Shalamov - SHOCK THERAPY

 SHOCK THERAPY

EVEN IN that distant blissful period when Merzliakov worked as a stableman and was able, by using a homemade grinder cobbled together from an old tin can with holes in the bottom to make a sieve, to make flaked grain fit for human consumption from the oats that were provided for the horses, and thus cook porridge, a bitter hot gruel that suppressed and reduced his hunger, he was pondering one simple question. The big draft horses brought in from the mainland were given a government oats ration every day which was twice what the squat, shaggy Yakut ponies got, although the draft horses pulled no more than the ponies. Thunder, the monstrous Percheron, had as much oats poured into his trough as five Yakut ponies could eat. This was justifiable, it was done everywhere, and that was not what tormented Merzliakov. He couldn’t understand why the human rations in the camp, the mysterious prescription of proteins, fats, vitamins, and calories destined to be swallowed by prisoners and called the “pot sheet,” were drawn up with absolutely no consideration of people’s live weight. If they were to be treated as beasts of burden, then questions of rations should be dealt with more logically, instead of observing some terrible mathematical average or bureaucratic whim. At best this terrible average would benefit only the lightweights, and in fact those who weighed less took longer than the others to become goners. Merzliakov had a constitution like that of Thunder, the Percheron, and that pathetic breakfast of three spoonfuls of porridge only increased the nagging pain in his stomach. Yet a workman in a brigade could get almost nothing in addition to his ration. The most precious items—butter, sugar, and meat—were never added to the pot in the quantity prescribed by the pot sheet. There were other things that Merzliakov had seen: tall people were the first to die. Being inured to heavy labor made absolutely no difference. An intellectual weakling still held out longer than a giant from Kaluga, where tilling the earth was in the blood, if they received the same food, in accordance with camp rations. There was not much advantage in increasing your ration by exceeding the production norm by a percentage either, because the basic prescription was unchanged and still did not match the needs of tall men. If you wanted to eat better, you had to work better; but if you wanted to work better, you had to eat better. Everywhere, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians were the first to die. They were the first to become goners, which always led the doctors to remark that the Baltic peoples were weaker than the Russians. True, the living standards of the Latvians and Estonians were far higher than those of the camps, or even of the Russian peasant, so they found things harder. But the main cause lay elsewhere: they weren’t less tough, they were just taller.

About eighteen months earlier, after an attack of scurvy, which quickly knocked out anyone new to the camps, Merzliakov was given a job as a temporary nurse in the tiny local hospital. He saw there that medicines were dispensed in doses according to the patient’s weight. New medicines were tested on rabbits, mice, or guinea pigs, and human doses were determined by calculating body weight. Children’s doses were less than adult doses.

But the camp rations were not calculated according to the weight of the human body. This was, then, the wrong answer to the question that astonished and worried Merzliakov. But before he became hopelessly weak, he managed by some miracle to get a stableman’s job, where he could steal the horses’ oats and stuff his own stomach with them. Merzliakov was already thinking he could get through the winter and then face whatever was coming. But things worked out differently. The stable manager was dismissed for drunkenness, and a senior stableman was promoted. He was one of the men who had shown Merzliakov how to use a tin can to make porridge oats. The senior stableman had himself been something of an oats thief and knew perfectly well how it was done. He now felt the need to ingratiate himself with his bosses, and he no longer needed any oat flakes. He therefore personally sought out and destroyed all the homemade grinders. People started roasting, boiling, and eating oats, husk and all, treating their stomachs as if they were horses. The new manager wrote a report to the authorities. Several stablemen, including Merzliakov, were put in solitary confinement for stealing oats and then sent from the stables back to where they had come from: ordinary manual labor.

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Doing manual labor, Merzliakov soon realized that death was imminent. He staggered under the weight of the beams he had to drag around. The foreman took a dislike to the idle bruiser (“bruiser” is what they called anyone tall in the camp) and always put Merzliakov “under the butt,” that is, made him carry the heavy butt end of the beam. Once Merzliakov fell down and could not at first get up from the snow-covered ground; he suddenly decided to refuse to carry this damned beam. It was late, dark, and the guards were in a hurry to get to their indoctrination class, while the workmen wanted to reach the barracks and food as fast as they could; that evening the foreman was late for a card-game duel. Merzliakov was blamed for all the delay. So he was punished. First, he was beaten up by his workmates, then by the foreman and the guards. The beam lay abandoned in the snow and, instead of the beam, it was Merzliakov that was carried to the camp. He was let off work and lay on the bunk. The small of his back hurt. The paramedic rubbed him down with tallow—the medical center hadn’t had any proper ointments for ages. Merzliakov lay there, bent half double, all the time complaining of pain in the small of his back. The pain had gone long ago, his broken rib had quickly mended, but Merzliakov was determined, using any lie he could, to put off being declared fit for work. They didn’t declare him fit. One day they put his outdoor clothes on, laid him on a stretcher, and loaded him into the cab of a truck to take him, with other patients, to the district hospital. There was no X-ray machine there. Some serious thinking had to be done about everything, and Merzliakov thought. He stayed there for some months, still bent half double; he was then transferred to the central hospital where, of course, there was an X-ray machine, and where Merzliakov was put in the surgical section, in the ward for traumatic illnesses (the patients, unaware of the irony in the pun, called these illnesses “dramatic”).

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“And this man, too,” said the surgeon, pointing to Merzliakov’s notes, “we’ll hand over to you, Piotr Ivanovich. He doesn’t need treatment in the surgical section.”

“But you’ve written a diagnosis of ankylosis due to spinal trauma. Why should I have him?”

“Well, of course there is ankylosis. What else can I put down? Worse than that can happen after a beating. I had a case at the Gray mine, where the foreman beat up a good worker—”

“Seriozha, I haven’t got time to listen to your cases. I’m asking why you’re transferring him.”

“But I’ve written ‘To be examined with a view to documentation.’ Poke him with needles, let’s document him and get him on a ship. Then he can be a free man.”

“But you’ve taken X-rays, haven’t you? We shouldn’t need needles to detect any abnormalities.”

“I have. Have a look, if you’d care to,” and the surgeon placed a dark film negative on the muslin screen. “This picture makes no sense at all. Until we get proper lighting, proper voltage, our X-ray photographers will go on giving us this fuzz.”

“It really is fuzzy,” said Piotr Ivanovich. “All right, so be it.” And he signed his name on the notes, agreeing to accept Merzliakov’s transfer.

The surgical section was noisy, chaotic, overcrowded with cases of frostbite, dislocated limbs, fractures, burns—the northern mines were no joke—and some of the patients lay on the ward and corridor floors; just one young, infinitely tired surgeon and four paramedics worked there, none of them sleeping for more than three or four hours a night. Nobody had the time to give Merzliakov proper attention. In the neurology section, however, where Merzliakov had been so suddenly transferred, he realized that a really close examination would begin.

All his desperate prisoner’s willpower had long been focused on one thing: to not unbend. And he didn’t. His body so very much wanted to straighten out, if only for a second. But he recalled the mine, the piercing breath of the cold air, the slippery frozen stones of the goldmine pit face, which shone from the sub-zero temperatures; the little bowl of soup, his dinner, which he devoured in one gulp, not needing any spoon; the rifle butts of the guards and the boots of the foremen—then he found the strength to stay doubled up. In any case, it was now easier than it had been in the first weeks. He didn’t sleep much, since he was afraid of unbending while he slept. He knew that the duty nurses had long ago been ordered to watch him and catch him faking. And if he was caught—Merzliakov knew this, too—he would immediately be send to the punishment mines, and what would a punishment mine be like, if the ordinary one left Merzliakov with such terrible memories?

The day after he was transferred, Merzliakov was taken to see the doctor. The chief of the section asked him briefly about the early stages of the illness and nodded in sympathy. The doctor told him, as if by the way, that even healthy muscles could get used to being in an unnatural position after many months, and that a man can turn himself into an invalid. Then Piotr Ivanovich started examining his patient. As the doctor inserted needles, tapped away with a rubber mallet, and pressed certain points, Merzliakov gave random answers to his questions.

Piotr Ivanovich devoted more than half of his working hours to exposing malingerers. Of course, he understood the reasons that induced prisoners to fake their symptoms. Piotr Ivanovich had been a prisoner not so long ago, and he wasn’t surprised by the childish stubbornness of malingerers, nor by the primitive and frivolous nature of their faked symptoms. Piotr Ivanovich, formerly a lecturer at a Siberian medical institute, had made his professional career in the same snowy world as the one where his patients tried to save their lives by trying to deceive him. One cannot deny that he felt sorry for people. But he was more a doctor than a human being and he was, above all, a specialist. He was proud of the fact that a year of manual labor in the camps had not destroyed the specialist doctor in him. He looked at the problem of exposing malingerers not from a lofty, statesmanlike point of view, and not morally. He saw this problem as a proper use of his knowledge, of his psychological skill in setting traps for hungry, half-insane, wretched people to fall into, to the greater glory of science. In this battle between doctor and malingerer, everything favored the doctor: thousands of subtle medicines, hundreds of textbooks, a wide array of equipment, the help of the guards, and the enormous experience of a specialist, while all the patient had on his side was his horror of the world that he had left for the hospital and was afraid of being returned to. It was this horror that gave the prisoner the strength to battle on. Exposing yet another malingerer gave Piotr Ivanovich deep satisfaction. Once more he had proof from real life that he was a good doctor, that instead of losing his skills, he had enhanced them, perfected them—in other words, that he still could. . . .

“What fools those surgeons are,” he thought, as he lit a cigarette after Merzliakov had left. “They don’t know topographical anatomy, or they’ve forgotten it, and they never have known what reflexes are. X-rays are their only answer. If they haven’t got an X-ray, they can’t be sure even about a simple fracture. Yet they’re so conceited.” Piotr Ivanovich, naturally, had no doubt that Merzliakov was a malingerer. “All right, he can stay in bed for a week. That week will give us time to do all the analyses, so we jump through all the hoops. We’ll stick all the right bits of paper in his notes.” Piotr Ivanovich smiled as he anticipated the theatrical effect of this, his next unmasking.

A week later the hospital would be getting a party of patients ready to be shipped home to the mainland. The papers were being drawn up in the ward and the chairman of the medical commission had come from the administration building to examine personally the patients whom the hospital had prepared for dispatch. The chairman’s job was limited to examining the documentation, checking that the proper formulas had been used—actual examination of a patient took only thirty seconds.

“I have in my lists a certain Merzliakov. The guards broke his back a year ago. I’d like to send him off. He’s recently been transferred to the neurology section. Here are his documents, all ready for dispatch.” The chairman of the commission turned to face the neurologist.

“Bring Merzliakov,” said Piotr Ivanovich. They brought in the patient, bent nearly double. The chairman gave him a cursory glance.

“What a gorilla,” he said. “Yes, of course, there’s no point keeping men like that.” Picking up his pen, he reached for the lists.

“Personally, I’m not signing for him,” said Piotr Ivanovich in a clear, loud voice. “He’s a malingerer, and tomorrow I shall have the privilege of showing him up to you and to the surgeon.”

“Right, then we’ll leave him out,” said the chairman indifferently, and put his pen down. “Anyway, it’s time we stopped, it’s getting late.”

“He’s a malingerer, Seriozha,” Piotr Ivanovich said as he took the surgeon by the arm, when they were leaving the ward.

The surgeon freed his arm.

“He may be,” he said, frowning with distaste. “Good luck with exposing him. You’ll get an enormous amount of pleasure.”

The next day, at a meeting with the head of the hospital, Piotr Ivanovich reported in detail on Merzliakov’s case.

“I think,” he concluded, “that we can expose Merzliakov in two stages. First comes Rausch anesthesia, which you, Seriozha, have forgotten about,” he said triumphantly, turning to face the surgeon. “That should have been done straightaway. Then if Rausch anesthesia doesn’t work,” Piotr Ivanovich spread his arms, “it’s shock therapy. That’s a very intriguing procedure, I assure you.”

“Not too intriguing?” asked Aleksandra Sergeyevna, the manager of the biggest section in the hospital, the tuberculosis section. She was a stout, heavily built woman who had only recently arrived from European Russia.

“Well,” said the hospital chief, “for a bastard like that. . . .” The presence of ladies didn’t inhibit him much.

“Let’s see what the Rausch anesthesia does,” said Piotr Ivanovich in a conciliatory tone.

Rausch is short-term anesthesia administered by an overwhelming dose of ether. The patient goes to sleep for fifteen or twenty minutes, enough time for a surgeon to manipulate a dislocation, amputate a finger, or lance an infected boil.

The hospital chiefs, dressed in white gowns, surrounded an operating table on which a submissive, half-bent Merzliakov had been put. Male nurses picked up the linen straps that usually tie patients down on the operating table.

“No need, no need,” shouted Piotr Ivanovich, as he ran forward. “Straps are the last thing we need.”

Merzliakov’s face was turned upward. The surgeon placed an anesthesia mask over it and picked up a bottle of ether.

“Start, Seriozha!”

The ether began dripping.

“Breathe in deeper, deeper, Merzliakov! Count aloud!”

“Twenty-six, twenty-seven,” Merzliakov counted in a lazy voice; then, suddenly stopping counting, he started saying broken phrases, making no sense at first, some of them obscene curses.

Piotr Ivanovich was holding Merzliakov’s left hand. After a few minutes, that hand relaxed and Piotr Ivanovich let go of it. The hand fell gently, like a dead object, onto the edge of the table. Piotr Ivanovich slowly and solemnly unbent Merzliakov’s body. Everyone gasped with amazement.

“Now tie him down,” Piotr Ivanovich told the nurses.

Merzliakov opened his eyes and saw the hospital chief’s hairy fist.

“How about that, you reptile?” the chief was rasping at him. “You’ll be charged and tried.”

“Congratulations, Piotr Ivanovich, congratulations!” repeated the chairman of the commission, clapping the neurologist on the shoulder. “To think that only yesterday I was about to give that gorilla his freedom!”

“Untie him!” ordered Piotr Ivanovich. “Get off the table.”

Merzliakov hadn’t fully regained consciousness. His temples throbbed, and he could still taste the sickeningly sweet ether in his mouth. Even now he didn’t understand whether he was awake or dreaming, and it may be that he’d had dreams like this before.

“To hell with the lot of you!” he suddenly yelled out, and bent himself double, as he had been.

Broad-shouldered, bony, his thick long fingers almost touching the floor, his eyes clouded, and his hair disheveled, Merzliakov really did look like a gorilla. He left the bandaging room and Piotr Ivanovich was told that the patient Merzliakov was lying on his bed in his usual posture. The doctor ordered him to be brought to his office.

“You’ve been exposed, Merzliakov,” said the neurologist. “But I’ve asked the chief, and you won’t be charged, you won’t be sent to a punishment mine. You’ll simply be discharged from hospital and go back to your mine to do what you were doing. You’re a hero, man. You’ve pulled the wool over our eyes for a whole year.”

“I don’t know anything about that,” said the gorilla, not lifting his eyes.

“What do you mean, you don’t know? We’ve only just straightened you out!”

“Nobody straightened me out.”

“Look, dear man,” said the neurologist. “There’s no need for all this. I wanted to do it the nice way. Otherwise, watch out, because in a week’s time you yourself will be asking to be discharged.”

“What do I care what’s going to happen in a week’s time?” Merzliakov said quietly. How could he explain that just one extra week, an extra day, an extra hour spent somewhere that was not the mine was his idea of happiness. If the doctor couldn’t understand that, how could he explain it? Merzliakov said nothing and stared at the floor.

Merzliakov was taken away; Piotr Ivanovich went to see the hospital chief.

“Well, you could do it tomorrow, instead of in a week,” said his boss after he’d listened to Piotr Ivanovich’s proposal.

“I promised him a week,” said Piotr Ivanovich. “It won’t bankrupt the hospital.”

“All right,” said the chief. “In a week, then. But bring me along. Are you going to tie him down?”

“You can’t tie him down,” said the neurologist. “He’d dislocate an arm or a leg. He’ll be held down.” Taking Merzliakov’s notes with him, Piotr Ivanovich wrote in the treatment column “shock therapy” and named a date.

Shock therapy consists of intravenously injecting the patient with a quantity of camphor oil several times higher than the dose used subcutaneously for maintaining a seriously ill patient’s cardiac activity. The camphor oil acts by causing a sudden attack, like an attack of violent madness of epilepsy. A rush of camphor causes a sharp increase in all of the patient’s muscular activity and motor forces. Muscles are tensed as never before and the patient’s strength, although he has lost consciousness, is increased tenfold. The attack lasts several minutes.

Several days passed without Merzliakov thinking of unbending of his own free will. The morning named in his notes came and he was taken to see Piotr Ivanovich. Any entertainment is highly appreciated in the north, so the doctor’s office was crowded. Eight burly male nurses were lined up against the wall. A divan was placed in the middle of the office.

“We’ll do it here,” said Piotr Ivanovich, getting up from his desk. “We shan’t bother the surgeons. Where’s Sergei Fiodorovich, by the way?”

“He’s not coming,” said Anna Ivanovna, the sister on duty. “He said he was busy.”

“Busy, busy,” repeated Piotr Ivanovich. “It would do him good to watch me doing his job for him.”

Merzliakov’s sleeve was rolled up and the paramedic rubbed some iodine on his arm. Taking a syringe in his right hand, the paramedic pierced a vein near the patient’s elbow joint. Dark blood flowed through the needle into the syringe. With a gentle movement of his thumb the paramedic pressed the plunger and a yellow solution began entering the vein.

“Get it in as fast as you can!” said Piotr Ivanovich. “And then stand aside quickly. As for you,” he told the male nurses, “hold him.”

Merzliakov’s enormous body leapt up and writhed in the nurses’ hands. Eight men were holding him down. He rasped, he struggled, he kicked, but the nurses were holding tight and he started quieting down.

“You can restrain a tiger like that, a tiger,” shouted Piotr Ivanovich in his delight. “On the other side of Lake Baikal that’s how they catch tigers by hand. Now watch closely,” he told the hospital chief, “see how Gogol exaggerated. Do you remember the end of Taras Bulba? ‘Almost thirty men were hanging on to his arms and legs.’ Well, this gorilla is rather bigger than Taras Bulba. And he only needs eight men.”

“Yes, yes,” said the chief. He didn’t remember Gogol, but he did like the shock therapy enormously.

The next morning Piotr Ivanovich did his rounds and stopped at Merzliakov’s bed.

“Well, then,” he asked, “what’s your decision?”

“You can discharge me,” said Merzliakov.

1956

From: KOLYMA STORIES

Volume One

VARLAM SHALAMOV

Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by

DONALD RAYFIELD

Science of hoaxing, forging, trimming, and cooking

 In his fifth chapter (of six) Babbage wrote of “the art of making observations and experiments.” He began with a warning against becoming obsessed. with the appearance of precision.

“The extreme accuracy required in some of our modern inquiries has, in some respects, had an unfortunate influence, by favouring the opinion, that no experiments are valuable, unless the measures are most minute, and the accordance amongst them most perfect.” The warning was prescient; the problem is serious, now as then. He then addressed “the frauds of observers,” offering a classification that pre- figures present-day definitions.

There are several species of impositions that have been practiced in science, which are but little known, except to the initiated, and which it may perhaps be possible to render quite intelligible to ordinary understandings. These may be classed under the headings of hoaxing, forging, trimming, and cooking.

He looked on outright hoaxes with ironical amusement, giving an extended example of a report from Naples, forty years earlier, of a new family and species of mollusc, described and pictured “with great minuteness” including its structure, its shell, and its mode and speed of movement. The discoverer had named it after himself. The new creature got picked up, diagrams and all, by a French encyclopedia.

“The fact, however, is, that no such animal exists.” The discoverer had found on the Sicilian seashore three bits of bone from a known species of mollusc, and had then, Babbage said, “described and figured these bones most accurately, and drew the whole of the rest of his description from the stores of his own imagination. Such frauds are far from justifiable; the only excuse which has been made for them is, when they have been practised on scientific academies which had reached the period of dotage.” He went on:

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the latter the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made. . . . Fortunately instances of the occurrence of forging are rare.

Trimming consists in clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them on to those which are too small; a species of “equitable adjustment,” as a radical would term it [i.e., in British politics of the day, one who agitated for more equal distribution of wealth], which cannot be admitted in science.

This fraud is perhaps not so injurious (except to the character of the trimmer) as cooking, which the next paragraph will teach. The reason of this is, that the average given by the observations of the trimmer is the same, whether they are trimmed or untrimmed. His object is to gain a reputation for extreme accuracy in making observations; but from respect for truth, or from a prudent foresight, he does not distort the position of the fact he gets from nature, and it is usually difficult to detect him. He has more sense or less adventure than the Cook.

Babbage drew most of his examples from fields most familiar to him, mathematics, physics, and especially astronomy (hence “observers”). His types flourish in biology, of course, and in the social sciences. He wrote “Of Cooking” as though solemnly offering recipes, “receipts.” One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unlucky if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

Another approved receipt, when the observations to be used will not come within the limit of accuracy, which it has been resolved they shall possess, is to calculate them by two different formule. The difference in the constants employed in those formule has sometimes a most happy effect in promoting unity amongst discordant measures. . . .

It sometimes happens that the constant quantities in formule given by the highest authorities, although they differ amongst themselves, yet they will not suit the materials. This is precisely the point in which the skill of the artist is shown; and an accomplished cook will carry himself triumphantly through it.

Yet cooking was not without risks.

There are some few reflections which I would venture to suggest to those who cook, although they may perhaps not receive the attention which, in my opinion, they deserve, from not coming from the pen of an adept. ...

In all these, and in numerous other cases, it would most probably happen that the cook would procure a temporary reputation for unrivalled accuracy at the expense of his permanent fame. It might also have the effect of rendering even all his crude observations [we would say, raw data] of no value; for that part of the scientific world whose opinion is of most weight, is generally so unreasonable, as to neglect altogether the observations of those in whom they have, on any occasion, discovered traces of the artist. In fact, the character of an observer, as of a woman, if doubted is destroyed.

Babbage’s forging is, of course, what we now call fabrication. His trimming and cooking are varieties of falsification; the distinction is useful. His sardonic dry tone is inimitable.
The most prominent of the classic frauds illustrate Babbage’s typology in all its variety. Eight frauds and a hoax demand our attention.

The hoax is Piltdown Man. The other cases implicate some revered names: Isaac Newton, Gregor Mendel, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Robert Millikan, Ernst Haeckel, Sigmund Freud, Cyril Burt.

‘We look at the classic cases with a double vision, though many commentators seem not to realize how this may affect their judgement. We cannot help assessing them by today’s standards—not that today’s standards are necessarily higher than those of the past, except perhaps in the view of the more smug of the leaders and defenders, and certainly not that the standards are more often lived up to, but rather that they are more sophisticated about what goes into research, careful or sloppy, honest or fraudulent. Simultaneously, though, we must see the classic cases in their own terms, in the scientific community of their time and the wider milieu in which they took place. Such is of course the central task of the historian. But to think the thoughts of the past is never more difficult than in the sciences.

Must it be said that the raising of questions does not prove guilt? Yet universal and conspicuous in accounts of these classic cases has been the dismay evinced by those who themselves raise the questions, bring out the evidence. Scientists, often, and not far below the crust, are sweetly idealistic. They have heroes. More than that, for many scientists science itself is a heroine—the French have got the gender tight, La Sciénce—whose innocence and pristine reputation must be defended. When great scientists are attacked, the prosecutors themselves leap to the defense of the accused. Mendel. Mendel? The monk in the garden? The problem is that some of his data are too perfect. Yes, well, “Mendel was the first to count segregants at all. It is rather too much to expect that he would be aware of the precautions now known to be necessary for completely objective data.” Darwin. Darwin? The problem is that some of the photographs in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals were doctored. Ah, but, “In many ways publication of Expression marked the birth of empirical photography. It could not conform to rules about scientific photography,  because it was part of the creation of those rules.” 

So strong is the compulsion to save the great men, to protect the reputation of science herself, that defense turns nastily ad hominem.

Pasteur. Pasteur? The hero of generations of French schoolchildren, the inspiration of countless careers in science? The problem is that his entries in his private notebooks contradict, significantly, his public claims for how he had achieved his most celebrated victories, including immunization against rabies. No, no, “complete rubbish,” his accuser is “trying to pull a great man down” and is himself “guilty of unethical and unsavory conduct when he burrows through Pasteur’s notebooks for scraps of supposed wrongdoing.”

From the book:
The GREAT BETRAYAL FRAUD IN SCIENCE HORACE FREELAND JUDSON

The metaphysical hints of the pandemic producers

   The so-called "Pandemic" is a global Truman Show episode, a comparison with the movie "The Truman Show" (1998). It is virtually a live global reality TV show in which only the participants (Truman) do not realize that they are in a staged theatrical performance put on by corrupt and coordinated collaborating governments, media and institutions (the NWO, the Deep State, the System). In the film, various disaster scenarios are suggested (very likely plane crash) or staged (traffic jams, forest fires, nuclear power plant accident) to keep Truman from escaping the false reality (his island) due to frustration and fear. Also, Truman was installed a trauma by a staged event. His fake actor father "drowned" in front of his eyes to keep him on the island through fear of water. The island symbolizes a limited perception.

In principle, the staged "pandemic" works in the same way. It is an illusion created by means of lies and deception to perpetually generate fear in order to keep a politically awakening population under control. Fear paralyzes, makes compliant and restricts the field of vision.

The deception must remain recognizable so as not to violate people's free will. The actions of the "elite" are constrained by metaphysical laws. They avoid violating free will to escape karmic consequences. Newton's third law (action-reaction), in the East it is called karma, the popular wisdom is: What goes around comes around. An exception to this law allows people to be deceived/ tested on the condition that the deception remains recognizable. That is why they build into their deceptions, logic errors, ironic elements and other hints. There are dozens of such hints in the "pandemic". These are the equivalent of the warning colors of poisonous plants or animals.

With each additional clue, they give people the chance to recognize the deception, thus asking for permission to continue. If you ignore the clues and let them, they continue, escalating it to the next level.

Jean-Claude Juncker, former EU Commission president, puts it this way: "We decide something, then put it out in the open and wait some time to see if anything happens. If there is then no big shouting and no riots, because most people don't even understand what has been decided, then we continue - step by step, until there is no turning back."

The NWO goal is openly admitted by the "elite" in their publications. Criminals are often arrogant, out-of-touch-with-reality narcissists who brag about their crimes and mock investigators. According to metaphysical laws, they are also obliged to make their schemes public. One of these titles is: "Covid-19: Der Grosse Umbruch" (The Great Reset) by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and model for every megalomaniac James Bond super villain. Fiction imitates life. There are dozens of such titles in which the "elite" openly announce a NWO. These people are not theorizing amateurs, not harmless daydreamers, they are organized, financially strong, powerful, seriously criminal sociopaths and psychopaths. Those who do not take their proclamations of intent seriously do so at their own peril.

The system creates the following hints with intent and great frequency. They are found in every relevant area of the "pandemic" narrative. The System's agents use anagrams, irony, symbolism, and ambiguity with calculation, not out of carelessness, incompetence, sheer stupidity, or other reasons often given as excuses. They act according to clear guidelines and with high accuracy, because they are strictly controlled by the NWO hierarchy.

1) Hint

2) Decoded Hint

(In the book more examples are given)

1)The "Delta wave", based on a variant of the "CovID virus" is officially considered to be particularly contagious.
2)Delta waves are the brain frequency in deep sleep. It is an ironic reference to the fact that those who do not see through this deception are in deep sleep and is completely unconscious. Relating to "being put to sleep" as in the sense of putting an animal to sleep, killing it. So a wave of deep sleep, or euthanasia.

1) The "Omicron" wave, a variant of the "CovID virus" is the latest variant, which now absolutely requires mandatory vaccination of all people.
2) "Omicron" is an anagram for "Moronic" (feeble-minded). So, a wave of moronicness in form of a staged pandemic based on a non-existent virus.

1) The "Delta-Omicron"-waves were especially propagated in the immediate aftermath.
2) "Delta-Omicron" is an anagram for "Media-Control". So, a wave of media control.
The first time can happen. The second time is coincidence. The third time is intentional. The Greek letters delta and omicron are not in succession in the Greek alphabet, between the two lie 10 letters. So, the fact that of all things these two variants are strongly propagated one after the other as "variants of concern" excludes a coincidence with regard to the relevance of the respective anagrams and in particular the combined anagram from both.

1) The address of German "CovID vaccine manufacturer BioNTech SE is "An der Goldgrube 12" (At the Gold Pit 12).
2) "At the Gold Pit” is a clear ironic reference to a profit-oriented thinking and action of the company. No reputable pharmaceutical company would choose such an address, as it potentially evokes enormously business-damaging associations.
Companies deliberately pay great attention to such things, since, for example, many terms can have a completely different (negative) meaning in another language. Every product name, every address, every telephone number, every company logo is scrupulously checked by specialist agencies (marketing experts, psychologists, linguists) in order to completely exclude negative associations.
A comparison would be if Mercedes Benz were to build its main plant at the address "At the Junkyard 7". Something like that just doesn't happen without being intentional.
So it is intentional and a hint that clearly states that this company is all about gold, it is a money printing machine that runs most profitable when people are sick and therefore it is in the interest of the company that people are sick, stay sick and become sick!

1) Prof. Lothar Heinz Wieler is a German veterinarian (vet) who has served as president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI, similar to the U.S. CDC) since 2015. In this role, he advises the federal and state governments on public health issues, particularly infectious disease threats, and on mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2) An ANIMAL DOCTOR, is being used as an expert on the HUMAN pandemic as a consultant to the government. Not a random or alternative choice of personnel. This is intentional, a hint, a degrading ironic allusion to humans as (stupid) animals.

1) Dr. Anthony Fauci of the CDC, Center of Disease Control, in the USA.
2 In a video clip from CBS News, we see Anthony Fauci being injected in his left arm (supposedly with the CovID vaccine), but when asked about it in another interview a short time later, he points to his right arm as the place where he feels "soreness at the injection site."
This is not a mistake, not a mix-up, not a bad memory, not a mirrored monitor, but a deliberate indication that he did not receive the vaccine, that his injection was staged.
Fauci is a Sicilian name meaning "sickle," referring to the makers of sickles. The sickle is the symbol of the Grim Reaper (and communism, a political ideology that has caused 100 million deaths, mostly in the East. That someone with such a name is in such a position is no coincidence, it is an indication that this person brings mass death.  Dr. Anthony Fauci, bears an undeniable resemblance to Dr. Thomas Tuttle, his "mask" and "social distance" prescribing counterpart of the 1918 "pandemic." A deliberate choice of personnel. The hint given by the similarity of the main protagonists is a "then as now", so that today's "pandemic" is again the same lying scenario as then. The "vaccination" brought disease and death then as now, the "flu virus" was fictitious then as now.

1) Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, referred to the "pandemic" at a press conference as a "PLandemic," which is a neologism of plan+pandemic.
2) Not a slip of the tongue, but intentional.
Thus, they can claim that they openly admitted it was a plandemic. If people make the unfounded assumption that it was a slip of the tongue, that is their own fault for being so gullible and naive.

1) The first man who allegedly received the "Corona vaccination" in England, and died shortly thereafter, was William Shakespeare, namesake of the world-famous English writer (Romeo & Juliet, among others), according to the media.
2) Of all things this name from possible millions? A completely implausible "coincidence".
"Is Shakespeare dead?" is a writing by Mark Twain, in which he critically questions the existence of Shakespeare.
The hint that is given is that the media is not to be trusted. That it is questionable whether presented persons, alleged Corona infected and died are real at all.
Or they are just fictional characters, existing only in digitally created photos, to which fictional names are assigned.
Who's going to check? Spiegel reporter Relotius, for example, not only reported in detail about people who never existed, but also freely invented entire reports. For years! This was not an isolated case, but is the rule. The media complex consists largely of figures like Relotius. Framing is their daily business. Whoever has the immorality to frame, also invents freely.

1) The American CDC uses NPC characters clearly identifiable as such in its official vaccination advertising. See image below the table.
2) The abbreviation "NPC" stands for "Non-Playing Character" and refers to background characters in video games that have no individual mental inner life, no will of their own, and whose behavior is influenced solely by direct environmental influences. They are programmable propaganda slaves.

1) The “Tagesschau” (a German broadcast comparable to CNN prime time news) reports on a campaign in which "sheep promote vaccination", standing in a syringe formation. See image below the table.
2) "Sheep" is a widely used term, for naive victims of propaganda. In this case, for those who get vaccinated.
This report is pure cynicism and expression of absolute contempt of the system for those who get vaccinated. It is a very clear hint.

These were some of the particularly relevant and obvious clues. Some of them are recognizably placed in a central position for everyone to see and are quite unambiguous, like "Dr. East". Or they are statistically practically impossible, as in the case of "Shakespeare". Others require a deeper consideration or a higher level of education, because they are e.g. hints which refer to political incidents, historical events (dates) or persons, still others are certain groups of numbers with hidden meaning (e.g. 33 or 666).

In the names of many objects, persons, numbers and dates central to the agenda, there are metaphysical hints that reveal the true origin, nature and effect, and other hidden information.

 It is important to know that the "elite" communicate in this way. It is not pareidolia, the human characteristic of spotting patterns in chaos, like recognizing faces in passing clouds. It is a secret, coded, symbolic form of communication.

It must be made clear that the terms do not merely provide general building blocks (e.g., random letters) from which to formulate something (as in Scrabble) and which are then used by "creative conspiracy theorists" to fabricate arbitrary conspiracy-related terms. Rather, the terms (safe) contain something unique and definitive (valuables) to be discovered (key/combination).

 Strictly speaking, the conspirators want it to remain undiscovered if possible, but metaphysical laws force them to provide the hints. The balancing act for the conspirators is to provide the hints in sufficient quantity that they can be found by many, but at the same time to hide and disguise them as well as possible so that at best they are not found or are found only by a few. (...)

From the book:

The Covid Pandemic Hoax  Exposure Of An Organized Global Deception  2Circles

The Covid Pandemic Hoax Exposure Of An Organized Global Deception - Foreword & conclusions

Foreword  

This book focuses on briefly presented and concisely described concepts, principles, methods, agendas and the big picture and deals with names, figures and data only where absolutely necessary. Details can be quickly researched in more depth by anyone with the time and interest available. Information is reduced as far as possible and formulated in brief bullet point form. 

 This book offers substantial incentives to investigate deeper in the presented direction. Universal truth is always discovered independently. Once the right direction is recognized, the evidence reveals itself naturally.

 It is necessary to be concise at this point as the big agenda is relentlessly moving forward and time for positive course correction is limited. Attention spans are steadily decreasing while the available material is steadily increasing. A great flood of misleading and disinforming information is being disseminated with malicious strategic intent, what Aldous Huxley describes in his novel 'Brave New World' as a strategy of 'information overload'. This 'pandemic' is therefore an exercise in limiting it to the bare essentials and expressing them as clearly as possible.

 "If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it." - Richard Feynman  "Simplification is the ultimate sophistication." - Da Vinci  "Today's scientists think deeply instead of thinking clearly. You have to be sane to think clearly, but you can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla   Many of those who begin to question what is believed to be true reach a point in their process of discovery where they dare not go further because the questions that arise are in themselves ugly.

A relentless uncovering of the truth is therefore often a cruel process. The night is always darkest before the dawn.

 "Keep your face always turned toward the sunshine - and the shadow will fall behind you." -Walter Whitman  This book pursues analytical rigor beyond all sensibility to relentlessly advance to the core of truth. Those who find themselves helplessly at the mercy of a bleak world in the wake of discovering grim truths have not yet recognized the unstoppable power of truth.

 "Lies can set wars in motion, truths, on the other hand, can stop whole armies." - Otto v.

Bismarck

Summary of the "Covid Pandemic”  

 What is the Covid pandemic about? It is an artificially created illusory reality, a parallel reality imposed on the world population. It is an illusion created by a globally organized group of conspirators. It is a globally organized, by means of highly sophisticated psychological warfare, medical-themed hoax.

 It works because people do not know that there is a coordinated network of conspirators above and among them that has evil intentions and uses sophisticated methods of deception to pursue those intentions. The main reason for this is that most largely lack the ability to recognize or accept the existence of evil and its nature. Another reason is that people think and live in a lower paradigm created by the conspirators, which makes it difficult for them to recognize the higher paradigm from whose level they are being manipulated. People are deceived by an information and cognition (perception) war against them.

 1. The virus Sars-CoV-2, alleged cause of CovID-19/Corona does not exist. It is a computer-simulated fiction. The virus has never been isolated and purified, which is the prerequisite for proving its existence. Any concepts that have a basis other than the non-existence of the virus have been created as a distraction or are results of ignorance or error.

 2. Useful body functions/elements/particles (extracellular vesicles/exosomes) are recast as corona viruses. These are the “corona-virus” pictures you see in the media. A classic truth inversion where something positive is marketed as something negative by the system.

 3. The PCR test (Polymerase Chain Reaction / CovID-Test) identifies alleged CovID infections.

However, it does not identify a virus, but unrelated genetic material. The higher the number of cycles (magnifications), the greater the likelihood that the test result will be "positive", as there is a greater probability that any genetic material will be detected. Therefore, an extremely high number of cycles (45 or more) is used by the institutes to produce as many "positive results" as possible. The number of cycles is then reduced to "prove" that the "vaccination" works.

 4. The conspiratorial system controls many laboratories/testing centers which evaluate the tests and, on a large scale, include tests that would have a negative result in the statistics with a false-positive result. Thousands of unused tests were sent to laboratories worldwide for testing purposes, of which a large number had a positive result according to the laboratories. Organized large-scale fraud is taking place.

 5. Alleged symptoms of Covid-19 are actually flu symptoms. Absolutely common flu symptoms such as cough and absence of sense of taste and smell are marketed as an entirely new, unique symptom. Loss of sense of smell and taste is either a normal flu symptom or graphene dioxide poisoning from vaccines, test sticks and masks, as all are intentionally contaminated with this substance which is toxic to humans.

6. The reason the "experts" find a mortality rate of a non-existent virus in the first place is because they are falsely examining redefined, renamed flu data. Therefore, the 99.85% average recovery rate for "Covid-19" refers to the normal flu that was renamed "Covid-19" through various manipulations of the diagnostic, reporting, and statistical systems. That is why influenza practically disappeared from the statistics in 2020/21, with few double-digit cases left, which is tried to justify with ridiculous arguments.

 7. Massive fraud in diagnoses, data and statistics. Mainly caused by financial incentives for wrong diagnoses (Covid instead of regular flu) and wrong documentation (high utilization of intensive care beds). Also, manipulation of mortality rates in relation to generations and age structures.

 8. The original "virus" alone would not be legitimacy enough for the continuation and escalation of the agenda, hence "mutations" or "variants." These are manipulatively theorized, computer model-based theory constructs of the non-existent original "virus" (also a computer simulation) and provide the legitimacy for ever more booster vaccinations needed to gradually turn the humans it doesn’t kill into synthetic androids (GMO).

 9. The "vaccination" is a warfare agent, created to harm, cause weaknesses and diseases, and to kill in a time-delayed manner. Coinciding with a mass administration, laboratories controlled by the system are instructed to falsify fewer positive test results, while advice is issued by the controlled leading experts and institutes to use fewer PCR test cycles in order to obtain fewer positive test results and thus create the image that vaccination works. In turn, where vaccination coverage is low, higher cycles are applied to achieve higher numbers, thus feigning a need for higher vaccination coverage or more stringent measures.

 Sars-CoV-2 is not a new virus with a low mortality rate; it does not exist. Sars-CoV-2 is not a real virus whose dangerousness is being propagandistically exaggerated; it is a hoax based on deliberately flawed theories and fabrications.

It is an elaborate misleading theoretical construct, a psychological operation (PSYOP), executed by the NWO (New World Order), whose hierarchy operates above and within the official hierarchies (mostly leadership positions) of civilization. The pandemic construct is so complicated and confusing that it is able to deceive the vast majority of so-called professionals, while the critical or even competent minority of professionals are prevented from disagreeing by censorship, psychological terror and academic, financial and social pressure.

(...)

Conclusion  

A real pandemic is not factually taking place. The government is the biggest producer of fake news. The mask requirement serves solely to perpetuate the false belief that a real pandemic is occurring. It is perfidious psychological warfare against the population. It is escalated and expanded in stages (Overton window). Test stations, mandatory tests, vaccination passport, internment camps for "quarantine offenders", mandatory vaccination for all. The military will be deployed inside the country in violation of the Constitution, initially under the deceitful pretext of "administrative assistance" to accustom the population to its presence.

The state will stage attacks on vaccination centers/doctors' offices and propagate further "dangerous variants" (purely fictitious computer models + statistical fraud) to legitimize a permanent military deployment. The medical dictatorship is gradually putting its infrastructure in place by means of deception.

It is not about health, it is a national as well as global power grab by means of a large-scale constructed medical pretext. Theoretical computer models (Sars-CoV-2), manipulative testing (PCR testing), downgraded pandemic definition (WHO), artificial ICU bed shortages, financial incentives (IMF) for CovID diagnosis, and false reporting in the controlled media. It doesn't take a virus, it just takes fear of a virus! The swine flu "vaccine" (2009) resulted in severe neurological damage and lawsuits in the millions. Under no circumstances get vaccinated because of "CovID"! Especially please not children. That would be a grave mistake.

The CovID "vaccines" cause severe autoimmune diseases, trigger miscarriages, sterilize and mutate people into GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) with serious consequences. The media is purposefully fear-mongering and spreading panic. There is no fact-based reason to fear.

We are being lied to and manipulated into an artificial hysteria to accept laws that violate human rights. Do your own research, discover the truth. Overcome Stockholm syndrome. Put down your muzzles. Ignore lockdowns and curfews. Refuse fines. Open for business. Practice civil disobedience. Collectively reject criminal government orders. Adapt and emerge stronger. Hold those responsible accountable. For a livable normalcy without "measures", without a military-police-surveillance state.

NO to the pandemic hoax! NO to forced vaccination! NO medical dictatorship! RESIST!

“Where did the towers go?”

Conclusions and Summary

 In boiling water, the water’s hydrogen and oxygen molecules repel one another, and, in the case of WTC2, it looked as if the building’s own molecules were suddenly repelling each other. What I saw, and what we all now see, in Figure 495, is not rising smoke or trailing cloud, but, instead, what we see is an energised propulsion. We are not looking at signs of a force that caused the building to slam down into the ground at a rate faster than “free fall.” We are looking at signs of a force, instead, that turned the building to dust before it even had a chance to get to the ground. The official explanation—along with all theories of controlled demolition, thermite, and so on—would have us believe that we are looking at a gravity-driven collapse. And yet, hard as it may be to believe, what we are seeing in the Figure 497 photograph is not a building in collapse, but a building being disintegrated into parts so small that it will, in practical terms, disappear. As for it not being a “collapse” we’re looking at, consider the simple fact that some of the “dust” ejecta is actually being propelled upward.

 WTC Evidence that Must be Explained4 In addition to explaining why ejecta is being propelled upwardin what is officially said to be a downward “collapse,” any model of the WTC’s destruction, if that model is to be taken seriously, must seek to explain not some but all of the following facts, although these “facts” may also be thought of as occurrences, questions, things, and anomalies. The alert reader may notice that not even this highly detailed book itself has been able to cover all of them:

1. FACT: Although Hurricane Erin was located just off Long Island throughout the day of 9/11/01, both the approach in days before and the presence of the storm on that day went almost totally unreported. Hurricane Erin was omitted on the morning weather map, even though that portion of the Atlantic Ocean where she stood was covered by the map. Astronauts gazing down said they could see the drifting plume from the destruction of WTC2 and WTC1 but made no mention of the highly visible Erin. WHY?

2. FACT: Approximately 1,400 motor vehicles were toasted in strange ways during the destruction of the Twin Towers. WHY AND HOW?

3. FACT: During destruction, there appeared alongside the buildings curious cork­ screw trails, called in this book Sillystrings. WHY?

4. FACT: During the demise of each tower, large enough volumes of dust made of nano-sized particles went up, enough to block out 100% of sunlight in some areas. 

This nano-sized particulate dust in volume enough to achieve sun-light-blocking density constituted the remains of the greatest part of the destroyed buildings’ material substance. WHAT CAUSED THIS DUST TO FORM?

5. FACT: During the destruction, there was an absence of high heat. Witnesses reported that the initial dust cloud felt cooler than ambient temperatures. 

Additionally, there was scant evidence of burned bodies, although in one case a man was described as “crisped” even while his jacket remained uncrisped, indicating an “inside-out” combustion not possible with conventional fire. WHAT CAUSED THESE PHENOMENA?

6. FACT: Evidence that the WTC dust continued to break down and become finer and finer long after 9/11 itself came through the observable presence of Fuzzballs. WHAT CAUSES THIS PHENOMENON?

7. FACT: First responders on 9/11 testified as to toasted cars, spontaneous “fires” (including the flaming heavy coat of a running medic, who survived), the instant  disappearance of people, a plane turning into a fireball in mid-air, electrical power cut off moments before WTC 2 destruction, and the sound of explosions. WHAT CAUSED THESE PHENOMENA?

8. FACT: For more than seven years, regions in the ground under where the main body of WTC4 stood have continued to fume. WHY?

9. FACT: Hazy clouds, called Fuzzyblobs in this book, appeared in the vicinity of material undergoing destruction. WHY?

10. FACT: Magnetometer readings from six stations in Alaska recorded abrupt shifts in the Earth’s magnetic field as each of the major destructive events unfolded at the WTC on 9/11. WHY?

11. FACT: Many cars in the neighborhood of the WTC complex were flipped upside down. They couldn’t have been flipped by hurricane-force winds, since they stood adjacent to trees with full foliage, not stripped by high wind. WHY?

12. FACT: More damage was done to the bathtub by earth-moving equipment during the clean-up process than from the destruction of more than a million tons of buildings above it WHY?

13. FACT: Most of the destroyed towers underwent mid-air pulverization and were turned to dust before they hit the ground. WHAT FORCE CAUSED THIS “DUSTIFICATION”?

14. FACT: Near-instant rusting of affected steel provided evidence of molecular dissociation and transmutation. WHY?

15. FACT: Of the estimated 3,000 toilets in WTC1 and WTC2, not one survived, nor was any recognizable portion of one whatsoever found. WHY?

16. FACT: Only one piece of office equipment in the entire WTC complex, a filing cabinet with folder dividers, survived. WHY?

17. FACT: Only the north wing of WTC4 was left standing, neatly sliced from the main body, which virtually disappeared. FACT 18. FACT: Rail lines, tunnels and most of the rail cars at levels under the WTC complex had only light damage, if any. WHY?

19. FACT: Cylindrical holes were cut into the vertical faces of buildings 4, 5 and 6. 

They were cut also into Liberty Street in front of Bankers Trust and into Vesey Street in front of WTC6. In addition, a cylindrical arc was cut into the facade of Bankers Trust WHY AND HOW?

20. FACT: Scott-Paks—portable air-tanks for firemen—frequently exploded for no visible reason. Entire fire trucks themselves that were parked near the WTC exploded. WHY? HOW?

21. FACT: Sheets of plain office paper were omnipresent throughout lower Manhattan after each tower’s destruction. This paper, however, remained unburned, even though it was often immediately adjacent to flaming cars or to steel beams glowing red, yellow, and even white. WHY?

22. FACT: Some steel beams and pieces of glass at and near GZ had what this book calls a Swiss-Cheese appearance. WHY?

23. FACT: Steel columns from the towers were curled around vertical axes like rolled- up carpets. Steel columns of this kind, however, when they buckle from being overloaded, would be bent around the horizontal, not the vertical, axis. 

WHY?

24. FACT: The “collapse” of the towers took place with remarkably little damage to neighboring buildings. The only seriously damaged or entirely destroyed buildings, in fact, were those with the WTC prefix, only those, that is, that were a part of the WTC complex. WHY?

25. FACT: The destruction of WTC7 in late afternoon on 9/11 was whisper quiet. 

The seismic signal during its disappearance was not significantly greater than background noise. WHY?

26. FACT: The facades of WFC1 and WFC2 showed no apparent structural damage from the destruction of WTC1 and WTC2. However, the decorative marble façade around the entry to the buildings was completely missing, entirely gone. 

WHY? FROM WHAT FORCE?

27. FACT: In the dirt pile, the Fuming was unusual for its quality of immediately decreasing when watered, contrary to fumes caused by fire or heat, where an initial steam-up is the response to watering. WHY?

28. FACT: The majority of the towers (WTC1, WTC2, WTC3, WTC7) did not remain as rigid bodies as they “fell.” WHY NOT?

29. FACT: The method of destruction in the case of each tower minimised damage to the bathtub and adjacent buildings, whereas terrorists would have been expected to maximize damage, including that of infrastructure.

30. FACT: The protective bathtub was not significantly damaged by the destruction of the Twin Towers.

31. FACT: The seismic impact was minimal during the destructions of WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7-and far too small to correspond with a conventional “collapse” as based on a comparison with the Kingdome controlled demohtion.

32. FACT: The Twin Towers were destroyed from the top down, not from the bottom up.

33. FACT: The Twin Towers were destroyed in a shorter time than can be explained by physics as a “collapse” even at free-fall speed.

34. FACT: The upper 80 percent, approximately, of each tower was turned into fine dust and did not crash to the earth.

35. FACT: The upper 90 percent, approximately, of the inside of WTC7 was turned into fine dust and did not crash to the earth.

36. FACT: The WTC underground mall survived well, witnessed by Warner Brothers’ Road Runner and friends.

37. FACT: The WTC1 and WTC2 rubble pile was far too small to account for the total mass of the buildings.

38. FACT: The WTC7 rubble pile was too small to account for the total mass of the building, and much of it consisted of mud.

39. FACT: Truckloads of dirt were hauled both into and out of the WTC site, a pattern that continues to this day.

40. FACT: What this book calls lather, thick clouds of dust and fumes, emanated from some faces of buildings before destruction, as if large volumes of the buildings’ mass was dissolving into the air. Lather poured from WTC7 for several hours before its destruction. WHY?

4L FACT: What this book calls weird fire appeared frequently on 9/11. This “fire” flamed but gave no evidence of providing heat, not even enough to burn nearby sheets of paper. WHY?

42. FACT: Glass windows on nearby buildings received circular and other odd-shaped holes without the entire panes breaking. WHY?

43. FACT: Changes and alterations in materials on 9/11 were similar or even identical in a great many ways to the changes and alterations in materials caused by The Hutchison Effect. The Hutchison Effect is known to result in material-altering phenomena of the kinds we have listed here.

C. Summary 

To determine what happened on 9/11, not just some but all available evidence must be considered. We cannot pick and choose which observable facts we may want to explain and then ignore the others. Any explanation must be integrated into a Unified Theory Before sundown on 9/11 /01, seven buildings lay in ruins, some of which quite simply looked bombed, and one of those buildings in ruins, a 47-story tower, had not even, in its disappearance, produced a seismic impact that was significantly identifiable beyond normal background noise at several of the nearby seismic-recording stations. 

Audio/video recordings during the “collapse” of that building, WTC7, were reported to have recorded low-level street conversations but not the overwhelming sounds one would expect if 240,000 tons of material were in the process of slamming to the ground. As for the tallest two towers, they seemed simply to have vanished into vast clouds of dust.

Impossible as it may seem, most of the steel from those towers also vanished, literally turned into dust. From Day One of clearing ground zero, around-the-clock photos of the demoEtion were taken. Did you see any photos of the 3000 truckloads of steel being driven away? Neither did I.

A few surviving massive steel members were completely convoluted. Can anyone still think these incredible, impossibly-contorted shapes were the result of a jet-fueled, relatively low-temperature, fire?

One exceptionally astute scientist/experimentalist, John Hutchison, produces field effects that contort metal in manners comparable to what we see in official photos of those grossly-twisted structural members of heavy steel.

In my attempt to learn what happened on 9/11, I have examined Official Government photographs, photographs from news organizations, professional photographers, and private citizens, as well as other independent information from many entirely trust Worthy and credible sources. All observable facts that are available must be considered carefully, seriously, and objectively if we are to establish what it was that happened on 9/11/2001.

None of the facts, events, anomalies, or phenomena that we have listed, discussed, and analyzed in this book can be explained by airliner crashes, jet fuel fires, or any scheme of controlled demolition. A comparison of the evidence we have collected with the evidence of results produced by Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), hurricanes and tornadoes, and the well-established Hutchison Effect has proven highly suggestive, pointing to a way of understanding the source of otherwise inexplicable events and phenomena. It points to a way of helping us to find out what happened on 9/11.

This book is not about naming a known technology. This book is about observing the evidence of what happened and understanding what happened. As explained at the end of Chapter 20 (pages 451 to 452) , there will likely be those who will not be able to resist the impulse to put a name of a known technology on what produced this evidence. To do so blindly assumes such technology is in the public domain. This naming introduces assumptions that distract away from understanding the actual evidence and will only serve to pull a veil of mystery over it. 

My concern throughout this book has been solely and only with that single and scientific question of what happened. I have presented the evidence available to me and I have explored and analyzed it to the best of my ability. I trust that readers will follow me in the same spirit of objective scientific inquiry that is the spirit, that has guided me in the writing of the book.

D. Final thoughts 

We stand at the dawn of an entirely new age. By all the evidence, man has in his hands a method of disrupting the molecular basis for matter and the ability, very possibly, to split the earth in half on a moment’s notice. The technology demonstrated on 9/11 can, indeed, split the earth in half,5 or it can be used to allow all people to live fruitful, constructive, and non-polluting lives through their use of free energy.

He who controls the energy, controls the people. Control of energy, depending on what that energy is, can either destroy or sustain the planet.

We have a choice. And the choice is real. We can live happily and fruitfully and productively, or we can destroy the planet and die, every last one of us, along with every living being on this planet.

These are the reasons I have spent so much time studying the evidence of what happened on 9/11. 9/11 was a demonstration to the world of a new technology known as free energy. This is a force that can be used for demonic, ruinous, Earth­ destructive purposes. Or it can be used for the good of us, of the Earth, and of our civilizations. We have a choice. And that choice is ours.

But in order to exercise that choice, in order to be equipped to exercise it, we must keep our eyes open wide and our minds, both our scientific and our social­humanist minds, unvaryingly on high alert. After all, two of the very tallest buildings in the world went missing on that awful, grievous day in September. And yet no one continued to ask, “Where did the towers go?”

Now we know the answer to that extraordinary question—the question that should have been asked by every one of us long before now.

Dr. Judy Wood http://drjudywood.com/towers

From the book 

WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO ?

ODIGO WARNINGS or One Israeli Death

 Nearly 500 foreign nationals from over 80 different nations were killed in the World Trade Center. The next day, September 12, the  Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli embassy in America was bombarded on 9/11 with calls from 4,000 worried Israeli families. It quoted Israel’s PM Shimon Perez: ‘The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack.’ [71] The Foreign Ministry had compiled the number from Israeli relatives who in the first few hours after the attack, contacted the Israeli Foreign Ministry and gave the names of Israeli friends and relatives who worked in the WTC or who had business scheduled in it or its adjacent structures. 

“Logic alone would tell you that there would be many hundreds, if not thousands of Israelis in the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks.

The international Jewish involvement in banking and finance is legendary. Two of the richest firms in New York are Goldman-Sachs and the Solomon Brothers; and both firms have offices in the Twin Towers. Many executives in these firms regularly commute back and forth to Israel. New York is the center of world wide  [72]Jewish financial power and the World Trade Center is at its epicenter. One would expect the Israeli death toll to be catastrophic.” 

On September13th, “Four Israelis were almost certainly in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center when they collapsed, the Israeli consul in New York said this evening.” This number kept dwindling. A week later, President Bush stated that 130 had died, but 129 of these were found to be still alive. The NY times (22nd September) found that 3 Israelis were confirmed dead, two from planes and one from the Towers [73], [74]. Of this total the British historian David Irving wrote: “We are happy to report that the 4,000 figure dwindled eventually to three (not three thousand, but three), then two, then one: the unfortunate Daniel Lewin.” [75]Two Mossad agents were present, on Flight UA 175 and Flight AA 11 respectively: the latter had Daniel Lewin, a 28-year old graduate of Israel’s elite commando unit, the “World’s most elite anti- hijacking team”.

He was a captain in this unit, and the story soon developed that he had been shot by Satam Al Suqami, as the four Arabs attempted to storm the cockpit. (Satam was the one whose passport supposedly fluttered down to Ground Zero where the FBI found it). Sayeret Matkal is Israel’s elite team that handles aircraft hijackings and assassinations, specializing in aircraft takeovers. During the 1970s and 1980s, this secretive Israeli anti-terrorist unit (akin to the Delta Force) thwarted many attempted hijacks. Members of this unit are trained in looking and thinking like an Arab. Flight UA 175 (Boston to LA, allegedly hijacked to fly into the south tower) had the Israeli citizen and probable Mossad agent named Alora Avraham. This 27 year old was raised in the Israeli settlement of Ashdod. One surmises that Lewin may not have died, but had some key role in, whatever happened.

On the morning of 9/11, a two-hour advance warning to stay out of the towers was received by the Israeli firm of Odigo, [76] whose Research and Development center is in Herzliya, Israel, a town north of Tel Aviv where Mossad is headquartered. This messaging company, with its office a mere two blocks from the former WTC, received a warning originating from an Israeli branch. One never heard details, but Odigo’s vice president Alex Diamandis said, “The messages said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of time, and it did – almost to the minute.” Odigo has a feature called “People Finder” which allows a user to send an instant message to a large group based on a common characteristic, such as Israeli nationality, while maintaining user privacy. This is surely the explanation, as to why no Israeli nationals working in the Towers died that morning (there was one who died, but he was just visiting). “Comverse and Odigo have had a long-standing partnership and together have developed instant communications products and services that we have recently begun to offer to operators around the world,” declared Zeev Bregman, CEO of Comverse [77].

Nick Kollerstorm Who Did 9/11?

A View from Across the Pond

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ODIGO WARNINGS

In the first days and weeks after 9-11, I paid very close attention to the large number of Israeli terror suspects arrested, which was more than two hundred by November 2001, and investigated the published reports that an Israeli instant text message service had been used to warn Israelis of the attacks in New York, hours before they occurred. Many Israelis were evidently forewarned of the attacks through an Israeli instant messaging service called Odigo. This story, which presents the clearest evidence of Israeli prior knowledge of the attacks, was reported only very briefly in the U.S. media – and then forgotten.

According to the published reports, Israel-based employees of Odigo reported having received warnings of an imminent attack at the World Trade Center hours before the first plane hit the north tower. Odigo, an Israeli-owned company, had its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the World Trade Center, but the forewarned Odigo employees did not pass the terror warning on to the authorities in New York, an act that would have saved thousands of lives.

Two weeks after 9-11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, said, "The messages said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of time, and it did – almost to the minute." "It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message," Diamandis said. Four thousand Israelis were expected to have been working at the World Trade Center on 9-11, yet only one was reported to have died at the complex. Based on the Israeli government figure that 4,000 Israelis were expected to have been at the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks, it seems evident that many Israeli Odigo users got the message of warning.

Odigo, which offers real-time messaging, has a feature called "People Finder" which allows a user to send an instant message to a large group based on a common characteristic, such as Israeli nationality. "People Finder" allows Odigo users to search for online "buddies," with filters like Israeli nationality, while maintaining user privacy at all times. The message was probably sent in Hebrew. The Internet address of the sender of the warning was allegedly given to the FBI. Two months later it was reported that the FBI was still investigating the matter. Since then there have been no further media reports about the Odigo warning of 9/11.

These two news stories about the fake Israeli "movers" and the Odigo messages, which clearly indicated that some Israelis had very specific prior knowledge of the attacks, were published in American and Israeli newspapers shortly after 9-11. Had the recipients of these Odigo instant messages contacted the New York police department, thousands of lives could have been saved. The question that has not been asked is, why didn't they?

CUI BONO?

There were several early indicators that Israelis were involved in 9-11 and that it was a spectacular "false flag" terror attack designed to serve as a casus belli to drag the United States    into the "War on Terror." Apart from the previously mentioned evidence of Israeli prior knowledge, there were also the amazingly insensitive comments of Netanyahu about 9-11 being "very good" in his view.

Netanyahu, it should be noted, is the author of several books which call for the western nations to engage in a global "War on Terror." Since 1986, Netanyahu has urged the United States and western democracies to take up arms against the enemies of Israel in the name of "fighting terrorism," which is the title of one of his books. The "terrorists" that Netanyahu wants the West to wage war on, however, all happen to be the people and states opposed to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land.

I approached the 9-11 investigation with a twenty-five year history of having lived in and followed the events of the Middle East. After many years of traveling in Europe and the Middle East, I obtained a degree in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1992. My academic emphasis was on Palestine and Israel. After the first U.S. war against Iraq, which I was actively opposed to, I spent my final year of university training researching the Soviet occupation of the newly liberated Baltic republics and completing my courses at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Fate brought me into the proximity of another mass disaster on the morning of September 28, 1994, when I arrived by ship in Sweden and learned that the Baltic ferry named Estonia had sunk during the night with 852 victims lost at sea. My wife's first husband, a famous Estonian singer named Urmas Alender, was among the missing. While it was abundantly clear that something much more explosive than a "monster wave" had sunk the ferry, the Swedish government and media pretended that natural forces had caused the catastrophe. In the process of investigating what happened in the ferry disaster, I came to realize that a modern "democratic" state, like Sweden, could actually be complicit in the cover-up of the mass murder of hundreds of its own citizens.

When in the year 2000, I began working as a journalist for the Washington-based Spotlight, later to become the American Free Press, I turned my attention to the mysterious 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York. I attended the final sessions of the government agency (NTSB) involved in investigating the "crash" of Flight 800 and was appalled at the obvious cover-up of the facts. I watched how three Jewish members of the board completely dominated the NTSB final sessions and how the testimonies of more than 100 eyewitnesses, who had testified to having seen a streaking object hitting the aircraft in flight, were categorically dismissed because, according to a young Jewish member of the board, based on the time of the observations, all of the witnesses must have been drunk and hallucinating. After the two-day presentation of the NTSB findings there was no press conference or session allowing for questions from the media or public. This was clearly another cover-up.

I had also studied the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and seen how the U.S. government and military had covered up the truth of the Israeli military attack on the unarmed Navy vessel off the coast of Egypt in 1967. With this background I approached the events of 9-11. Well aware of the history of false-flag terror, the overwhelming Zionist influence in government and media, and dishonest official investigations into recent mass disasters, I was a natural skeptic from the start.

Quote from the book Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed The World  by Christopher Bollyn

On whose behalf the lying, stealth, fraud, torture, killing, destabilization and terror are being carried out

 

The AtlanticMisses the Boat March 21, 2006

The top story in the April issue of the Atlantic is headlined: “The Infiltrator: How This Man Helped Topple the Most Tenacious Terrorist Organization in History.”15 It’s about the Irish Republican Army (IRA), now apparently a spent force. In a “post-9/11 world” it seems any story with “terrorist,” “terrorism” or “war on terror” in the headline will attract fearful readers seeking information on how to protect themselves from this insidious threat lurking everywhere.
Most such articles embroider the make believe official line. But this one, by freelancer Matthew Teague, is remarkable in two ways. First, it delivers rarely-published information about false-flag assassinations and bombings carried out by the network of government agents who execute so many “terrorist” outrages. Second, it appears that the editors of the Atlantic have very little idea of what they have published.

Maybe they are so immersed in the official line that they cannot see what Teague has written. Based on the information in the eight-page article, the headline might read: “I Killed for the British So They Could Blame the IRA.” Teague’s main source is ex-British agent Kevin Fulton, who was recruited at the age of 18. For some reason Fulton decided to spill the beans about his career as an informant/killer who infiltrated the IRA in “a cutthroat and secret British effort … carried out in the shadows …” Says Fulton: “Darker even than people can imagine.”

The article details a convoluted story of double dealing, betrayal, torture and death. British spy services recruited disaffected IRA members who, with relative ease made their way into top positions, including head of internal IRA security. The “ease” part was killing. To rank-and-file IRA members a killing was a bloody badge proving the killer to be an authentic supporter of the IRA cause. The members of this “terrorist” organization were unable to conceive of an infiltrator killing in cold blood just to establish his credentials. This failure of the imagination was the IRA’s main Achilles Heel.

In some cases, a lesser British agent under suspicion within the IRA would be killed by another British agent higher up — a “prize” British agent. This would remove the unsatisfactory agent in an extreme way while burnishing, within the IRA, the credibility of the higher-up agent.

All agents were, needless to say, indoctrinated. “Each night Fulton rocked himself to sleep,” writes Teague, “repeating the mantra his handlers had given him: ‘The greater good. The greater good. The greater good.’” The IRA members also were unable to grasp the extent to which their movement had been infiltrated or for how long. Teague interviewed “folk hero” Denis Donaldson, the “legendary IRA hunger striker.” When Teague told Donaldson about Fulton’s confessions, “Donaldson’s shoulders slumped. ‘I still can’t believe it,’ he said, shaking his head. ‘My God.’” After Teague returned to the US he received the news that Donaldson had been found out as a British spy — and that he had been “for two decades.” He was killed in early 2006.

The British strategy was laid down and implemented by Brigadier General Frank Kitson in Kenya who, Teague writes, “had recruited locals with money and idealism, and infiltrated the insurgent ranks … with layer upon layer of sabotage, subterfuge and duplicity …” Kitson’s “principles,” adds Teague, now are “being followed by American forces in Iraq.”

Much if not most of the terrorism the world news media reported as having been carried out by the IRA was in fact carried out by British agents inside the IRA. The British agents, acting at the behest of the British government, were also largely responsible for the IRA’s acquisition of increasingly sophisticated technologies of murder, such as US-manu-factured bomb detonators triggered by infrared signals.

A great deal of background about the false flag nature of outrages attributed to the IRA — and to al Qaeda — is contained in the recent book Spies, Lies & Whistleblowers,16 by ex-agents Annie Machon and David Shayler. In it, Machon and Shayler state that “MI5 illegally investigated thousands of UK citizens for their political views,” allowed “a known Libyan terrorist into Britain … and allowed him to set up a terrorist network,” and “illegally paid thousands of pounds to al Qaeda to stage a coup in Libya.” The last sentence of the 378-page book is: “What you have read in this book is only the tip of the iceberg.”

Throughout the Atlantic article, Fulton is described by Teague as “a terrorist” and “a bomber for the IRA.” Fulton does not deny the accura-cy of these descriptions. A fellow agent/killer, Freddie Scappaticci, responsible for killing “dozens of people” — three of them are named — was found out and fled the IRA. Teague does not address, and the Atlantic editors apparently did not ask him to address what seems to me an obvious question: how can Fulton, presumably Scappaticci and no doubt many other killers, walk the streets with impunity? In a just and sane world, the article might be headed: “Those Who Torture, Kill and Bomb for an Empire and Survive Will Never be Called to Account.”

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Kitson went on to mastermind similar efforts in Malaya, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia, states that “Since World War II, the British military has engaged in over 50 low intensity campaigns.”17

The British Who’s Whostates that Kitson’s career concluded with his becoming Commander in Chief, United Kingdom Land Forces and Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen (1983-85). In 1985 he was made Knight Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire. His address: c/o Lloyd’s Bank, Farnham, Surrey. His club: Boodles. Empires serve the owners of their commercial interests and reward the servants of those owners with the highest accolades, instead of prison terms. It is well to remember on whose behalf the lying, stealth, fraud, torture, killing, destabilization and terror are being carried out.

False-Flag Operation Strategies and Examples

Attacking a second party to frame a third party (for instance blowing up a Sunni mosque with the intention that the Shia will be blamed, and vice versa) is suitable for destabilization purposes. Luring enemies into attack-ing you is suitable for launching “retaliatory actions” which in fact are aggressive, but you claim their “unprovoked aggression” justifies your “measured response.” A variation is simply to claim they’ve attacked you (as was the case with the Tonkin Gulf resolution). The gold standard is a care-fully arranged significant “attack” on yourself and blaming your targeted enemy for it. Such was the 9/11 false-flag op.

History (but not history books, in any coherent way) provides an abundance of examples of false-flag ops, often involving great loss of life. Just a few will be detailed here. It is important that we familiarize ourselves with the sad truth about false-flag ops, so we can try to end them.

Meanwhile, we need to build into our reflexes and indeed our very bone marrow just how common and dirty are false-flag operations. The next time we see a news story about some outrage — a bombing or hostage taking or execution — we should reserve judgment about who the true perpetrators are until we learn more.

In fact, I take it further: I believe that we’re justified in assuming initially that the latest outrage is a false-flag op, until we are persuaded otherwise, no matter the naïve wall-to-wall bleatings of the incurious establishment-oriented mainstream media or the emotional knee-jerk reactions of our more gullible or incurious fellow citizens. The assumption has proven itself reasonable because of how common false-flag ops have become. 

 The false-flag card is being played repeatedly all over the world, as proven by the sampling of cases that follow. The game is called the “war on terror.” We’re told “the other side,” the “jihadists” and “Islamofascists,” are always dealing explosive cards. The record shows otherwise. More like the reverse. The “war on terror” is a dangerous and demeaning illusion fabricated mainly in Washington and London. Now, open the hidden history book and as you read, note the number of times the media swallowed the official story, or fabricated their own, and carried on beating the drums of war. Count the number of times in the following accounts that the media counseled sober second thought, investigated thoroughly and early, encouraged careful debate ….

from the book Towers of deception by Barrie Zwicker