-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: jean hudon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 11:11 PM To: Jean Hudon Subject: The U.S. Navy is jeopardizing all marine life with their Low Frequency ActiveSonar (LFAS). Other NATO countries also involved! "It's time to save thewhales. Again!" + The true "Rational Explanation" for the LFAS? + ENEMYUNKNOWN: SUBTERRANEAN WARFARE IN PU Hello everyone Here is an excellent article published recently in the Maui Free Press about the LFAS issue - which I have repeatedly covered in previous emails to you. Cheryl A. Magill - who very much liked this article - had this comment on it: "I think the idea of "now prowling" subs is a matter trusting to the Navy's spin on that portion of their sales pitch. From what I can make out they are "now dismantled" at a US tax payer cost of 2.3 billion dollars." I also include more material that will shed some light on the possible real target of the US Navy... Despite widespread protests, the US Navy still carry on undeterred with their plans... Jean Hudon Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000 The Navy's plans for Maui's waters - "stupid technology" Draft Environmental Impact Statement "is creating waves of controversy." By Jessica Ferracane Forget Cousteau's notion of the "silent world." The oceans haven't been silent since technology became amphibious, and they may get noisier - and more dangerous - in the interest of national security. The US Navy plans to ensonify the world's oceans with loud, high-intensity SURTASS LFA (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active) sonar to detect the latest in super-silent nuclear and electric-diesel submarines now prowling the high seas. Unlike passive sonar which listens for sound, active sonar waves can pierce hundreds of thousands of miles of ocean with loud, low frequency noise in the range of 100 to 500 Hz to locate enemy submarines. The sound reflects off objects in its path and returns in the form of an echo, enabling the navy to detect subs too quiet to be found with passive sonar. But scientists and environmentalists believe the loud, low-frequency resonations from LFA sonar will endanger marine life. Marine mammals, especially baleen whales like the humpback whale, are particularly sensitive to low-frequency sound and use it to communicate, navigate, and hunt. After being threatened with litigation by the National Resources Defense Council, and under scrutiny from the Marine Mammal Commission, the navy agreed to suspend its LFA sonar project in 1996 until more was known about its effects on marine mammals. The navy recruited an independent scientific team specialized in marine mammal acoustics to help test and interpret the effects of LFA sonar on whales in the wild. The research team, led by Dr. Chris Clark of Cornell University's Bioacoustic Research Program and Dr. Peter Tyack of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, targeted humpbacks off Hawai'i for one month in 1998, and blue, fin and gray whales off California in 1997. The findings of those studies, along with hundreds of pages of other mitigation, were released this summer in a draft Environmental Impact Statement that is creating waves of controversy. The navy concludes in the draft EIS that it will not deploy LFA sonar in a way that will harm marine life, but what is harmful - and at what ranges - is anyone's guess. Data gathered for the draft EIS and published in preliminary scientific reports indicates about half of all the whales targeted for the study displayed clear and detectable behavior changes at relatively low sound levels. The changes included silencing, behavioral disruption and movement away from the research vessel Cory Chouest, the navy ship which houses the LFA sonar apparatus. Other scientists - without the navy's considerable financial backing (it has spent more than $10 million on the draft EIS effort alone) - documented graver disturbances. Dr. Marsha Green, of the Ocean Mammal Institute, said OMI biologists and other individuals observed three cetacean calves separated from their mothers during or immediately after the LFA sonar testing north of Kona. In one instance, naturalists observed an abandoned humpback whale calf breach more than 200 times and slap its pectoral fin 671 times in four hours during the spring 1998 tests. A lone spinner dolphin calf was sited and later a very dehydrated melon-headed whale calf was observed by tourists to be near death. Marine mammal calf abandonment is a rare occurrence. "The sightings of three abandoned calves in the LFA Sonar testing area and nowhere else is a very serious warning about the possible effects of LFA sonar that needs further investigation," Green stated. Although the navy denounces OMI's data, both of the draft EIS project's chief scientists, Tyack and Clark, have commented in preliminary reports that more research is needed before the long-term effects of LFA sonar on the marine environment can be adequately interpreted. "My biggest concern for LFA sonar was not that it would injure an animal that happened to be near and exposed to a very low frequency, but that if exposure to sound like this disrupted behavior of animals at great ranges," Tyack said. >From long ranges is exactly how the navy plans to use the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) technology. Passive sonar, with its short-range detection ability, allows only a few minutes to react to an enemy sub. Low Frequency Active sonar, with its state-of-the-art, long-range detection, would allow many hours to react. The navy estimates 21 nations currently operate stealthy submarines "that could be used in the future to disrupt peace and stability by interrupting transportation and commerce, thus impacting the world economy," states its LFA sonar website. Not included on the website is the possibility that seals, sea lions, sea turtles, certain types of fish, including sharks and rays, and even the viability of fish eggs could also be impacted by low-frequency noise. Critics of LFA sonar also fear the navy will deploy the sound at much louder levels than was tested on the whales. Although the actual deployment level is classified, NRDC attorney Joel Reynolds saw documentation that deployment levels will be in the vicinity of 240 dB. A whale 1,000 yards away from the sound source of 240 dB would receive 180 dB (imagine a low-key rock concert), a sound level scientists believe will harm them. Whales are not the only creatures effected by the low-frequency, high-intensity noise. Humans can suffer, too. In August 1994, scuba diver Jay Murray had just slipped beneath the surface for a pleasure dive with two friends near Carmel, CA when he immediately noticed a loud, booming vibration throughout his body. "Not only could I hear it, I could feel my lungs vibrating. It's impossible to describe. Imagine a boom-box in somebody's car," Murray said. Murray guessed the navy was testing some kind of underwater device, but he didn't know what. No navy vessels were in sight. Disoriented and in pain, he surfaced immediately, and eventually learned he had probably "overheard" the Navy secretly testing LFA sonar. Murray, now an outspoken and well-informed critic of LFA sonar, said the lingering effects of the exposure destroyed his sleep patterns and triggered a depression. He also suffered memory loss and an inability to concentrate. Big Island resident Chris Reid had a similar experience last year when she jumped in the water near Kona during the navy experiments on humpback whales. The Cory Chouest was not in sight and at least five miles away, yet Reid received 125 dB of the vibratory sound pulse. Reid said she willingly jumped in the water to hear what the low frequency sounds were like, and does not consider herself a victim. She said she felt the "eerie, monotone, penetrating sound in every cell of my body." As a result, she believes she now suffers thyroid gland disorders, and like Murray, depression. Although it barely acknowledges Murray's and Reid's exposure to low frequency sound, the navy says it will not deploy LFA sonar in excess of 145 dB in the vicinity of human dive sites, defined as areas extending 12 nautical miles from shore and 130 feet deep and shallower. The navy conducted its own experiments with low frequency sounds on navy divers. According to the draft EIS, navy divers exposed to LFA sonar sounds experienced aversion to sensations of loudness and vibration at received levels of 148 dB but no physiological effects were noted. However, a navy report completed in May 1996 (but not mentioned in the draft EIS) includes a "symptomatic event" experienced by a 32-year-old navy diver. After being exposed 15 minutes to LFA sonar at 160dB, the test diver suffered dizziness, drowsiness, an inability to concentrate and residual tingling in his arms. He later experienced irritability, memory loss and suffered a seizure. The diver was prescribed anti-depression and anti-seizure drugs, and has since voluntarily retired, according to the report. The US is not the only world power developing LFA sonar technology. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the British and the Dutch are also testing similar systems. A pod of Cuvier's beaked whales were the apparent victims of secret NATO LFA sonar tests in the Mediterranean Sea in 1996. The 12 whales, seldom seen by humans, beached themselves on a Greek shore during the same time tests were being conducted, according to an article in the May 1998 issue of Nature magazine. The National Resources Defense Council and other non-governmental organizations like the Humane Society of the United States have taken a firm stance against the deployment of LFA sonar in the world's oceans. "The biggest hole is that the research is very limited. There wasn't much time," states NRDC attorney Joel Reynolds. Dr. Naomi Rose, the marine mammal director for the Humane Society of the United States, blasts the project as "stupid technology." Rose, who was aboard the Cory Chouest as an observer, said the ship can only travel at a slow 2-to-4 knots when the LFA sound source is in use. The sound is projected by a 170-foot strand of Volkswagen beetle-sized "speakers" that are lowered deep beneath the ship through a hole in the hull. The sonar is projected and its echo off of objects is reflected back and received by a long cable towed behind the ship. This cumbersome set-up requires a slow speed to operate and could possibly make the Cory Chouest the first obvious target of any pitched ocean battle. These concerns and more will be included in the final EIS for SURTASS LFA sonar. The EIS is the first the navy has ever attempted for a new technology system of any kind, but despite powerful environmental laws under the National Environmental Protection Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, it's the navy that ultimately decides if SURTASS LFA sonar will be put into effect. Sidebar: Low-frequency SONAR the latest threat to whales "It's time to save the whales. Again!" By Jessica Ferracane The proposed deployment of Low Frequency Active sonar in the worlds' oceans by the US Navy and other military giants comes at a time when worldwide whale populations are under renewed attack. In May, the Makah Indian tribe of Neah Bay, Washington, used high-powered rifles and .577 caliber bullets to "traditionally" slay a juvenile female endangered gray whale for cultural purposes. The Clinton Administration, in a political move spearheaded by vice-president/presidential candidate Al Gore, will allow the Makah to kill up to five gray whales a year, despite vehement protests from the public and conservation groups. In March, around 70 endangered migratory gray whales washed up dead on Mexico's Baja California shoreline. The cause of death is still unknown, but environmentalists are pointing the finger at toxic, briny runoff from the controversial ESSO salt mine nearby. Also in March, Iceland announced plans to resume commercial whaling, shunning international law which prohibits the slaughter of whales for profit. Japan and Norway have engaged in pirate whaling ever since the moratorium on whaling was imposed by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. The United States, a member of the IWC since 1946, chose to honor Makah treaty rights despite the IWC majority view that the Washington tribe does not meet the requirements for aboriginal subsistence whaling because it could not prove an unbroken tradition of whaling, nor could it prove its survival is dependent on whale meat. In fact, Japan recruited Makah elders as part of a campaign to lobby for indigenous hunts worldwide in an effort to re-introduce a whaling industry. Japan has also met with tribal representatives of Tonga, Siberia, Greenland, the Caribbean Islands, the Philippines and tribes in British Columbia. Plane loads of tribal elders have been flown to and from Japan to take part in "cultural exchanges" which promote the slaughter of whales. And now the Navy's LFA sonar system. We know the sonar can pierce hundreds or thousands of oceanic miles and plumb the depths with extremely loud, low-frequency vibrations to detect silent enemy subs. We know that whales swerved to avoid it during recent experiments off Hawai'i and California. We know it causes disruptions in their behavior and possibly their migration routes, and it likely has far-reaching, disastrous effects scientists are unable to observe. What we don't know can hurt us and all marine life. It's time to save the whales. Again. This article is also avalable from: http://www.mauisfreepress.com/archives/110399 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Summary of the Most Current Environmentalist Concerns about LFAS: Although the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) was established to protect marine life, they appear to be ready, if not anxious, to grant premature permission to our government to use potentially lethal low frequency active sonar (LFAS) in 80% the world's oceans on a regular basis in spite of inadequate research on this new and powerful technology. The NMFS appears to have violated their own guidelines for protecting marine life by ignoring reports of serious problems, including cetacean death, given by boat captains, researchers, swimmers, and citizens during cursory testing of this powerful force. In addition, they have failed to adequately or clearly provide the public with information regarding the forward movement of this technology. The NMFS again exposed their apparent conflict of interest in assessing the safety of this uncharted technology by their involvement in the writing of the US Navy's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and their request to work in partnership with the US Navy, rather than in their assigned role of overseeing the Navy's activities. Yet, in spite of their apparent conflict of interest, NMFS holds the power to approve this potentially lethal technology to be deployed on a regular basis in 80% of the worlds oceans at alarmingly loud levels (a billion times more intense than the ones tested) that travel for thousands of kilometers. This force is so far-reaching and powerful that it is considered by many environmentalists to be a threat to all marine life as well as the oceans and very probably human life as well. Moreover, even before the Navy's EIS has cleared, an application for 'taking' or killing whales over the next five years has been prematurely filed with NMFS in an apparent effort to get this operation launched ahead of increasing public becomes awareness of the dire pitfalls of this technology, including a pattern of cetacean corpses left in its path. Once underway, this program will be highly classified and out of the public's view. You can immediately ask President Clinton and your congressional representatives to stop all forward movement of the sonar programs, then focus intently on this being fulfilled. For more information on LFAS and forms for responding, consult: http://www.nrdc.org http://www.oceanmammalinst.com http://www.angelfire.com ** SEND YOUR CONCERNS: You can briefly ask that all LFAS be halted in all oceans or offer more reasons and opinions. Email with a promise to send a hardcopy will get the word out fast, while also providing a signature. See websites above for additional help and guidance in this. (clip) Mail List "Stop Navy Sonar LFAS ATOK Testing and Deployment" Updates and Alerts about efforts to end the Navy's use of these technologies which are exceedingly dangerous to all marine animals, especially whales and dolphins with their super-sensitive hearing (low volume) To (un)subscribe to this list: just send a message with the words: (un)subscribe: Stop Navy Sonar LFAS ATOK Testing and Deployment Mailing List Send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The true "Rational Explanation" for the LFAS? Taken from http://currents.net/newstoday/99/08/23/news1.html The US Navy's stated purpose for testing LFAS (Low Frequency Active Sonar) is to better equip themselves so as to identify and track a potential threat to our nation's security. With the USA deploying the defacto standard of the highest submarine technology, what's the Navy so worried about? Several people have brought up the idea of there being UFO/USO related incidents surrounding this littoral warfare research. (clip) Jim wrote this reply to someone who was asking for some explanation about the Navy's choice in using LFAS. The writer went on to say, ...... "I heard from an ex naval officer that the LFAS was probably designed for use as a powerful ray gun." Jim's reply was as follows: All I can offer you is the result of speculation regarding the Navy's strong intention to deploy LFAS. Their motivation seems rather out of place for this post cold war era. They say that LFAS is necessary because more countries have submarines now than ever before. Okay, I'll give them that. But are there more new submarines? Or are the existing submarines being sold and shuffled around? Besides, submarines are expensive, complex vehicles that take a long time to build, test and deploy. How could there be a sudden proliferation of a submarine threat that didn't exist before? So, for me anyway, the Navy's stated need for LFAS seems weak when compared to their strong determination to deploy it and to put a tremendous marine animal population at risk at the same time. One threat that the Navy might want to keep secret is the threat of unidentified submarine objects, or USOs. Most people do not realize the vast quantity of USO/UFO sightings. The UFO encounters I'm referring to here are the ones that occur over and around large bodies of water or have been observed exiting/entering the water. To get a quick overview of what I'm talking about, please visit the web site: http://www.hotyellow98.com/aquaalienz/aqua.alienz.html. While the Air Force is primarily concerned with UFOs in U.S. airspace, the Navy is concerned with UFOs they encounter over the world's oceans and USOs they encounter in the world's oceans. Therefore, the Navy could have as big or a bigger involvement in the UFO enigma than the Air Force's well documented involvement. You can see that it is not any leap of the imagination to consider USOs as a possible explanation for the perceived "threat" that is so critical that the Navy wants LFAS in the worse way. LFAS can be used defensively, as advertised, to detect a submarine or USO. I have not seen anything that would prevent LFAS sound to be phased as to create interference patterns where the sonic energy would be directionally/spatially concentrated. While this is not a "ray gun," as you say, it could possibly be considered an offensive weapon at this point. I hope this message sufficiently addresses your questions. Feel free to contact me if I can be of any further assistance. Best Regards, James Peters Assistant State Director Colorado Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here are excerpts from material found at: http://bradford-online.com/np/samizdat/index.html#enemy Go at this site above to read the entire unabridged article ENEMY UNKNOWN: SUBTERRANEAN WARFARE IN PUERTO RICO by Scott Corrales It is no secret that UFO activity in the waters surrounding Puerto Rico has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Sightings on land have multiplied tenfold since 1987, but that is nothing when compared to the number of UFO reports issuing from those who work the waters surrounding the island. A good number of reports gathered by many investigators over the course of the years seems to point to the existence of a submarine UFO base off the southwestern tip of Puerto Rico, as well as in the waters of the northern and eastern shores, which are some of the deepest on the planet. Whether it is, in fact, a base for nuts-and-bolts craft from another world or a convenient materialization point for interdimensional phenomena is beside the point. Things are taking place in Puerto Rico which have attracted a great deal of attention, both from the government and the public at large. (clip) On the other side of the Mona Passage, in the Dominican Republic, yet another grandmother had a UFO story to tell: she had been taken to an underwater base "at the bottom of the Mona Passage", where she underwent surgery at the hands of aliens. (clip) Aircraft carriers on the spot The Navy has gone as far as to station an aircraft carrier group in the waters off the southwestern tip of Puerto Rico, Cabo Rojo. The fishermen were not at all surprised by this development: over the course of many evenings, they would see the nocturnal lights going about on their appointed rounds -- shifting color from white to red and blue, spreading open like fans of color that would fill the night sky, or hovering intimidatingly over their fishing boats, shining beams of actinic light at them. Fighters from the carrier group stationed off-shore would later be involved, to their detriment, in one of the most intriguing UFO cases to be reported on the island. This increased military vigilance, however, has not contributed to a significant reduction in the number of sightings or close encounters. "Neither the police nor the soldiers will tell you what's going on," one of the fishermen interviewed remarked. "But you can be sure that they know." There is widespread belief that the efforts being made to staunch the flow of illegal drugs into the island are, in fact, closely related to monitoring the strange objects penetrating Puerto Rican airspace. Jorge Martín pointed out to this author that there is also an enigmatic Navy ship, the Gallatin, which is laden with advanced technology instrumentation and pays secret visits to Caribbean locations in which UFO activity has been detected. Said visits take place in 3-to 6-month intervals, and the crew complement is subjected to rigorous psychological testing every six months. When Spanish UFO researcher Antonio Ribera appeared on the Christina TV talk show in the fall of 1991, he was questioned as to the existence of "Ufoports" in certain areas of the planet which experience more than their fair share of sightings. He indicated that this possibility was not to be ruled out, particularly in the waters of what we call the Bermuda Triangle. Ribera presented a thorough report on these sensitive areas in his book Los doce triangulos de la muerte (Plaza y Janés, 1976). Does the government really know? The suspicions of the local fishermen aside, there exists a good deal of circumstantial evidence that points toward the fact that the government does have an idea of what is going on in the Mona Passage. In March of 1977, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created a commission to study all matters pertaining to the presence of UFOs on the island -- a Senate committee constituted by seven members. This was at a time when sightings were on an upward swing after the lull following the eventful years of the early '70s which received international attention. This body has had its hands full during the 80's, to be sure. Residents of the area have also witnessed the nocturnal and daylight activities of unidentified military aircraft and personnel in the region -- and here is where the line between the real and the unreal becomes blurred. One witness to the aerial phenomenon also saw two military choppers -- Hueys, by their description -- fly into an open valley not far from the shore and promptly disappear, without even betraying the sound of the rotors, as if having engaged a cloaking device. Others have seen the "fireballs" turn into cargo planes and other mundane aerial objects. Those who witnessed this last phenomenon were unnerved by it. "I wondered why a helicopter landed on that particular field, because I knew that it was private land," Milton Vélez, another resident, told Jorge Martin, describing an incident from the summer of 1991. "But, I thought, well, they're probably doing some sort of experiment there. A number of men in olive drab uniforms and black berets got out of the chopper and began to walk around, pointing long tubes at the ground that looked like shotguns or metal detectors to me. There were no emblems on their clothes or on their helicopter, but they were military, without a doubt. They spread out toward the right and the left, and milled around for about 20 to 30 minutes. I went to fetch my binoculars, but I wasn't able to make out their faces. The chopper finally took off and headed southward, toward the sea." Could this covert military activity be a result of the controversial loss of two F-14 Tomcats during an "attack" upon a massive UFO in May 1988? The sequence of photographs taken of this even by abductee Amaury Rivera has been analyzed by number of NASA and civilian experts: they show the maneuvers of an armed fighter just after daybreak around a large, circular object with a star-like pattern and protuberances on its lower hull. One of the fighters, from the BCF 33 "Starfighter" squadron aboard the USS America, was absorbed into (or vaporized by) the UFO. Months after that incident, and another one in which a Delta-shaped UFO absorbed another fighter before the eyes of thousands of witnesses, interceptors were seen flying over populated areas with their full complement of missiles. The Nuclear card Toward the end of October 1984, two commercial cargo vessels arrived at the small port of Arroyo on the southern shore of Puerto Rico, which faces the Caribbean Sea. The ships, Nautilus II and Caribbean Adventurer, unloaded a cargo allegedly "to be used by NASA", although its real purpose remains unknown. Word began to circulate among the ranks of UFO investigators that the equipment was space-connected, but hardly NASA related. Nuclear weapons, the story went, were being tested in Puerto Rico against UFO bases allegedly nestled in the deep cavern systems that riddle the island. (clip) Into this highly charged atmosphere of UFO conflict and government installation of nuclear devices came Project Excalibur, a device to be employed in the destruction of subsurface UFO installations being perfected at the Experimental Weapons division of LANL (Los Alamos, New Mexico). The prototypes were to be used in Puerto Rico before being used "elsewhere". This experimentation, construed by many to be the actual offensive against the UFO bases, has resulted in a number of subterranean detonations and an increase in the number of tremors felt on the island in the past decade. On May 31, 1987, one such detonation was estimated as having occurred at a depth of 81,000 feet below Laguna Cartagena: there were cracks on the ground and noxious blue smoke was vented from the earth's interior through them. UFOs were seen on evening of the explosion in the lagoon's environs, slowly scanning the area as if checking for damage. Cartagena, a kidney-shaped body of water, has a long history of being at the center of UFO activity, possibly providing an entry/egress point to the underground installations. The alleged deployment of Project Excalibur coincided with the verifiable plan to deploy a type of tactical nuke or demolition mine known as the B-57, probably similar to those used in Western Europe as part of the NATO "tripwire" against any advance by the now defunct Warsaw Pact's forces. Tactical nuclear devices (kiloton-yield) go back to the days of the infamous "Davy Crockett"--an atomic bazooka a soldier was supposed to sling off his APC and fire at an approaching tank. These warheads are stored at the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base along with "in transit" weapons and specialized nuclear underwater demolition charges for the use of highly-trained Navy SEAL personnel. The fact that the smallest of the Greater Antilles has been used as a testing station by the military cannot be overlooked either: Chemical weapons have been tested in the Luquillo Experimental Rainforest (El Yunque), and the contraceptive pill was tested on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. Project Excalibur and all that surrounds it, then, no longer seems to be so improbable. The island is in fact riddled with caves, particularly the western end of the Cordillera Central, the range that splits the island in two. The caves found along the Camuy River extend along for some eight miles, and rank among the most important cavern systems in the world, and every passing year adds a newly discovered cave to the system. The discovery of the series of caves known as the Angeles system in 1972 coincided with the onset of the great UFO flap of '72-74. With almost 2000 caves scattered over an area of 100 x 35 miles, one can say that Puerto Rico is virtually hollow inside. An excellent place to hide a squadron of UFOs. The equipment utilized to bore out these deep tunnels does not belong to the realm of science fiction, either. Upon completion of the Channel Tunnel linking the United Kingdom and France, the colossal tunnel borers were encased in concrete and buried in the tunnel's sides, since they were much too large to bring back to the surface. Author Richard Sauder has also discussed the existence of "subterrenes", both conventional and nuclear, employed in the perforation of bedrock for the creation of underground facilities. (clip) Conclusion The victims of a recent abduction experience -- a couple and their three children -- in this part of the island were told by their captors that there were indeed bases near the island of Mona and south of the Cabo Rojo lighthouse. While this has not been confirmed by physical means, it is curious that the string of earth tremors that has been affecting the entire island of Puerto Rico is located in the Mona Passage. These tremors have registered 4.5 and higher on the Richter scale. The earthquake whose epicenter was located five miles beneath the controversial Laguna Cartagena was dismissed by geologists as routine seismic activity, but residents of the area who felt it described it a "tons of dynamite being set off" and reported bluish fumes emerging from the lagoon's waters. There can be no question that the island's unique political situation -- an unincorporated territory of the U.S. functioning as an autonomous "commonwealth" -- has enabled the military to exercise greater freedom in the pursuit of its goals. Properties (such as the territory surrounding Laguna Cartagena) can be condemned by the military with little effort, whereas similar efforts in the U.S. mainland would meet vociferous public opposition. Soldiers can aim weapons freely against unsuspecting civilians who happen to stumble upon their concealed installations. It has also been noted that the underground detonations are not restricted to Cartagena: Marcial and Viola Cruz, a couple residing near El Yunque Rainforest, have experienced subsurface explosions since 1987 at both El Yunque and El Verde. As recently as October 1993, the Cruzes felt four astoundingly loud explosions in the vicinity of La Mina Waterfall. The witnesses, who felt the ground quake beneath their feet, are certain that these detonations were subterranean. Unlike the conspiracies which have been studied in the U.S., there is no "paper trail" leading to government involvement, merely tell-tale actions and statements, such as the unusual comment made by congressman Bennett Johnson, who stated that regardless of the political destiny selected by Puerto Ricans (full statehood or independence), the U.S. would never relinquish its control over its Roosevelt Roads facility nor El Yunque Rainforest. Some might consider such a statement damning enough: proof that nuclear weapons, outlawed by treaty, are being deployed in Puerto Rico against something or someone, extraterrestrial or not. In the meantime, those who work and live by the sea continue to see strange lights in the sky, and wonder. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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