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Is this how conspiracy theories start?

Just a quick post to say I'm a bit preoccupied with my latest project. I'm working on a wrap-up video documenting the DC investigation. It will be a way of showing everything that has happened in the past six weeks, so that people can understand what has happened to all of us - and almost to them without them even realising. Makes me think... is this how conspiracy theories start?

The Showdown

Like me you probably listened aghast to the audio recording from Harrison's laptop, left running as as Paul Kruger assaulted him- knocking him cold. Well they've retrieved the video footage from the room he was in now and I've posted it up on the DC. It's something else...Kruger is terrifying! You can see the veins popping  in his head. That's one angry man.

Go to https://www.dashboardcollective.net/ and look at the latest video post

The Fellowship of the Field Array

I've said it before, I'm not a 'computer' person. In my life (up until 6 weeks ago), i could get along fine knowing how to use Final Cut Pro, and answer my emails. Last night though, I helped a bunch of people use the internet to shut down an installation in northern Siberia that was pumping thousands of tons of poisonous gas into the atmosphere. Even though it was a virtual version of the the real thing, it was the most extraordinary feeling as I watched spoke after spoke fade from an ominous orange to dull inactive grey while the DC casually called it in; 'shut down spoke 14.., spoke 7 is history...Can someone do spoke 5 for me? . This was millions of dollars of illegal investment falling apart in the face of a talented hacker and a bunch of dedicated code breakers.

In the midst of elation though I have the gnawing feeling that it is all just a blind alley. There is no doubt the intention was real and the array was active, but with Kruger-mensch on the run with what sounds like a freaking star wars sized cannon, I have a growing sense that this isn't over by any means. It's like watching the first Lord of the Rings film where they've won an enormous battle at the end of Part 1 but you know you have to wait two more movies before Frodo can chuck the ring...

Well, you know what I mean anyway..

Harrison and Kruger's showdown

Alright, huge news - I've just been on the phone to Harrison Wyld - he called me from his offices in Pacifica. It seems there's been a very dramatic turn of events - Paul confronted Harrison about stopping Bluebird and it ended badly.

Harrison has sent me a recording of the confrontation - he was dictating memos on a laptop when Paul appeared, so the whole thing was recorded! I asked him where he was at the time and he said he was in one of the meeting rooms, so just maybe there's a video record of it too. God, you've got to hear them go at it!

Paul drove Harrison, unconscious, into the desert and dumped him there sans wallet and phone. When I spoke to him, Harrison had only recently made it back to Pacifica he said.

There's so much information here in my scribbled notes - Harrison said he's convinced Paul is going ahead with turning on the field array. Apparently Harrison's out of the loop in terms of the exact location, but it's in northern Siberia - Russian territory. He does however have a satelitte focused on the area and is organising to process the imagery and supply us with location data asap. The array itself is controlled by a remote access system.

There were two phone calls made by Paul at the end of the recording - one's in Russian I think - can anyone translate it?

The second discusses an A2 launch... Harrison didn't really know what this meant - launch implies rockets, balloons? Does that mean we're dealing with multiple locations?

I challenged him about sending some people there - why can't he throw money at it - send helicopters or whatever? He said that he could, but that he doesn't have any immediate contacts, and permissions could take days or even weeks. I have to say, after first being a bit irritated at this, he's probably right. Whether or not authorities are going to be called in soon, we need to assemble details and perhaps we can stop this happening much faster than could any other channels.

So is this it? Certainly things are moving fast.

Listen to the recording and I'll be back with more info asap. Harrison and I are scheduled to talk again in a little while...

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Quick and Dirty

Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that I've been immersed in the Dashboard Collective for the last week. Things just get more and more involved. Harrison has now come out and stopped Bluebird  (he hasn't answered my calls yet but I had a call from his PA,  Lili who said he would be in touch when he could). We still don't know the whereabouts of Paul Kruger however, and there is a sneaking sense of unease for everyone...a suggestion that he is the type of individual that won't be stopped just because his financial backer has called things off.

And you know, I have to say - I believe that if he doesn't do it, somebody else will - and soon. Just take a look at this article examining the current state of geoengineering science as a discipline.

Engineering a cooler Earth - Science News

There doesn't seem to be a lot of doubt in that arena that not only is it inevitable, it's imminent (something that Harrison and Paul talked about a lot in the lead up to their implementation of Bluebird) Sulphates in the atmosphere are referred to in the article as a 'Quick and Dirty' approach. I don't know about you, but that sounds like Kruger's style to me...

Extended version of the RN Science Show geoengineering panel

Hi everyone,

We've now got a downloadable mp3 of the extended version of the geoengineering panel with Bjorn Lomborg, Ken Caldeira and Peter Cox from the Radio National Science Show available from the DC - get it here:

https://dashboardcollective.net/bbpublic/bluebird_files/DC_content/rn_scienceshow_full_panel.mp3

M

What a Week

Wow, I thought I was fired up before. No pun intended.

While I can’t quite say that I’ve had the luxury of philosophising over everything that has happened in the last few weeks. I can say that the huge week that we’ve just had has really made me take a step back – if only to get a decent night’s sleep.  I’ve taken a moment to look at things objectively. To ask all of those questions that I’m sure you’ve been asking too.

It’s like when you look at a word too long and you start to think that it is misspelled because it takes on new shapes and meanings. Bluebird really have ramped up this week and they’re sleek. They have millions of dollars behind them dedicated to convincing us that we ‘need a plan b’.

Given my post of a few days ago and the questions around who gets to decide on what this might be, I feel as if I'm participating in future shaping events.

I’m right in the middle of putting together a really big update right now and this is where I tell you that it's ‘on the way’.
 

Who gets to decide?

Last week's Radio National science show discussion had a big impact on me, in particular something Peter Cox said regarding the emerging debate around geoengineering.

He said "the governance is more difficult than the science".

Governance is a dusty word that doesn't usually ring many alarm bells,  but in this context it raises some of the most confronting ethical and political dilemmas of our current existence.  When every individual on the planet will be directly affected, who decides on what course of action we will undertake? And if one government, or organization of governments has the means to alter the climate for us all, do they share our priorities, our principles, and our belief in what is required to eke out a satisfactory existence? The answer, historically at least, is that they don't, and they can't.

The ramifications of this perceived need to make a decision, and fast, potentially out weigh any previously faced global challenge. That the need is perceived is evidenced by a recent flurry of books and studies such as the Royal Society's investigation into the governance of GE. In the words of John Shepherd who chaired the RS investigation into geoengineering last year 'It is essential that we consider beforehand what legislative mechanisms and guidelines are needed, to ensure that any research that is undertaken will be done in a highly responsible and controlled manner with full international agreement where necessary'.

Okay - fair enough. But Copenhagen suggests that this might be very difficult to achieve. If there can be no international agreement to support mitigation measures because of the economic threat to our current way of life it seems unlikely we will come to an agreement on something as fundamental as altering the atmosphere we live in?

All of which takes me back to Bluebird. Governance is irrelevant if people simply bypass governments. I'm interested to know what people think about this?

Bill's sunshield?

Hi - just a quick one. At the end of my video piece from 15 May, I mentioned the sunshield controversy associated with Bill Gates. Here are the links:

The London Time article from Saturday 8th May: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7120011.ece

And the Google Forums Discussion around it:
http://groups.google.com/group/climateintervention/msg/d814917800a66e21 ?

Interestingly, here is The Guardian's latest article on all of this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/14/bill-gates-cloud-whitening-dangerous

And finally a couple of interesting tweets:

geoengpolicy Gates & #geoengineering via cloud brightening discussion & coverage http://bit.ly/9ANFjE http://bit.ly/9rDKAJ http://bit.ly/d6rTtb

@elikint For the record: Envisioned #geoengineering trials at sea are not by "Bill Gates". He's given some $ for a guy to make a sprayer.

Harrison's Message from Bhutan

I received a message last night from a woman called Rebecca Manningham, who claims to be Harrison Wyld's current girlfriend. She'd heard from Harrison through an MMS and got in touch to ask me to distribute it. She wants people to know that he is not a monster, that he's a decent guy - and that he doesn't really know what is happening back here and he's certainly not somebody that would threaten Kyle or cancel his cards. I'm not so sure that he's oblivious.. Anyway, I've posted it to youTube and you can decide for yourselves