHICH KILLED SO MANY WAS NOT FLU OR A VIRUS.  IT WAS BACTERIAL.

During the mid-2000’s there was much talk about “pandemic preparedness.”  Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States received billions of taxpayer dollars to develop vaccines to make sure that we don’t have another lethal pandemic “flu,” like the one in 1918-19.

Capitalizing on the “flu” part of Spanish flu helped vaccine manufacturers procure billion dollar checks from governments, even though scientists knew at the time that bacterial pneumonia was the real killer.

It is not my opinion that bacterial pneumonia was the real killer – thousands of autopsies confirm this fact.

According to a 2008 National Institute of Health paper, bacterial pneumonia was the killer in a minimum of 92.7% of the 1918-19 autopsies reviewed.  It is likely higher than 92.7%.

The researchers looked at more than 9000 autopsies, and “there were no negative (bacterial) lung culture results.”

  “… In the 68 higher-quality autopsy series, in which the possibility of unreported negative cultures could be excluded, 92.7% of autopsy lung cultures were positive for ≥1 bacterium. … in one study of approximately 9000 subjects who were followed from clinical presentation with influenza to resolution or autopsy, researchers obtained, with sterile technique, cultures of either pneumococci or streptococci from 164 of 167 lung tissue samples.

  There were 89 pure cultures of pneumococci; 19 cultures from which only streptococci were recovered; 34 that yielded mixtures of pneumococci and/or streptococci; 22 that yielded a mixture of pneumococci, streptococci, and other organisms (prominently pneumococci and nonhemolytic streptococci); and 3 that yielded nonhemolytic streptococci alone. There were no negative lung culture results.” (3)

Pneumococci or streptococci were found in “164 of (the) 167 lung tissue samples” autopsied.  That is 98.2%. Bacteria was the killer.

WHERE DID THE SPANISH FLU BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA OF 1918-19 ORIGINATE?

When the United States declared war in April 1917, the fledgling Pharmaceutical industry had something they had never had before – a large supply of human test subjects in the form of the US military’s first draft.

Pre-war in 1917, the US Army was 286,000 men. Post-war in 1920, the US army disbanded, and had 296,000 men.

During the war years 1918-19, the US Army ballooned to 6,000,000 men, with 2,000,000 men being sent overseas.  The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research took advantage of this new pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine experiments.

A REPORT ON ANTIMENINGITIS VACCINATION AND OBSERVATIONS ON AGGLUTININS IN THE BLOOD OF CHRONIC MENINGOCOCCUS CARRIERS
by Frederick L. Gates
From the Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York.
Received 1918 Jul 20

(Author note:  Please read the Fort Riley paper in its entirety so you can appreciate the carelessness of the experiments conducted on these troops.)

Between January 21st and June 4th of 1918, Dr. Gates reports on an experiment where soldiers were given 3 doses of a bacterial meningitis vaccine.  Those conducting the experiment on the soldiers were just spitballing dosages of a vaccine serum made in horses.

The vaccination regime was designed to be 3 doses.  4,792 men received the first dose, but only 4,257 got the 2nd dose (down 11%), and only 3702 received all three doses (down 22.7%).

A total of 1,090 men were not there for the 3rd dose.  What happened to these soldiers? Were they shipped East by train from Kansas to board a ship to Europe?  Were they in the Fort Riley hospital? Dr. Gates’ report doesn’t tell us.

An article accompanying the American Experience broadcast I watched sheds some light on where these 1,090 men might be.  Gates began his experiments in January 1918.

By March of that year, “100 men a day” were entering the infirmary at Fort Riley.

Are some of these the men missing from Dr. Gates’ report – the ones who did not get the 2nd or 3rd dose?

  “… Shortly before breakfast on Monday, March 11, the first domino would fall signaling the commencement of the first wave of the 1918 influenza.

  Company cook Albert Gitchell reported to the camp infirmary with complaints of a “bad cold.”

  Right behind him came Corporal Lee W. Drake voicing similar complaints.

  By noon, camp surgeon Edward R. Schreiner had over 100 sick men on his hands, all apparently suffering from the same malady…” (5)

Gates does report that several of the men in the experiment had flu-like symptoms: coughs, vomiting and diarrhea after receiving the vaccine.

These symptoms are a disaster for men living in barracks, travelling on trains to the Atlantic coast, sailing to Europe, and living and fighting in trenches.

The unsanitary conditions at each step of the journey are an ideal environment for a contagious disease like bacterial pneumonia to spread.

From Dr. Gates’ report:

  “Reactions.– … Several cases of looseness of the bowels or transient diarrhea were noted. This symptom had not been encountered before. Careful inquiry in individual cases often elicited the information that men who complained of the effects of vaccination were suffering from mild coryza, bronchitis, etc., at the time of injection.”

  “Sometimes the reaction was initiated by a chill or chilly sensation, and a number of men complained of fever or feverish sensations during the following night.

  Next in frequency came nausea (occasionally vomiting), dizziness, and general “aches and pains” in the joints and muscles, which in a few instances were especially localized in the neck or lumbar region, causing stiff neck or stiff back. A few injections were followed by diarrhea.

  The reactions, therefore, occasionally simulated the onset of epidemic meningitis and several vaccinated men were sent as suspects to the Base Hospital for diagnosis.”(4)

According to Gates, they injected random dosages of an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine into soldiers. Afterwards, some of the soldiers had symptoms which “simulated” meningitis, but Dr. Gates advances the fantastical claim that it wasn’t actual meningitis.

The soldiers developed flu-like symptoms.  Bacterial meningitis, then and now, is known to mimic flu-like symptoms. (6)

Perhaps the similarity of early symptoms of bacterial meningitis and bacterial pneumonia to symptoms of flu is why the vaccine experiments at Fort Riley have been able to escape scrutiny as a potential cause of the Spanish Flu for 100 years and counting.

HOW DID THE “SPANISH FLU” SPREAD SO WIDELY SO QUICKLY?

There is an element of a perfect storm in how the Gates bacteria spread.  WWI ended only 10 months after the first injections. Unfortunately for the 50-100 million who died, those soldiers injected with horse-infused bacteria moved quickly during those 10 months.

An article from 2008 on the CDC’s website describes how sick WWI soldiers could pass along the bacteria to others by becoming “cloud adults.”

  “Finally, for brief periods and to varying degrees, affected hosts became “cloud adults” who increased the aerosolization of colonizing strains of bacteria, particularly pneumococci, hemolytic streptococci, H. influenzae, and S. aureus.

  For several days during local epidemics—particularly in crowded settings such as hospital wards, military camps, troop ships, and mines (and trenches)—some persons were immunologically susceptible to, infected with, or recovering from infections with influenza virus.

  Persons with active infections were aerosolizing the bacteria that colonized their noses and throats, while others—often, in the same “breathing spaces”—were profoundly susceptible to invasion of and rapid spread through their lungs by their own or others’ colonizing bacteria.” (1)

Three times in his report on the Fort Riley vaccine experiment, Dr. Gates states that some soldiers had a “severe reaction” indicating “an unusual individual susceptibility to the vaccine”.

While the vaccine made many sick, it only killed those who were susceptible to it.  Those who became sick and survived became “cloud adults” who spread the bacteria to others, which created more cloud adults, spreading to others where it killed the susceptible, repeating the cycle until there were no longer wartime unsanitary conditions, and there were no longer millions of soldiers to experiment on.

The toll on US troops was enormous and it is well documented.  Dr. Carol Byerly describes how the “influenza” traveled like wildfire through the US military.  (substitute “bacteria” for Dr. Byerly’s “influenza” or “virus”):

  “… Fourteen of the largest training camps had reported influenza outbreaks in March, April, or May, and some of the infected troops carried the virus with them aboard ships to France …

  As soldiers in the trenches became sick, the military evacuated them from the front lines and replaced them with healthy men.

  This process continuously brought the virus into contact with new hosts—young, healthy soldiers in which it could adapt, reproduce, and become extremely virulent without danger of burning out.

  … Before any travel ban could be imposed, a contingent of replacement troops departed Camp Devens (outside of Boston) for Camp Upton, Long Island, the Army’s debarkation point for France, and took influenza with them.

  Medical officers at Upton said it arrived “abruptly” on September 13, 1918, with 38 hospital admissions, followed by 86 the next day, and 193 the next.

  Hospital admissions peaked on October 4 with 483, and within 40 days, Camp Upton sent 6,131 men to the hospital for influenza. Some developed pneumonia so quickly that physicians diagnosed it simply by observing the patient rather than listening to the lungs…” (7)

  The United States was not the only country in possession of the Rockefeller Institute’s  experimental bacterial vaccine.

  A 1919 report from the Institute states: “Reference should be made that before the United States entered the war (in April 1917) the Institute had resumed the preparation of antimeningococcic serum, in order to meet the requests of England, France, Belgium Italy and other countries.”

  The same report states:  “In order to meet the suddenly increased demand for the curative serums worked out at the Institute, a special stable for horses was quickly erected …” (8)

An experimental antimeningoccic serum made in horses and injected into soldiers who would be entering the cramped and unsanitary living conditions of war … what could possibly go wrong?

Is the bacterial serum made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute which was injected into US soldiers and distributed to numerous other countries responsible for the 50-100 million people killed by bacterial lung infections in 1918-19?

The Institute says it distributed the bacterial serum to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries during WWI. Not enough is known about how these countries experimented on their soldiers.

I hope independent researchers will take an honest look at these questions.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

I do not believe that anyone involved in these vaccine experiments was trying to harm anyone.

Some will see the name Rockefeller and yell. “Illuminati!” or “culling the herd!”

I do not believe that’s what happened.

I believe standard medical hubris is responsible – doctors “playing God”, thinking they can tame nature without creating unanticipated problems.

With medical hubris, I do not think the situation has changed materially over the past 100 years.

WHAT NOW?

The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects.  They have the most success when they are able to find populations who not in a position to refuse.

Soldiers (9), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.

Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.  Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.

The deposition was in January 2018. The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.

Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing:

  “The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”

Please watch the horrifying video clip.  (10)

In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.

The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.  The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.

Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights

1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected.
2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.

Article 6 – Consent

1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. T

he consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (11)

Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program.

Doctor and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.

For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.

The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible.

Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease.  Human beings are not one size fits all.

In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.

In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given.  The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (12)

In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.

In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered.

Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have their cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?

In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.

In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (13)

In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.  I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.

In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years.

This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.

The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.  Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.

Vaccines are not magic.  Human rights and bioethics are critically important.  Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

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_Kevin Barry is the President of First Freedoms, Inc. a 501.c.3.  He is a former federal attorney, a rep at the UN HQ in New York and the author of VACCINE WHISTLEBLOWER: EXPOSING AUTISM RESEARCH FRAUD AT THE CDC.  Please support our work at www.firstfreedoms.org_

Please direct media inquiries to kb151@protonmail.com.

Originally published at FirstFreedoms.org. Reprinted with permission.

COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE AT VACCINEIMPACT.COM.

References

1. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
John F. Brundage*  and G. Dennis Shanks†
Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article

2.  World Health Organization: Unsafe drinking water, sanitation and waste management
http://www.who.int/sustainable-development/cities/health-risks/water-sanitation/en/

3. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970.
Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/

4. PDF of Fort Riley Study (1918)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2126288/pdf/449.pdf

5. American Experience, “The First Wave”, PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-first-wave/

6. Mayo Clinic:  Meningitis
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350508

7. Public Health Rep. 2010; 125(Suppl 3): 82–91.
The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919
Carol R. Byerly, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862337/

8.  Rockefeller Institute pamphlet PDF (1919)
https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=rockefeller-institute-descriptive-pamphlet

9.  Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994
https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835

10. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
https://youtu.be/yevV_slu7Dw

11.  Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005)
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

12. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/

13. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act
https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/

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Concerns are mounting among scientists that the recent implementation of SB277 making vaccinations mandatory law in California for men, women and children is a chilling step towards universal compulsory vaccination.

Coupled with the fact governments and multi-national pharmaceutical companies are being prosecuted and convicted over poorly-tested and administered vaccines, suggests a crisis is coming.

Vaccine activists are citing the notorious post Second World War Nuremberg Trials in which Nazi doctors were convicted of forced experiments on humans. Fears are that seemingly once benign governments are now resorting to forcing medication into the bodies of the unwilling masses and their children without their consent.

A little recent history…

Here is a short video discussing the ethical questions raised by many concerned parents during the debates leading up to the implementation of SB277 in California. The focus here is the concerns of these educated parents who were very aware of the possibilities of vaccine damage, wanting to know who gets to decide if the (possible) gains outweigh the (known) risks …

Vaccines are scientifically proven to have side-effects ranging from mild to catastrophic. These may include anything from a mild rash, a compromised immune system, sterility, cognitive dysfunction (brain damage), paralysis, cancer, to … death and many more “proven” issues not mentioned here.

We are constantly being told by the healthcare personnel we trust that the chance of vaccine damage is “Less than one in a million”, yet statistics prove over and over again that this is a totally erroneous and massively understated number, with the actual occurrences of harm caused by vaccines being massively higher, and in fact … very common.

Now take the above numbers and plot probable vaccine damage with 10% reported over just the last decade … 300,000 x 10 = 3,000,000, and if we use 1% reported … 30,000,000! Now try to imagine the damage to the American society, or the entire vaccinated global community over the last century of ever increasing vaccine proliferation, and you will come to understand that vaccines may very well be responsible for more death and human suffering than ANY or maybe ALL wars in human history.

We can easily see, with even the most rudimentary research, the possible incidence of vaccine damage is mind bending and so far above the lies and platitudes fed to us by those we are conditioned to trust, that it is almost inconceivable. Please understand that if the above statement (less than one in a million) were true…vaccines would be among the safest mechanisms on this planet, but all data points to exactly the opposite.

When all is said and done We The People (more every day) are becoming painfully aware of the frequency and magnitude of Vaccine damage and we are horrified and angry!

How Is This Medical Experimentation?

With the many proven side-effects, and NO long term Proven Efficacy or Harm Study on vaccines (or multiple dose vaccinations) ever accomplished or even commissioned by the CDC, that we are made aware of in a century of use in the USA (try to find one), they can have no scientific or factual claim to being an effective or safe mechanism. Thus by default, HOW can this be considered or categorized as anything more than Medical Experimentation?

The Nuremberg trials where 23 defendants, all medical doctors, were accused of having been involved in the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, procedures and exposures without the consent of those experimented on. The trial lasted eight months, from December 9, 1946, to August 20, 1947. Of the 23 defendants, five were acquitted, seven received death sentences, and the remaining received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment. Those sentenced to death were hanged on June 2, 1948, in Landsberg Prison, Bavaria.
What resulted from this was the ten points of the Nuremberg Code. Of these ten points the following are most germane to this discussion, those being:

Nuremberg Code: Point #1

The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him/her to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.

Even with the cases reported being well in excess of the laughable quote stated above, we must also consider that the CDC itself states that as few as 1 – 10% of vaccine damage incidents are ever reported as such, making the possible total ‘Magnitudes Higher’ than what we are made aware of via the CDC or the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is stating Proposed Changes Restrict Vaccine Reaction Reporting, making these incidences of vaccine damage even more difficult to track or tally (intentionally). Now lets consider that the vaccine court (VICP) in this country has already paid out well over $3 BILLION in damages, and this is to only a very small percentage of possible claimants who actually get their cases heard, and can prove damage to a (known) biased system of supposed justice.

So how rare can vaccine damage actually Be?

Approximately thirty thousand (30,000) VAERS reports are filed annually, and again the CDC states that only 10% (on the high side) of actual cases are ever reported … Yea do the math (300,000)! Now not all of these are life threatening, but how many are life wrecking? If even 10-20% are life threatening, wrecking, or stealing (30,000 – 60,000 a year), that is still a huge number, and magnitudes above “one in a million.” That would actually equate to less than 320 adverse reactions nation wide if EVERYONE in the country (about 320 million people) is vaccinated in a calendar year … But the fact is only about 25% of the public is vaccinated each year (all vaccinations combined) making the actual number about 80 cases of vaccine damage…if these doctors are correct…

Nuremberg Code: Point #5

No experiment should be conducted where there is a prior reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.

Nuremberg Code: Point #7

Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.

Nuremberg Code: Point #9

During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.

Nuremberg Code: Point #10

During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.

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Governor Rat Brown legalized the utility company to pass the cost of the fires to increased prices for electric power sold to customers

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Interesting how a lone owl was found on the beach surrounded by fire in CA. See what this might mean. There is an owl on the dollar bill. There are many corporate companies that have owls on their logo.

Do I agree with all that is said. No, I do not agree with everything everyone says? However I listen as food for thought.

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An act to add Section 761.2 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electrical lines.

AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 6, 2016

AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 28, 2016

SENATE BILL No. 1463

https://moorlach.cssrc.us/sites/moorlach.cssrc.us/files/160413_SB1463_BillLanguage.pdf

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CA Gov. Jerry Brown Vetoed Bipartisan Wildfire Management Bill in 2016
Last year, as all Hell was breaking loose in California as residents were burned out of their homes, neighborhoods and businesses, Gov. Jerry Brown was jetting around the world spouting climate change propaganda, and calling this California’s ‘new normal.’
“With climate change, some scientists are saying Southern California is literally burning up, and burning up as maybe a metaphor or a description not just to the fires right here, but what we can expect over the next years and decades,” Brown said.
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Today, as California burns once again under torrential wildfires, many Californians have been asking why the dramatic increase in wildfires in the last five years… that is everyone except Governor Jerry Brown. Governor Brown claims that year-round, devastating fires are the “new normal” we must accept.
Megan Barth and I reported Monday:
“Supporting Obama-era regulations have resulted in the new normal: an endless and devastating fire season. Obama-era regulations introduced excessive layers of bureaucracy that blocked proper forest management and increased environmentalist litigation and costs—a result of far too many radical environmentalists, bureaucrats, Leftist politicians and judicial activists who would rather let forests burn, than let anyone thin out overgrown trees or let professional loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle infestation, or selectively cut timber.”
Mismanaged, overcrowded forests provide fuel to historic California wildfires, experts say. The 129 million dead trees throughout California’s forests are serving as matchsticks and kindling.
Jerry Brown, busy mulling ways to prevent the end of the world, took the Clinton and Obama-era gross regulations a step even further when he vetoed a bipartisan wildfire management bill in 2016.
At the request of the City Council of Laguna Beach, Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa), authored SB 1463 in 2016, a bipartisan bill which would have given local governments more say in fire-prevention efforts through the Public Utilities Commission proceeding making maps of fire hazard areas around utility lines.
California fires produced as much pollution in 2 days as all the state’s cars do in a year
Laguna Beach went through four fires sparked by utility lines in the last ten years, and has done as much in the way of prevention as they could afford. The bill would have allowed cities to work with utilities to underground utility lines, and work with the Public Utilities Commission to develop updated fire maps by requiring the PUC to take into consideration areas in which communities are at risk from the consequences of wildfire ‚Äî not just those areas where certain environmental hazards are present.
Moorlach’s bill came about when on February 2, 2016, the PUC served the final version of Fire Map 1, and the City of Laguna Beach was not placed within the low-risk margins of the Utility Fire Threat Index.
Gov. Brown vetoed SB 1463, despite being passed by the Legislature, 75-0 in the Assembly and 39-0 in the Senate. That tells you this was political. The Governor’s veto message did not properly address why he vetoed the bill. Brown claimed that the PUC and CalFire have already been doing what Moorlach’s bill sought to accomplish. How on earth could Brown kill this bill when the state was burning down?
“SB 1463 would have not only safeguarded Laguna and other high fire-risk communities in Orange County, but would have helped other vulnerable communities throughout the state that are often threatened by wildfires caused by sparks from shorted or fallen utility lines,” Sen. Moorlach said in a statement following the surprise veto. “The Governor’s veto impedes the necessity to more urgently address the California Public Utilities Commission’s focus on identifying high risk areas that should be prioritized for appropriate mitigation measures.”
California fires produced as much pollution in 2 days as all the state’s cars do in a year.

Continued below…
After SB 1463 was killed by Gov. Brown, Sen. Moorlach and his brilliant staff had an epiphany: Redirect the state’s accumulated cap-and-trade funds into wildfire prevention.
Authored in 2018, the new Senate Bill 1463, aptly named “Cap and Trees,” would continuously appropriate 25 percent of state cap-and-trade funds to counties to harden the state’s utility infrastructure and better manage wildlands and our overgrown and drought-weakened forests, Moorlach recently wrotein a San Francisco Chronicle op ed.
The idea was to actually reduce the state’s highest source of greenhouse gas emissions, curb the impacts of future wildfires and prevent unnecessary damage to life and property, the new SB 1463 fact sheet reported.
However, SB 1463 was killed in the radical Senate Environmental Quality Committee by Democrats, even though there was no opposition to it. The killing was purely political, with no regard given to the people of the state.
Cap and Trade was a scheme born out of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, known as AB 32, which charged the California Air Resources Board with lowering greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. In addition, AB 32 requires the ARB to inventory GHG emissions in California, and approve statewide GHG emissions limits.
Sen. Moorlach’s second version of SB 1463 would also have required the California Air Resources Board to include greenhouse gas emissions from wildland and forest fires in their updated Scoping Plan. The ARB does not actually track GHGs—they just estimate. The ARB is extorting millions of dollars from California businesses on their best guesses.
It is estimated that “for every 2 to 3 days these wildfires burn, GHG emissions are roughly equal to the annual emissions from every car in the entire state of California,”¬† USA Today/Reno Gazette reported in 2017. Last year, there were more than 9,000 major wildfires which burned over 1.2 million acres. Several of the large fires were caused or exacerbated by sparking utility lines.
The problem is that the Air Resources Board Scoping Plan ignores the most egregious of all GHG emission problems—manmade wildfires. Instead, the ARB spends a substantial amount of cap and trade funds on high-speed rail, which literally increases GHG emissions and eliminates large carbon sinks. The ARB has a history of diverting funds to pet projects and programs that have little or nothing to do with actually reducing GHG emissions.
The Senate Environmental Quality Committee, responsible for killing Moorlach’s SB 1463, has a radical environmentalist/preservationist as the committee consultant. In the only bill analysis done on SB 1463, this is the drivel she wrote:
”…natural disasters that emit GHGs (such as wildfires) occurred before climate change, will continue to occur as the climate continues to change, and will persist even if mankind ultimately solves the problem of climate change.”
“While science can now conclusively attribute individual extreme events to climate change, it is important to distinguish that extreme events like the recent wildfires in California are a symptom of climate change, not the cause.”
“The overwhelming consensus of climate scientists is that climate change is anthropogenic, meaning human activity has caused the rising GHG concentrations in the atmosphere and, therefore, increasing average global temperatures and the extreme events climate change causes.”
”To include GHG emissions from natural disasters in the state’s inventory that tracks progress towards California’s climate goals, even ones that are made worse by climate change, betrays the fundamental scientific understanding that human activity is responsible for climate change.” (Her emphasis, not mine) 04/19/18- Senate Environmental Quality
Jerry Brown’s Exploitation of California Events
“There is no hope for the truth when world leaders like Governor Brown of California (he runs the 19th largest economy in the world) can present such utterly false information in pursuit of a political agenda,”
“Since civilization emerged 10,000 years ago, we haven’t had this kind of heat condition, and it’s going to continue getting worse and that’s the way it is.”—Jerry Brown

Continued below…
Jerry Brown’s Real Legacy
Remember when Gov. Jerry Brown said the world needs ‘brain washing’ on climate change. Sounding indeed brainwashed, Brown said, “The problem … is us. It’s our whole way of life. It’s our comfort … It’s the greed. It’s the indulgence. It’s the pattern. And it’s the inertia.”
Brown screeched in 2015 that California has an overpopulation problem, and the ongoing drought was proof that the explosion of population in California has reached the limit of what the states’ resources can provide. “We are altering this planet with this incredible power of science, technology and economic advance,” Brown told the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. “If California is going to have 50 million people, they’re not going to live the same way the native people lived, much less the way people do today…. You have to find a more elegant way of relating to material things. You have to use them with greater sensitivity and sophistication.”
Brown has managed to divert the fawning, slobbering California media away from his actual responsibilities as California Governor, and instead has them focused on hysteria, doom, gloom, and intangibles like “climate change.”

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  I am seeing more and more videos of very strange irregularities regarding the California fires.

  In this video, single homes were burned down with no damage to neighboring homes.

  Can anyone explain this? pic.twitter.com/YXCbWO9373

  — Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) November 15, 2018

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question: What does the article posit?

answer: The article suggests that the 1918 "Spanish Flu" was not a virus, but rather a military bacterial vaccine experiment that went wrong.

question: Are credible references cited?

answer: It seems there are credible references listed, although how he uses the information in conjunction with his opinion is deceiving.

question: What information is given to support the author's claim?

answer: The pandemic was not a flu; more than 95% of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia. The first case of bacterial pneumonia in 1918 was on a military base in Kansas; in that same year, an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine was injected into soldiers. Those soldiers spread the bacteria throughout Europe. The name "Spanish Flu" was adopted because Spain was the first country to report many deaths occurring; the article suggests they were the first country to report deaths because they weren't involved in the war therefore, their press wasn't being censored. Other countries were happy to scapegoat Spanish, especially the US, where the virus (bacterial infection) actually originated.

question: When was the article written?

answer: Circa 2018

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The article suggests that the 1918 "Spanish Flu" was not a virus, but rather a military bacterial vaccine experiment that went wrong. The author gives many "facts" to support his position. While, it appears that there are credible references listed, how the author uses the information in conjunction with his opinion is deceiving. The author gives many "facts" to support his position.


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Trent Reznor is ready to sing. Bent slightly at the waist, tightly gripping the microphone as if he’s about to wring its little metallic neck, Reznor closes his eyes – shutting out the winking lights and splashy computer graphics around him in the main control room at Nothing Studios in New Orleans and waits for the music to roll in his headphones.

When it does, Reznor sounds like he’s bellowing from deep inside a shaken id. “I’ve become impossible/Holding on to when/ Everything seemed to matter more,” he rages over the martial crunch of “We’re in This Together,” one of more than two dozen songs on Nine Inch Nails‘ new album, ___The Fragile_, tentatively set for release in September as a double CD. In fact, Reznor – who is Nine Inch Nails; who has written, produced and, save a few odd licks, played every note on _The Fragile_ – is cool, collected and utterly in control.

Take after take breaks down. Reznor’s voice veers out of tune; he hasn’t written enough words; in midverse, a computer program abruptly quits. Disappointed, Reznor takes a fast dinner break, then has another prolonged crack at the song. For two hours, he plays over a loop of the first verse of “We’re in This Together,” zipping through various keyboard and guitar effects: glacial synth howls; Kraftwerkian bleeps; greasy slide guitar; wah-wah; what Reznor gleefully calls “Jesus and Mary Chain distortion.” “We’re not getting anywhere,” he says to Keith Hillebrandt, an in-house programmer at Nothing, and ex-Skinny Puppy producer Dave Ogilvie, who’s also doing production work on the album. “Let’s just fuck around and see what comes.”

When Reznor calls it quits at midnight to attend to other new album business (he is in the thick of album-cover and video matters even though he is still recording), “We’re in This Together” is far from done. Reznor does not have any new, keeper parts – nothing he is ecstatic about, anyway. But he’s got a lot of ideas preserved on hard drive (and backed up on digital tape) for further study.

“The important thing is to keep tape rolling,” says Hillebrandt, waving a yellow legal pad full of notes detailing what Reznor has just played. “You never know when Trent’s going to do something that he wants to use later on. This whole song started from something he actually played at the end of another track. He wrote it up into an entirely new song.”

“It’s been madness,” Reznor admits, earlier in the day, of the nearly two years he has taken to make _The Fragile_. He gestures at the armory of guitars and keyboards to one side of the control room, at the more than seventy effects pedals strewn across the floor here in the nerve center of Nothing Studios, a former funeral home in New Orleans that Reznor purchased in April 1995. “Ninety-five percent of this record was written in this room,” he says. “Which is not the way to quickly make albums.”

Reznor, who recently turned thirty-four, does not look worse for the wear. He is clean-shaven, his jet-black hair cut short. In a gray-green shirt, black pants and sneakers, he seems fit, focused, ready for serious labor. “This record,” he says, “has been about going off on tangents – about starting in one spot, the feather floats over to another spot, then starts to go this way. The next song picks up where that left off, and moves that way.”

To illustrate his point, he plays the final mix of the album’s initial single, “The Day the World Went Away.” One part has massed, Black Sabbath-like guitars suspended in echo with discreet electronics and a slightly askew acoustic guitar that proves to be a ukulele. Another section is even more airy – somber piano, acoustic bass, a clean, intimate Reznor vocal, a mere eight lines of lyrics. Compared with the violent density of Nine Inch Nails’ 1992 EP, _Broken_, and the ’94 smash _The Downward Spiral_, “The Day the World Went Away” is buoyant, spacey menace – with no drums whatsoever.

Reznor plays a couple of electrometal bruisers – “The Wretched” and “Starfuckers, Inc.,” the latter the B side of “The Day the World Went Away” – that are viciously, unmistakably Nine Inch Nails. But he seems proudest of, and most nervous about, detours like “La Mer” and “Into the Void.” “La Mer” is built on a circular piano melody (“My Debussy nod,” says Reznor) that, when outfitted with drums and electronics in “Into the Void,” turns into sleazy machine funk: Prince crossbred with Kiss and Einsturzende Neubauten.

“It’s real hard for me to have any degree of objectivity,” Reznor says of _The Fragile_. “People say, ‘What’s it sound like?’ I don’t fucking know. I like it. It is by far the best record I’ve ever done. But it appears to be one of those records that doesn’t jump out of the speakers, that announces it’s at the top of the charts, right from the first song. Nor was it intended to be that.”

Reznor’s intentions for _The Fragile_ – the first Nine Inch Nails studio album in five years – underwent several seismic shifts before he and engineer/co-producer Alan Moulder formally set to work in September 1997. Reznor briefly entertained the notion of recording with a full band before reverting to his mostly one-man-combo ways. (Guest contributors to _The Fragile_ include David Bowie pianist Mike Garson, guitarist Adrian Belew and Ministry drummer William Rieflin.) “When I get ideas, I’ll get twenty of them at once,” Reznor says. “It’s hard for me, trying to wait for someone to catch up.”

At the suggestion of his friend, producer Rick Rubin, Reznor also went into classic rock-songwriter isolation for two and a half months – with a tape recorder and a grand piano in a house in Big Sur, on the Northern California coast. “This sprang from Rick and I talking,” Reznor explains. “Is a good song a melody over a series of chord changes and meaningful lyrics? If so, how many of your songs can you play with an acoustic guitar in front of a campfire? ‘OK, I’ll show you. I’ll sit at the piano and write Billy Joel songs.’ But I’m singing out there, thinking, ‘This sucks.'” One piece of music Reznor salvaged from the escapade was “La Met.”

“There was time-wasting involved in this whole thing; I won’t lie to you,” Reznor concedes. Nor will he deny that he blew a lot of time on a crisis of confidence, a near total loss of conviction in what he had to say and the music through which he said it. In 1997, Reznor’s grandmother died at age eighty-five. When Reznor was five, his parents separated and his grandmother raised him. “I didn’t deal with it,” he says quietly of her passing. “I just tried to pretend that it didn’t happen.”

And, Reznor adds pointedly, “my best friends turned on me.” Asked who those “friends” were, he replies, “A group of people I spent some time with, recorded an album with, and their name has two words in it and they start with the letter M” – a thinly veiled reference to former protegés Marilyn Manson.

“I took time to get my head straight,” Reznor goes on. “Ironically, it was doing this record that fixed me. Because that’s what always fixed me in the past. I was just too stupid to realize it.” Moulder, who was also the mixing engineer on _The Downward Spiral_, attests to the volatile mix of ambition and insecurity in Reznor’s working methods: “He gets frustrated with himself – if he’s got an idea and he can’t play it on guitar as well as he wants. But he likes setting himself big tasks. He’ll never back down from a challenge. The best thing that could happen to a song is, I’d say, ‘It’s not cutting it.’ He will then be determined to make it work.”

Reznor says Nine Inch Nails will definitely tour in support of the new record: “Not like we did before, but a fair amount. Ten times around Arkansas – I don’t think that’s going to happen this time.” He estimates he’ll need about 700 singers in the band, “because I put a full-on Freddie Mercury tribute on some of these songs.” But even before he hits the road, Reznor plans to keep recording once he’s finished _The Fragile_ for another project – a collaboration with hip-hop auteur Dr. Dre. “He worked on the mix of one of the tracks for the record,” Reznor explains. “I got to see how he works, and it seemed very different – far less knobs,” he notes, laughing. “I think meeting him halfway would be interesting. He’s never seen recording the way we do it, which can get unnecessarily complicated. ‘This song has four hard drives and tape backup’ – all that bullshit. I’m interested in downscaling, being a little more efficient.”

But not too efficient. One example of the indulgence Reznor allowed himself on _The Fragile_ comes near the end of “Pilgrimage,” a vigorous stomp with spooky, choral vocals, Arabic-flavored guitar and, near the end, what sounds like a big, university-strength marching band.

“It shouldn’t have taken place,” Reznor says sheepishly. “The track was done. But at the end, I said, ‘That’s such a bizarre theme. What would it sound like played by a marching band going down the street?’ A week later” – he nods in the direction of one of the studio’s king-size Macintosh computers – “there’s a band marching through the song. It’s all on synthesizer.”

New Orleans, of course, is a city full of marching bands. “It would have been easier to get a band than it was to do it the way I did,” Reznor admits, grinning. “And it started with, ‘Give me two hours.’ If I ever say that, order Domino’s and get the coffee on. We’re gonna be here for a while.”

_This story is from the July 8th 1999 issue of Rolling Stone._

question: What does the text say about Trent Reznor?

answer: Trent Reznor is a singer, writer, and producer. He played every note on The Fragile. Reznor plays a couple of electrometal bruisers – “The Wretched” and “Starfuckers, Inc.,” the latter the B side of “The Day the World Went Away” – that are viciously, unmistakably Nine Inch Nails. But he seems proudest of, and most nervous about, detours like “La Mer” and “Into the Void.”

question: What does the text say about album production?


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The lady’s nightly ritual of  filling the tub with Dove’s Double Power Calming bubble bath (the ladies at the mall swear that stuff will make you feel like you just went to the spa), taking a Valium, and washing it down with a smooth Bud from the fridge do little to stop the nightmares. Night terrors that come like gut wrenching earthquakes, born from the depths of the closet.

“Oh Lord, the closet,” the lady says as she is shaken from her thoughts. She keeps a kiddy night light that she bought from Walmart, a Little Mermaid themed nighty to keep the room more innocent, in the plug across from the bed. This way, when she wakes from a nightmare she can be sure that she is alone in the room, except for Ariella the Nighty of course.

Tonight was no exception to her ritual. She went to the kitchen and grabbed a cold beer, opened her immense medicine cabinet and fiddled with the cap of Valium until she got it open, turned on the hot water in the bathtub, and then poured in the Dove’s bubble bath. As she waited, she looked into the full-length mirror across from the tub.

Over the past year, her hair has seen grey strands accompany her otherwise brown hair, and dark purple bags have appeared under her eyes. Her skin, which she used to pride her 56 year-old self on being so smooth, has turned white and wrinkled. Her belly is plump from the nightly beers and her face has become slightly gaunt. She looks as if she has aged ten years in the past one, no doubt due to the stress of her nightmares, the alcohol, and drugs.

Staring at herself is a reminder of her fear and fills her with dread. Quickly, she pops open the Bud and washes down her pill. If anything can stop the self-shaming and fear, it’s her Happy Pills. She turned off the hot water, kept a little too hot so getting in would take her mind off of the real issue (although she would never admit this to herself) and slowly stepped into the tub.

After her bath, she got into her robe and went to her bed. She dropped the robe, exposing her breasts to Ariella the Nighty, and climbed into bed with her back to the closet. At this point, she tried to think of everything besides what’s in the closet.

“I wonder if Betsy got those pain meds for her husband?”

“I need to cut the grass tomorrow and get the weed out of the garden...”

“The new neighbors across the street really need to get a hold of their rowdy kids, always throwing their football into my yard...”

On and on the superficial thoughts go, but always, like some inevitable storm creeping in, the thought of the closet comes back. The closet’s glare feels piercing to the lady’s back.

“I can’t sleep with you here,” she whispers. “I can’t sleep with you in there.” Her voice is barely audible.

Her feet begin to tingle as the fear creeps in. She’s momentarily frozen to her bed. Knowing what she has to do, she makes herself sit up. She pulls the blanket down off of her hot, baking legs, and swings them down onto the floor. She takes a deep breath, exhales slowly, musters her courage and stands.

She doesn’t move, bute stares deeply and coldly at the closet door.

“You got me again, you bastard.”

She takes a small step toward the closet, unable to to resist its unending call. A car drives by blaring music, hip-hop, but she is numb to the world. Nothing else exists. Just the old, deteriorating woman and her closet that won’t let her sleep, won’t let her have peace, and haunts her mind and imprisons her thoughts.

She takes another small step to the door and kicks an empty beer can. She doesn’t notice. Another step. Another. The steps seem endless until she finally reaches the closet door.

“This is what you’ve been wanting,” she mumbles.

Her fear gives way to anger. Blinding rage. Anger at the sleepless nights. Anger because her life has been taken from her and given to this monster that feeds on her.

“Fuck you! Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!” she screams as she swings the closet door open as hard as she can. The door hits the big toe on her right foot, breaking her toenail and making it bleed, but she doesn’t notice. Her eyes are wide open, ready to face the beast that holds her hostage. Her brow is furrowed, mouth a small slit, she is ready to fight, ready to rid herself of the monster. She makes contact with the beast’s eyes, and he stares right back into hers.

On the bottom of the otherwise empty closet sits an old, dusty photo. A photo whose color has begun to fade and edges have wrinkled from use. In the photo, a man with large green eyes stares up at the lady. The eyes of the beast.

Just as quickly, her anger turns into despair. She falls to her knees and grabs the old photo, holding it to her breast. She weeps. She weeps for the days when he was here. Then, the house was brighter, the window curtains pushed aside to allow sunlight in. Now, the sunlight doesn’t even come into the house. The window is like some force field keeping the daylight out.

The woman wept for a long time. Finally, she was able to brush away enough tears to look back into the closet. An old newspaper article lie on the floor. She grabbed it and read for the thousandth-time “Car Crash on I-20 Kills Family, Only Wife Survives”. She closed her eyes for a second, taking in the weight of the heading about the poor family. Her family.

She began to get the shakes. On the floor was one last photo, lying face down. She knew what is in the photo, but couldn’t bare to look. Her trembles got worse, so she leaned against the wall for support. Unable to stop herself, she grabbed the photo from the floor, flipped it around, and stared into the eyes of her children. She fell over clutching the photo. With not more tears to shed, she just lay there wrapped in the arms of the beast.

She awakes the next morning with sunlight hitting her face. She puts the photos and newspaper clippings back into the closet, making sure to put her children facedown and everything back in the same order. She makes coffee, then goes out front for some fresh air. She feels hungover, but she knows it’s not from the beer.

Outside, the Sun is shining, but she doesn’t see it. The wind is blowing, but she can’t feel it. The kids are playing across the street and she watches them. As she turns to walk back inside, she hears a noise from around the corner of the house. She walks around and sees a dog going through her trash.

The dog’s ribs are showing and it steps back in fright. The lady walks into the house to get a cold weiner from the fridge. She comes back out with the food and the dog nervously approaches her. The dog takes the food, eats it, and is transformed by the generosity. The dog wags its tail.

“Oh, you like that? You look a bit broken, pooch. Do you mind if I call you that? I bet not. Pooch it is. Well, Pooch, I’m a bit broken too. I think everyone is a bit broken inside. How about we be broken together? What do you say?”

Pooch licked her hand, and she smiled.

title: [RF] Realistic Fiction The Closet

question: What does the story say about grieving?

answer: The protagonist of the story is a 56-year-old woman who has difficulties with the death of her family a year ago. Every member of her family died in a car crash except her. She tries to numb the pain with Valium and beer in the tub every night. The pictures of her late husband and children are in the closet, which she can't ignore. She weeps until she falls asleep with the pictures in her grasp. The next morning, she sees a dog searching the trash. The dog is so underfed, its ribs are visible. The dog is afraid at first, but she feeds it, asking it to be broken together, which the dog seems to like. It seems she finally finds an out from her constant grief.

question: What does the story say about the monsters that live in every man?


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[ West 167th Street step stairs, also known as the _Joker Stairs_] [Tourists visiting the stairs in October 2019, shortly after the release of _Joker_.] The “JOKER STAIRS” are the colloquial name for a step street connecting Shakespeare and Anderson Avenues at West 167th Street in Highbridge in the Bronx, New York City.[1] Located near the 167th Street station on the New York City Subway's ,[2] the stairs served as one of the filming locations in the 2019 film _Joker_.

In the film, Arthur Fleck, the main character, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is repeatedly shown walking up and down these stairs as part of his daily routine. Later, during the film's climax, he dances down the stairs wearing a bright red-colored suit and clown makeup that will come to represent his character of Joker,[3] as Gary Glitter's “Rock and Roll Part 2” plays in the background.[4] The stairs appear in a promotional poster for the film and have become a tourist destination. Both the stairs and Arthur's dance have become Internet memes.[5][6] Many visitors reenact the scene from the film, sometimes in Joker attire,[7][8] to the point that the stairs have become crowded with sightseers.[9]

_India Today_ notes, “Even though the stairs have been around for years and lead to some of the most famous spots in New York [...] they were never really popular because of their association with crime in the area.”[10] _The New York Times_ notes that originally, the stairs used in the 2007 biographical crime film _American Gangster_, located in a South Bronx neighborhood, were going to be used in the scene, but they had been repaved and beautified too much to be aesthetically acceptable for _Joker_.[11] NBC New York notes that the Joker Stairs have joined “the ranks of well-known movie settings, like that of the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art” seen in the 1976 American sports drama _Rocky_.[12]

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title: Joker Stairs

question: What is being referred to as "Joker Stairs"?

answer: Joker Stairs refers to the step street connecting Shakespeare and Anderson Avenues at West 167th Street in Highbridge in the Bronx, New York City.

question: In what movie did the stairs serve as one of the filming locations?

answer: The 2019 film, Joker

question: Which two factors have become Internet memes?

answer: The two factors that have become Internet memes are the stairs and Arthur's dance.

question: What event lead to the stairs becoming so famous?

answer: According to the article, the main character in the film Joker was seen repeatedly walking up and the stairs as a part of his daily routine.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes the well known "Joker Stairs" which have become a well known film background and attraction after the movie Joker was released in 2019.


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[The Chiefs topped the Raiders in the 1969 AFL championship game.] The 1969 AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE SEASON was the tenth and final regular season of the American Football League (AFL). To honor the AFL's tenth season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each Kansas City Chiefs player wore a patch on his jersey with the logo during Super Bowl IV, the final AFL-NFL World Championship Game prior to the AFL–NFL merger.

The Chiefs defeated the Oakland Raiders in the final AFL Championship Game, then soundly defeated the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV.

Division races

In its final two years of existence the AFL had ten teams, grouped into two divisions. Each team played a home-and-away game against the other four teams in its division, a home-and-away series against one of the five teams in opposite division, and one game each against the remaining four teams from the opposite division. Using that format, the defending World Champion New York Jets went 10–0 against the five teams they played twice (i.e., their four weak divisional rivals plus last-place second-year Cincinnati) while going 0–4 against the top four teams in the West.

For the 1969 season, a provision was made for a four team playoff to determine the AFL Champion, the league's representative in the Super Bowl, with the #1 team in the division to play against the #2 team in the opposite division. The NFL also had a four team playoff, introduced in , matching the winners of the Capitol and Century divisions, and the Coastal and Central divisions.

The 1970 merger placed the 10 AFL teams (along with 3 teams from the pre-1970 NFL) into the 13-team AFC. (The other NFL teams went into the 13-team NFC.)

  Week   Eastern #1            Eastern #2                   Western #1                   Western #2
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  1      N.Y. Jets    1–0–0    Hou, Bos, Buf, Mia   0–1–0   Oak, KC, Den, Cin   1–0–0    Oak, KC, Den, Cin   1–0–0
  2      Hou, NY      1–1–0    Hou, NY              1–1–0   Oak, KC, Den, Cin   2–0–0    Oak, KC, Den, Cin   2–0–0
  3      Houston      2–1–0    NY, Buf              1–2–0   Oak, Cin            3–0–0    Oak, Cin            3–0–0
  4      Houston      3–1–0    N.Y. Jets            2–2–0   Oakland             3–0–1    Kansas City         3–1–0
  5      NY, Hou      3–2–0    NY, Hou              3–2–0   Oakland             4–0–1    Kansas City         4–1–0
  6      N.Y. Jets    4–2–0    Houston              3–3–0   Oakland             5–0–1    Kansas City         5–1–0
  7      N.Y. Jets    5–2–0    Houston              4–3–0   Oakland             6–0–1    Kansas City         6–1–0
  8      N.Y. Jets    6–2–0    Houston              4–4–0   Kansas City         7–1–0    Oakland             6–1–1
  9      N.Y. Jets    7–2–0    Houston              4–4–1   Kansas City         8–1–0    Oakland             7–1–1
  10     N.Y. Jets    7–3–0    Houston              4–4–2   Kansas City         9–1–0    Oakland             8–1–1
  11     N.Y. Jets    8–3–0    Houston              5–4–2   Oakland             9–1–1    Kansas City         9–2–0
  12     N.Y. Jets    8–4–0    Houston              5–5–2   Oakland             10–1–1   Kansas City         10–2–0
  13     N.Y. Jets    9–4–0    Houston              5–6–2   Oakland             11–1–1   Kansas City         11–2–0
  14     N.Y. Jets    10–4–0   Houston              6–6–2   Oakland             12–1–1   Kansas City         11–3–0

Regular season

Results

  Home/Road            Eastern Division               Western Division
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  BOS                  BUF                            HOU
  Eastern              Boston Patriots
  Buffalo Bills        23–16
  Houston Oilers       27–23                          28–14
  Miami Dolphins       style="background:#fcc|23–38   24–6
  New York Jets        23–17                          16–6
  Western              Cincinnati Bengals             style="background:#fcc|14–25
  Denver Broncos       35–7
  Kansas City Chiefs                                  22–19
  Oakland Raiders                                     50–21
  San Diego Chargers   28–18                          45–6

Standings

For its tenth and final season before merging with the NFL, the AFL instituted a four team playoff tournament with the second place teams in each division also participating.

Playoffs

Stadium changes

-   The Boston Patriots moved from Fenway Park to Alumni Stadium

Coaching changes

Offseason

-   Boston Patriots: Mike Holovak was fired and replaced by Clive Rush.
-   Buffalo Bills: John Rauch became the new Bills head coach after resigning from the Oakland Raiders. Joe Collier was fired after two games into the 1968 season, and defensive coordinator Harvey Johnson then served as interim head coach.
-   Oakland Raiders: John Madden replaced John Rauch, who resigned to join the Bills.

In-season

-   San Diego Chargers: Sid Gillman sat out five games due to health issues. Charlie Waller, the team's offensive backfield coach, served as interim.

title: 1969 American Football League season

question: What was done to honor AFL's tenth season?

answer: To honor the tenth season of AFL a special anniversary logo was designed. All of the Kansas City Chiefs players wore a patch of the logo during the Super Bowl IV.

question: Why were the teams divided?

question: How did the divided teams play?

answer: AFL had ten teams which were divided into two divisions. Each team had to play a home-and-away game against the remaining four teams in its division, a home-and-away series against one of the five teams in the other division, and one game against the remaining four teams in the other division.


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SALUDA COUNTY is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,875.[1] Its county seat is Saluda.[2] The county was formed from northern and eastern portions of Edgefield County.[3]

Saluda County is part of the Columbia, SC Metropolitan Area.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (2.0%) is water.[4] Saluda County is largely in the Saluda River basin with a small portion of western Saluda in the Savannah River basin.

Adjacent Counties

-   Newberry County - north
-   Lexington County - east
-   Aiken County - south
-   Edgefield County - southwest
-   Greenwood County - northwest
-   McCormick County - west

National protected area

-   Sumter National Forest (part)

Demographics

2000 census

As of the census[5] of 2000, there were 19,181 people, 7,127 households, and 5,295 families living in the county. The population density was 42 people per square mile (16/km²). There were 8,543 housing units at an average density of 19 per square mile (7/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 65.80% White, 29.99% Black or African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.04% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 3.29% from other races, and 0.64% from two or more races. 7.30% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 7,127 households, out of which 31.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.20% were married couples living together, 14.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.70% were non-families. 22.50% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.07.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 24.90% under the age of 18, 9.20% from 18 to 24, 27.60% from 25 to 44, 23.80% from 45 to 64, and 14.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 98.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.30 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $35,774, and the median income for a family was $41,603. Males had a median income of $29,221 versus $21,395 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,328. About 12.00% of families and 15.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.40% of those under age 18 and 16.30% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 19,875 people, 7,527 households, and 5,393 families living in the county.[6] The population density was . There were 9,289 housing units at an average density of .[7] The racial makeup of the county was 61.1% white, 26.3% black or African American, 0.4% American Indian, 0.3% Pacific islander, 0.2% Asian, 10.3% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 14.4% of the population.[8] In terms of ancestry, 17.8% were American, 14.7% were German, 8.6% were English, and 8.2% were Irish.[9]

Of the 7,527 households, 32.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.6% were married couples living together, 15.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 28.4% were non-families, and 24.2% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.05. The median age was 39.6 years.[10]

The median income for a household in the county was $40,508 and the median income for a family was $45,173. Males had a median income of $31,264 versus $28,344 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,717. About 11.7% of families and 15.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.4% of those under age 18 and 15.0% of those age 65 or over.[11]

Communities

Towns

-   Batesburg-Leesville (partly in Lexington County)
-   Monetta (partly in Aiken County)
-   Ridge Spring
-   Saluda (county seat)
-   Ward

Unincorporated communities

-   Mount Willing[12][13]

Politics

  Year                               Republican                                  Democratic                                  Third parties
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  style=“text-align:center;” |2016   style=“text-align:center;” |64.5% _5,526_   style=“text-align:center;” |32.9% _2,813_   2.6% _225_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2012   style=“text-align:center;” |60.0% _5,135_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.9% _3,328_   1.2% _101_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2008   style=“text-align:center;” |60.3% _5,191_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.6% _3,323_   1.0% _89_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2004   style=“text-align:center;” |59.9% _4,537_   style=“text-align:center;” |39.6% _3,001_   0.5% _40_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2000   style=“text-align:center;” |59.5% _4,098_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.9% _2,682_   1.6% _111_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1996   style=“text-align:center;” |49.6% _2,825_   style=“text-align:center;” |43.6% _2,486_   6.8% _389_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1992   style=“text-align:center;” |47.8% _2,968_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.5% _2,393_   13.7% _848_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1988   style=“text-align:center;” |61.6% _3,225_   style=“text-align:center;” |37.9% _1,984_   0.4% _23_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1984   style=“text-align:center;” |63.9% _3,515_   style=“text-align:center;” |35.7% _1,962_   0.4% _24_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1980   style=“text-align:center;” |47.4% _2,450_   style=“text-align:center;” |51.3% _2,651_   1.3% _68_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1976   style=“text-align:center;” |43.1% _2,085_   style=“text-align:center;” |56.1% _2,715_   0.8% _39_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1972   style=“text-align:center;” |73.9% _3,095_   style=“text-align:center;” |24.4% _1,022_   1.8% _74_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1968   style=“text-align:center;” |30.5% _1,466_   style=“text-align:center;” |25.0% _1,200_   44.5% _2,136_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1964   style=“text-align:center;” |64.2% _2,524_   style=“text-align:center;” |35.8% _1,409_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1960   style=“text-align:center;” |48.4% _1,268_   style=“text-align:center;” |51.6% _1,353_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1956   style=“text-align:center;” |14.9% _341_     style=“text-align:center;” |47.2% _1,080_   37.8% _865_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1952   style=“text-align:center;” |46.7% _1,396_   style=“text-align:center;” |53.3% _1,592_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1948   style=“text-align:center;” |0.8% _15_       style=“text-align:center;” |9.8% _187_      89.5% _1,712_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1944   style=“text-align:center;” |1.3% _14_       style=“text-align:center;” |85.6% _924_     13.2% _142_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1940   style=“text-align:center;” |1.3% _15_       style=“text-align:center;” |98.7% _1,115_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1936   style=“text-align:center;” |0.8% _10_       style=“text-align:center;” |99.3% _1,324_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1932   style=“text-align:center;” |0.5% _7_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.5% _1,307_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1928   style=“text-align:center;” |0.6% _5_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.4% _796_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1924   style=“text-align:center;” |0.3% _3_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.6% _1,094_   0.2% _2_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1920   style=“text-align:center;” |0.3% _3_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.6% _1,111_   0.2% _2_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1916   style=“text-align:center;” |0.1% _1_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.5% _1,227_   0.4% _5_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1912   style=“text-align:center;” |0.0% _0_        style=“text-align:center;” |98.0% _850_     2.0% _17_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1904   style=“text-align:center;” |0.7% _7_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.3% _938_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1900   style=“text-align:center;” |0.6% _7_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.5% _1,269_   style="text-align:center;|

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title: Saluda County, South Carolina

question: What does the text say about the people in Saluda county?

answer: According to the latest census (2010), there are almost 20 thousand people in Saluda county. The county is mostly white (61.1%) and black (26.3%). Half of the households are inhabited by married couples, 32.5% have children under 18, 28.4% are non-families, and 24.2% are individuals. The median age is 39.6, and the median income is $40,508, with 15.1% of the population living below the poverty line. The county is mostly Republican.

question: What does the text say about Franklin county?


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THE THIRD ARM OF KILIMANJARO

(This concept was originally developed in detail by Marshall T. Savage in his book, "The Millennial Project". By no means am I claiming his works as my own. I respect his creation and wanted to incorporate this part of it into my ongoing tale.)

A public works project had begun in Tanzania on Mt. Kilimanjaro. To the press it had been dubbed a water and energy reclamation experiment, and to the water impoverished nations of Africa they didn't question it too loudly. Why question something that would bring thousands of jobs and clean water to the stricken center of the continent, and let's not forget millions, (perhaps billions if you could really dig into the books and ferret out all the nickels and dimes) of dollars of industry? On the surface, the construct did exactly what it said. There were no lies told. The engineers had built vast sluices to harness and channel the melt from the heavy snows that had been steadily increasing at the peak of the volcano. "This increase in snowfall was an effect of the changing climate brought about by human influence on global temperatures", a few interest groups were shouting at the top of their lungs, "and we should be devoting energies to stem the changes and not just blindly take advantage of them!" They shouted, but no one was listening. Besides, the extra snowfall handled and distributed by what became known as the Kilimanjaro Resource Reclamation Project jointly managed by the central African countries, the US, and after a fashion, the UK, revitalized one of the most impoverished areas on Earth.

The three gargantuan sluices were evenly distributed around the circumference on the mountain's even-sloped rise, and from there each of the three bases branched out to smaller and smaller distribution channels like tree roots, (but moving water in the opposite direction) to the surrounding areas. Using the support pylons for the sluices as foundations, massive turbines were constructed creating wind farms, some classic propeller driven, a few using a new air-compressed turbine technology. With these farms, vast amounts of energy was produced and distributed along the water pipelines. With one well engineered stroke, the project cured much of the strife in Africa bringing water, energy, jobs, and outside interest to the nations. That outside interest being tourism of course, the universal income maker. With the violent rebellions dying down, and much of the varied countries slowly but surely working their way through peace talks and economic summits, the central African countries became a new and fresh tourist destination, bringing even more money to the table.

It was quite a generous act from the First World, again, on the surface. But, does it really matter after that? With all of the good the project had brought to millions of people, did the underlying reasons detract from the gesture? Much of the grand gestures in history had one hand giving and the other taking, and sometimes the price of what was taken was monumental and horrific. From where I sit here in the Salt Flats, I wonder.

You see, two of the sluices were just that: water collectors. They were labeled the  Kilimanjaro First and Second Arms respectively, or K1A and K2A. The third, which happened to be built directly parallel to the equator, was much larger than the other two, (and had an exponentially larger amount of security than the other two), housed a secret. There was indeed a water reclamation facility built there, (there were no overt lies spoken, remember), it just had one more pathway built into it that was never meant to be touched by water,
And just a small fraction of the energy created by the wind farms were diverted to this facility to power it. Knowing that the facility would eventually have to be revealed, the right amount of money had been exchanged to the right hands, (certain heads of the African nations, and as always, the press) to keep the project quiet, but be a loud and positive supporter when the time came for the unveiling.

Housed under this third arm was a thirty mile long set of rails. There was a subtle opening at the peak of the mountain that was the exit for the projected launch vehicle. The passage was essentially a gun, a "rail gun" apparatus first imagined by French inventor Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee in 1918.  It was a device that, using two parallel conductive rails that were fed an electromagnetic current in a pulse traveling the length of the barrel, could accelerate an object at extremely high velocity, no chemical propellant required.

The setting of Kilimanjaro had been ideal for a couple of reasons: the long slope stretching up from the flat plain was a perfect platform to build the rail, and it's closeness to the equator. The long slope allowed for minimum construction (and minimum visibility from the outside world) to set the shape of the track. The extra benefit of the height of the mountain meant that the catapulted object would make it quite a ways up in elevation before it even left the track, meaning less energy spent. The location along the equator was ideal in that anything launched would require minimal adjustments once in orbit to attain a geosynchronicity circling the planet, or to orbital trajectories further out, say. It was these outbound trajectories that were important for the second stage of the project. The third stage would change the world.

Once the rail, dubbed the Kilimanjaro Third Arm Launch Facility (or K3ALF for a slightly less unwieldy title) had been finished, there was a massive marketing push to popularize it and as always, it was easier to ask for forgiveness after the fact than for the initial permissions. After a few test runs; the brave astronautical test pilot's proud and triumphant (widely broadcast across the internet and televisions of the world) flight, not to forget his grinning mug, (also widely broadcast) telling the citizens just how beautiful their small blue world was from where he sat and that humanity should get over their petty squabbles, blah blah blah, and the usual insertion or two of new commercial satellites, (to pay for the previous' advertising), the project was much lauded for it's forward thinking and advancement of Mankind. Once the launch facility was fully operational, it was not unusual to hear the distant thunder from a bullet-shaped vehicle hitting multiple times the speed of sound and leaving nothing but a vapor contrail and a wide cloud halo around the peak of the slumbering volcano.

The third phase began with renewed landings on Earth's lonely companion, the Moon. And at the beginning of the new year, a permanent facility had been constructed in the Copernicus crater that utilized the sloping wall along with the relative flatness of it's basin, (in a slightly funhouse mirror image) to build a smaller sister version of the Kilimanjaro launch rail for the benefit of propelling craft on their return trip to Terra Firma. The public was told that the construction in Copernicus, (named the Arthur C. Clarke Platform; it wasn't in Clavius or the Tycho Crater but the name was fitting, and no one objected to honoring the famous co-author of "2001 - A Space Odyssey") would be primarily used to explore the lunar surface, research into the rocky terrain for the possibilities of future mineral prospects, and mainly; mankind's first proper foothold into space proper, where the foundation of exploration to the outer reaches of the solar system would begin.

These things were all true; proper and successful lies are always obfuscated in a web of truth. As it had been since the beginning of the massive project, there were no lies told. It was what went by unsaid that paid for all in the end. Ironically, this venture having been covered up until it was ready at K3ALF by the publics works programs was in turn a cover for the real strategy, a plan that only a handful of people outside the project were aware of.  Even the majority of the crews at the Arthur C. Clarke site were unaware of what they were a part of and if they were told, they probably wouldn't have believed it anyway.

(6/16/16)

title: [SP] The Third Arm of Kilimanjaro

question: Why is the narrator questioning the motives of the First World?

answer: The narrator doesn't trust overtures from the First World because he feels there's an ulterior motive behind the whole project, and he's right.

question: Why was the third Kilimanjaro Arm housed in secret?

answer: The third Kilimanjaro Arm was housed in secret because they were building a 30-mile rail set of rails for a powerful rail gun that could accelerate an object at extremely high velocity with no chemical propellant.

question: Why all the security for the third arm?

answer: They had to protect the rail project from prying eyes until they unveiled it.

question: What will the third arm be used for?

answer: The third arm housed the rail gun project, which was meant to be a method to springboard man into distant space (the moon) for exploration purposes. There's also a real strategy for the project that wasn't revealed.

question: Write a ~8 sentence summary.

answer:
A public works project begins in Tanzania on Mt. Kilimanjaro, dubbed as a water and energy reclamation experiment to help impoverished African nations.
No one questions the motives of the Kilimanjaro Reclamation Project (managed by central African countries) and their US and UK partners, to bring clean water and jobs to the stricken center of the continent. However, the narrator feels there's an ulterior motive behind First World generosity.
Engineers built three giant sluices known as Kilimanjaro Arms, around the mountain's even-sloped rise to harness the melting snow, but the heavily guarded third arm's location directly parallel to the equator and all the secrecy surrounding it raises questions.
The project handlers reveal that the third arm is actually a large rail gun that can shoot a high-velocity vessel into space without using chemical propellants, reaching speeds that can take mankind to the moon.
The first launch was a success and the project handlers made plans to build a similar structure on the moon's Copernicus crater, allowing vessels to return to Earth or travel further into space.
However, the narrator says that the Kilimanjaro rail gun project is just a cover for another strategy known only by a handful of people.