800 FEMA concentration camps ‘fully operational and ready’

January 25, 2009 by disinter

From Friends of Liberty:

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA…

The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.

FEMA Camps Outed on Fox

(See the Glenn Beck video on YouTube for how FEMA was outed on Fox.)

The gloves come off.


During the Bush Administration, FEMA was given hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit former military bases and other existing infrastructure so they can be used as "camps."

Not camps as in summer camps. Camps as in prison camps and perhaps even concentration camps.

One of the first thing the Obama Administration did was to legitimize their existence.

These camps, which can be found in every state in the union, currently sit empty and are intended to be pressed into service in the event of an "emergency."

Funny that we've made it over 200 years without needing a national network of on-demand concentration camps.

Why do we need them now?

It's been suggested they've been built to deal with a massive influx of illegal aliens.

My guess is they were built with the knowledge that the US is going to experience a severe economic dislocation that is going to:

a) require the suspension or serious reduction of social welfare payments (i.e. millions of suddenly desperate people in the streets) and

b) financially wipe out tens of millions of formerly middle class Americans who are going to realize more or less all at once that their futures have been stolen from them by the people at the top

In other words, the crooks are covering their bets.

When governments have money, they buy peace with social welfare programs.

When they run out of money, as the US is doing, the gloves come off.

Or we can hope that these camps, built by Halliburton subsidiary KBR, were just another way for Cheney to rip off the country for his friends.

Of course, nothing prevents both scenarios from being accurate.

The Least of These

Posted at the site in the link above.

The Least of These explores one of the most controversial aspects of American immigration policy: family detention.

As part of the Bush administration policy to end what they termed the “catch and release’” of undocumented immigrants, the U.S. government opened the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in May 2006 as a prototype family detention facility. The facility is a former medium-security prison in central Texas operated by CCA, the largest private prison operator in the country. The facility houses immigrant children and their parents from all over the world who are awaiting asylum hearings or deportation proceedings.

The facility was initially activated with little media attention or public knowledge. Soon, however, immigration attorney Barbara Hines was contacted by detainees seeking representation, and she became increasingly concerned about the troubling conditions there. She joined forces with Vanita Gupta of the ACLU and Michelle Brané of the Women’s Refugee Commission to investigate conditions and seek changes. Their efforts were initially hampered by a lack of openness and oversight within the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) organization. Undeterred, the three attorneys attempted to bring about changes in both policy and conditions, by making their findings public, encouraging involvement by activists and the media, and ultimately by filing a historic lawsuit.

As these events unfold, the film explores the government rationale for family detention, conditions at the facility, collateral damage, and the role (and limits) of community activism in bringing change. The film leads viewers to consider how core American rights and values – due process, presumption of innocence, upholding the family structure as the basic unit of civil society, and America as a refuge of last resort – should apply to immigrants, particularly children.

Special Report: FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA UPDATE!

NEWS FLASH! Glenn Beck admits on Fox And Friends there's more to the story than meets the eye so to speak. God forbid! I dare say there's really CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA! Can we really trust our GOVERNMENT? What are the COVERT PLANS OF OUR MILITARY INDUSTRAL COMPLEX?

There's over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They're staffed and surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.

The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.

The above program is especially troubling considering the explosive violence going on along America's southern border right now. Wicked drug gangs are beheading innocent human beings. If the violence escalates this couldbe just the right excuse for our government to declare MARTIAL LAW IN AMERICA.

Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the
federal government.

Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.

OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS THUS FAR:

January 21, 2009 Executive Order 13489 - Presidential Records
January 21, 2009 Executive Order 13490 - Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
January 22, 2009 Executive Order 13491 - Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
January 22, 2009 Executive Order 13492 - Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
January 22, 2009 Executive Order 13493 - Review of Detention Policy Options
January 30, 2009 Executive Order 13494 - Economy in Government Contracting
January 30, 2009 Executive Order 13495 - Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts
January 30, 2009 Executive Order 13496 - Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws
January 30, 2009 Executive Order 13497 - Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Regulatory Planning and Review
February 5, 2009 Executive Order 13498 - Amendments to Executive Order 13199 and Establishment of the President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
February 5, 2009 Executive Order 13499 - Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835, Establishment of the National Economic Council
February 5, 2009 Executive Order 13500 - Further Amendments to Executive Order 12859, Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council
February 6, 2009 Executive Order 13501 - Establishing the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
February 6, 2009 Executive Order 13502 - Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects
February 19, 2009 Executive Order 13503 - Establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
February 20, 2009 Executive Order 13504 - Amending Executive Order 13390

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Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:...

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990
allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995
allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997
allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998
allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999
allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000
ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001
allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002
designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003
allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004
allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005
allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051
specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310
grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049
assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921
allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the...

National Security Act of 1947...allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities.

1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy.

Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.

International Emergency Economic Powers Act enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

FOR A LISTING OF THESE CAMPS GO TO: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps1.htm

It's going to be very interesting if indeed Glenn Beck airs the story on FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA. If he does I'm sure the story will be watered down to some extent. Why? We all know the MAINSTEAM MEDIA is controlled by UNSEEN FORCES way beyond their control.

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Rick Thorne

About the Author: Rick Thorne is a Staff Writer for VeteransToday.com. He's a rofessional photographer. For 35 years Rick has traveled much of the U.S. recording nature and any other unique subjects along the way. His work isn't for sale but he uses it to help others in time of depression and despair. Photography has been his life blood for many years now. Rick is on Social Security Disability and was discharged from the Navy in 1968 for a nervous breakdown. The VA is currently treating him for his mental and physical injuries. Official Rick Thorne Web Site: http://web.mac.com/rthorne2/SITE%21/TRUTH_REVEALED%21.html

Barbed wire villages raise fears of refugee concentration camps

February 13, 2009
From TimesOnline
Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent


Sri Lanka was accused yesterday of planning concentration camps to hold 200,000 ethnic Tamil refugees from its northeastern conflict zone for up to three years — and seeking funding for the project from Britain...(read the rest of this article by clicking on the link above.)

No Exit - Our Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants

By Bob Simpson


In Jean-Paul Sarte's play, No Exit, 3 people are locked in a room together forever. Eventually they figure out that they are in hell and this is their punishment.

If being locked in a room with 2 other people is hell, what do you call it when the room is on fire and you can't get out?

That's what American writer Florence Lasser explored in her play, The Story of the ILGWU (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union). One of the episodes includes the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 when 146 mostly immigrant Jewish and Italian women workers were killed because the fire exits were locked. Some of them leaped to their deaths as the flames drew closer.

But what relevance does a French existentialist fantasy and a dusty old 1940's radio play in 2008?

Well, if you are an immigrant worker, being locked into a room could be part of your daily routine...even if it could cost you your life.

I know what you are thinking.That has be a serious OSHA violation. But maybe only semi-serious, because OSHA enforcement has become a bitter joke to activists in the labor movement. There are wonderful dedicated OSHA inspectors out there. But there are too far few of them and their bosses have read the signals from the White House all too well. Cool it on worker safety because work safety just ain't cool anymore.

Worker safety is especially uncool if the workers in question are immigrants, especially immigrants without the proper documents. Because you see, if an undocumented worker reports such a violation, they and their families could be sent to another kind of locked room courtesy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It's called a detention center.

We do like to lock up our immigrants, don't we? These days "the huddled masses yearning to breath free" are tucked away inside Uncle Sam's detention camps and in the workplaces of some of our most vicious employers.

Take David Sandoval for example. He cleaned floors at the Met Foods Supermarket in Brooklyn. When the steel gates came down across the front of the store, he was locked in until the next morning when the manager showed up.

Zeferino Arenas Abundez who cleaned floors at a Pioneer supermarket in Brooklyn saw much the same thing at his store. According to him, ­when smoke set off an alarm at a Bronx store he worked in, firefighters had to saw through a huge lock to get in.

Workers at Walmart reported similar problems.

Finally the NY attorney general's office concluded that "the practice is not uncommon" and urged the NYC Fire Department to investigate.

WTF! This New York City...the home of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire where immigrant workers died because of being locked into their workplace. Incredibily enough, today's "Lock In" employers are doing exactly the same thing.

The Triangle Shirtwaist workers lived in a USA where there was widespread prejudice against Jews and Italians. To many Americans they were simply ignorant kikes, wops, sheenies, dagos and yids who didn't want to learn English and should either stay in their ghettos or go back to whatever godforsaken place they had come from.

Today, workers like David Sandoval and Zeferino Arenas Abundez face a similar kind of hate and bigotry as well as the USA's new Big Brother, the Department of Homeland Security's ICE.

Socialist and union activist Rose Schneiderman had this to say at a memorial service to the Triangle Shirtwaist victims back in 1911.


"This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed. The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death."


OK..maybe NY employers have never heard of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Or maybe they never heard of the under-publicized 1993 Kader Toy Factory fire in Thailand. 188 people were killed, and over 500 were seriously injured. Most of the victims were young women from rural families. The workers made toys primarily for export to the USA. And yes, the exits were locked.
But how could NY employers forget that terrible day on September 11, 2001 when New Yorkers trapped in the Twin Towers leaped to their deaths to escape the flames. You'd think they would learn the importance of fire exits and basic building safety from that.

This is America after all. But which America? The America of union organizer Rose Schneiderman or the America of Triangle Shirtwaist owners Max Blank and Issac Harris?

New York City is not all of America though, so let's head down I-95 to the Sunshine State of Florida. It was in Immokalee, Florida where José Vasquez and two other immigrant workers pried open a ventilation hatch in the trailer where they were locked up for the night and escaped. They were tomato pickers who paid $20 to sleep in the trailer.

When government investigators checked out that tomato farm, they found bruised and beaten workers including one man who been chained with his hands behind his back every night. Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy called it, "Slavery, plain and simple."

While locked in the trailer of this slave labor camp, the workers were forced to defecate in the corner.

Nazi Germany built its first slave labor camp at Dachau in 1933. Being new to the slave labor business, it took them a while to work out the details. One of the things they learned is that if you force people to live in their own shit, it makes them feel, well...shitty. People who are depressed, who are losing their self respect, who are losing any sense of hope at all...are more easily controlled and directed.

I'm not suggesting that the Navarrete family who owned this Immokalee tomato farm are Nazis. I'm just suggesting that ugly minds think alike.

If employers can get away with imprisoning and enslaving immigrant workers, did you really it would stop there?

Caremark Health Resources published this report:

"On September 3, 1991, a hydraulic line burst in the Imperial Food Products Plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, spraying vaporized fluid into gas flames that were heating vats of frying oil. The workers were caught completely off guard and ran towards the doors. Many were unable to escape the flames because the fire exits were deadlocked from the outside.

Rescue workers found lifeless bodies near the locked exits, in a large cooler and even outside on the lawn. All 25 victims had apparently died from smoke inhalation. The owner of the plant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison: To deter employees from stealing, he himself had given the order that all the fire exits be locked. In the investigation following the tragedy, the North Carolina state labor commissioner admitted that the plant had not been inspected for safety in the 11 years it had been in business."

Most of the Imperial workers were home-grown Americans, predominantly African American women. OSHA reports tell of many locked exits in other poultry factories. African American and immigrant women make up most of the workforce in today's brutal poultry industry. The poultry industry shows how race, class and gender oppression is one of the USA's most deadly intersections.
The common explanation for the Triangle Shirtwaist lock-in was that it was to prevent employee theft. But some people think there was another reason-- to keep union organizers out. The Triangle workers had started the great garment workers strike of 1909, known as the "Rising of the 20,000." The Triangle owners were determined to crush the newly formed International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at whatever cost.

If today's employers can isolate immigrant workers from the rest of us, they can get away with almost anything. They don't even have to physically lock the immigrants up. Just the fear of deportation and detention camps keeps many immigrants silent, afraid to even talk to one another for fear of informants.

But not all immigrants remain silent. Some speak out publically, like José Vasquez of Immokalee, Florida. Some join one of America's most innovative new labor organizations, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers who has been giving MacDonald's, Chipotle and Burger King holy hell for buying tomatoes picked by immigrant slave labor. Others join up with America's more traditional unions like the Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers and others. This should surprise no one.

Immigrants have always been among the leaders of our labor movement. Think about the Germans and the Irish of the 19th century. Think about the Jews and Italians of the early 20th century. Think about the Poles and Hungarians and Czechs of the great CIO organizing drives of the 1930's. Think about the Mexicans and Filipinos and Arabs who made up the first wave of the United Farmworkers of the 1960's. Think about the immigrants from way too many countries to list who made Justice for Janitors a reality in the 1990's.

It's no secret that there is a lot of hostility in working class communities against immigrants. We live in a dog-eat-dog cat-eat-mouse economy where we're expected to stab our friends in the back to survive. As for strangers? Fugit about 'em.

That hostility, plus the fear that rules immigrant communities works to keep us apart, exactly where US employers like to keep us. If we home-grown Americans allow ourselves to be imprisoned by our own anti-immigrants fears and prejudices, we have nowhere to go but down the economic ladder.

If we have any hope if reviving the U.S. economy, we need to think of immigrant workers as a national resource, not for their cheap labor, but for their courage, character and intelligence. Despite our laughable legend of the "streets paved with gold", it's never been easy to come to this land of strangers where only the strong survive and thrive.

Many of these people have battled dictatorships, sweatshops, torture and worse in their own countries. You think organizing a labor movement is tough here? Try it in a place like Pakistan, Nigeria or El Salvador. Some of our finest labor organizers have been immigrants and that fact has not changed.

Keeping immigrants locked up behind steel doors, in Uncle Sam's detention centers, or in furtive frightened ghettos keeps us home-grown American from making the connections we need to make.

The current slave labor conditions for many of our immigrant workers should be a national scandal splashed across the 24-7 newsmedia machine. That would go a long ways toward breaking down artificial barriers between immigrant and home-grown Americans. Think Uncle Tom's Cabin and how that book made the abolition of slavery a national debate in the 1850's.

What will it take to get our corporate owned mass media to pay attention? Do we hire Britney Spears to lock herself in with some immigrant workers so we can get a lead story on Fox News?

Is that the kind of country we have become? No, we're better than that.....I hope.

Bob "Bobbo" Simpson is a web production geek based out of Oak Park, Illinois. He is also one half of the labor cartoon team Carol Simpson. He frequently blogs and comments on labor issues.

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Eritrea Christians Die In Prison Camp, Nearly 3,000 Detained

Thursday, 22 January 2009

At least two detained Christians have died this month in Eritrea after a "long period of torture" in a notorious military prison camp, while the number of Christians jailed in the African nation because of their faith approaches 3,000, a well-informed Christian rights group said Wednesday, January 21...(click on the link above to read the rest of this article.)

Seeking Justice, Chinese Land in Secret Jails

BEIJING — They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city’s south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats. Known as “black houses,” they are unofficial jails for the pesky hordes of petitioners who flock to the capital seeking justice...(click on the link above for the entire article, which is from The New York Times.)

Underground Facilities - Bases - Tunnels

I want to add to the below that there is a connected city of underground areas under the Seattle/Kenmore cities, connecting a huge area around there, which is supposed to exist for the mayor to go and live during a nuclear catastrophe. But the city is too huge for just a few city councilmen and political types - it's bigger than the City of Seattle, and could be used to house thousands of people.

--Karen Cole Peralta

The rest is from "Underground Bases," from Crystallinks.com:

I have read about underground bases in the south western part of the United States, particularly Dulce, New Mexico and Nevada. I have also heard about underground tunnel system that run in mazes under the surface of the planet. Most people connect these tunnel with ET's and covert government activities. There is allegedly exist cities built by different governments and those left behind by ancients who lived here thousands of years ago. We will probably never know the truth. As a remote viewer - I can tell you that many of these facilities do exist.

Underground government bases also exist for various reasons. One of the them is nicknamed Mt. Weather and is just outside of Washington, DC. Mount Weather and Underground Bases.

Article about these bases:
Few Americans--indeed, few Congressional reps--are aware of the existence of Mount Weather, a mysterious underground military base carved deep inside a mountain near the sleepy rural town of Bluemont, Virginia, just 46 miles from Washington DC. Mount Weather --also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations--is buried not just in hard granite, but in secrecy as well.

In March, 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article entitled The Mysterious Mountain. The author, Richard Pollock, based his investigative report on Senate subcommittee hearings and upon "several off-the-record interviews with officials formerly associated with Mount Weather." His report, and a 1991 article in Time Magazine entitled Doomsday Hideaway, supply a few compelling hints about what is going on underground.

Ted Gup, writing for Time, describes the base as follows: "Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility. Above ground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewage-treatment plant, with a 90,000 gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter pad. The mountain's real secrets are not visible at ground level."

The mountain's "real secrets" are protected by warning signs, 10 foot-high chain link fences, razor wire, and armed guards. Curious motorists and hikers on the Appalachian trail are relieved of their sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way. Security is tight.

The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service as an artillery range, a hobo farm during the Depression, and a National Weather Bureau Facility. In 1936, the U.S. Bureau of Mines took control and started digging.

Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to former personnel interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside the earth, Mount Weather was equipped with such amenities as:

- private apartments and dormitories
- streets and sidewalks
- cafeterias and hospitals
- a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings
- a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs - a transit system
- a TV communication system

Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The facility is the operational center - the hub - of approximately 100 other Federal Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Together this network of underground facilities constitutes the backbone of America's "Continuity of Government" program. In the event of nuclear war, declaration of martial law, or other national emergency, the President, his cabinet and the rest of the Executive Branch would be "relocated" to Mount Weather.

What Does Congress Know about Mount Weather?

According to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights hearings in 1975, Congress has almost no knowledge and no oversight --budgetary or otherwise--on Mount Weather. Retired Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the subcommittee, said "I am not at liberty to describe precisely what is the role and the mission and the capability that we have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise location."

Apparently, this underground capital of the United States is a secret only to Congress and the US taxpayers who paid for it. The Russians know about it, as reported in Time: "Few in the U.S. government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets have known both its precise location and its mission (unlike the Congress, since Bray wouldn't tell); defense experts take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin's targeting maps. " The Russians attempted to buy real estate right next door, as a "country estate" for their embassy folks, but that deal was dead- ended by the State Department.

Mount Weather's "Government-in-Waiting":

Pollock's report, based on his interviews with former officials at Mount Weather, contains astounding information on the base's personnel. The underground city contains a parallel government-in-waiting: "High- level Governmental sources, speaking in the promise of strictest anonymity, told me [Pollock] that each of the Federal departments represented at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on whom is conferred the rank of a Cabinet-level official. Protocol ven demands that subordinates address them as 'Mr. Secretary.' Each of the Mount Weather 'Cabinet members' is apparently appointed by the White House and serves an indefinite term ... many through several Administrations. The facility attempts to duplicate the vital functions of the Executive branch of the Administration."

Nine Federal departments are replicated within Mount Weather (Agriculture; Commerce; Health, Education & Welfare; Housing & Urban Development; Interior; Labor; State; Transportation; and Treasurey) as well as at least five Federal agencies (Federal Communications Commission, Selective Service, Federal Power Commission, Civil Service Commission, and the Veterans Administration). The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Post Office, both private corporations, also have offices in Mount Weather.

Pollock writes that the "cabinet members" are "apparently" appointed by the White House and serve an indefinite term, but that information cannot be confirmed, raising the further question of who holds the reins on this "back-up government." Furthermore, appointed Mount Weather officials hold their positions through several elected administrations, transcending the time their appointers spend in office. Unlike other presidential nominees, these apppointments are made without the public advice or consent of the Senate.

Is there an alternative President and Vice President as well? If so, who appoints them? Pollock says only this: "As might be expected, there is also an Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather. The Federal Preparedness Agency (precursor to FEMA) apparently appoints a special staff to the Presidential section, which regularly receives top secret national security estimates and raw data from each of the Federal departments and agencies. What Do They Do At Mount Weather?

1) Collect Data on American Citizens

The Senate Subcommittee in 1975 learned that the "facility held dossiers on at least 100,000 Americans. [Senator] John Tunney later alleged that the Mount Weather computers can obtain millions of pieces of additional information on the personal lives of American citizens simply by tapping the data stored at any of the other ninety-six Federal Relocation Centers."

The subcommittee concluded that Mount Weather's databases "operate with few, if any, safeguards or guidelines."

2) Store Necessary Information

The Progressive article detailed that "General Bray gave Tunney's subcommittee a list of the categories of files maintained at Mount Weather: military installations, government facilities, communications, transportation, energy and power, agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial, medical and educational institutions, sanitary facilities, population, housing shelter, and stockpiles." This massive database fits cleanly into Mount Weather's ultimate purpose as the command center in the event of a national emergency.

3) Play War Games

This is the main daily activity of the approximately 240 people who work at Mount Weather. The games are intended to train the Mount Weather bureaucracy to managing a wide range of problems associated with both war and domestic political crises.

Decisions are made in the "Situation Room," the base's nerve center, located in the core of Mount Weather.

The Situation Room is the archetypal war room, with "charts, maps and whatever visuals may be needed" and "batteries of communications equipment connecting Mount Weather with the White House and 'Raven Rock'-- the underground Pentagon sixty miles north of Washington--as well as with almost every US military unit stationed around the globe," according to the Progressive article. "All internal communications are conducted by closed-circuit color television ... senior officers and 'Cabinet members' have two consoles recessed in the walls of their office."

Descriptions of the war games read a bit like a Ian Fleming novel. Every year there is a system-wide alert that "includes all military and civilian-run underground installations." The real, aboveground President and his Cabinet members are "relocated" to Mount Weather to observe the simulation. Post-mortems are conducted and the margins for error are calculated after the games. All the data is studied and documented.

4) Civil Crisis Management

Mount Weather personnel study more than war scenarios. Domestic "crises" are also tracked and watched, and there have been times when Mount Weather almost swung into action, as Pollock reported: "Officials who were at Mount Weather during the 1960s say the complex was actually prepared to assume certain governmental powers at the time of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The installation used the tools of its 'Civil Crisis Management' program on a standby basis during the 1967 and 1968 urban riots and during a number of national antiwar demonstrations, the sources said."

In its 1974 Annual Report, the Federal Preparedness Agency stated that "Studies conducted at Mount Weather involve the control and management of domestic political unrest where there are material shortages (such as food riots) or in strike situations where the FPA determines that there are industrial disruptions and other domestic resource crises."

The Mount Weather facility uses a vast array of resources to continually monitor the American people. According to Daniel J. Cronin, former assistant director for the FPA, Reconnaissance satellites, local and state police intelligence reports, and Federal law enforcement agencies are just a few of the resources available to the FPA [now FEMA] for information gathering. "We try to monitor situations and get to them before they become emergencies," Cronin said. "No expense is spared in the monitoring program."

5) Maintain and Update the "Survivors List"

Using all the data generated by the war games and domestic crisis scenarios, the facility continually maintains and updates a list of names and addresses of people deemed to be "vital" to the survival of the nation, or who can "assist essential and non-interruptible services." In the 1976 article, the "survivors list" contained 6,500 names, but even that was deemed to be low. Who Pays for All This, and How Much?

At the same time tens of millions of dollars were being spent on maintaining and upgrading the complex to protect several hundred designated officials in the event of nuclear attack, the US government drastically reduced its emphasis on war preparedness for US citizens. A 1989 FEMA brochure entitled "Are You Prepared?" suggests that citizens construct makeshift fallout shelters using used furniture, books, and other common household items.

Officially, Mount Weather (and its budget) does not exist. FEMA refuses to answer inquiries about the facility; as FEMA spokesman Bob Blair told Time magazine, "I'll be glad to tell you all about it, but I'd have to kill you afterward."

We don't know how much Mount Weather has cost over the years, but of course, American taxpayers bear this burden as well. A Christian Science Monitor article entitled "Study Reveals US Has Spent $4 Trillion on Nukes Since '45" reports that "The government devoted at least $12 billion to civil defense projects to protect the population from nuclear attack. But billions of dollars more were secretly spent on vast underground complexes from which civilian and military officials would run the government during a nuclear war." What is Mount Weather's Ultimate Purpose?

We have seen that Mount Weather contains an unelected, parallel "government-in-waiting" ready to take control of the United States upon word from the President or his successor. The facility contains a massive database of information on U.S. citizens which is operated with no safeguards or accountability. Ostensibly, this expensive hub of America's network of sub-terran bases was designed to preserve our form of government during a nuclear holocaust.

But Mount Weather is not simply a Cold War holdover. Information on command and control strategies during national emergencies have largely been withheld from the American public. Executive Order 11051, signed by President Kennedy on October 2, 1962, states that "national preparedness must be achieved... as may be required to deal with increases in international tension with limited war, or with general war including attack upon the United States."

However, Executive Order 11490, drafted by Gen. George A Lincoln (former director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the FPA's predecessor) and signed by President Nixon in October 1969, tells a different story. EO 11490, which superceded Kennedy's EO 11051, begins, "Whereas our national security is dependent upon our ability to assure continuity of government, at every level, in any national emergency type situation that might conceivably confront the nation."

As researcher William Cooper points out, Nixon's order makes no reference to "war," "imminent attack," or "general war." These quantifiers are replaced by an extremely vague "national emergency type situation" that "might conceivably" interfere with the workings of the national power structure. Furthermore, there is no publicly known Executive Order outlining the restoration of the Constitution after a national emergency has ended. Unless the parallel government at Mount Weather does not decide out of the goodness of its heart to return power to Constitutional authority, the United States could experience an honest-to-God coup d'etat posing as a national emergency.

Like the enigmatic Area 51 in Nevada, the Federal government wants to keep the Mount Weather facility buried in secrecy. Public awareness of this place and its purpose would raise serious questions about who holds the reins of power in this country. The Constitution states that those reins lie in the hands of the people, but the very existence of Mount Weather indicates an entirely different reality. As long as Mount Weather exists, these questions will remain. Mount Weather's Russian Twin.

By Patricia Neill

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On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported on a mysterious military base being constructed in Russia: "In a secret project reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold War, Russia is building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say.

Hidden inside Yamantau mountain in the Beloretsk area of the southern Urals, the project involved the creation of a huge complex, served by a railroad,a highway, and thousands of workers."

The New York Times article quotes Russian officials describing the underground compound variously as a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for Russia's leaders in case of nuclear war.

It would seem that the Russian Parliament knows as little about Russian underground bases as the Congress knows about Mount Weather in the United States. "The (Russian) Defense Ministry declined to say whether Parliament has been informed about the details of the project, like its purpose and cost, saying only that it receives necessary military information," according to the New York Times.

"We can't say with confidence what the purpose is, and the Russians are not very interested in having us go in there," a senior American official said in Washington. "It is being built on a huge scale and involves a major investment of resources. The investments are being made at a time when the Russians are complaining they do not have the resources to do things pertaining to arms control."

Where's the Money Coming From?

The construction of the vast underground complex in Russia may very well become a cause of concern to the Clinton Administration. The issue of ultimate purpose for the complex, whether defensive (as with Mount Weather) or offensive (such as an underground weapons factory) is not the only issue Mr. Clinton has to worry about.

The real cause for concern is that the US is currently sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Russia, supposedly to help that country dismantle old nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Russian parliament has been complaining to Yeltsin that it cannot pay $250 million in back wages owed to its workers at the same time that it is spending money to comply with new strategic arms reduction treaties.

Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that "It seems the nearly $30 billion a year spent on intelligence hasn't answered the question of what the Russians are up to at Yamantau Mountain in the Urals. The huge underground complex being built there has been the object of U.S. interest since 1992. 'We don't know exactly what it is,' says Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's international security mogul. The facility is not operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific reassurances' that it poses no threat to the U.S."

U.S. law states that the Administration must certify to Congress that any money sent to Russia is used to disarm its nuclear weapons. However, is that the case? If the Russian parliament is complaining of a shortage of funds for nuclear disarmament, then how can Russia afford to build the Yamantau complex?


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America's Secret Bases Still Operational
August 5, 1998 - Scripps Howard News Service

The underground installations, ultra-secure manufacturing plants and once-secret laboratories America needed to wage the Cold War are still intact despite federal downsizing policies that have gutted many other military and civilian programs.

The Clinton administration during its first five years increased the staff at the massive Cheyenne Mountain Air Force and Army complex in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. That famous underground vault where thousands of military strategists and technicians were, and still are, prepared to fight World War III is undergoing a $1.7 billion renovation to improve its computer systems that track missiles and orbiting space vehicles.

Nearly as healthy are the Department of Energy installations still used to assemble, refurbish and maintain the estimated 10,000 warheads in the United States' nuclear stockpile. And more hale than ever are the four major national laboratories that discovered atomic fission, the much more destructive nuclear fusion and the means to develop them into history's most dangerous weapons.

A Scripps Howard News Service study of federal civilian payroll records at 10 of these facilities found that employment at these institutions has declined about 8.8 percent during the Clinton administration. That's only about half of the manpower reductions made throughout the military and in the rest of the civilian government.

The so-called "peace dividend" predicted by former President George Bush has come in modest drabs to the Cold War's high technology infrastructure under Clinton. The 10 military bases, laboratories and production facilities in the Scripps Howard study still maintained 25,191 workers in 1997. But taxpayers received little benefit from these cuts because many of the jobs that remained are among the highest paid in the federal government. The study found that the total payroll at these 10 facilities grew during this five-year period from $994.5 million to $1.14 billion, or a 15 percent rise.

Only one facility, the White Sands Missile Testing Range in New Mexico, experienced a modest decline in civilian payroll costs. Total employment at Cheyenne Mountain rose by 12 civilian jobs during this period, increasing from 6,646 workers in 1992 to 6,658 as of Sept. 30 last year. This small increase makes the vast underground complex one of the few U.S. military bases to increase in size during the 1990s.

Birmingham said the base still watches for the launch of any high-altitude missile system anywhere in the world, and monitored Iran's launch of an intermediate range ballistic weapon last month. The center also tracks more than 8,500 objects in earth orbit to warn manned space flights of possible collision threats, and assists the Justice Department and U.S. Customs in illegal drug interdiction programs by trying to track aircraft suspected of carrying narcotics. In addition, Cheyenne Mountain operates military communication and navigation satellites that have become vital to Western armies. "Space support basically allowed U.S. forces to perform that famous 'left hook' operation (during the Persian Gulf War.) The Iraqis assumed no one could navigate that well in the desert.

The Scripps Howard manpower study found that the huge Department of Energy research facilities: Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California and New Mexico's Los Alamos - have survived despite White House downsizing policies.

These facilities were privatized decades ago and are operation centers for commercial research contractors. Even so, Department of Energy employees who remain to monitor the work performed at the labs have suffered only modest declines, dropping from 1,961 federal workers in 1992 to 1,615 employees last year. The overall employment at these laboratories is much, much larger. Only 77 workers at Los Alamos, N.M., are directly employed by the Department of Energy. But the vast lab facility managed by the University of California employs about 10,000 non-government works.

The overall contract work at these facilities grew as the labs conducted increasingly diverse research into basic physics with applications for industry and other non-defense government agencies. But their original mission of designing nuclear warheads, apparently, also has not suffered despite international agreements like the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The arms race with Russia is, officially, over. But the construction, assembly and development facilities that built the warheads and test the delivery systems continue with slightly reduced staffs. Total employment declined by 8 percent at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, which produces bomb-grade uranium; the Pantex Plant in Texas, which assembles warheads; the Redstone Arsenal complex in Alabama ,which produced Cold War missile systems and continues to design weapons for the U.S. Army; and the several secured facilities scattered across the Nellis Air Force Bombing range in southern Nevada, home of the Nevada Test Site. These four groups of facilities employed 14,182 civilian workers in 1992 and 13,045 as of last year.

The Scripps Howard study is based upon civilian payroll records maintained by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The records provide information about 2.2 million federal employees as of Sept. 30, 1992 and for the 1.8 million employed on the same date last year.


NORTH WALES
During the summer of 1998, cave explorers using scientific equipment were able to confirm that a linked cave system some 15 miles in length exists underground in North Wales. Several years ago a researcher by the name of Frank D. Adams wrote on the results of his personal scientific experiments which may prove that giant cavities exist in granite at depths of more than 11 miles, conclusions which have also been supported by Louis V. King, a mathematician who calculated that, at normal temperatures, a cavity would exist at a depth of between 17.2 and 20.9 miles. The authors' findings are also supported by the discovery of "16 Rouse Belts" which give planes of fracture penetrating the globe.

Something of an extreme claim to some, perhaps, was that of Dr. Ron Anjard in an article in the Summer, 1978 issue of Pursuit Magazine, in which he claimed personal knowledge of 44 underground cities beneath the surface of North America, six of which are supposedly located on the West Coast. His information allegedly comes from anonymous American Indian sources.

When we relate this to the large number of migration legends (to and from cavern realms) which exist among the native Amerindians, then we may conclude that certain tribes possibly still retain intimate knowledge of underground civilizations related to them via distant ancestral links.

Some of the elders of these different tribes, others have suggested, may in fact maintain present contact with several of these cavern civilizations. There are a few indications that some such 'tribes' literally moved underground as a result of the encroaching Anglosaxon civilization upon the America's. Similar allegations are made in relation to South and Central America as well.

Interviews with survivors of a mine explosion in Dec. 26, 1945, known as the "Belva Mine Disaster", appeared in the December 1981 - January 1982 issues of newspapers in Pineville, Kentucky and elsewhere. The interviews revealed that some of the trapped men saw a "door" in one of the walls open, and a man dressed like a "lumberjack" emerged from a well-lighted room.

After assuring the men that they would be rescued, the strange visitor returned to the room and closed the door. These "lumberjack-like" entities have been described by miners in other parts of the country and in other nations as well. There seems to be some confusion as to whether they are physical or paraphysical entities.

A somewhat similar incident allegedly took place several years ago near Shipton, Pennsylvania. Of the three victims of this particular mine disaster, only two were rescued. However both described a similar para-physical encounter with strange 'men' who entered the caverns and gave light to the two trapped miners and told them that they would be rescued. They were uncertain whether the entities were humans or supernatural beings however, as much of their collective "hallucination" contained both physical as well as supernatural elements. The bluish "light" which illuminated the room, they said, was real, but other holographic-like visuals that appeared on the walls, when touched by their hands, either disappeared or revealed solid rock behind.


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NEW YORK CITY
R. L. Blain-Sanders, in an article titled 'Tunnels and Caverns Beneath New York City,' which appeared in the Fall, 1981 issue of Shavertron, described the author's knowledge of a large triangular system of tunnels utilized by a 'Masonic lodge', deep below the surface of New York City. Could this have any connection to the other 'rumors' to the effect that cavernous regions exist below Manhattan? For instance, in 1962 Con Edison, while drilling a test hole in the north of East River Park, New York City, broke through to open space about 200 feet below. Also, there are the allegations of Morris Doreal that the Church of St. John the Divine in New York was built over ancient tunnels leading to a dome-shaped city abandoned by antediluvian 'Atlanteans' and later, apparently, re-established by post- deluvians. Then we have the accounts of thousands of people who have literally and mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth in and around New York City.

Raymond Bond, in an article titled 'Subterranean Saucers -- Global Network of UFO Bases', which appeared in Saga's UFO Annual 1980 (Brooklyn, N.Y.), described caves within Mt. Sombrero in the Tampica area of Mexico, from which sounds resembling those made by 'hydroelectric generating equipment' can be heard. Also, inhabitants of the interior of Mt. Kilimanjaro were also described. Kilimanjaro is one of the highest peaks in Africa.


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MARYLAND
Articles in the Washington Star-News, July 25, 1973 and Aug. 15, 1973, tell of the discovery of an unexplored network of ancient, artificial tunnels during construction of a parking lot in Crofton, Maryland. Subsequent construction covered the tunnel entrances before the system could be completely investigated.



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BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA
Leon Davidson, in an early issue of Flying Saucers Magazine, spoke of a large network of "underground tunnels in the California desert, at Camp Irwin, near Barstow." This may tie-in with an item related by a Los Angeles municipal water director, as related in an early issue of Richard Toronto's Shavertron letter-zine, stating that this water director knew of 5 large underground rivers which ran beneath the Mojave desert, and that die-traces showed that at least one of these emptied into the Pacific ocean through openings in the continental slopes (One source stated that such a river exited in the Gulf of California).

Other sources speak of a "Kokoweef" river-system which is alleged to lie below Kokoweef peak just east of Fort Irwin, which looked- -according to it's alleged discoverer, a Mr. Earl Dorr, and a few "Indians" who also claimed to have been in it--like a "Grand Canyon" underground. It allegedly consists of a river chasm generally 500 ft. wide and over a thousand feet high-deep, sided by steep tiered-shelved underground cliffs, huge stalactites and cataracts. Also, the alluvial sands on the 'beaches' along the river, which allegedly hold a large percentage of gold dust, are said to be several feet deep. The entrance to this cavern was allegedly dynamited shut by Mr. Dorr to protect anyone else from getting to "his" gold. There is in fact evidence that Dorr did dynamite shut the lower level of 'Kin Sabe' cave in Kokoweef Peak, and there are present-day attempts to break through into this underground system. The water of the river allegedly rose and fell with the tides, suggesting that a very large body of water might exist upstream, that is if Dorr's account as well as the accounts of the Indians were not fabricated).

The municipal water director, according to the Shavertron article, spoke with a man who claimed that he was hired several years ago by the government to look for water sources for Ft. Irwin. He alleged to have explored an old mine in the area and found that deep down, the shaft intersected with an ancient earth fault or chasm- like cave which continued horizontally for a considerable distance. This government employee followed the chasm and allegedly emerged onto the bank of a huge underground river-cave over a quarter of a mile wide! The tremendous water flow-- possibly originating from the waters that apparently disappear beneath the Great Basin, the Nevada and Mojave deserts? -could have 'fed' the water needs of all of Southern California.

Paul Doerr (not to be confused with Mr. Dorr referred to above), in issue number 6 of his Newsletter Unknown, related the tradition concerning a race of human giants which, according to stories in the Carolinas islands and especially Papua, allegedly went underground in ancient times. Once inhabitants of a lost island-continent called "Chamat," they will, according to legend, one day emerge. This legend is wide-spread throughout Malaysia, which incidentally contains the largest "officially recognized" cavern chamber, the "Sarowak Chamber" on the island of Borneo in the Malaysian islands. It is said to be 230 ft. wide by 980 ft. long and nowhere less than 270 ft. high, large enough to easily hold within itself the two previous contenders for the world's largest official chamber - Carlsbad's "Big Room" in New Mexico and the "Salle de la Verna" in the Pierre Saint- Martin caverns in France. Yankee stadium could fit in one end of the Sarowak chamber with room to spare! The same issue of Unknown also reports on the discovery of massive caverns in Toulumne Co., California, by three Oakland miners. The caverns were so extensive that a man would have to "take grub for a week, and plan to explore for a month."



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EGYPT
Dr. Earlyne Chaney, in an article titled 'Odyssey Into Egypt, in her occult-oriented magazine Voice of Astara (May, 1982) tells of a discovery she and researcher Bill Cox was shown in Egypt. These were two tunnels, neither of which had been fully explored. One was in the temple of Edfu between Luxor and Cairo in the ruins of El Tuna Gabel; and the other near Zozer's Step Pyramid at Cairo near Memphis-Saqqarah, within the tomb of the Bull, called "Serapium". The Egyptian government sealed both tunnels because of fears of certain archaeologists who alleged that they "lead too deeply down into the depths of the earth," and because they found the earth to be "honeycombed with passages leading off into other depths," and the possibility of explorers becoming lost.

If such labyrinths do exist, then it may explain one story which alleged that men dressed like "ancient Egyptians" have been seen deep in unexplored tunnels near Cairo, as well as possible confirmation of the story which appeared in Nevada Aerial Research's Leading Edge publication to the effect that the U.S.(?) Government secretly maintains a huge base within a cavern of tremendous size (several miles in diameter) beneath the desert sands of Egypt. Could this tie in with the vaque references to a subterranean society(s) referred to by certain people 'in the know' which is/are known as the 'Phoenix Empire' and/or the 'Gizeh People'?

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In 1993 I interveiwed researcher and author William Hamilton III on my TV talk show 'The Metaphysical Experience'. Bill is the author of Cosmic Top Secret. His researcher has led him to discover underground government bases in the south western part of the US.