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Treason on Mauna Kea: TMT Military Mission Concealed
Officials Lie About Military Involvements in the World’s Most Advanced “Purely Scientific” Telescope; the TMT Fraud Amounts to Treason on Mauna Kea for Giving China Control Over Capabilities Risking America’s National Security and Nuclear Advantage
by
Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane
Exclusive to
Hilo, HI (July 12, 2015)– Construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)–the world’s most advanced optical technology claimed by officials to have “no connection at all to the military,” contains the most advanced Star Wars capabilities for nuclear supremacy.
Worse than defrauding the public, officials have apparently committed treason and sedition according to documents herein revealed. Governor Ige; the mayor of Hawaii County; officials from Canada, China, India, and Japan; the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and the University of Hawaii, have neglected, or purposely concealed, irrefutable evidence that U.S. defense secrets, including TMT’s satellite targeting systems, are being placed at grave risk by China’s “partnership” in the project endangering U.S. National Security.
This conspiracy to defraud people amounts to treason on Mauna Kea, and a clear and present danger to America should this program continue and war breaks out between China and the United States, as some officials are now threatening.
The Scene of the Crime
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world, considered sacred by native Hawaiians. Beyond being the place where the first light strikes the planet, Mauna Kea is central to prophesy. Hawaiian elders and kahunas honor this outdoor “temple” from which a spiritual “umbilical cord” connecting to earth from the heart of the universe in the “last days” is expected to manifest to secure the ‘Aina (“the land that feeds”).
This “temple” is also prophesied to play a key role in restoring the aloha spirit internationally in the “end times.” An energy vortex, that many people claim to feel here, blesses these lands surrounding the TMT construction site.
Many native Hawaiians blame their culture’s and the environment’s demise on the “breathless-ones”–spiritless white men called “Ha`ole.” This aboriginal attitude is similar to the Native American proverb, “White men speak with forked tongues.” Some Hawaiians justifiably argue the mindless, soul-suppressed, intruders, virtual slaves to Babylonian-style deceptions, threaten civilization with extinction.
The events recorded here on Hawaii’s Big Island during the past few months are increasingly justifying the harshest critics, as the ancient prophesies appear to be unfolding on time.
Science vs. Spirituality: The PSYOPS for Mission Control
“We have nothing against science,” the masses of protestors affirm as they block access to the $1.4 billion “science project.”
“It’s the spirituality of this mountain that compels us to protect this land.”
Their commitment to the ‘Aina justifies their opposition; and many activists are willing to get arrested to support the cause.
But the entire debate has been biased from the start by lies and liars, aided-and-abetted by standard psychological warfare operations called “PSYOPS,” administered by the persuasive corporate-controlled media.
Propaganda is crucial to winning any war, including this war between people economically and culturally struggling.
Native Hawaiians are disproportionately jailed by corrupt prosecutors and complicit courts. The “system of injustice” in Hawaii regularly enables land thieves to steal properties under the fallacy of the government’s jurisdictional authority. Officials illegitimately rule over Hawaiian lands, native people, and everyone that gets in the way of “progress” (or the huge drug industry that traffics through Hilo).
In this climate of undeclared war, against a people who don’t take drugs, nor orders from uniformed intruders, the manner in which the TMT debate has been framed by the media is consistent with a PSYOPS.
In strategic warfare terms, officials have taken “the high ground” with the media’s help.
The higher ground has been granted to “science.” Science asserts the benefits of exploring the universe. TMT will enable us to “go back in time.” Astrophysicists predict we will be able to view the universe from a new vantage point. This will possibly enable us to better explain the “Big Bang.”
Science advocates here and elsewhere claim they want what was given to ancient Hawaiians–the opportunity to explore uncharted places. Early Hawaiians were great navigators. They explored oceans much like astronomers today seek to discover galaxies with the TMT.
Given science’s majority view, anyone opposing TMT, rejecting the idea of exploring the heavens, and advancing knowledge about space, is considered mentally defective. The protestors are generally portrayed and viewed this way.
The “high ground” vs. the “low ground” has, thus, been imposed. And this time-tested military strategy of securing the higher ground is expected to produce victory for all commercial investors.
This subtle yet powerful “population management,” media propaganda, and persuasion force administered by officials favoring status quo development has caused the low grounders to assume the defense in the framed debate, “We’re not against science; we’re for spirituality.”
Officials Lie and “Scientists” are Clueless
This dominance of “science” over “spirituality,” and biased debate, is now compromised by government reports that prove beyond any reasonable doubt that officials lied to everyone.
Worse than that, the liars have placed American militarists and peace activists alike in the same sinking ship. In fact, TMT officials representing known and concealed special interests have placed all of America, America’s allies, and America’s economic interests abroad, at grave risk.
Officials claiming there are no military interests or warfare applications in this “purely science” project have been caught in more than a white lie. This “consumer fraud” used to sell TMT is treasonous, and will not go over well anywhere in the world, especially here where “scientists” have yet to explain why, only a short distance from the TMT construction site, Lake Wai’au, also considered sacred, is suddenly and woefully disappearing. A bleak omen of worse times to come.
The “God’s of science” are hard pressed to explain how or why Pele’ suddenly stopped its 14 mile lava flow last October less than 1/4 mile from the newly built police station serving to secure America’s methamphetamine capital and the vast majority of Hawaii’s $3.5 billion annual illegal marijuana harvest trafficked from Pahoa near the base of Mauna Kea.
In the County of Hawaii, there is a huge disparity between righteousness for justice versus hypocrisy favoring organized crime. Here, nearly everyone expects Mayor Billy Kenoi to be exonerated for embezzling more than $31,000 of public funds. And the Tribune Herald‘s and Honolulu Star-Advertiser‘s Canadian owner, The Black Press, ltd, who regularly solicits mail and stories from locals, consistently rejects letters and articles from complainants about the local police and prosecutors now arresting protestors but neglecting white collar criminals.
Despite all of these forces dividing and disabling opponents engaged in the propaganda war over their Mauna Kea temple, the public’s perception about the TMT “non-military” project is about to implode.
TMT: The Mother of All Military Surveillance Technologies
Below is a screen shot from the TMT website that states, under “Facts and Rumors:” “The TMT is a purely scientific endeavor, and managed entirely by the university partners. There is no connection at all to the military.”Is the claim of no military connection to this telescope honest, or treasonous?
According to University of Hawaii officials, no one presented any viable arguments that the TMT risked people’s health and safety. According to Hawaii Governor Ige, planners spent 7 years investigating and justifying the “non-military” project through open public discussions, all the time misrepresenting the material fact that the U.S. and China both maintain substantial military interests in the TMT, and that the safety and security of the American people is actually at stake if this project moves forward as planned.
Pull the telescope apart and you will discover the lies. TMT’s main components are certifiably military, and more importantly, their military implications and planned operations are not only apparent, but dooming.
At the heart of this military undertaking, this largest ground based telescope in history, is the principle technology called adaptive optics.
Advances in adaptive optics are crucial for U.S. and foreign Star Wars activities. According to a Kirtland Air Force Base data sheet, “[f]reedom to maneuver in space is critical to meeting the United States Air Force’s mission to fly, fight, and win in air, space and cyberspace. The ability to exploit the characteristics of space gives the warfighter a competitive edge in virtually all engagements.
“Additionally, space allows the United States to watch the entire globe on an almost “real time” basis, getting instantaneous information. To maintain space situational awareness, the Air Force conducts research in laser guide star adaptive optics, beam control, and space object identification.
“As satellites get smaller and the number of space objects increases dramatically, research in imaging and identification of space objects is paramount to meeting the Air Force’s mission.
“This facility leads the industry changing technology of laser beacon adaptive optics for military uses and civilian applications such as astronomy. It is a major component of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate.
“The SOR operates one of the world’s premier adaptive-optics telescopes capable of tracking low-earth orbiting satellites.” [Emphasis added.]
Adaptive-optics (AO) is cutting edge military science, and the TMT is expected to dramatically out-perform the Air Force’s current AO equipment that compensates for earth’s atmospheric distortions damaging quality imaging.
In other words, “adaptive-optics” is at the heart of the TMT that nearly eliminates atmospheric distortion that causes stars to twinkle. Stars don’t really twinkle, but the distortion of the earth’s atmosphere causes the “twinkling.”
The TMT technology is being deployed to compensate for the earth’s fluid and polluted atmosphere. Otherwise, without this advancement, information gathered can be compromised, even unintelligible, making precise “targeting” impossible.
Today, the Air Force fires lasers into space to gather intelligence. Acoustic and light vibrations from space are recorded from distant objects, such as satellites, planets, and the sun. These data distort if lasers, that is, adaptive-optics, are not used.
You also have to have a telescope of sufficient size to make these critical adjustments that the Air Force depends on to “maintain space situational awareness.”
Problems with Accepting China as a TMT Partner
Thus far, “science” has been unable to get this AO technology into space because it is too large, costly, and presents refueling nightmares, and much information was learned from the famous Hubble space telescope that is only 1/10th the size of the TMT.
Hubble does not have a problem with atmospheric distortion (or twinkling stars), because Hubble orbits above the atmosphere. But Hubble is also not capable of providing the required military advantage needed against China and Russia that compete with America for dominance in space, experts say.
The “space race” is alive and well according to the US Air Force’s fact sheet titled, “STARFIRE OPTICAL RANGE AT KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO.” But opponents have repeatedly warned American military officials about the threat of China or Russia getting hold of U.S. military space secrets. Brian Weeden is one such watchman. Weeden serves as the technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation that promotes the peaceful use of space. Weeden, along with many others in the military, oppose high level White House deals giving away America’s military space secrets to China. 60 Minutes covered this matter on April 26, 2015.
General John Hyten, the head of the Air Force Space Command was recorded saying, “You know, the Chinese are also building a very robust exploration program . . . to explore the stars. They could destroy their entire program by going down the way they are,” implying possible retaliation for threatening America’s leadership and satellite control systems guiding nuclear strikes from space.
60 Minutes correspondent David Martin commented: “Well, I’ve read reports by a congressional commission, which said that in the next five to ten years China likely will be able to hold at risk U.S. National Security satellites in every orbital regime.”
The Lie at the Heart of Lincoln Labs Adaptive Optics
According to TMT reports, the advanced adaptive optics system to be built includes as many as nine (9) lasers that will be able to track and target threats to satellites, or threatening satellites, and other faint objects in space such as missiles or debris.
The TMT system will be able to adjust instantaneously to not only the atmospheric distortions, and dimly lit objects in space, but also to the earth’s rapid rotation and movement through space.
In the past, military mission controllers and astrophysicists would point their telescopes at bright stars to capture base measures with which to compare other observations and data collections. The brighter star data could be used to observe and measure the distortion of the light piercing the atmosphere; and with that intelligence, corrections could be made to view and position comparable stars or satellites. This way, weapons systems could target satellites most accurately, enabling enemies using this adaptive-optic technology to destroy satellites used for everything from telecommunications to guiding nuclear weapons.
Simply explaining this technology, the TMT’s laser beams are able to produce a “point star,” or a group of “guide stars” called “asterisms.” These laser images, coupled with the adaptive optics, will increase the accuracy of measuring the light and sound signals (i.e., photons and phonons) returning from the guide stars or asterism(s). Mirrors in the TMT are designed to adjust in nanoseconds to capture the clearest images possible, and track most precisely where targets are expected to be at the time of impact.
The TMT will use 6, 8 or 9 lasers, fired simultaneously to measure photons of light returning from space well enough to capture even faint asterisms, or objects flying faintly beyond the Air Force’s current tracking and targeting capability. A schematic diagram of the TMT system is reprinted below. (Click on the image to review the entire document.)
Certifying the military’s signature on this technology, one of the three TMT subsystems involved in the AO system is called the “Near Field Infra Red Adaptive Optics System, or “NFIRAOS,” produced by Lincoln Labs at MIT, a strictly military agency associated with Hanscom Air Force Base in Lexington, Massachusetts.
To give you some appreciation for the advanced technology Lincoln Labs produced for the Air Force and the TMT application, a major component of NFIRAOS is called a “CCD,” short for Charged Couple Device used in imaging. These CCDs are made of silicone, and the silicone crystals are grown at great expense to produce this equipment. The higher imaging capabilities, the more expensive the CCDs.
In current consumer products, such as cameras or cell phones, images are projected onto small CCDs. Comparing the military versus the consumer technologies, a typical cell phone imaging system might capture 3 to 6 pixels at best. The older military CCDs conduct “wavefront sensing” at 60 x 60 pixels. These can barely capture “faint natural guidestars.”
Better quality CCDs were produced capturing images at 160 x 160 pixels. These were fabricated and tested under an AODP grant at Lincoln Labs. The National Science Foundation also gave Lincoln Labs a grant to do this work.
But the new CCDs planned for use in the TMT’s NFIRAOS produce 256 x 256 pixels. These “full capacity CCDs” are far more powerful than what has been used commercially, or previously by the military. Images from NFIRAOS, and these highest optical quality CCDs produced at Lincoln Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are incredibly sharp, as required for advanced Star Wars applications, to purportedly protect U.S. National Security.
Treason and Trading with the Enemy on Mauna Kea
There are many critics in both civilian and military communities who would argue that even though TMT officials lied to us, America still needs this project.But it is unreasonable to continue the TMT enterprise with China as a 25% partner. China’s National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) are contracted with Chinese special interests on military assignments. It is unrealistic to believe that China would not use their TMT share militarily.
China’s lunar mission, for instance, is headed by SASTIND (State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence). The primary contractor for that project is CAST (China Academy of Space Technology) of the China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation (CASC). CAST, in turn, is under contract with the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute.
In addition, the Chinese Institute of High Energy Physics (IGEP) evolved from the former Chinese Institute of Atomic Energy responsible for the exploiting atomic energy for military and industrial purposes. Access to TMT, and related technology, gives China the ability to literally destroy America’s nuclear strength. This is America’s Achilles heal, according to many experts.
Last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning for the presidency, accused China of stealing America’s trade secrets and government information. The former first lady and Secretary of State’s comments centered on widely reported Chinese hacking jeopardizing U.S. National Security.
Consequently, the hypocrisy in the TMT program is unconscionable. Especially since Clinton, on behalf of the Obama administration in 2009, negotiated certain trade concessions to secure China against America’s faltering economy and huge debt. (See: Bloomberg.)
Could it be that among China’s “secured interests” granted by the Obama administration is their partnership in the TMT?
That is most probable. And if such a deal was struck, these covert actions violate a number of laws, beginning with 18 U.S. Code § 957. If American officials secretly and illegally conspired to give possession of Hawaiian property away to aid and repay China, officials require jail time.
Section 957 forbids, “[w]hoever, in aid of any foreign government, knowingly and willfully possesses or controls any property or papers used or designed or intended for use in violating any penal statute, or any of the rights or obligations of the United States under any treaty or the law of nations, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
Speak to Hawaiians appalled by America’s armed insurrection against Queen Liliuokalani, and now continuing an illegal military occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom in violation of treaties and laws of nations, and you will see why justice demands Section 957 law enforcement.
Then there is the penal code violated called treason, as defined by 18 U.S. Code § 2381 that prohibits:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Consider also Misprision of Treason as defined in 18 U.S. Code § 2382:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
The central issue in bringing officials to justice for lying to We The People to conceal a secret deal with China resulting in the TMT partnership and compromised National Security is a matter for the President. It is now up to Hawaii’s purported native son, Barack Obama, to fulfill his duty to American citizens, Hawaiian citizens, and to world peace, by ruling on these matters.
To help, the definition of enemy is crucial in this adjudicative undertaking. The President needs to decide who orchestrated the TMT deal with China, now threatening to damage We The People.
“The years have not destroyed nor diminished the importance of citizenship nor have they sapped the vitality of a citizen’s claims upon his government for protection,” ruled the Supreme Court of the United States in 1950.
Quoting liberally from that case, Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 US 763:
“Because the Government’s obligation of protection is correlative with the duty of loyal support inherent in the citizen’s allegiance, Congress has directed the President to exert the full diplomatic and political power of the United States on behalf of any citizen, . . . When any citizen is deprived of his liberty by any foreign government, it is made the duty of the President to demand the reasons and, if the detention appears wrongful, to use means not amounting to acts of war to effectuate his release.[4] It is neither sentimentality nor chauvinism to repeat that “Citizenship is a high privilege.” United States v. Manzi, 276 U. S. 463, 467. (Quotes from Johnson, Op cit. at 770.)
“[I]n war ‘every individual of the one nation must acknowledge every individual of the other nation as his own enemy—because the enemy of his country.” The Rapid, 8 Cranch 155, 161. See also White v. Burnley, 20 How. 235, 249; Lamar v. Browne, 92 U. S. 187, 194. And this without regard to his individual sentiments or disposition. The Benito Estenger, 176 U. S. 568, 571. The alien enemy is bound by an allegiance which commits him to lose no opportunity to forward the cause of our enemy; hence the United States, assuming him to be faithful to his allegiance, 773*773 regards him as part of the enemy resources. It therefore takes measures to disable him from commission of hostile acts imputed as his intention because they are a duty to his sovereign.”
In other words, it is President Obama’s duty at this time of threatened National Security, evidenced by acts of fraud and fraudulent concealments in Hawaii regarding the TMT, impacting America’s space based weaponry and national defense, to serve justice to those who sold or traded-away America’s AO intelligence. Who has destabilized our nuclear interests in space. Who has invited foreign “scientists” dutifully serving their sovereign Chinese government, to the AO table. And what agents and agencies are responsible for leasing or controlling lands illegally confiscated from Hawaiian nationals in violation of human rights and international treaties, in efforts to share Star Wars secrets with a threatening nation.
Considering the force used by lying officials manipulating the complicit media to administer propaganda, and the PSYOPS needed to conceal these crimes and Star Wars deceptions, those guilty must also be charged with sedition under 18 U.S. Code § 2384.
The eyes of the world are now watching this crime unfold.
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copyright © 2015, Leonard G. Horowitz & Sherri Kane
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Dr. Leonard Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., D.N.M. (hon.), D.M.M. (hon.), is the author of seventeen books including the prophetically titled Death In The Air: Globalism,Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, that came out three months before 9-11-01, that deals with this topic of energy weapons. His three American best-sellers include: Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola–Nature, Accident or Intentional? that was largely responsible for prompting explosive interest in vaccination risks and biological warfare; Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, that revealed the ancient Solfeggio musical scale secreted for millennia; and Healing Celebrations: Miraculous Recoveries Through Ancient Scripture, Natural Medicine and Modern Science in which Dr. Horowitz presents his protocol for administering prevention and natural speedy recoveries. His most recent text, The Book of 528: Prosperity Key of LOVE, has prompted a revolution in the music industry improving recording artistry and music therapy with the use of C=528Hz(A=444Hz) tuning that produces “medicinal music.” Dr. Horowitz is currently advancing Healthy World Organization (HWO) as an alternative to the duplicitous World Health Organization (WHO).
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Protecting Mauna Kea: This Is A War
by Will Falk
By Will Falk
Sitting outside the 10 by 20 foot makeshift tent that has served as my home for the last 34 days on Mauna Kea, I watch the tent poles shudder to the concussion of US Army howitzer cannons firing live shells at their training grounds below. When the wind blows just right, from the south, the rattle of automatic rifle fire reaches the occupation. There’s no denying it: A war rages in Hawai’i.
It’s a war on native peoples, a war on women, a war on the land, a war on life itself. The war did not start in Hawai’i. The war began thousands of years ago with the dawn of civilization when some humans chose to live in population densities high enough that they overshot the carrying capacity of their homelands and turned to dominating other peoples in other lands. Imperialism was born, and one-by-one land-based, truly sustainable human societies were either eradicated or forced into assimilation.
The war swept west across Turtle Island (so-called North America) – where it is still being fought -leaving whole peoples destroyed and now largely forgotten. The war is carving peaks from mountains, drying rivers so they no longer flow to their ocean homes, and boiling the planet’s temperature to levels dangerously close to being unbearable for all but a few lifeforms. The war decimates the numbers of our animal kin, too. Buffalo walk the ledge above total extinction. So do salmon. So do timber wolves. So do grizzly bear.
The war in Hawai’i began in the late 1770s when Captain Cook first appeared. By 1897, a million Hawaiians were killed in battle, by introduced diseases, and through Christian missionary efforts. Half of Hawai’i’s endemic species have been exterminated since European contact. The minds of Hawaiian children were attacked when the illegal Republic of Hawai’i outlawed the Hawaiian language in Hawaiian schools in 1896. The bodies of these Hawaiian children were attacked when they were beaten for speaking their native tongue.
A genocidal program of desecration was initiated as well. Hale O Pa’pa and the Kanaka burials there were paved over by highways while Kahoolawe was bombed to hell by the American military – and that’s just to name a very few of the sites desecrated. Now, the TMT project wants to dynamite an eight acre patch of Mauna Kea’s hallowed summit to clear the way for their telescope.
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Rumors are swirling that the TMT (Thirty Million Telescope) project is poised to break its self-imposed moratorium on construction and send its equipment up the mountain with an armed escort. We have heard that Gov. David Ige is willing to send the national guard against the Mauna Kea protectors.
In the midst of these rumors, it is not uncommon to hear people say they hope the situation on Mauna Kea will not turn violent. The problem with expressing this hope is the situation on Mauna Kea is violent, has been violent for a long time, and will remain violent so long as those in power remain in control of the land.
Before you object to this, consider the bombs and rifle fire I am listening to as I write this.
Consider that the first time construction equipment tried to force a way over the objections of the Hawaiian people, it came with men carrying batons and pistols. These men carrying batons and pistols put 31 peaceful protectors in handcuffs, carried them to the Hilo jail, extracted 250 dollars from each one of them, and now force them to appear at a series of of court dates under threat of jail time.
Consider that David Ige, as I wrote earlier, has stated that he is willing to call in the national guard to clear the way for the TMT. Speaking of war, the national guard is an organization of soldiers. They will come with rifles instead of the police’s pistols.
This is violence.
I didn’t even mention the violence already done to Mauna Kea to build and maintain the 13 telescopes that already exist on the summit. These 13 telescopes required their own dynamite and 38 feet have been cut from the height of Mauna Kea’s summit already. There have been 7 reported mercury spills on the mountain that contains Hawai’i Island’s largest freshwater aquifer.
Plants, animals, and insects that live on Mauna Kea are murdered by this mercury and its more than likely that humans – especially children and the elderly – are harmed by this mercury, too.
Kanaka Maoli are genealogically related to Mauna Kea – it is literally a family member – so to do this kind of violence to the Mauna is to attack an older sibling.
Again, this is violence.
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