The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies (81 page)

According to conspiracists, the Aden attack was a “black flag” operation in which Mossad sought to frame the Yemen. Worried about improving Washington–Aden relations, Mossad staged the bombing in order to persuade the Americans that Yemen was unreliable, and a breeding ground for terrorism.

Then again, in “The Truth About the USS
Cole
Bombing”, Lloyd T. Vance and Steven Johnson have the US itself waving the black flag, suggesting at worst that Washington used al-Qaeda as patsy bombers, or at best a refuelling accident was opportunistically turned into a chance to blame al-Qaeda.

You may ask
why
the US sank its own ship? Vance and Johnson posit the reason as the desirability of getting the “Bush/Cheney junta” into the White House. The
Cole
calamity made Clinton/Gore look useless (just as poor Jimmy Carter had seemed in the Tehran hostage debacle) so good ol’ kick-ass boys Bush and Cheney became shoo-ins.

Mmm. Reagan might – just – have managed to persuade the Iranians not to release the Tehran hostages for his electoral benefit in
October Surprise
, but Bush ’n’ Cheney hiring in al-Qaeda (even if Osama was a family friend of George’s) stretches credulity.

Further Reading

www.scribd.com/doc/53626841/
The-Truth-About-the-USS-Cole-Bombing

VRIL SOCIETY

In 1947 an article by rocket engineer Willy Ley in
Astounding Science Fiction
remarked on an occult Berlin group in the 1930s which “called itself Wahrheitsgesellschaft – Society for Truth – and which was more or less localized in Berlin, devoted its spare time looking for Vril.”

After issuing two pamphlets,
Vril: The Primal Cosmic Power
and
World Dynamism
(about Atlantean free energy technology), and one issue of a magazine, the group seems to have gone kaput.

From these slender sources, post-War conspiracists have woven a thesis that the “Vril Society” was in contact with alien forces from Aldebaran, who instructed on flying saucer technology (shades of the
Thule Society
), with the power for craft supplied by said Vril. According to French authors Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels in
The Morning of the Magicians
, the Berlin Vril group was the inner circle of the Thule Society and connected to the English Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Bergier and Pauwels are amongst the most unreliable guides to the esoteric you could fear or find, but Vril does have an English connection, because the originator of “Vril” was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who wrote
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
in 1871.

This is an account of a super race, the Vril-ya, that live in caves inside the Earth and use a near magical form of magnetism/electricity, the Vril Force, described by Bulwer-Lytton thus:

… there is no word in any language I know which is an exact synonym for Vril (
prana
,
chi
, or
qi
). I should call it electricity, except that it comprehends in its manifold branches other forces of nature, to which, in our scientific nomenclature, differing names are assigned, such as magnetism, galvanism, &c. These people consider that in Vril they have arrived at the unity in natural energic agencies, which has been conjectured by many philosophers above ground.

Vril is derived from the Black Sun, a ball of Prima Materia, that supposedly exists in the centre of the Earth. Served by robots and able to fly on Vril-powered wings, the vegetarian Vril-ya can use Vril rods to wipe out barbarians a thousand times their number. (There was some irony in the vegetarianism of the Vril; a smart ad man in the Victorian era combined bovine with “vril” to make “Bovril”, the branded meat extract.)

Bulwer-Lytton’s book is a fiction. This notwithstanding, the Berlin group believed it to be an occult bible, as do handfuls of contemporary conspiracists. Naturally, no German secret society is worth its salt unless Adolf Hitler was a member – and, guess what, historian Michael Fitzgerald has discovered that Herr Schicklgruber (“
Heil
, Schicklgruber!” doesn’t have quite the right ring about it, does it?) was a member of the Vril Society. A busy boy Adolf, organizing putschs, running the NSDAP, running the Third Reich, attending Vril meetings.

In
The Unknown Hitler
, Wulf Schwarzwaller, goes even further, declaring that Alfred, Rosenberg, Himmler, Goring and Hitler’s personal physician Dr Morell were in the same Vril Lodge as their führer. And in
UFO Secrets of the Third Reich
, Vladimir Terziski traces how the Third Reich made contact with the Vril through a hole in Antarctica, which allowed the Nazis to develop a series of antigravity machines culminating in the Andromeda space station.

Vril-powered moon rockets? Now there’s an idea that really is out of this world.

Further Reading

Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
, 1871

Michael FitzGerald,
Storm Troopers of Satan
, 1990

Michael FitzGerald,
Adolf Hitler: A Portrait
, 2006

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke,
Black Sun
, 2002

John Michael Greer,
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies
, 2006

DOCUMENT: EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON,
VRIL: THE POWER OF THE COMING RACE,
1871 [EXTRACT]

I have spoken so much of the Vril Staff that my readers may expect me to describe it. This I cannot do accurately, for I was never allowed to handle it for fear of some terrible accident occasioned by my ignorance of its use; and I have no doubt that it requires much skill and practice in the exercise of its various powers. It is hollow, and has in the handle several stops, keys, or springs by which its force can be altered, modified, or directed – so that by one process it destroys, by another it heals – by one it can rend the rock, by another disperse the vapour – by one it affects bodies, by another it can exercise a certain influence over minds. It is usually carried in the convenient size of a walking-staff, but it has slides by which it can be lengthened or shortened at will. When used for special purposes, the upper part rests in the hollow of the palm with the fore and middle fingers protruded. I was assured, however, that its power was not equal in all, but proportioned to the amount of certain Vril properties in the wearer in affinity, or “rapport” with the purposes to be effected. Some were more potent to destroy, others to heal, &c; much also depended on the calm and steadiness of volition in the manipulator. They assert that the full exercise of Vril power can only be acquired by the constitutional temperament – i.e., by hereditarily transmitted organisation – and that a female infant of four years old belonging to the Vril-ya races can accomplish feats which a life spent in its practice would not enable the strongest and most skilled mechanician, born out of the pale of the Vril-ya to achieve. All these wands are not equally complicated; those intrusted to children are much simpler than those borne by sages of either sex, and constructed with a view to the special object on which the children are employed; which as I have before said, is among the youngest children the most destructive. In the wands of wives and mothers the correlative destroying force is usually abstracted, the healing power fully charged. I wish I could say more in detail of this singular conductor of the Vril fluid, but its machinery is as exquisite as its effects are marvellous.

I should say, however, that this people have invented certain tubes by which the Vril fluid can be conducted towards the object it is meant to destroy, throughout a distance almost indefinite; at least I put it modestly when I say from 500 to 1,000 miles. And their mathematical science as applied to such purpose is so nicely accurate, that on the report of some observer in an air-boat, any member of the Vril department can estimate unerringly the nature of intervening obstacles, the height to which the projectile instrument should be raised, and the extent to which it should be charged, so as to reduce to ashes within a space of time too short for me to venture to specify it, a capital twice as vast as London.

Certainly these Ana are wonderful mathematicians – wonderful for the adaptation of the inventive faculty to practical uses.

I went with my host and his daughter Zee over the great public museum, which occupies a wing in the College of Sages, and in which are hoarded, as curious specimens of the ignorant and blundering experiments of ancient times, many contrivances on which we pride ourselves as recent achievements. In one department, carelessly thrown aside as obsolete lumber, are tubes for destroying life by metallic balls and an inflammable powder, on the principle of our cannons and catapults, and even still more murderous than our latest improvements.

My host spoke of these with a smile of contempt, such as an artillery officer might bestow on the bows and arrows of the Chinese. In another department there were models of vehicles and vessels worked by steam, and of an air-balloon which might have been constructed by Montgolfier.

“Such,” said Zee, with an air of meditative wisdom – “such were the feeble triflings with nature of our savage forefathers, ere they had even a glimmering perception of the properties of Vril!”

WATER CONTROL

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

Multinational companies taking control of the world’s water supply? Sounds like a Blofeld plotline in an 007 movie of Sean Connery vintage – but it is real. The globe’s water is being privatized at a staggering rate. Blue water is the new black. The Bushes and Pickens of Texas are far from being the only oil baronage buying up aquifers, and some of the water industry players are way bigger than Bush Inc. They include Swiss combine Nestlé, French conglomerate Veolia, and US agribusiness giant Monsanto.

Why buy into water? Easy. H
₂
O is a commodity that is scarcer by the day. On the Blue Planet just 3 per cent of the water is freshwater and this, on the one hand, is being contaminated by agri-chemicals and industrial pollution, and on the other hand is being “abstracted” by farmers, factories (the average auto uses 350,000 litres of water in its manufacture) and an ever-increasing number of thirsty people. There is less water, and it is often bad water beyond human use. About 2.5 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. Control of this vital resource will, especially in the industrialized and emerging industrialized world (India, China, Brazil), be a source of guaranteed profits. Already the water business is worth over a cool $100 billion per annum.

Where’s the conspiracy? Well, most people consider water a natural resource, free, and even God given. Few, if any of the speculators or companies buying water admit to buying water. They just happen to buy the land above – and when they own the land above they own the water below. The effect on the communal environment can be catastrophic. Take Nestlé’s pumps for “Ice mountain” bottling plant at Stanwood, Michigan. These suck up the groundwater that should feed Lake Michigan. Truthout.org reports the following, which may be a tad connected to Nestlé’s pumping, pumping, pumping:

That the water levels in the upper lakes are falling is certain. Data from the Army Corps of Engineers website indicates that Lake Superior has almost reached its record low, set in 1926. Roger Gauthier, a project manager at the Great Lakes Commission, an intergovernmental body representing eight states and two Canadian provinces, said water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron had dropped three feet since 1999 and were about seven inches above the record low set in 1964. The persistence of low water in
Lakes
Huron and Michigan has been out of keeping with the larger cycles of high and low water in the basin.