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Sunday June 24, 2007
POLITICAL ESSAYS
Aceh Autopsy - Part 2
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Let us go back to the late 1940s. Why? Well, this is why--
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The New Zealand Herald newspaper reported September 25, 1999:
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"Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast
of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb...."
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"...[the] work was considered so significant...United States
defence chiefs said that if the project had been completed
before the end of the war it could have played a role as ef-
fective as that of the atom bomb."
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"Papers stamped 'top secret' show the US and British military
were eager for [Project] Seal to be developed in the post-war
years too."
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"It is unclear what happened to Project Seal once the final
report was forwarded to Wellington Defence Headquarters late
in the 1940s."
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The Herald recently interviewed a former colleague of the head
of Project Seal.
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He speculated "Whether it could ever be resurrected..."; and
declared "Under some circumstances I think it could be devas-
tating."
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And now?
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Under the June 23d headline "Sentient World: War Games On The
Grandest Scale," the UK computer magazine The Register points
out:
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"...the Sentient World Simulation (SWS)...will be a "synthetic
mirror of the real world...," according to a concept paper for
the project.
"'SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Opera-
tions (PSYOP),' the paper reads, so that military leaders can
'develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and
shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners.'"
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What does shaping behaviors mean from a practical viewpoint?
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"Yank a country's water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS
will tell you what happens next."
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The Register quotes a co-author of the paper:
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"Officials can also 'inject an earthquake or a tsunami and ob-
serve their impacts (on a society)', Chaturvedi added."
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Now you know one part of what happened to Project Seal.
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And in 2004?
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Returning to the original "Aceh Autopsy" essay--
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Associated Press sent out four seemingly separate newsstories
about the 2004 tsunami, all dated December 18, 2005:
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One story calls "the Acehnese people...a long-ignored Indone-
sian minority"; but states they "were already suffering
through a bloody separatist movement and a brutal government
crackdown when the sea rose up...."
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"...in Aceh...100-foot walls of water slamm[ed] into the coast
at more than 350 mph."
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"In a moment, tens of thousands of people were dead and much
of Aceh's coastline was in ruins."
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All this had an effect on the the Acehnese war for national
liberation.
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For one thing, it suddenly became easier to insert alien "aid"-
lings to further undermine Acehnese resistance.
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Now you know another part of what happened to Project Seal.
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Aceh Autopsy:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/630
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/630>
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Register:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/print.html
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