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thought. Suppose that my conclusions conccrning the increase in cumstance. You would create ‘disaster prophets’ with astounding serious earthquakes and climatic change are correct. Suppose, fur- accuracy who would share information ‘unofficially’ with the pub- thermore, the US Government has known about this approaching __ lic in those last few moments before the great quakes would start. devastation for some time—say, for twenty years or morc. They would appear on national television, and some of those who Suppose, as well, the Defence Department's mobile, nuclear test believed their warnings would make preparations to meet their monitoring units have also provided the Defence Department's _ uncertain futures. Shake Lady Project with enough data to predict with an 85 per You would have made disaster movies to gradually educate the cent accuracy when and where the major shakes are going to occur _ people in the art of surviving such disasters. You would have con- in the US. ducted numerous ‘how to survive’ campaigns as a part of the gen- Now, consider what you would do if you were the official in eral education of the public, so that no suspicions would be charge of the Government's Federal Emergency Management aroused. Agency (FEMA), You would not be able to tell everyone how Yes, you and I would have faced the same terrible dilemma: clever your classified 'nuclear-test-ban-violation' computer had "Who lives? Who dies? Is our loyalty to the future or to the pre- been for fear of telling the 'enemy' (whoever that might be at the _sent?..." time). You would agree that the USGS data is redundant, lacking In conclusion of this section, I must tell you something that I in accuracy compared with the military data, have kept to myself since 1979. I and that its funding could.be spent in wiser ‘| have been an ‘unofficial leak’ for ways. You would not be able to make an classified data concerning both official a ae we the almost l was given [classified] Le | pom oe an a Lr instantaneous damage it would do to various * * scenarios I have told you local real estate values and other portions of information that i could about. I have had classified doc- the economy. distribute as long as | did not. uments and data ‘leaked’ to me so You would have to look at the 'big pic- ' ng that I might be an unofficial and ture’, You would have to consider how best | Start a panic in. the community, unqualified source of warning to to protect America as a whole from the com- d as lo , did name you and many others like you. ing destruction. At this point you would ay ng as | did not Like many other ‘leaks' I've heard determine how to protect key industries my sources. about, I was given information including agriculture, water, electronics, that I could distribute as long as I energy, transportation, communications and did not start a panic in the com- housing. To this end, you would start quiet- munity, and as long as | did not ly buying real estate in the safer regions like name my sources. Had I let Denver and other places along the east side of the Rockies. You things get out of hand, I would have been discredited as a bogus would move the key and transportable industries out of harm's _ information source. way. You would start stockpiling agricultural goods in under- I will break with part of my instruction by telling you that some ground ‘safe silos’ in the higher, mountainous regions. of those leaks were data files from the classified Shake Lady You would also set up emergency response teams to handle Project in the US. The accuracy of the earthquake data from evacuations, provide martial law, food, water, medical care and so Shake Lady was ten times greater than anything USGS records on forth. You would establish high-density shelters in safe areas for _ their database. Although I tend to believe that Shake Lady was a use by the thousands of selected survivors your choppers and con- code-name for a massive data-gathering and analysis program verted jet transports would fly to safety. These barbed-wire enclo- using some supercomputer, I have thought that "Shake Lady” sures would be guarded to keep reporters and looters out to avoid might refer to some woman with psychic abilities like Gordon- the secret being blown too early. They would appear like concen- Michael Scallion. Who knows? tration camps when, in reality, they would be protected enclosures Others were data files or photos given to me in hard copy or on for the chosen survivors. discs from other organisations including restricted research pro- And, certainly, if you knew that the earthquakes were going to —_jectg at certain American universities. Not all of these sources will be triggered by an astounding series of solar energy bursts of great agree with my breaking silence on this issue at this time, but I am heat and force, you would want to keep the public in the dark (so certain that no panic will start on the basis of my testimony alone. to speak) as long as possible. The alternative of telling them If it does, well someone will probably try to tear some more would be so catastrophic that if the disaster you feared did not _ shreds off my credibility. Bon chance! eventuate, then the panic you would have caused would have The time is so near and the preparations are so close to comple- destroyed a nation—if not a world. tion that most of the formerly classified information will be gradu- You would want to avoid a complete breakdown of social order _ ally released to you at an official level anyway. Watch for violcnt and morale at the very time you would need every person doing _ weather, near-Earth asteroid reports, new and renewed volcanoes, his or her job, so that at least a small percentage of the human race _— super-heated underwater geysers in the north-eastern Pacific, might survive the holocaust with at least the basics of modern problems with the Sun and increases in the big quakes. Look for technology at their disposal in their underground shelters (Project __ the relcase of this information in the public media. I am reluctant Noah's Ark?). to say it, but you will soon see that our ‘what if’ scenario is real... You would also have realised that, pragmatically, a certain num- ber of consuming humans would need to die anyway to compen- DO WE HAVE A FUTURE? sate for the dwindling and destroyed resources. Gordon-Michael Scallion's earthquake predictions have not And, finally, when you had stockpiled and secured enough _ been 100 per cent accurate in either their timing or their size, as he industry and defence capability and sufficient key personnel torun _has told us. However, they have been accurate enough for me to a post-disaster skeletal civilisation of some sort, you would turn to _realise that his predictions arc reliable enough to consider—no the public to warn them in subtle ways about their unfortunate cir- matter what his source is. I have found that his 'windows' for DO WE HAVE A FUTURE? Gordon-Michael Scallion's earthquake predictions have not been 100 per cent accurate in either their timing or their size, as he has told us. However, thcy have been accurate enough for me to realise that his predictions arc reliable enough to consider—no matter what his source is. I have found that his 'windows' for APRIL - MAY 1995 NEXUS ¢ 15