Arms Against War -- Visibly United

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It began with this open letter, from a longtime supporter of the Unified Settlement:


Dear Friends,

I am so worried and angry about the way our world is being treated by our governments. They spy, they invade countries illegally, they are involved in torture and at no point are they doing what they were elected to do - look after the interests of the people of their countries. I can think of no decision in the past few years that was made for my good by my government. I know too that many,many people feel the same. But what is worse, we feel unable to do anything about it.

Personally, I have attended marches, been to a major International Peace Conference, written countless letters to politicians and media and signed a ridiculous number of petitions - and nothing happened. My voice is not heard. My anger with the government grew even more when I recently searched Google for anti-war/peace groups and well over 3 million appeared. All these groups have concerns about the legality of the war in Iraq and concern about impending wars in Syria and Iran . The issues move faster than the protesters can keep up with and again, no-one is listening anyway (except the 'intelligence' agencies who are spying on their own citizens).

I wondered how many it would take - how many anti-war/peace groups increase the volume and visibility enough so that governments can realise we are more against the war, than for. How can we make them see that the people who elected them disagree with the decisions they are making and the actions they are taking in their citizens' names? I don't want my tax each week to kill an innocent civilian, mis-informed soldier or anyone else - I am responsible for this war waged by my government - in my name. I wish I wasn't.

So, to finally reach the point of this letter. How do you feel about the war in Iraq ? Would you like to have an end to it? Do you oppose your tax paying for it? Do you object to the death of our young soldiers? Do you object to the reasons for war? If you do want an end to the war in Iraq for any reason then please, please do me just one favour - one concerned human being for another - wear a strip of white fabric around your arm.

I realise it sounds small, insignificant and futile - but, I truly believe, that a show of opposition is essential in order to get media and government to be in a position where they can no longer ignore the many, many people who oppose this one point in unison. I realise there are so many issues that need to be tackled, but believe that tackling just one, gives us a united start. The reason a white armband of any fabric was chosen is important. I know that not all people the world over, who oppose the war in Iraq, can afford to attend demonstrations or spare the time, many people do not want to affiliate themselves with specific anti-war/peace groups as they may not agree the rest of the agenda, many people cannot spare the time to write letters, make calls and bother their (largely ignorant) governments who rarely, if ever respond - so a simple white piece of fabric is available to everybody, all the time, without purchase, without an agenda.

If you choose to wear the white armband you are saying just one thing "I WANT AN END TO THE WAR IN IRAQ". You are not agreeing to any agenda, movement or politics – you are acting as an individual saying just one thing "I WANT AN END TO THE WAR IN IRAQ". This form of voicing your opinion is a way to make this statement at all times, peacefully, until we are noticed. I know the instant response in your heart will be "what is the point?"….but please ignore that and just make this one move, take this one step in the direction you want the world to improve. No war in Iraq would be a start – and a start is exactly what we need, at this moment, to begin. This is a highly visible way to show the governments that their people object in large numbers, to the actions they are taking. Please, please join me – if only to make one person happy J

Thank you so much for reading and thank you so much for your support, each of us is a vital part of humanity with a right to have our say.

Namaste

ONE DAY......... www.armsagainstwar.info VISIBLY UNITED

PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE

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Now, as you can see, this movement has a web presence -- and yes, more and more are visiting the site every day. Here are some of the sites that help by providing a link to Arms Against War:

http://rationalreview.com/land#action

http://www.rationalreview.com/content/6924

http://www.coary.com/

http://www.counterpunch.org/ (website of the day January 23rd 2006)

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?&itemid=3659

http://news.antville.org/stories/1311211/

http://abutamam.blogspot.com/2006/01/women-under-occupations-rules-of.html

http://www.ugandannetwork.com/let1.htm

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/113176.shtml

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/jrudy585/Index.html

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/332228.html

http://www.Protest.Net/imcuk/calendrome.cgi?eo=1&eid=538187&auth=K1FJGU02BO
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0601/S00198.htm

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/832025.shtml

http://www.isil.org/fnd/

http://uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?list=type&type=24
Now add: Nation of Earth http://unifiedsettlement.blogspot.com/


This is, as I have told the author of the open letter (and main force behind the effort), exactly what the Unified Settlement is about.

Once again, it is not important whether anyone recognizes the name, Unified Settlement, or has a clue that it was founded nearly 2 years ago. It is not important for anyone to know who I am. I founded this nation in hopes to help bring us more gently and more quickly into our bright future. If ALL the Unified Settlement has done so far is to be part of the inspiration behind Arms Against War, then it has helped to make a difference.

All along, I've wondered what it would take to begin to get the people united. The answer turns out to be very simple. Find something that at least half of us feel strongly about, create a simple expression for that sentiment, and set it loose.


It is a beginning.


Phil Smith
January 30th, 2006


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Tempus Edax Rerum

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Tempus Edax Rerum
(Time Devours All)

"...and I might not get there with you, but I want you to know, tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!" -- Martin Luther King Jr., less than 24 hours before his assassination.

Just before that, of course, he said, "...I have SEEEEEEEN -- the Promised Land."

What I feel that many people don't understand is that the Promised Land he was speaking of is Heaven on Earth. Many see him as having been a deeply religious, deeply spiritual man, and that he was, but he was also a human activist -- and a visionary.


MLK stood for the same things I stand for. I won't compare myself to him (though I'm soon to turn 39, the age at which he was so senselessly murdered, and our birthdays are only a few days apart), but if I were to choose only one hero, Dr. King might be it.


For the record, his birthday is January 15th, a fact obscured by this country's predilection for celebrating official holidays on Mondays. In case you're curious, mine's January 18th, and yes last year I declared it an 'official' Unified Settlement holiday, "Founder's Day", second only to "Settlement Day", which this year will be the 2nd anniversary of the founding of this Nation of Earth, February 27th 2004.

Realizing I'm now the approximate age of Dr. King when his activism caused 'them' to decide he should no longer live is strangely similar to my experience of the 'suiciding' of Kurt Cobain -- he was about my age at the time.

Do I feel old? A couple of my contemporaries are Janet Jackson and Tony Hawk. Are they 'old'?

There's a bit of a Logan's Run thing going on these days. No, I don't mean that people are customarily volunteering to end their lives at 30, but that there seems to be a similar obliteration of history. Maybe I don't know much from personal experience -- Dr. King was killed while I was still in diapers -- but I pay attention to history, because "Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

Now, in whose interest is it that the each successive generation knows less and less about what came before? In whose interest is it to keep the general population ignorant of the lessons of history?

Does public school, and for that matter do expensive college and university courses help students understand what really happened, and why -- or do they give brief overviews and stress memorization of names and dates, instead of exploring the reasons behind events, and their impact?

If people really understood how we got to where we are and why, they absolutely would not allow the current shenanigans of the power elite. Thus, such knowledge has been closely guarded.

Excuse me, but it is my assertion (and that of many others) that the public in general has been deliberately 'dumbed down'. Some have gone so far as to track down the machinations of this process, and the source of it...

If I were to name names and point fingers, some readers of this weblog might balk at the information and label me a 'conspiracy theorist' -- which of course I would object to, because I am one who has studied the FACTs of conspiracy, a conspiratologist.


So, without naming names, even the names of groups, I'll lay the situation out once again:

Even if power doesn't necessarily corrupt, we observe that the corrupt seek power. Morally bereft as they may be, a lot of 'them' are very clever. And, just like anyone else, they seek out those of like mind. Then, instead of getting together and planning something beneficial to all, they will get together and scheme to benefit themselves -- not only with disregard to Joe Average, but with intent to exploit him, manipulate him, make him do their dirty work, give him a false ideology that serves their own purposes.

The very nature of their plans and schemes means that they must be made in secret -- defining their activities as conspiracy. 'They' thrive on deceit. They lie, they cheat, they steal, they threaten, they ruin lives, and they kill. The end, for 'them', always justifies the means.

They are heartless, almost soulless.

If you can understand that such people exist, and that some of them are very clever, and that they are able to form secret organizations, perhaps you can also understand that they have existed for a very, very long time. Maybe you can see that their organizations are made to appear beneficial, a deception that allows for their continued operation.

Can you imagine how long it's been going on? If so, expand that exponentially. Tempus Edax Rerum -- time devours all -- is a Latin phrase. Eventually, people will forget the lessons of the past -- at least, 'they' hope so, and will do what they can to ensure that it IS so.

If we can't recognize what THEY have done before, how will we know when it's being done to us again?

One thing 'they' have apparently not considered is that the concept of right & wrong is something that can be refined by LOGIC. Therefore those who are more clever than 'they' are can invariably be found within the opposition, the resistance.

It is unfortunate that those with a good sense of what is right and what is wrong tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. We are, to a fault, too trusting. It is difficult for us to see the motivations of the criminal mind. It's all too easy to view reports of conspiracy as 'crazy theory', especially when 'they' are clever enough to cover their tracks fairly well.

Yet, 'they' have become quite arrogant as they gain more and more power, nearly flaunting their actions. In this, the Information Age, they have 'blown their cover', and the word is spreading quickly.


Dr. King was right. We, as a people, WILL get to the Promised Land. It's just around the corner, and only 'they' and their deception stand in our way.

Time devours all, including the reign of the wicked.



Phil Smith
January 17th, 2006



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What Is the Unified Settlement?

THE FLAG OF EARTH
http://www.flagofearth.com/

The Unified Settlement was founded February 27th, 2004, in response to the question, "What are ya gonna do about it?"

If a global, peaceful, freedom-based nation isn't exactly an original idea, neither was it copied from anything else. The concept is too obvious not to have been thought up by many others, however separated by time and space. I'll freely admit to having been influenced by things I've read, then and now. We reach ever higher by standing on the shoulders of our predecessors.

The idea seemed right to me, so I went with it. Given the grip the power elite have over us, here on Earth where we are SETTLED, if the many are to be free from the relative few, those many must become UNIFIED. Activism is a good thing, but if activist individuals and groups were to realize that all their causes could be served by joining together, their combined power would assuredly change the world.

Think about that for a moment. All these causes -- What is the source of the problems they are trying to solve? In nearly every case, you will find government involved, either directly or indirectly. This is not a knee-jerk reaction, but a carefully considered position.

There was a time when I thought a direct democracy would be best, but it was pointed out to me that direct democracy invariably leads to 'mob rule', bringing everything down to the lowest common denominator. When I had to admit that people were in fact easily swayed, through propaganda and other means, I began to wonder if there could be any form of government that would be immune to corruption.

Another definition of 'mob rule' might be 'under the control of organized crime'. Well? Can someone tell me that the major governments of this world are not criminal organizations? Is government not a magnet for corruption?

Yes, there are some who seek office because they genuinely wish to be public servants. Some of them even manage to keep from being bribed or coerced into 'the family' and 'their' way of doing things. That rare beast, the actual public servant, is more likely to be found at the local level. The higher up they go, the more pressure they face to toe the 'company' line.

I happen to live in West Virginia, one of the United States that all too many Americans don't seem to know exists -- they think the name of the state simply refers to the western part of Virginia, which settlers west of the mountains first attempted to become seperate from as early as 1776. In 1783 they wanted to call it "Westsylvania" -- I suppose if that were the name today it would get confused with 'Wrestlemania'... Anyway it took another 80 years and a civil war (an oxymoron if ever there was one) for statehood to finally be granted. Some of our governors haven't exactly been ones to be proud of, but now we have Joe Manchin III, who is in my estimation one of those rare beasts -- an actual public servant, a real person who genuinely cares about other people.

If government were largely comprised of such men (and women), we would effectively have 'official activism' -- government representatives would more often than not do their best to, well, REPRESENT the people and SOLVE problems instead of creating them. However, this not being a perfect world, it is the greedy, corrupt, and power-hungry who are in control.

Sad, but true.

It is very possible for local governments to be kept in check, but less and less likely that governments can be accountable, the larger and larger they get. Thus it is the largest which must be dissolved first.

Do we need a United Nations? Do we need a European Union? Do we need individual nations, or even states and provinces? Do we even need cities to operate as anything but public service corporations? These are things for the people to decide, when they finally get it through their heads that big government is a big self-serving lie.


The Unified Settlement is NOT a government. As a global nation, it knows no boundaries. As workers unionize to keep from being taken advantage of by corporations, so must we all band together to reverse oppression by the power elite.

'They' have used every trick they could think of to fool us into giving them more and more power. WE have to stand up and demand our true freedom.


WE are the Unified Settlement.



Phil Smith
January 11th, 2006

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Anarchy vs Chaos

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I can almost hear them now...

"Oh Gosh. Really? Eliminate government? But, but... Don't we need it? For this, that, and the other thing?"

Yes, really. And no, we don't. I didn't start out as an anarchist, but the more I looked, the more I saw that, beyond being unnecessary, government is generally a bad idea.

I'm not saying we wouldn't have problems if we didn't have government. What I AM saying is that all our biggest problems are caused by it. You may ask, "Is there not some form of government we can adopt, that will only be beneficial and can never be corrupted?" As an answer, I would ask if you have ever heard of such a government, and whether you really think that's possible.

Out there in our galaxy, the other sentient beings must have come to some kind of collective understanding. Being more advanced and more experienced than we are, if not more intelligent, we can assume that they learned their lessons about government long ago. Maybe they have some kind of system they can teach us, that actually works...

...and maybe that system involves personal responsibility and self-governance.

My 1967 edition of Webster's defines anarchy as "the complete absence of government and law." Chaos, on the other hand, is defined as "any great confusion or disorder." Somewhere along the line, people began to equate anarchy with chaos. In fact, if you go to Dictionary.com, you will find "Political disorder and confusion" as one of the entries. Then, if you use the thesaurus feature, you will find 'anarchy' and 'chaos' as the first synonyms listed for one another.

Something tells me that government encourages us to think that life without it would be chaotic. Certainly they approve of the word 'anarchy' holding a negative connotation. And, though several examples of successful anarchies exist in history -- their downfall invariably being the introduction of government -- we can't expect our children to learn about them in government-sponsored public schools.

If they didn't have governments to play with, how could the power elite wage wars?

Please read The Argument From Morality (Or how we will win...) by Stefan Molyneux here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html
Quote: "The ability to wage war requires that politicians retain the right to steal from certain citizens to pay other citizens to murder people."

Cities exist as corporations. They are run much like businesses, and it is not difficult to imagine them continuing on in the absence of a State and/or national government. In many municipal areas, citizens are not taxed for water, sewer, police and trash collection, but pay monthly fees. Their transition from municipal government to 'municipal services corporation' should be a simple one.

You might ask how roads would be built, and who would maintain them, without government. Toll roads would be one solution, but that goes against our basic freedom to travel. Would large corporations not step up to sponsor highways? Could advertisement sales not pay for maintenance?

My point is that an anarchic society does not have to descend into chaos. People are very resourceful. Imaginative solutions will be found for the new problems we'll be faced with.

The larger a government becomes, the tighter its grip will be on its people. Where the State professes to serve its people, the opposite becomes true, and the people become unwitting slaves of the State.

Please read Who Are the Realists? by Roy Halliday here: http://www.libertariannation.org/a/f41h2.html
Quote: "It is precisely because we are aware of man's moral weakness that we want to make the powerful machinery of the state unavailable to evil men."

Right now you might be wondering about the title of this blog. Nation of Earth? Can we have a nation without government? Yes, we can. The first definition in my '67 Webster's for 'nation' is "a stable, historically developed community of people with a territory, economic life, culture, and language in common." The third is "a people or tribe." We may not all speak the same language, or use the same currency, or enjoy the same culture -- and we probably don't want to -- but our shared territory is the surface of Earth, and like it or not, that makes us one people.

We need not fear other Earthlings just because they are different. Fear in general, for that matter, is something to be avoided as vigilantly as government. Governments prey upon our fears in order to exact their rule over us.

That, by the way, is the definition of 'terrorism'.


Phil Smith
December 11th, 2005

When the Levee Breaks

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Lizzie Douglas, better known as Memphis Minnie, was born in Algiers, Louisiana, in 1897. Led Zeppelin's 1971 recording of her song, When the Levee Breaks, came some 42 years after it was first etched in vinyl.

If you have no idea about what life was once like in Algiers, or in nearby New Orleans, it might help to rent a movie which recently came out on video, Skeleton Key. Watched it myself the other night and came to a realization...

Now, this won't make a lick of sense unless you accept that someone out there is using weather control as a weapon against the people. This has to do with 'their' agenda.

You may ask, IF such technology exists AND is being used in this manner, why target New Orleans? Beyond the obvious geographical reasons, there is something else -- something much more significant.

Let's begin with a couple of raw definitions from Dictionary.com:

voo·doo

1. A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun.
2. A charm, fetish, spell, or curse holding magic power for adherents of voodoo.
3. A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.
4. Deceptive or delusive nonsense.

hoo·doo

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1. Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean. Also called conjure.
2. A practitioner of hoodoo.
2. Voodoo.
3.
1. Bad luck.
2. One that brings bad luck.
4. Geology. A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering.


Yes, here we go deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole, further and farther from what 'normal' people discuss, and into serious intangibility. Bear with me...

As previously mentioned in this space, some of us have been doing what we can to mitigate the effects of engineered weather (and triggered earthquakes). This is done with our minds, and with help from the spirit realm.

IF there is a group in charge of engineering weather, and IF they know that human thought, with assistance, is capable of disrupting their plans, striking at an area where voodoo and hoodoo thrive would be an obvious strategy.

Voodoo, after all, is about keeping balance with nature -- and 'they' are in the business of disrupting nature.

It has been said that 'they' planned to turn Hurricane Epsilon into a crazy winter disaster for the southern United States. Well, we're just not going to let that happen. Their counterparts in earthquake triggering wanted to hit California hard last month -- with help, we kept those efforts from becoming more than tremors. Next on the agenda are a series of quakes in the Mississippi Valley, along the New Madrid fault line. They won't have very good luck with that project, either.

Shortly after Memphis Minnie and her second of three husbands, Kansas Joe, recorded When the Levee Breaks, they moved to Chicago.

Members of the Unified Settlement helped foil plans to stage a 'terrorist' attack on Chicago's Sears Tower once already, nearly two years ago. Wheels have already been set in motion to prevent 'their' second attempt, scheduled for on or around Easter 2006.

You don't have to be able to see and touch things to know that they are real. It's all there in the music, if you listen.

From http://www.led-zeppelin.com/ :

When The Levee Breaks
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant/Memphis Minnie)

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, (X2)
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, (X2)
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, (X2)
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....


Phil Smith
December 7, 2005
(Pearl Harbor Day)

Recipe For Disaster

Many are of the opinion that this world is on a path to destruction. Even the most optimistic among us will have to admit that things will most likely get worse before they can get better.

At this point we ask, "Why is this so?"

There is a theory that government is a bad thing, and that it can only become worse as it gets larger and more influential. Read Disproving the State (Four arguments against government) by Stefan Molyneux here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux4.html

If government is detrimental to human existence, and is more and more so as it becomes larger and larger, how do you suppose it is affecting us today? In our time, government is poised to claim total dominance over the lives of everyone on the planet.

If you, the reader, do not see this encroaching threat, it is because government has a way of manipulating public opinion. Far worse than that, it has a tendency to keep secrets -- and the bigger the government, the bigger the secrets. If you think for a moment that those powerful and influential secret-keepers aren't going behind our backs to institute their New World Order, then perhaps you have been distracted by something else. Don't feel bad -- the power elite are very good at giving us lots of distractions.

When you consider what kind of person it takes to become even a minor player in the environment of world domination, when you catch a glimpse of the greed and disregard for human life that darken the souls of the power elite and their minions, you begin to understand the peril. To put it simply, they will stop at nothing.

Read The Great 9/11 Magick Trick by Doug Yurchey here: http://farshores.org/dy19.htm

That article, by its title, may seem like nothing new to some of you, but I recommend it anyway. Reading it may help you explain things to others.


Who am I? What is the Unified Settlement?

I'm just someone who saw that there wasn't enough being done. I saw a possible solution to our problem, and the Unified Settlement is it. We are all settled here on the surface of Earth. This is our home. Unless enough of us become unified against what government plans to do, the power elite will succeed in their plans, and the entire planet will be claimed by one global State. If more wars are needed for that to happen, more wars will be started. If martial law needs to be implemented, excuses will be found to implement it.

I repeat: They will stop at nothing.

Among the secrets they keep from us are technologies capable of triggering earthquakes and manipulating the weather. As evidence to the latter, I present Hurricane Epsilon and the sheer number and strength of named storms that have shattered previous records. Never in history have they run out of names and had to begin using Greek letters, and now they've used 5 of them.

If more disasters are needed, for whatever reason, more disasters will be created.

Or, at least, attempts will be made to create disasters. We don't have to allow that to happen. Some of us are doing what we can to put a stop to their efforts.

Much in the same way, we don't have to allow the power elite to continue taking away our freedoms. Government is supposedly in the service of its people -- those of us who see it isn't must alert our neighbours. If our governments cannot be made to serve us, perhaps they should be dissolved.

People are perfectly capable of governing themselves.

The Unified Settlement, though it is a global organization, does not seek to govern people. As founder, the only reward I expect is that which will be shared worldwide. I do not wish to be crowned Emperor or appointed to a global Presidency. I do not, for that matter, wish to be in a position of leadership.

Founding the Unified Settlement was simply something I felt I had to do. Continuing with its development still feels like the RIGHT thing to do.

It's not too late to turn the tables.


Phil Smith
December 4th, 2005

The Nightwatch

While others cling to a tight schedule, up & at 'em every morning and into bed around the same time every night, some of us pay less attention to the clock.

Some of us prefer to be awake at night. There are instances where it is necessary to have someone keep vigil while others slumber.

The world is different at night; Quieter, more mysterious. Without the noise, without the light, it is easier to concentrate.

It seems the whole population has been sleeping. Our global patchwork of differently engineered societies manages to keep the majority of people in a sort of hypnotic trance. Meanwhile, as if by cover of darkness, the power elite and their minions continue with their evil ways.

Regardless of your diurnal habits, or lack thereof, if you are aware of such conspiratorial activity, you can be considered part of the Nightwatch. We keep vigil while others slumber.

In general, humans dwelling on the surface of this Earth are experiencing an awakening -- in more sense than one.

Not only are more of us learning about the things that have been going on behind our backs, and that much of what we have accepted as fact is a pack of lies -- there is another aspect, another facet, a whole other side to the awakening.

People are waking up to the spiritual, the metaphysical. Name any psychic ability - we are discovering them, developing them, and unlearning the things that have blocked our awareness and use of them.

Thus, predictions and warnings in my previous posts here can be viewed with a little less alarm.

I'm not saying that 'they' don't still plan to do those things, and more. It's just that we have found ways to counter their actions.

Last night, 'they' TRIED to trigger a megaquake in California, as planned -- and as foreseen by some of us on the Nightwatch. Some rumblings of about 3 on the Richter scale were felt, but that was all that the earthquake triggering equipment could manage before 'malfunctioning'.

As 'far out' as all this may sound, these activities are indeed VERY REAL. If you are reading this and cannot accept it, you are not on the Nightwatch and don't need to concern yourselves. The threat will be quietly handled.

No need to thank us as you sit in traffic on your way to your position as a wage slave, or as you shop for your family at a Wal-Mart that may have been reduced to rubble by now, had we not taken the appropriate measures.

We don't do what we do for reward. We have volunteered. For us, there is no choice.


Eventually 'they' will have to be exposed. The wheels have already been set in motion for exposure and disclosure. We will sit back an watch as this happens, not expecting to have parades and parties thrown in our honour.

As more and more join us, of course, we will become more and more powerful. The twisted little minds of the power elite are not prepared for this opposition. They will slink away in the night, with their heads down and their tails between their legs, defeated.

Sleep well.


Phil Smith
November 25, 2005

Fighting For Peace

Doesn't sound right, does it?

It's okay if your 'fight' is a struggle, a series of determined actions, a challenge to be met -- but can a goal of peace really be used as an excuse for combat?

It doesn't seem to make sense. If you want someone to calm down and listen to reason, you don't start shooting at him. If you want a group of people to NOT hate you, you don't blow up their village.

Can any 'war on terror' ever be won? Isn't war one of the most terrifying things imaginable? Okay, if there are real terrorists out there, who simply cannot be reasoned with, maybe they should be hunted down. Declaring war on a whole country, though? Is that ever really necessary? By doing that, aren't you just creating more terror, and more reasons to be hated and attacked?

Dictionary.com defines 'terrorism' as: "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons." Perhaps many have sidestepped the 'unlawful' part -- when you make your own laws, nothing you do ends up being illegal -- but the rest of the definition fits. The most prevalent form of government in this world is TERRORISM.

How is such a problem solved? John F. Kennedy had a pretty good handle on things when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Today we might say we have nothing to be terrified about but terror itself, but the fact of the matter is that the world is in the hands of some seriously twisted individuals.

The only way I see out of this situation, where terror is being spread worldwide, is to conquer fear. That, however, is only the first step. Beyond a lack of fear, we must have the courage and resolve to stand up to those who would attempt to frighten us into submission.

Taking a stand isn't something that's easy to do alone. We need a support network. We need to know there are others who feel the way we do, and who will take action with us. Since the problem itself appears difficult to identify, the network can also serve to educate others about the solution.

When I founded the Unified Settlement, early in 2004, the discovery of many similar movements was encouraging. What most of them seem to lack, however, is a basic understanding of what is at the root of all our problems.

Without that knowledge, activism is like attacking an iceberg with a blow-dryer.

The conspirators can allow a moral victory here and there. It's important to keep the oppressed hopeful. "Let them go on fighting their causes," they might whisper,"Keep them busy, so they don't discover the real truth..." They can afford to be smug. Within their group of secret societies, much of this world is under their control. They can pretty much do whatever they want, and it seems no one can stop them.

I've quoted this Pirelli Tire slogan many times: POWER IS NOTHING WITHOUT CONTROL. We need to find a way to make things very slippery for the conspirators, the power elite. Considering their grip on the mainstream media, exposing them involves the alternative media, part of which is right here -- the 'blogosphere'. Another possibility is garnering the attention and participation of celebrities and other media professionals (producers, directors, agents, etc). Many of them are already involved in one form of activism or another, wanting to 'give something back'...

Of course we can bet that a few of them are riding in the hip pockets of the power elite, and that some of their charities serve mostly to divert funds (don't get me started about money -- that's for another post) and/or create tax loopholes (don't get me started about taxes yet, either).

World peace depends, to put it simply, on the people becoming aware of what the real reasons for war are. Further, they should know that they have been systematically deceived, and by WHOM. If some of us feel unbridled hatred toward others of us, the ultimate cause of that hatred needs to be examined.

As always, there is the question, "Who benefits?" The power elite benefit from war in many ways, just as they benefit from other conspiracies I'll cover in this space.

Part of it for them, I imagine, is the thrill of victory. Perhaps they feel much like we do when we pull off a good prank.

They've punked us enough. Time to retaliate.


Phil Smith
November 4/5, 2005