Auschwitz: The Role of IG Farben-Bayer

By Vera Sharav

Global Research, May 23, 2016

Alliance for Human Research Protection 26 October 2006

Region: Europe

Theme: Crimes against Humanity, Culture, Society & History

GR Editor’s Note
This article was first published in January 2007 to mark the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
It is of particular relevance in relation to the announced merger between Monsanto and Bayer and the worldwide campaign against Monsanto.
Both companies are complicit in crimes against humanity, Monsanto’s agent orange used by the US military in Vietnam,  IG-Farben Bayer’s historical links to Nazi war crimes.
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz. Elderly Holocaust survivors, former soldiers and world leaders have gathered in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary: “I would like to say to all the people on the Earth: This should never be repeated, ever,” said Maj. Anatoly Shapiro, 92, who led the first Soviet troops to enter Auschwitz.
Lest we forget an important corporate participant in the Holocaust – two excerpts shed light on the role of IG Farben, ie. Bayer.
IG Farben was the most powerful German corporate cartel in the first half of the 20th century and the single largest profiteer from the Second World War. IG (Interessengemeinschaft) stands for “Association of Common Interests”: IG Farben included BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and other German chemical and pharmaceutical companies.
As documents show, IG Farben was intimately involved with the human experimental atrocities committed by Mengele at Auschwitz.
A German watchdog organization, the GBG Network, maintains copious documents and tracks Bayer Pharmaceutical activities.
Below is an excerpt from a BBC documentary about an Auschwitz survivor who for years tried to get compensation from the pharmaceutical giant that carried out medical experiments on her. Now living in Dundee, Scotland, she tells her story in a BBC documentary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qh7v5
Another excerpt is from the website of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation. Dr. Matthias Rath heads a research development institute in nutritional and Cellular Medicine conducting basic research and clinical studies to scientifically document the health benefits of micronutrients in fighting a multitude of diseases. Dr. Rath was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1955.
In the Auschwitz files, correspondence between the camp commander and Bayer Leverkusen was discovered. It dealt with the sale of 150 female prisoners for experimental purposes:

“With a view to the planned experiments with a new sleep-inducing drug we would appreciate it if you could place a number of prisoners at our disposal (…)” – “We confirm your response, but consider the price of 200 RM per woman to be too high. We propose to pay no more than 170 RM per woman. If this is acceptable to you, the women will be placed in our possession. We need some 150 women (…)” – “We confirm your approval of the agreement. Please prepare for us 150 women in the best health possible (…)” – “Received the order for 150 women. Despite their macerated condition they were considered satisfactory. We will keep you informed of the developments regarding the experiments (…)” – “The experiments were performed. All test persons died. We will contact you shortly about a new shipment (…)”

See: http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm
Medical Experiments in Auschwitz Conducted by I.G. Farben (from the book “I.G. Farben – from Anilin to forced labor” by Jörg Hunger and Paul Sander)
Unethical human experiments are a major threat to vulnerable populations everywhere – including in the US where, for example, the EPA is seeking to conduct pesticide exposure experiments on children. The IG Farben culture continues to drive the chemical-pharmaceutical industry. “Profit urber alles” – that means ANYTHING goes – profit above all else.
Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
212-595-8974

About Bayer´s Nazi-past

IG Farben was the only German company in the Third Reich that ran its own concentration camp. At least 30.000 slave workers died in this camp; a lot more were deported to the gas chambers. It was no coincidence that IG Farben built their giant new plant in Auschwitz, since the workforce they used (altogether about 300.000 people) was practically for free. The Zyklon B gas, which killed millions of Jews, Gypsies and other people was produced by IG Farben´s subsidiary company Degesch.

In Germany a growing number of people do not understand that IG Farben´s successors Bayer, BASF and Hoechst still refuse to apologize for their misdeeds. It is hard to accept that after the war the companies were allowed to keep IG Farben´s entire property, whereas the surviving slave workers received nothing. Until today Bayer, BASF and Hoechst did not pay any wages to their former workers.
In 1995 the coalition “Never again!” was created by the German Auschwitz Committee, Critical Shareholders and several organizations of former slave workers. In a joint appeal the coalition demands that there has to be an appropriate compensation by the companies for slave-workers and their descendants. Also the maintenance of the memorial at Auschwitz, which reminds the public of IG Farben´s victims, should be paid by the corporations. “Never again!” states that without verification of the past we always have to be present so that these crimes might never happen again. More than 1,500 individuals and about 100 German groups have signed this platform. The activities were organized by the Coalition against Bayer-dangers, a group that has monitored Bayer for 25 years.

Life as a human guinea pig

For years an Auschwitz survivor has tried to win compensation from the pharmaceutical giant that carried out medical experiments on her. Now living in Dundee, she tells her story in a BBC documentary.
Zoe Polanska Palmer never imagined she would survive Dr Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz.
Nor did her German doctors. Like thousands of other children, she was destined to be gassed once her usefulness to Nazi science had ceased.
During her two years at the camp, 13-year-old Zoe was forced to take tablets and pills as part of a series of pharmacological experiments, believed to be part of early birth control tests.
But Zoe refused to die. Saved by a Russian doctor who evacuated her to Dachau, she recovered and eventually settled in Scotland.
Now in her early 70s, she has been fighting for compensation and an apology from the German drug manufacturer, Bayer.
“I still find it difficult to take aspirin,” she says. “I remember one of the SS doctors holding my jaw open and forcing pills down my throat. I’m still very wary of men wearing white coats.”
Eyewitness testimonies held in the Auschwitz camp archive claim the doctor who force-fed her pills worked for the pharmaceutical company Bayer when it was part of the IG Farben conglomerate.
His name was Dr Victor Capesius. It’s a name that Zoe can never forget.
He helped Dr Mengele to conduct genetic experiments, usually on children, and also selected thousands of prisoners at the huge death camp, choosing those who might be useful and sending the rest to an immediate death with a flick of his finger.
Dr Capesius was tried in Frankfurt for war crimes in 1963 and served time in prison.
Another longtime Bayer employee, Helmut Vetter, also worked as a SS doctor at Auschwitz. He was involved in the testing of experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates and after the war he was executed for administering fatal injections.

Denial of culpability

“The concentration camps were used as a huge laboratory for human experimentation,” says Wolfgang Eckhart, the Professor of Historical Medicine at Heidelberg University.
“We have to look upon the camps as outposts of pharmacological research. The Nazis wanted to sterilise the population of the east, especially Russian people, but enable them to continue to be useful as workers.”

The pain has yet to heal

Bayer says the company which exists today has nothing to do with its wartime counterpart. A spokesperson told the BBC: “Between 1925 and 1952, no company named Bayer existed, neither as a subsidiary of IG Farben nor as any other legal entity.
“Bayer has worked in good faith with the German government to establish a fund to help those who have suffered. The company’s contribution to this fund amounted to more than £40m.”

Damaged beyond repair

Although it is nearly 60 years since the end of World War II, for survivors like Zoe the consequences of the war are as alive today as they were in January 1945 when the Russian Army liberated Auschwitz.
After the war, Zoe married and settled in Scotland. There she underwent several painful operations to repair the damage done to her body. But she has never been able to have children. Now suffering from cancer, she is a remarkably cheerful woman whose home in a quiet suburb is punctuated with laughter from her jokes and tears from her memories.
When I first travelled to meet her in July 2002, she was angry that she had been ignored for so long by the authorities managing the compensation fund set up by German industry and the German government.
She had campaigned for 28 years but received nothing.
“They want us all to die so they won’t have to pay out so much money,” Zoe says.
Within weeks of the authorities being contacted by the BBC, Zoe received a cheque for a little over £2,000 from the German compensation fund.
“I want to make sure people remember what happened to people like me when I was a child at Auschwitz,” she says. “I was just one of thousands of children treated in this way. But I was one of the very few lucky ones who managed to survive.” (By Mark Handscomb, BBC Radio 4 reporter for It’s My Story )

BAYER “Aryanized” Jewish Cemetery

Documents show that in 1942 IG Farben´s branch office in Uerdingen, Germany got hold of the town’s Jewish cemetery.
The forced sale price was way below the actual market value: 100,000 square meter property for 3,000 Reichsmark. After the war the property was passed on to IG Farben´s successor BAYER AG.
The Nazis dissolved the Jewish Community of Uerdingen in 1942. Today all traces of the Jewish cemetery in Uerdingen have been completely obliterated. The city archive indicates that the cemetery was located approximately where the main gate to the BAYER factory currently stands.
The COALITION AGAINST BAYER-DANGERS demands that the company publicly apologize for the defilement of the Uerdingen cemetery and affix a memorial plaque to the main gate of the company´s Uerdingen works.
Hans Frankenthal, former slave worker in IG Farben´s plant in Auschwitz and board member of the Jewish Community:

“I was terrified when I learned from this offence against Jewish belief. According to our faith, taking possession of the cemetery without exhuming the bodies is tantamount to defiling the graves.”

BAYER today is living off the fruits of Nazi legalism. On paper everything was legally correct: Julius Israel Kohn from the “Association of Jews in the German Reich” and Bernhard Hoffmann, the representative of IG Farben, signed the sales agreement in a notary´s office, and the copy of this seemingly standard real estate transaction has a stamp from the Krefeld tax office.
At the same time the former culprits are publicly honored in Uerdingen. Fritz ter Meer served on the IG Farben board of directors from 1926 to 1945 and was the head officer directing the operations of the IG Farben factory at Auschwitz. The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal sentenced him to seven years in prison.
He was released after serving only four years. Not long after, in 1956, Ter Meer was elevated to the chairman of the supervisory board at BAYER, a position he held for seven years. His grave in Krefeld has a meter-high wreath on it – donated by BAYER in recognition of his services.
Coalition against BAYER-dangers (Germany) www.CBGnetwork.org
Fax: (+49) 211-333 940
Tel: (+49) 211-333 911
please send an e-mail for receiving the English newsletter Keycode BAYER free of charge.
German/Italian/French/Spanish newsletters also available.
See: http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm

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ANNEX

Medical Experiments in Auschwitz Conducted by I.G. Farben (from the book “I.G. Farben – from Anilin to forced labor” by Jörg Hunger and Paul Sander)

Scientific experiments were also done in other concentration camps. A decisive fact is that IG employee SS major Dr. med. Helmuth Vetter, stationed in several concentration camps, participated in these experiments by order of Bayer Leverkusen.

At the same time as Dr. Joseph Mengele, he experimented in Auschwitz with medications that were designated “B-1012″, B-1034”, “3382” or “Rutenol”. The test preparations were not just applied to those prisoners who were ill, but also to healthy ones. These people were first infected on purpose through pills, powdered substances, injections or enemas. Many of the medications caused the victims to vomit or have bloody diarrhea. In most cases the prisoners died as a result of the experiments.

In the Auschwitz files correspondence was discovered between the camp commander and Bayer Leverkusen. It dealt with the sale of 150 female prisoners for experimental purposes:

“With a view to the planned experiments with a new sleep-inducing drug we would appreciate it if you could place a number of prisoners at our disposal (…)” – “We confirm your response, but consider the price of 200 RM per woman to be too high. We propose to pay no more than 170 RM per woman. If this is acceptable to you, the women will be placed in our possession. We need some 150 women (…)” – “We confirm your approval of the agreement. Please prepare for us 150 women in the best health possible (…)” – “Received the order for 150 women. Despite their macerated condition they were considered satisfactory. We will keep you informed of the developments regarding the experiments (…)” – “The experiments were performed. All test persons died. We will contact you shortly about a new shipment (…)”

A former Auschwitz prisoner testified: “There was a large ward of tuberculars on block 20. The Bayer Company sent medications in unmarked and unnamed ampoules. The tuberculars were injected with this. These unfortunate people were never killed in the gas chambers. One only had to wait for them to die, which did not take long (…) 150 Jewish women that had been bought from the camp attendant by Bayer, (…) served for experiments with unknown hormonal preparations.”

Parallel to the tests by Behringwerke and Bayer Leverkusen the chemical-pharmaceutical and serologic-bacteriological department at Hoechst started experimenting on Auschwitz prisoners with their new typhus fever preparation “3582″. The first series of tests had results that were far from satisfactory. Of the 50 test persons 15 died; the typhus fever drug led to vomiting and exhaustion. Part of the concentration camp Auschwitz was quarantined, which led to an extension of the tests to the concentration camp in Buchenwald. In the journal of the “department for typhus fever and viral research of the concentration camp Buchenwald” we find on January 10th, 1943: “As suggested by the IG Farbenindustrie A.G. the following were tested as typhus fever medications: a) preparation 3582 of the chem. pharm. and sero-bact. Department Hoechst – Prof. Lautenschläger and Dr. Weber – (therapeutic test A), b) methylene blue, formerly tested on mice by Prof. Kiekuth, Elberfeld (therapeutic test M).”

The first and also the second series of therapeutic tests, held in Buchenwald between March 31st and April 11th 1943, had negative results due to insufficient contamination of the tested prisoners. Neither did the experiments in Auschwitz have evident successes.

The scientific value of all these experiments, whether ordered by the IG Farben or not, was in fact zero. The test persons were in bad physical condition, caused by forced labor, insufficient and wrong nutrition and diseases in the concentration camp. Add to this the generally bad sanitary circumstances in the laboratories. “The test results in the concentration camps, as the IG laboratory specialists should know, could not be compared to results made under normal circumstances”.

The SS physician Dr. Hoven testified to this during the Nuremberg Trial:

“It should be generally known, and especially in German scientific circles, that the SS did not have notable scientists at its disposal. It is clear that the experiments in the concentration camps with IG preparations only took place in the interests of the IG, which strived by all means to determine the effectiveness of these preparations. They let the SS deal with the – shall I say – dirty work in the concentration camps. It was not the IG’s intention to bring any of this out in the open, but rather to put up a smoke screen around the experiments so that (…) they could keep any profits to themselves. Not the SS but the IG took the initiative for the concentration camp experiments.”

The original source of this article is Alliance for Human Research Protection

Copyright © Vera Sharav, Alliance for Human Research Protection, 2016

Sandy Hook Massacre: Published Press Photos Pre-Dated Event 

by MHB Administrator • Documents, Guest Posts • Tags: false flag terror, fraud, gun control, media disinformation, media monopoly, news media analysis, propaganda, public health, public relations, Sandy Hook Elementary

Compelling imagery and analysis suggest corporate media’s direct participation in manufacture of Newtown shooting

Hunter News and Media
(January 14, 2014)https://memoryholeblog.com/2016/05/21/sandy-hook-massacre-published-press-photos-pre-dated-event/
There have been a number of pre-dated fundraisers, tributes, death reports, detailed articles, and even appearances of Sandy Hook in two major motion pictures. In fact, there have been so many of the pre-dated materials distributed, they’re literally uncountable, even with hundreds of links now inactive.
All of this clearly prepared material has brought thousands of people to realize how severely corrupt our world systems have become, but none of this may be as shocking as the number of pre-dated images that were once contained in the Associated Press images database. Not only are the images pre-dated, but those that are labeled “undated” have clearly matching dates with other photos.

The most convincing of these photos are undoubtedly those of Allison Wyatt, having the same cached creation date as a photo of a girl that appeared in the news for a few days, labeled as Wyatt, although the second girl’s mother revealed the picture was stolen from her flickr account and the pictured girl didn’t even attend Sandy Hook.[Emphasis added.-Ed.]


I’ve included all of the important screen shots for others to use! I’ll also explain them, focusing on the Allison Wyatt and Lily Gaubert photos.
It isn’t any conspiracy theory that FEMA, a program created in the aftermath of 9/11, was holding a drill called “planning for the needs of children in disasters” in Connecticut on the day of the shooting, or that they held the same drill at the Sandy Hook firehouse in 2010 (although the 2010 link is now gone, you can see it at 1:45 in this video).
[Video has since been deleted based on likely dubious copyright infringement claims.-Ed.]

It’s quite possible that these pictures contain the date of 12/13/12 because they were taken on that day, and the school was practicing the drill while taking photos to avoid making mistakes while conducting the “live” drill.
[Click on images for expanded view.]



Here you can see a photo that was released on December 21, although the timestamp matches the rest of December 12.



Although this photo of a banner made by students says it was taken and created on December 15 in the author’s caption, the creation date once again says December 12.

The pictures of Victoria Soto, below, are labeled with a creation date of 11/23/12 and labeled as “undated,” although Swan Song at Insane Media has already traced one of these photos to find a digital timestamp that matches Soto’s 2008 graduation. Photos of Dylan Hockley and Benjamin Wheeler also match the creation date of 11/23.






This is where things get really weird. I originally assumed that the following photo at the church had a reasonable explanation since it is dated all the way back to 2008. After reviewing the article from Insane Media, I began to look into the dates of my old screenshots and realized that there are multiple pictures with this same creation date of July 10, 2008.
It’s almost cynical, but I thought I’d include that the first article I traced one of these 2008 church photos to is titled “As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts.”







Here we can see a photo of a Newtown police car outside of Lanza’s home, with the same creation date of 7/10/2008.

There were also photos, as seen in the video, from SIPA press, by the same photographers that matched the early creation dates.
Even more shocking than SIPA press having these photos, is the inclusion of both Allison Wyatt and Lily Gaubert. To be perfectly clear, Lily Gaubert was not listed a Sandy Hook victim. A photo of Gaubert was, however, featured by the media for about 3 days after the shooting, until Gaubert’s mother spoke out as you can see here.


Gaubert’s picture was featured in the news, but the name attached to it was “Allison Wyatt.”


You can see here that there were two photo dates tied to the “real” Allison Wyatt’s photo, and the later dated picture is edited.

Gaubert’s photo, the non-victim, was also dated in SIPA’s database with a 6/15 creation date. This should be the smoking gun.

I also included a few more SIPA photos for reference, along with some screenshots taken from Insane Media’s article, which I recommend reading if you’re still confused!

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noun: military-industrial complex; plural noun: military-industrial complexes

1. a country's military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.  ...working 4 U.S.   has that ..go~in

By Jay Syrmopoulos
May 22, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "FTP" - Washington, D.C. – In 2015, the United States spent more on its war machine than the next six countries combined, with a total of $596 billion spent on military expenditures. This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with roughly $602 billion slated to be spent on military programs and armaments in the 2017 budget.
To put this amount in perspective, the U.S. spent more on its military than the next six nations combined, with China coming in second at $215 billion, followed by Saudi Arabia at $87 billion, Russia at $66 billion, with the United Kingdom, India and France spending roughly $50 billion each on defense expenses.

  When looking at this spending in context, the U.S. not only spends more than the next six countries combined, but spends almost triple the amount on military expenses than the second biggest defense spender in the world, China, according to data from the Stockholm International Peach Research Institute.
These figures come on top of the recently announced $1 trillion dollar nuclear missile modernization program that has been curiously absent from public discourse, having not even been mentioned in the televised presidential debates.
All of this comes as the U.S. pivots from the “Global War on Terror,“ to a more traditional defense posture. The reasoning behind this is simple; who needs new tanks, bombers, fighters and missiles to fight ISIS or al-Qaeda? There simply wasn’t enough money to be made in bombing jihadists in tents in the desert, thus the drums of war in the media, regarding an “aggressive Russia,” began to be played as to allow for the return of traditional military-industrial complex/Cold War posturing.

The sheer enormity of the sums being given to the military-industrial complex is enough to boggle the mind. Think for a moment how else that $600 billion could be spent to actually assist in creating growth rather than death. Consider that in January 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found there were 564,708 homeless people on a given night in the United States – the government could actually purchase a $1 million dollar home for each individual homeless person in the U.S. and still have money left over.
Or perhaps the money could be spent on the rapidly eroding domestic U.S. nuclear infrastructure. Although the media spotlight is rarely shined upon America’s aging nuclear infrastructure, U.S. nuclear power plants are decaying rapidly, precipitating numerous nuclear environmental disasters across the country. The Free Thought Project recently reported on four nuclear disasters playing out across the country, with massive amounts of radioactive material having been leaked.
Rather than investing in these terminal goods, such as bombs and bullets, which are meant for destruction, we should be investing in capital goods that are able to provide growth. The U.S. war machine spends hundreds of billions of dollars per year waging war against humanity, while Americans at home are dying from a crumbling nuclear infrastructure and crippling poverty.

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By Paul Buchheit
May 23, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "CD" -  As often noted in the passionate writings of Henry Giroux, poor Americans are becoming increasingly 'disposable' in our winner-take-all society. After 35 years of wealth distribution to the super-rich, inequality has forced much of the middle class towards the bottom, to near-poverty levels, and to a state of helplessness in which they find themselves being blamed for their own misfortunes.

The evidence keeps accumulating: income and wealth -- and health -- are declining for middle-class America. As wealth at the top grows, the super-rich feel they have little need for the rest of society.

Income Plummets for the Middle Class

According to Pew Research, in 1970 three of every ten income dollars went to upper-income households. Now five of every ten dollars goes to them.

The Social Security Administration reports that over half of Americans make less than $30,000 per year. That's less than an appropriate average living wage of $16.87 per hour, as calculated by Alliance for a Just Society.

Wealth Collapses for Half of Us

Numerous sources report that half or more of American families have virtually no savings, and would have to borrow money or sell possessions to cover an emergency expense. Between half and two-thirds of Americans have less than $1,000.

For every $100 owned by a middle-class household in 2001, that household now has just $72.

Not surprisingly, race plays a role in the diminishing of middle America. According to Pew Research, the typical black family has only enough liquid savings to last five days, compared to 12 days for the typical Hispanic household, and 30 days for a white household.

Our Deteriorating Health

In a disgraceful display of high-level disregard for vital health issues, House Republicans are attempting to cut back on lunches for over 3 million kids.

The evidence for the health-related disposability of poor Americans comes from a new study that finds nearly a 15 year difference in life expectancy for 40-year-olds among the richest 1% and poorest 1% (10 years for women). Much of the disparity has arisen in just the past 15 years.

It's not hard to understand the dramatic decline in life expectancy, as numerous studies have documented the health problems resulting from the inequality-driven levels of stress and worry and anger that make Americans much less optimistic about the future. The growing disparities mean that our children will likely see less opportunities for their own futures.

It May Be Getting Worse

The sense derived from all this is that half of America is severely financially burdened, at risk of falling deeper into debt.

It may be more than half. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a JP Morgan study's conclusion that "the bottom 80% of households by income lack sufficient savings to cover the type of volatility observed in income and spending." Fewer than one in three 25- to 34-year-olds live in their own homes, a 20 percent drop in just the past 15 years.

It may be even worse for renters. The number of families spending more than half their incomes on rent -- the 'severely' cost-burdened renters -- has increased by a stunning 50 percent in just ten years. Billionaire Steve Schwarzman, whose company Blackstone has been buying up tens of thousands of homes at rock-bottom prices and then renting them back while waiting out the housing market, finds the growing anger among voters "astonishing."

What's astonishing is the disregard that many of the super-rich have for struggling Americans.
Paul Buchheit is a college teacher, an active member of US Uncut Chicago, founder and developer of social justice and educational websites (UsAgainstGreed.org, PayUpNow.org, RappingHistory.org), and the editor and main author of "American Wars: Illusions and Realities" (Clarity Press). He can be reached at paul@UsAgainstGreed.org.

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The Decline and Fall of the English Language in the Uncommonly Stupid States of America (USSA)

The Decline and Fall of the English Language in the Uncommonly Stupid States of America (USSA)

Perhaps you noticed the recent story about the stupendously ignorant woman on an American Airlines flight who was so concerned by the mathematical equation that her fellow passenger was scribbling on a pad that she thought up a ruse to deplane and alert the airline that he was a possible terrorist. The flight ended up being delayed for two hours, while the man in question was taken off the plane and questioned. Whereupon it came to light that he was an economics professor who was working on a mathematical equation related to a scholarly talk that he was preparing.

The woman who made the false accusation has not been identified. She was permitted to go on her way without further inconvenience to her considerably dimwitted self. But she epitomizes the impressively dumbed down, half witted American population, where the mere act of being observed writing a mathematical equation in public is now enough to get you fingered as a potential terrorist.

Sad to say, this epidemic of red-white-and-blue stupidity, which has rolled over the USSA like an all consuming tidal wave of doltish nitwittedness, can now be seen on every hand. The brainless examples multiply daily, like rabbits.

The feeble-mindedness of the average USSA individual "entity" grows by leaps and bounds, with every passing year.

The Decline and Fall of the English Language

This is nowhere better seen than in the rapid decline of English language skills, on the part of the general population. My observations are focused on the USSA, but I believe what is happening could apply equally well to other English-speaking countries, such as Australia, England, etc. and also to France, Germany, Spain and other nations, with respect to their own national languages.

It is a fact that more and more people speak too rapidly, slur their words, and sloppily and indistinctly pronounce words, or use malapropisms, which error they may then further compound by also mispronouncing the malapropisms.

This has been a noticeable trend over the course of my life.

I am wondering if this massive degeneration in language skills may be a side effect of the high rate of drug usage (legal and illegal) and alcohol consumption in today's society? Or is it merely a reflection of the declining mental capacity of the average person as more and more people fiercely compete to be stupider than the next person, in a dizzying, vertiginous, ever accelerating downward spiral to terminal, global weak-mindedness?

Vocabulary selection is rapidly becoming more and more substandard. Many people seem to think that when you set out to communicate, that one word will serve as well as another.

That theory runs into trouble exactly on this salient point: different words have different meanings. The changing of one letter or of an apostrophe completely changes the meaning of the word, and thereby the meaning of the communication. Is it any wonder that those who think most imprecisely and who spell the worst are so quick to sling the pejorative expression, "grammar NAZI," at those who do know how to spell, write and think coherently?

My first years in school were in a small, two classroom, country school, with a no nonsense teacher in charge of the first and second grade, which were both in the same classroom. We had to learn vocabulary words every week. We had written spelling tests and also oral examinations, where we had to individually stand in front of the class and spell out loud the words that the teacher would call out to us. And we were graded on that. But that was more than 50 years ago. It appears that my generation is the last literate generation. Nowadays, subliteracy is the order of the day. People wear their stupidity as a badge of honor. They positively revel in their vapid vacuousness.

I present the following list as a testimony to the growing use of "txt" messages, and the burgeoning, medieval, digital, mental landscape of "idk". I have selected these examples from stories by major news gathering organizations such as CNN, the BBC, the AP, Reuters and the like, as well as from other websites and forums on the Internet. The list could easily have been ten or twenty or thirty times as long, but then no one would bother to read it, and anyway, I would grow bored slogging through so much poorly written, verbal diarrhea.

In every instance I know the proper usage or the difference between similar words, or, indeed, if the so-called "word" is even a word at all in standard English. The same cannot be said for a great many writers today, many of whom are paid professionally to write and to publish to the Internet. Here we go:

waive or wave
cooperate or corroborate or collaborate
their or there or they're
its or it's
to or too or two
faze or phase
raze or raise
apprise or appraise
sole or soul
pole or poll
whine or wine
wit or whit
throws of death or throes of death
use to or used to
reap what you sew or reap what you sow
tow the line or toe the line
thru or threw or through
coz or cuz or because
wreck havoc or wreak havoc
nuce or noose
lose or loose
sleight or slight
rain or rein or reign
effect or affect
than or then
triump or triumph
paradyme or paradigm
kewl or cool
mass or amass 
do or due 
tho or though
your or you're
noone or no one
bizness or business
were or we're or where
bear or bare
brake or break
softwear or software
province or provenance
poche or posh
wala or voilà
old fashion or old-fashioned
stain glass windows or stained glass windows
your's or yours
their's or theirs
her's or hers
our's or ours
specie or species
let along or let alone
prolly or probly or probably
peddle or pedal
weight your words or weigh your words
I grinded a pound of coffee or I ground a pound of coffee
sheer or shear
explainer -- how about précis, sidebar, synopsis, etc.
presser -- how about press conference
lol! - sp   --- how about using a dictionary, so that you can learn to spell?
should of or should have
must of or must have
could of or could have
phenomena or phenomenon
cemetary or cemetery
meme --  how about idea, theme, concept, joke, leitmotif, buzzword, catchy phrase, etc.
break it down -- how about explain, interpret, analyze, parse, simplify, clarify, elucidate, deconstruct, etc.
by or bye or buy
layed or laid
laid or lay
lay or lie
hanged or hung
strait or straight
squash or quash
diffuse or defuse
elude or allude
disperse or disburse
rise or arise
pray or prey
perpetuate or perpetrate
pique or peak or peek
fraction or faction
track or tack
visa versa or vice versa
ekcetera or et cetera
pee or pea
cue or queue
vice or vise
advice or advise
populous or populace
Calvary or cavalry
creek or creak
trey or tray
neigh or nay
blue or blew
flue or flu or flew
flea or flee
hire or higher
cache or cash
alley or ally or allay
shoo or shoe
rouge or rogue
bow or bough
enuff or enough
tuff or tough
per say or per se
mute or moot
cite or sight or site
mite or might
linch or lynch
annals of history or annals (by itself)
was or were
sunk or sank
farther or further

I'm fine with that or that is fine with me
back in the day - - so ambiguous and fuzzily imprecise as to be almost meaningless. what day? when?

subject verb agreement - - - pathetic, like the blind leading the blind
use of the possessive case - - an ignorant chaos reigns
knowledge and use of the subjunctive - - forget it, dead on arrival


And so goes the decline and fall of the English language in the Uncommonly Stupid States of America (USSA) as the culture plunges into a medieval, digital, high-tech Dark Age of unparalleled idiocy.             http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.com/

EGYPTAIR FLIGHT MS 804 THE PLOT THICKENS

Posted by George Freund on May 22, 2016

It appears another mysterious airline disaster is upon us. EgyptAir Flight MS 804 en route to Cairo from Paris crashed into the Mediterranean at about 00:30 hours Zulu. It was flying at about 11,000 meters and made a 90 degree turn. A futher 360 degree turn was made. It disappeared from radar at 3,000 meters. There were two smoke alarms recorded one in the lavatory and one avionics smoke. There were two window alarms as well. Debris was located about 180 miles (290 kilometers) off the port of Alexandria. The European Space Agency reported a fuel slick at co-ordinates 33°32′N 29°13′E. I see from these details we have quite a lot of numerology to support the classic case of designed conspiracy. Yet this is only the beginning. 



At Conspiracy Cafe we read and analyze the twilight language the holographic trail left embedded in all things. The algorithm can enhance the effect by connect obscure details across a multi dimensional trail. Few can appreciate the technique. Even less can employ it. Over the preceding weeks we analyzed a few Google doodles and retrieved some interesting results. We saw the pyramids in the Sygmund Freud Doodle and some air security issues in the Claude Shannon Doodle and the Sphinx in the William Shakespeare Google Doodle. There was also a cluster of the classic conspiracy numbers as well in the Freud doodle. The number 36 was revealed with the term bomb. Flight MS 804 made a 360 degree turn after the most plausible explanation of its demise was revealed to be a bomb. So you see many hints were waiting in the wings so to speak. In The Tempest it was an evil Algerian sorceress that plotted and the ship was returning from Tunis just like the Airbus. There was an Algerian on Flight MS 804. In Romeo and Juliet the love foil was Paris the city of the flight's origin. Pilot Mohammed Shoukair was from Giza the site of the pyramids as well.



Then things got really weird. The stewardess killed in the crash, Samar Ezz Eldin, posted a series of pictures on her Facebook page. This image above pretty much says it all. Samar obviously had prior knowledge of the fate of the aircraft falling into the sea. She wades through the water with her suitcase. In the William Shakespeare doodle Miranda gazes at the shipwreck in The Tempest. Here our Miranda walks away from it. 



Other images from her Facebook page include the above love for Islam and the Arabic message below that asks God for forgiveness.



"Oh my Lord if hearts of men become difficult... yours is not. Forgive me."

The way it is written some words are missing or in a wrong place of the sentence.



A nazar (blue bead) is an eye-shaped amulet believed to protect against the evil eye

Weirder still is the blue amulet popular in Turkey. It protects the bearer from the 'evil eye.' Was that a reference to the all seeing eye of the police state surveillance grid of the western world. Was Samar the courier of the device used to bring down the aircraft. A psychic has opined that the object of the explosive was a "coffee maker." Could that imply the stewardess who has that fundamental in her job description. She also alluded to a man with curly hair and a button down striped shirt, a calm exterior chanting verse on the inside. Was it the prayer above? He was about six feet tall and smelled heavily of cologne. That may have been to mask traces of explosive. She highlighted the security issues and the Israelis. France was the scapegoat to a large crisis concerning the powerful. She further felt that an EMP weapon was used, but that doesn't jive with the eyewitness account of flaming wreckage. 



Amjad Awad (pictured) and his cousin Hakim Awad killed Ehud and Ruth Fogel and their three children in their West Bank home in 2011. They have been getting foreign aid since they were convicted for life

I have been laboriously going over the flight manifest. Many of the names are not properly spelled. Some do not return in any news feed. It makes one suspicious. Some are interesting in that they could very well be a primary target. Another a possible suspect. Victim Amgad Aiad didn't pan out. However, a similar name Amjad Awad did. He was implicated in murder and gets aid from the British government. Hopefully he is on ice as opposed to travelling the skies. There were three sky marshals aboard the flight. French intelligence was on alert. The Turkish authorities were expecting waves ot terror May 19. Somebody sure knew something was amiss. 



Ian Phillips with his children

A courier by the name of Ian Phillips missed the flight to eternity. He carries special documents. Governments frequantly do this with diplomatic packages. However, Mr. Phillips worked for a private company called CMS Network. Their clients are usually in the banking industry. That client cancelled at the last moment. Someone was reading the tea leaves if the document was the primary target. 



In the usual background check of passengers we would be remiss if we didn't search for a motive to eliminate a primary target. There are a few that make the short list. One is Geert Supré (56) of Belgium. He was an executive with Vanguard Logistics one of the world's largest non vessel distribution companies in the world. It is owned by New Zealand philantropist Glenn Owen. In the covert world of conflict in the Middle East this company could provide very adept cover for the movement of materials related to war. It must be a consideration. 



Another was Quentin Helouin of France. He was an executive with a company called Earthport. They do international payment transactions. They operate in 65 countries including Russia. In the world careening to conflict and with exposure of off shore accounts, that could be a position that could spell trouble. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Yandex, Azimo, Viamericas, Russlavbank and Hyperwallet are clients. The Company has offices in London and New York.



In a bizarre spin this woman captured global headlines in 2011 when she was arrested by authorities in Egypt while the infamous Hosni Mobarak was President. Her name is Nancy Okail, the executive director of the Tahrir Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank devoted to the Middle East. Can you spell color revolution and regime change? There could be a case to assume she was and still is an asset of American intelligence. Though not on the flight her life long best friend was. 



Salah Abu-Laban and his wife Sahar Quaider, son Ghassan and daughter-in-law Reem As Saba’ee had been traveling together, wrote film director Osman Abu Laban, Abu-Laban’s nephew, on Facebook. Osman took part in funeral prayers for his relatives at a Cairo mosque on Friday and was seen sobbing into an imam’s arms. “Oh Lord, have mercy and forgive them, and make their final resting place up in paradise,” Abu Laban wrote.

Salah was not mentioned in the article reporting Nancy's plight. However, they were the only family fitting the description. Salah would have grown up in Cairo with her and been part of her network. Retirement comes at a cost sometimes if he was a primary target. We take note of the prayer. Common though they might be. Here it is specific. 

Another problem is there were two terror names on the flight manifest that could cause confusion. There was a Kuwaiti economist named Abdul Mohsen al Mutairi killed in the crash. There are two al Mutairi's Nasser and Khalid revealed as terrorists. Both are Kuwaitis. There is a Salaheldin Abu Laban listed as arrested in Syria for joining terror group Hizbul-Tahrir. However, it appears the people on the flight are the legitimate names and these similarities are just that. There was mention of a second Canadian on the flight, but there was no public disclosure of the name and the airline denies it. That is indicative of a primary target whose name is too sensitive to admit. Marwa Hamdy was the other. She was an IBM executive. They have many serious contracts in the military industrial complex I'm sure. 

There are more names to go through, but why deprive you of what we have thus far. Stay tuned.