Threads 2.
5 11/06/08
Threads
Contents
Editorial
-A Note From My Desk
Page One
-It all comes tumblin’ down
Page Two
-tumblin’ down continued
-Quote of the Month
Page Three
-The Powers That Be
Page Four
-QR Codes
-In The News
A NOTE FROM MY DESK:
W
hat a rollercoaster
this past week has
been. Everything is
so up and down I’m not sure
which way to turn right now.
I am currently trying to get a
supervisor position at work.
The job itself won’t be
difficult, getting it will.
I’ve been slightly stressed
lately (– well, actually I’ve
been quite stressed for the
past 6 or so months), stress
often throws me into a big
bought of depression. I’ve
been worrying a bit about
this issue and A LOT about
other things.
So, in short, as I prepare this
issue, I’ll do my best, (even if
my mind will be elsewhere
most of the time). And please
give me FEEDBACK, I beg of
you – it would help a lot. I’ll
try to implement what I can!
Kudos.
2.5 “…and within him was a heart of gold”
It All Comes Tumblin' Down
Nineteen years ago one of the
greatest barriers in modern
human progress was torn
down. A barrier that came
about as the result of the
defeat of one of humanities
greatest struggles; the spread
of national socialism (Nazism) in
Europe. This barrier was the
Berlin Wall.
On November 9, 1989, after
twenty-eight years and one
Above: Construction of the Berlin Wall. Below:
day, the citizens of Germany,
newspaper headline reporting the walls fall.
who, half were under the
tyranny of the Soviet Union and
the other, under the rule of the
US Government were finally
able to reunite. After World
War Two, when Hitler's armies
were defeated, four countries
took control over Germany,
following the Potsdam
Agreement. Germany, along
with the capital city Berlin, was
divided amongst the
American's, British, French and
Soviets.
The wall was created due to the
contrasting forms of
government between East and
West Germany. East Germany
fell under an authoritarian
government overseen by the
Soviet Union, while West
Germany was under a much more progressive government which was over seen
by the United States. Many people in East Germany wanted to enjoy the much
better life offered to the citizens of West Germany. After disagreements arose
between the democratic allies (America, Britain and France) and the communist
Soviet Union over how to govern the city of Berlin, the Soviet Union erected a
barbwire fence on its border.
Over 3 million people left East Germany before the original border fence was
erected, seeking out a better life in West Germany. This exodus of the people
caught the attention of the communist government and lead to the belief that if a
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barrier were built, the citizens under communist rule
would not be subjected to what they considered to be
dangerous capitalist philosophies.
"The demarcation line between East and West Germany
should be considered a border - and not just any border;
but a dangerous one … The Germans will guard the line of
defense with their lives," said the leader of the Soviet
Union, Joseph Stalin.
The original border was constructed out of barb-wire
fence at 2.00am on August 13, in 1961 and it immediately
isolated the citizens in East Germany from their families
and jobs that were located in West Germany. From 1962
to 1965 the wire fence was improved and was heavily
guarded. In 1965 the wire fence was replaced with a
concrete wall, and in 1975 the "Grenzmaur 75" (border
wall 75) was built.
In total there were four different versions of the wall. The
last version, known as the "Stützwandelement UL 12.11"
was the most severe and designed to prevent as many
escapes as possible. The wall was surrounded with a small
strip of land known as the “death strip” in which anyone
caught in it would be shot, with no chance of a rescue. In
every manifestation of the border fence, the border was
more heavily guarded each time. The wall stood as a
symbol of what Winston Churchill described as
communism's "Iron Curtain" in his speech in March 1946
at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri.
"From Stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the
Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals
of the ancient states of Central and Eastern
Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all
these famous cities and the populations around
them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere,
and all are subject in one form or another, not
only to Soviet influence but to very high and, in
many cases, increasing measure of control from
Moscow."
Just as Churchill described, well before the wall was even
fathomed, the Soviet Union would do all it could to control
the people within its boundaries of East Germany. The wall
dividing the city resembled prison walls more than it did
border walls. Being heavily guarded, close to 150 people
were killed in their attempts to escape East Germany, over
5,000 however were successful in their escapes.
Despite proclamations by the leader of East Germany,
Erich Honecker that the wall would stand for "hundred
more years" in January of 1989, to, perhaps his dismay this
would not be true.
The Berlin Wall was not met with much protest from the
democratic governments. Due to the Potsdam Agreement,
it was thought that the Soviet Union had the right to erect
the wall. It wasn't until 1987 when Ronald Reagan gave his
famous speech at the wall, and later the resignation of
Erich Honecker that a move towards the removal of the
wall began to truly occur.
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you
seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if
you seek liberalization. Come to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev,
open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
As the wall was being dismantled on November 9, 1989, it
not only opened up an entirely new world for Germany, it
symbolically marked the spread of democracy throughout
the world. The fall of the Berlin wall was, as some allege,
the first step into a world of progress and globalization,
especially with the rise of the internet. The Iron Curtain
that Churchill warned against was breached on November
9, 1989.
It would be eleven years and nine months later that this
progress symbolized by the destruction of the Berlin Wall
would be attacked by another leader who embraces a
tyranny of an entirely different variety. In three days, it
will be the nineteenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
wall. A wall such as this should never be built again, and on
the anniversary it is important to remember this.

“It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy
QUOTE OF THE MONTH

a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the
puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short
when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were
alive. All the organs of his body were working --bowels digesting food, skin
renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming--all toiling away in solemn
foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he
was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the
yellow gravel and the grey walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw,
reasoned--reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking
together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two
minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone--one mind less, one world
less.”
-George Orwell (excerpt from the essay, “A Hanging”)
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OPINION
The powers that be
By Chadwick Heller
To be perfectly blunt, I am a skeptic, I'll
admit much of this has to do with my
Post-American Objectivist philosophy
that I've been developing, and the fact
that human behavior, I believe, is much
more dangerous than mysticism. So it shouldn't come as
much of a surprise that when a friend of mine sent me a
link to a website about the illuminati, freemasons and skull
and bones and how these groups, among others, have
been controlling the world, I found it to be quite amusing -
but nothing more.
Apparently, according to the website, there are thirteen
bloodlines that rule the world - they are all
associated with these secret organizations
who worship Lucifer and want to establish
a New World Order.
“Those people are the top players on the
International playground, basically
belonging to the thirteen of the wealthiest
families in the world, and they are the men
who really rule the world from behind the
scene (yes, they are mostly men, with a few
exceptions). They are the "Black Nobility", the Decision
Makers, who make up the rules for presidents and
governments to follow, and they are often held from
public scrutiny, as their action can't stand being
scrutinized. Their bloodlines go
back thousands and thousands
of years, and they are very
careful with keeping those
bloodlines pure from generation
to generation. The only way to
do so is by interbreeding,” says
the website.
According to the site, there are a
lot of huge corporations and
governments organizations in on
this scheme as well - and for
proof, the site displayed images
of the various companies and organizations logos and
showed their similarities to images of the occult and the
illuminati.
[Shapes in these symbols include triangles, eyes, sun-
shapes, circles, five and six pointed stars, and apparently
the numbers 6 or 13 - depending on what secret society
these groups happen to be part of. There are basic shapes
with basic meanings and interpretations, if you want to
convince me something is really going on,
show me a symbol that can't be interpreted
in any other way than to be evil, but I
digress.]
“Out of the original Brotherhood came
Freemasonry, the Rosicrucians, The Knight
Templars, Ordo Templi Orientis, Knights of
Malta, Skull & Bones and more. Some
people may object and say that
Freemasonry, for example, is a charity
organization and even a Christian society.
Yes, that's what we're told and that is what most members
of the secret society believe. The vast majority of people
involved are good people, who are ignorant of what is
practiced on the highest levels; unaware of that up there is
Satanism and worship of the dark forces. They don't serve
God, they serve Satan or Lucifer, and this is the key to
what is happening in the world of today. There is a totally
different struggle going on above people's heads, and this
struggle affects our lives every day, and not
in a good way, I may add,” says the website.
I don't doubt these organizations did exist or
do exist, what I have trouble believing is how
much power they allegedly have. Sure, they
may have some influence on the designs on
our money, but the structure of our society
and government, come on, that's a bit more
difficult to accept. To me, all this talk of
secret organizations seems to be the result
of someone who had a little too much time on their hands.
If the big worry is the abundance of symbols that can be
construed as references to these big, bad groups, what is
the panic? Symbols, to my
knowledge, don't hurt people,
despite their alleged
connections to this or that. The
people on the site apparently
ran out of ideas of the strange
power of these groups near the
end and simply started to make
things up. Showing how the
letters in various Presidents
names add up to the number 6,
no matter what alphabet to
number conversion they used.
The funny thing about symbols
and numbers this site didn't
seem to acknowledge though, is that you can construe
them to mean almost anything you like.
But I must run to my mailbox right now, I think my
Freemason membership packet just arrived….
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The Quick Response Code Revolution

The age of the traditional barcode may be over as
IN THE NEWS
we know it. A new type of barcode, known as the QR
code (or Quick Response Code) is currently
superseding the more traditional barcode in Japan,
and it is starting to make it's appearance in the U.S.
The code (as appears below, with a secret message
within it) is a matrix code, or a two-dimensional bar
code that was created by the Japanese corporation,
Denso-Wave in 1994. The QR codes hold a lot more
information than a barcode that can be read using a
cell-phone with a camera that has a simple add-on
application.
A QR code can hold with in it, text, links to websites,
that when scanned by a phone will take your phone
to that website, pictures, and other forms of
information that can be digitized. In order to read a
QR code, a person only has to go to www.kawya.com
, download the application to their phone, and they
can start reading these new codes where ever they
may appear.
• Texas has record number of
deportations last year
• Bush warns of vulnerability in
Presidential transition
• Retailers report a sales collapse
• Tensions between McCain and Palin
camps begin to come to light
o Palin didn't know what NAFTA
is, and thought Africa was a
country
• Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,
has White House experience
• US to hold arms talks with Russians
• Tropical Storm Paloma reaches
hurricane strength
• Both Obama and McCains campaign
computers were hacked into to gain
future policy information
• November 4 had a steep increase in
firearm purchases
• President Bush's dog Barney bites a
reporter
• Irans leader, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad congratulates Obama's
win
• Gears of War 2 receiving favorable
reviews
o Customers at Walmart still
pissed that we haven't received
more copies of Fable 2

Suggestions?
Critiques?
Submissions?
The program for the cell phone isn’t compatible Send them to:
with every model of phone yet, so if you can
decode this special message with your phone C.HELLER.RUN@GMAIL.COM
and send that message back to me, you may
just win… something.
Thank you.
You can also create your own special code on
the site provided if you like.