Super Serious Situation in Syria

Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Email look weird or can't download pictures? View it on the web here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to the SAFE FaceBook page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Click HERE to go to list of Ark Two Videos Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter August 23rd, 2013 Super Serious Situation in Syria There is little doubt in my mind that the people were gassed. By WHOM they were gassed - I have no idea. I would guess maybe by some loose cannon in the Assad Government. But it could equally be some rebel false flag operation to bring about the government defeat. There is lots of speculation going on. One of the whistle blower documents indicated that the US had such a plan way back in January - but surely no one here would believe that. Whoever, whatever, there are no good guys in this war. Many may believe that God is on their side. The Americans, the Jews, all the different Muslim factions. If God has chosen a side, then I can tell you that is the side I want to be on. There are many sides - and they are all at war with each other. They just occasionally form alliances against a common enemy among them. Iran and Hezbollah and the Alawites have supported Assad and are bitterly opposed to Al Qaeda and the Saudi Sunnis. The Saudi Sunnis are bitterly opposed to Al Qaeda but support the Muslim Brotherhood, whom they wouldn't support otherwise, in sending thousands of 'volunteers' into Syria to defeat Assad. There are dozens of intertwined factions that actually despise each other, but they would ALL unite to invade Israel if that were possible. There are NONE on the American side, certainly not the Russians or Chinese in the UN, and one may well ask why there is an American side? We all know the American INTEREST. American self-interest in BIG OIL and BIG MONEY, although they say they are there to establish peace, democracy and justice. No one else is buying that. PR is important. But it is just words and not even words that are just. The American way, American Diplomacy, is self-interest. It is the philosophy of the neo-cons. It is the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the Tea Party, soulless Corporations. It is also the philosophy of Putin, Russia, the Chinese, and most every political power player in this world. There are NO good guys in this game. Support our Soldiers send them NOT to Syria. War is going to happen anyway. With us or without us. The US can choose any side or faction but no faction or side will choose the US to walk them home after the dance. What does all this mean to you, or me? I have no idea. It is just a part of the growing disturbance and momentum as the world walks/runs towards the GREAT Catastrophe. In my paradigm that will all start between Pakistan and India a year from now - more or less. The rumbling there is equally intense. We just don't hear that much about it because the US doesn't have a dog in that fight. Okay, not your fight either. But when it gets bad enough it will come over here and bite you. Leaving that for now. Problems looming on the homefront in the next five weeks. Budget and all that. All that being stock market/bonds, financial markets, Fed actions, International Currency Exchange, and a plethora of things that I know nothing about. G-20 will be G nothing as far as solving any problems and the October 1 budget crisis may get finnessed just like the sequestration thing (remember how bad that was to be). One rule of the world, however, "All things end." Much of this is very new in the history of the world - banks breaking with billions, definitely distinguished by derivatives (which we didn't have before), to all come tumbling down. Fun and games then. If not war already - war will certainly be the answer. In actuality we have been in Armaggedon for almost a hundred years. We are just waiting for the Last Great Battle. Of course, I have been saying all this for way more than fifty years - and I have always been wrong. But, time is on my side, although I may never live to see it (which would be a good thing for me.) I don't think that I am that lucky. So, bottom line - Bruce is expecting the serious situation in Syria, no matter what happens, to NOT immediately cause the last great battle of WW3, that the US economy will greatly worsen in the next year, whether the budget is passed or NOT, and that the race riots that I was expecting this summer won't happen until next summer. I understand that in many peoples' eyes race is now a non-issue. Yes, we have a black president, have had a black Secretary of State, have a black on the Supreme Court, black generals, and lots of black face dressing, but there is a racist undercurrent that is the worst it has ever been and there are plenty of angry black young men. Check in with me in a year about this one. Hope that I am wrong. America has died in its soul and values. When the American sense of fairness went - all else went with it. What would Americans think of foreign troops with a different language and religion invading their homes? What would Americans think of drones bombing their weddings and funerals? What would Americans think of another country assassinating its leaders or even involving itself in its elections? But we think it is okay for America to do this. I say we, because as an American I have to take responsibility for it. We let those who commit war crimes go free and put in jail those who expose war crimes. We hear little about the serious crimes Manning and Snowden exposed. We hear lots about how serious it was that they exposed them and that they should be punished. Most Americans agree with THAT. How many things do you know that Manning and Snowden exposed? The government says they exposed thousands of things. The best one known about Manning is the helicopter shooting unarmed civilians, children and reporters from the air. If you do not feel that the war crimes and US Constitutional violations were serious enough that Manning and Snowden should have become whistle blowers at what level of constitutional violation beyond what Manning and Snowden disclosed would you be willing to become a whistle blower? Or never? I think that is a question we should all ask ourselves. Here is someone else just today making that decision Okay, rant off. People keep asking me not to do this, and I keep saying that I won't - but old habits are hard to break. Anyway, all we can do is keep prepping. Increase in Prepping Activity Lots more prepping going on out there. A hundred times more than ten years ago. Not with us mind you. People don't like our prepping style. Their system is - stock enough for me and my family along with enough ammo to defend it. Won't work I tell them. The more you stock - the more you will attract people to come and take it away from you. No matter how many guns you have, you can only fire one at a time and given enough times someone has always managed to take out even the very best. Then those you are protecting are gone also. That whole approach is what is bringing down the whole world. Selfishness. Or, for the world as a whole - National Interest. God knows. And I am not being facietious. The SAFE/Ark Two Plan SAFE/Ark Two is about the alternate plan. Service. Cooperation. Education (getting others to buy into the plan.) You may ask, "How is THAT going?" Well, not well. Someday, maybe something will happen and a lot of people will become interested. We keep trying to build structure and prepare in case they do. So, I am going to spell out once again the plan. The plan is designed for a single mother who is barely feeding her family each month. Not a lot of stocking up that she can do. Not a good idea for her to get into a gunfight to protect her children. But what she can do - you can do. Yes, we all need to put aside a month of dried beans or whatever we can for starters. And she, and you, need alliances for protection. But beyond that the thing that is going to most assure your survival is that you are VALUABLE. If you are valuable you will come first on the list for food and protection. a. One of the valuable things at the outset, in my paradigm, will be radiation detection equipment. Look at the videos - I explain how our single mom can make the equipment for free and stock it for trading. You can too. b. The second most important thing will be education. Being able to explain to people what they have to do about forming TRIADs and LERNs, because they won't have a clue as to what to do. Someone who can say to them - "This has all been thought out, and here is what we need to do," will be very valuable to them. This is how you will get people to cooperate. c. The third important thing will be communication. Communication to know what is going on. Communication to be able to reach loved ones. Communication to coordinate the cooperation on a larger scale. It is this third and last area with which we are having the greatest problem. If we can solve the problem so we have the radio for less than $200 then our single mom can join in with ten others for $20 each and they will have all they need. The Radio But the radio is the problem - and that is what I want to describe now. It has been an ongoing saga for the last several newsletters, so I will bring you up to date. This newsletter is late because I have been working so intensely on the problem. Many hours each day. The Survivor Where we left off was that I had a lead on a radio called "The Survivor" and was having to wait a week for the supplier to reopen. Finally got through to them, and here is what occurred: a. The owner was not willing to supply assembled units because it would require getting approval from the FCC and that would be prohibitively expensive. b. The owner would not supply us boards to assemble ourselves because of his investment. c. For the same reason the owner would not agree to our making them and paying him a royalty. d. He did not feel that we could upgrade the circuit so that it would provide the power wattage that we want. All in all - the Survivor did not survive. It was a dead end. Looking for a new solution I spent many hours looking for a new solution. Several people wrote me with suggestions - but nothing that will work. One suggestion was that everyone learn Morse Code and that we use CW. Another was that everyone build a unit from scratch. And so forth. I tracked down a number of units from a contest that had been held for designing an 80m band QRP transceiver. Many entries and many designs, but nothing I found that would be satisfactory - although I communicated with some of the winners. I spent many more hours, even days, talking to government agencies regarding the Survivor owner's concern. There is a lot going on there. Many will feel that it is not good. We can go into that another time. The bottom line, for this newsletter, is an email that I sent out this morning. I told you last week that out of the over 400 engineering resumes that I reviewed, there was one that seemed a possibility. Your input on the following email will be appreciated. Most importantly, I need a response from the PhD to whom I sent it. The email I sent this morning Problem with Softrock is that several do not feel that the crystal generated frequency will be stable enough to amplify and that there will be too much variation between units. Yes, the FCC thing is a problem and I am wondering if we could make a kit (or maybe several kits) that people could assemble to make a unit. I am envisioning separate completed boards that they would just then assemble together. The different kits could be ordered from different locations. Please outline the design stages and the costs and timetable for each stage - and I will ask in the newsletter if we have sufficient support for this approach. You can see where this is going. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org US National Coordinator's Corner Christopher Verreos coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Christopher Verreos and his wife Regina This week's article is titled: Chain of Command or Chain of Fools? Earlier in the week, my DSL service went out! Other than my phone, we were pretty much cut off from our SAFE network! That begs the question - Where are we at (our states) regarding their SAFE networking? I have already emailed the STLs a request to appoint two assistants, to identify a local HAM member,  and have requested each to either create or delegate someone in their respective states to establish some type of User Group Bulletin Board to facilitate local networking. To date, four states have responded!  That's a huge disappointment. I have done my very best to limit emails, to prevent micro-managing, to avoid hassling STLs.  Most of us are pretty busy. I get that.  I'm pretty busy too. And it's no surprise that the tornado/hurricane/flood/blizzard folks understand the need for SAFE principles/agenda in a way that most of us just don't. I will, therefore make another attempt to get more of our states to, at the very least, check in with me and give a brief accounting of their status before I am forced by necessity to seek members who can step up and grace me with the dignity of a neighborly response. Time is short. On a more positive note: regarding our networks, here's a great idea. Ask your STL (state Team Leader) who your closest HAM operator is. If that person is too far away, find a local HAM (Google it). Ask that person to sit down. Then ask them what you can do to help them function in an emergency (they may pass out after hearing that!). Specifically, as a non-operator can you maintain one or more back-up batteries? Can you store or cache back-up equipment? If they have to leave their home to operate in an emergency can you watch their place while they're gone, take care of pets etc.? If that person(s) is working their equipment in shifts of  24/7 or more, can you provide food/coffee/run errands for the family? You get the point. This would be a life saving contact. And you can make it happen! In addition to our SAFE radio project, we have members working on creating a supplemental radio resource for SAFE members. Namely, a very simple, very basic state by state emergency radio directory. Why? First, because most of us DON'T have it written down, let alone laminated! Second, because we need something very simple that people can use. And, third, because it will alleviate a lot of confusion since the overwhelming majority of us will be listening for news/updates rather than transmitting. If you would like to assist in this effort, feel free to contact me and join our small task force. We can submit our finished product to Carlton for his professional input, prior to distribution. Thanks Carlton :-} We are making serious progress on our Database, and things are looking very, very good - thanks Jonathan and Nick! Peace & Action, Christopher Verreos National Coordinator, SAFE USA coordinatorsafeusa@gmail.com Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Melancthon Ontario L9V 1X7 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.