Things to Come: the "Merlin Project"

[Minstrel Boy]

Posted to my blog here.

Things to Come: the "Merlin Project"

Who is behind - or perhaps, in front of - the Merlin Project: a "high-tech crystal ball" which boasts of a "track record of timely and accurate predictions"? The two names linked to Merlin are "futurist" Paul Guercio and "SDI physicist" Dr. George Hart. According to the Merlin website, this is how it began:

Physicist, Dr. George Hart first hears Futurist, Paul Guercio with Dr. David Brudnoy on WBZ Radio in Boston in October 1988 and is intrigued with Paul’s theory of “Time-Patterns” since it parallels his own extensive research as a highly respected theoretical physicist and inventor of the excimer laser.

In January 1989 Dr. Hart comes to Paul’s office for a professional consultation. The consultation never took place and instead, the two researchers spent six hours comparing notes on time-related anomalies. The MERLIN Project evolved from a series of five meetings over the subsequent six months.

The MERLIN Project is officially born on July 4, 1989 after Dr. George Hart offers to design software built around Paul Guercio's Theory of Time. A team of SDI (Star Wars) physicists is recruited to design the MERLIN Project software, which becomes known as TimeTrak.

First working copy of the MERLIN software (October 5, 1989) forecasts the imminent demise of the Soviet Union or alternately, World War III. Both Paul and Dr. Hart consider either scenario unlikely at best. Soviet Union collapses as the Berlin Wall comes down (November 5, 1989) and Eastern European Communism quickly disintegrates. The newly designed MERLIN software has proven to be a stunning success.

Merlin is definitely coddled by the American right, and it returns the favour. (Matt Drudge is described as a "friend and fellow traveller," and Richard Perle gets a namecheck). Guercio and Hart claim that Merlin's "unflattering forecasts of upcoming Clinton scandals and excesses" made it a "target of a concerted effort, likely orchestrated by Administration loyalists, to be discredited and marginalized. If it hadn’t been for FOXNEWS commentator and long-time client (and friend) Alan Colmes...." You can guess the rest.

Merlin's connections to America's conservative establishment run deeper than ties to Fox, Drudge and Perle, and Hart's own legacy as a Star Wars physicist. Merlin also reaches into the Pentagon:

In 1995, the MERLIN creators were approached by a Strategic Planning Office of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff and asked to provide a long-range forecast and timetable for potential incidents of domestic terrorism over the following seven years. This "white paper" which was submitted in July 1995, included indications of a significant threat culminating in the Fall of 2001, which we now know to be the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.

A copy of the paper presented to the Joint Chiefs can be read here.

Guercio and Hart visited "longtime client and friend" Alan Colmes on New Year's Eve. Here is a report from NewsHounds of some of what they claim is in store for us:

Osama bin Laden will be "in strength" in 2005 and 2006.

Something out of the ordinary starts in the next year or two and culminates at the end of the decade. At the end of 2005, something profound will happen. They're not sure what, exactly, it may be but it could be an asteroid strike or a massive UFO invasion. (Comment: I swear to you, these guys sounded scientific, not flaky.)

In 2008-2009, something even more profoundly changing will happen that will affect about 4 out of 6 people. Something like a pandemic.

I'm not convinced of the prophetic prowess of the "Merlin Project," but I do think it prudent, given the times, to pay attention to the work of a pair of right wing futurists who have been retained by the Pentagon and Perle, one of whom is an SDI researcher, and who are frequently awarded public forums on conservative corporate media. Rather than gleaning prophecy, it may help us to know what they are preparing for us.

One at a time:

"Osama bin Laden will be 'in strength' in 2005 and 2006"

We don't need no stinkin' Merlin to tell us that. There's not much to add, except to say the ghost of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will be jealous.

"At the end of 2005, something profound will happen...asteroid strike or massive UFO invasion"

This reminds me of the December 2000 testimony of Dr Carol Rosin, a corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and founder of the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, who was the spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of her life:

What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him. He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy. The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."

Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons. The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. Asteroids - against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.

And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card. "And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."

It's also hard to read about a projected UFO invasion without thinking of Iran which, for some reason, seems to be undergoing one right now. Often, it appears, localized to its nuclear installations.

And we're not talking about eyewitnesses misidentifying conventional US surveillance aircraft. Though US aircraft are breaching Iranian airspace. These are objects which are uncatalogued by Jane's Defense Weekly.

For instance, this story of a Connecticut man visiting family in Iran, who videotaped a spherical UFO for 20 minutes last April:

"I really have no choice but to believe," says Abi Golbazi of East Haven. "I've never seen anything like this." Golbazi is talking about something he believes he saw in the Iranian sky : a UFO.

"First is was just a shiny light, changing colors ... It seemed perfectly round, circular shaped, spaceship if you will. Window-looking spots all over it... It has an opening in the lower bottom of the circle."

While visiting family the East Haven engineer recorded over 20 minutes of footage of the object, and wondered if this phenomenon would become a regular visitor to the Middle East.



It would seem so. On December 26 Iran announced its "air force has been ordered to shoot down any unidentified or suspicious flying objects in Iran’s airspace...amid state-media reports of sightings of flying objects near Iran’s nuclear installations."

Iran’s Air Force chief General Karim Ghavami was quoted in Iranian newspapers Saturday as saying that Iran was fully prepared to defend any threat to its nuclear installations. “We have arranged plans to defend nuclear facilities from any threat. Iran’s Air Force is watchful and prepared to carry out its responsibilities,” Ghavami was quoted as saying. The paper had reported that “shining objects” in the sky were seen near Natanz - where Iran’s uranium enrichment plant is located — and one had exploded, causing “concern and panic in the region.”

This was soon followed by the headline "Russia Joins Iran in Fighting UFO’s":

Russia and Iran have agreed to a joint program studying the UFO phenomenon after a series of sightings of unidentified flying objects.... This comes in the wake of a skywatching mania that struck Iran amid state-media reports of sightings of flying objects near Iran’s nuclear installations.

"Flights of unknown objects in the country’s airspace have increased in recent weeks... they have been seen over Bushehr and Isfahan provinces,” the Resalat daily reported. Nuclear facilities are located in both provinces.

If the findings of sober studies such as Jane's aviation editor Nick Cook's The Hunt for Zero Point and Richard Dolan's UFOs and the National Security State are at all credible, then it is conceivable that, buried deep in the Pentagon's black budget, free energy and anti-gravity propulsion systems are realities. If this is so, then petroleum is not actually the lifeblood of the rulers of this world, but rather another marked-up drug for them to keep us dependent. If a Manhattan Project-like endeavour had already borne fruit, it would explain the seeming short-sightedness regarding the dearth of alternative energy strategies. The technology would not be for the general benefit of humanity (at least not for a pre-crash populace). But if it exists and is in the hands of those who intend to "manage the change" of our system's collapse, then we are perhaps entering the period when it will be deployed more brazenly, possibly even as a mechanism of mass intimidation. (Consider the rise in sitings of huge "Black Triangles" over population centres, which has even received mainstream notice.)

"In 2008-2009, something even more profoundly changing will happen that will affect about 4 out of 6 people. Something like a pandemic."

Culling the population by about two-thirds is what many expect to come of our world's convergence of crises. Two billion or so of us is a potentially sustainable number, living at reduced means under a technocratic feudalism. A great die-off seems all but inevitable. How we get there is the question for the High Globalists. Leave it to chance, or anticipate the curve? Bioterror? Eco-terror? Climate change? Nuclear exchange? Have they already answered? And what will be our response?

So many choices, and so little - seriously - time.

[Jesus H. Christ]

1. I hope they consulted Gene Ray.

He's obviously on to something.

[RBHam]

2. The tenth planet returns?

Preceded/Accompanied by a host of metorites and asteroids?

That would be a pandemic...

It would be a reason to build underground bunkers and nukes in space...

Sell it to their Fundie/Moonie/Neo-Con true believers as the coming
rapture...

You see where it all is connected...

What wouldn't YOU do to save seats for yourself and your loved ones
in your future underground home? Billions wouldn't have the chance...

Hidden Knowledge is a Hidden Power....

[seemslikeadream]

3. Very interesting MB as always

especially since I just posted Rosin's testimony on Monday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2896599&mesg_id=2896982

Testimony of Dr Carol Rosin


December 2000
From Duncan Roads
[e-mail]

Dr Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space based weapons. Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the '70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the '90s was planned.

CR: Dr Carol Rosin
SG: Dr Steven Greer

CR: My name is Carol Rosin. I am an educator who became the first woman corporate manager of an Aerospace Company, Fairchild Industries.

I am a Space and Missile Defense Consultant and have consulted to a number of companies, organizations, and government departments, even the intelligence community. I was a consultant to TRW working on the MX missile, so I was part of that strategy, which turned out to be a role model for how to sell space-based weapons to the public. The MX missile is yet another weapon system that we didn't need. I founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, a Washington DC based think tank. I am an author and have testified before Congress and the President's Commission on Space.

When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun. We first met in early 1974. At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me about the game that was being played- that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself. Von Braun had a history of working with weapons systems. He escaped from Germany to come to this country and became a Vice President of Fairchild Industries when I had met him. Von Braun's purpose during the last years of his life, his dying years, was to educate the public and decision-makers about why space-based weapons are dumb, dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, unworkable, and an undesirable idea, and about the alternatives that are available.

As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space. When Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this.

What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him. He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy. The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."

more
http://www.mayanmajix.com/art742.html


Let's talk a little about coltan(tantalite), Congo, George Bush Sr., Barrick and 3.5 million lives lost since 1998 next.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Well here's something to chew on.

(And while this piece mentions the Yellowstone supervolcano, it perhaps should be noted that Sumatra's Toba supervolcano was very close to the epicentre of the recent quake, and last erupted with even more ferocity.)

Washington D.C.(Global Wire News) - According to experts at the Counter-Terrorism Prevention Group based in Washington, D.C., terrorists could turn Mother Nature into a terrorist weapon and completely destroy the United States in a massive coordinated attack which would make a nuclear war look like child's play in comparison.

Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, of the Counter-Terrorism Prevention Group, has written a document outlining how terrorists could plan terrorist attacks to take advantage of weaknesses in geological formations, structural instability in volcanoes and the transmission of seismic waves through the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

...

The second target which would be hit shortly after the atomic detonations on the island of La Palma would be Yellowstone Lake located inside Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Long before the attack, the terrorists would drive a boat into the middle of Yellowstone Lake and submerge a sealed 55-gallon drum containing a nuclear device to the bottom of the lake.

Vulcanologists have discovered a huge "bulge" which is forming at the bottom of the lake which could one day give way, implode the magma chamber underneath it and create what is know as a "Super Volcano". A nuclear device detonated by the terrorists in Yellowstone Lake would trigger the chain of events leading to the explosion of the "Super Volcano".

http://www.sciscoop.com/comments/2002/12/20/155939/55/4?mode=alone;showrate=1

[murray hill farm]

5. Gulp!!!!!!!!!!!

the more one looks, the scarier it gets!!

[Minstrel Boy]

6. Dec 4: "anti-gravity lifters tested in Himalayas?" (secret until 2012?)

Dighi in Pune, the city of the brightest Indian defense research scientists and engineers is full of whispers these days. According to some sources in Pune the scientists are tight lipped and say they cannot speak till 2012. What is going to happen in 2012? No one knows but they keep saying before any question is asked – “I know nothing!” If you carefully keep your ears on these whispers you will realize India has tested something no one wants to talk about, It is a break through in conventional Physics and traditional mechanical and aeronautical engineering.

Still the question comes back why should all stay quiet till 2012? Where did this anti-gravity technology come from? Strange activities are being seen for quite some time in the Indian side of Himalayas. Some say the technology came from a Tampere University of Technology in Finland where an Indian scientist was research engineer. Others says it is really a planned diversion – it came from indigenous research that started in 1070s just after India exploded the first nuclear device in Pokhran. Mrs. Indira Gandhi in late seventies while communicating with news journalists once in Kolkata during a whirlwind election trip mentioned that India must research forgotten technologies that were part of Hindu mythologies like Ramayana and Mahabharata. When quizzed further she mentioned that like in ancient days we should be able to fly effortlessly.

Anti gravity technology can change India and the world. Uses seem limited only by the imagination: Lifts in buildings could be replaced by devices built into the ground. People wanting to go up would simply activate the anti-gravity device -- making them weightless -- and with a gentle push ascend to the floor they want.

Space-travel would become routine, as all the expense and danger of rocket technology is geared towards combatting the Earth's gravitation pull. By using the devices to raise fluids against gravity, and then conventional gravity to pull them back to earth against electricity-generating turbines, the devices could also revolutionize power generation.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-04e-04.asp

[seemslikeadream]

7. telluric grid

Researchers have speculated that Ed learned the secret of levitation and one theory in particular caught the imagination of many. The planetary grid hypothesis postulates that the earth is covered by an invisible web of energy which is concentrated at points of telluric power, the convergence of which create unusal phenomena.

These telluric grid dynamics played a vital role in the construction of the Castle according to author Ray Stoner in his book, "The Enigma of Coral Castle." Stoner speculates that the complex was originally moved from Florida City to Homestead not because of privacy issues (as most historians suggest), but because Ed realized he had made a mathematical error in his original positioning, and moved the entire structure to take advantage of an area with greater telluric force.

According to author B.J.Cathie an authority on grid dynamics, "there exists an all-encompassing global grid with direct harmonic relationship to the speed of light, gravity, magnetics, and earth mass. All major changes of the physical state are brought about by harmonic interactions of these manifestations. The controlled manipulation of these forces would make it possible to instantaneously move mass from one point to another in space/time."

Cathie states, "measurements from Coral Castle yield harmonics related to Light and Gravity. The distance between Coral Castle and Grid Pole A (in the north) dispel any doubt about the site being an ideal position to allow Ed Leedskalnin to erect the huge blocks of coral with relative ease. Measurements indicate the harmonics necessary for the manipulation of anti-gravity."

more
http://www.labyrinthina.com/coral.htm

[loudsue]

8. SO MUCH incredible stuff in this thread!! Wow!!

Too good to drop off into the archives.....

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