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 Our friend and fellow seeker on the personal journey toward truth, the late Jerry E. "Colonel" Smith, passed away from this Earth after a battle with pancreatic cancer on March 8th, 2010. Jerry was born on April 8th, 1950 in Pomona, California,  Jerry lived in Illinois, and one thing many of us will remember is his inviting all comers to a housewarming party in 2009, using his internet social networks to spread the word as far and wide as possible!!

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Jerry E. Smith (8 April 1950, Pomona, California — 8 March 2010) was an author, lecturer, poet, and editor. His bibliography of published works includes three books from Adventures Unlimited Press (AUP), scores of non-fiction articles and reviews, and more than a dozen ghost-written books. He was a close friend and literary partner of author Jim Keith. They worked together on magazines and books, and co-hosted a radio show broadcast from the campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology.

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"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."

-- United States Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April, 1997

Secretary Cohen made this statement at a conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Strategy in his official capacity as the US Secretary of Defense; thus this can be taken as an official position of the United States. Further he used the word "are," not "could," "might" or "maybe sometime in the future." He further added: "It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts." If the United States Secretary of Defense says that the earth and the sky have been turned into weapons, and are being used as such in present time, I believe we should take this statement very seriously.

WEATHER WARFARE: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature is not "conspiracy theory." This book has almost no theory and very little speculation. All the conclusions reached are the logical ones based on the presented facts. This is not "tabloid journalism." This is straight scientific reporting at a layman's level. I present solid evidence from military and scientific sources that intentional environmental modification (EnMod) is the 600-pound gorilla at the global warming debate that everyone is pretending isn't there.

In my 1998 book HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy I used HAARP (the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) as a springboard to talk about globalist agendas such as the New World Order and Agenda 21. While there are passing references to Globalism in WEATHER WARFARE I keep such speculation to a minimum. That book was about the "who" and "why" behind the HAARP program, where this book documents the reality of intentional EnMod, and the threat to health and security it poses.

The heart of WEATHER WARFARE: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature is proof that EnMod, which most people believe to be science fiction, is actually science fact and that we have neither the political nor legal infrastructure in place to deal with this technology. Addressed at length is the dismal failure of the 1978 United Nations EnMod Convention, which prohibits the use of environmental modification as a weapon of war. The unaddressed issue of ongoing intentional EnMod by various militaries, terrorists and civilians is a key factor skewing the evidence in the global warming/climate change debate and as such is of gravest importance. The politics of the 21st century, and possibly our survival as a species, will turn on how this debate plays out.

Despite the title, it is not just "The Military." A book's title is not precisely its contents, but rather a cry from the bookshelf to get a potential reader's attention. This book is about a great deal more than just the weather or the military. It is about the whole environment: earth, air and sea; it is about a lot of players: academic, commercial and military; with a lot of objectives: financial, militaristic and political.

There is substantial difference between climate and weather. Robert A.Heinlein wrote "climate is what you expect, weather is what you get." Mainstream science recognizes that man does have the ability to alter the weather on a limited scale intentionally, and to alter the climate on a vast scale unintentionally. I present solid evidence that what can be done intentionally is far greater than what the mainstream is willing to or able to admit.

WEATHER WARFARE: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature covers the history of "weather control" from the Rain Makers of the 1890s through the development of cloud seeding in the middle of the twentieth century, to today's "off the shelf" technologies of precipitation enhancement, hail suppression and fog dispersal. I cover the many programs to manipulate hurricanes, such as Project Cirrus and Project Stormfury, and what evidence there is of being able to control hurricanes in the 21st Century.

It also covers Defense Secretary Cohen's claim that "Others ... can ... set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves." Starting with Nicola Tesla's earthquake machine of the 1890s I trace the possibility of "earthquakes on demand" from the development of a "tsunami bomb" during World War II (as revealed by documents recently declassified by the New Zealand government), through Project Faultless which caused a massive earthquake in the Nevada desert after a high yield atom bomb was intentionally detonated on a fault line, to evidences of human initiation of several major quakes and the 2004 Christmas tsunami with "scalar" or other electromagnetic waves.

Also included is an update on recent developments at HAARP. I analyze what they are willing to admit to having done with it and where the program may go in the future. The US Air Force insists that it has no interest in "controlling the weather" yet HAARP represents the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars and a decade of research and construction in a program whose avowed purpose is to modify the atmosphere. What, if any, is the difference between "modifying the atmosphere" and "controlling the weather"?

WEATHER WARFARE also examines claims that chemicals are being deliberately injected into our atmosphere by high-flying planes that are criss-crossing our skies with "chemtrails." First I examine the environmental issues associated with jet aircraft condensation trails (contrails), which are indeed grave. Then I reveal that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and numerous other national and international panels of scientists have extensively, and expensively, studied ways to mitigate global warming through schemes called "geo-engineering."

Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and Associate Director of LLNL, actually advocated putting up a "sunscreen" to save the Earth. He proposed injecting aluminum and barium dust particles high into the atmosphere to increase the amount of solar energy being reflected out into space as a way to offset the heating by greenhouse gases.

Many scientific boards and committees have looked into this proposal and found it technologically feasible, but recognized that the legal and environmental hurdles would be too high to overcome to implement such a project--if done openly, so some proposed doing it covertly! Are they?

Packed with hundreds of quotes, the environmental mayhem documented in this 402-page book is founded on a solid base of mainstream scientific, military and media sources. If you are researching this topic you may well find the 31-page bibliography to be worth the price of the book alone! Also included are three appendices which include the full text of the EnMod Convention and more than 150 EnMod patents granted by the United States Patent Office.

Jerry E. Smith is the modern day version of the common human's alarm system. His books stand alone as some of the most significant cutting edge information on what is, "really going on" in our world today. We could all stand to sit back and take the time to read and learn from the pages of what he has written and open our eyes to how insignificant we just may be to those we trust and empower to protect us. Jerry E. Smith has taken the time to go over countless details in every one of his books and to thoroughly research every single account he presents. Making his works some of the most credible, verifiable and well documented anywhere. I personally stand behind, recommend and endorse each and every one.

~ Dr. Ed Craft
Host/ Executive Producer
Magick Mind Paranormal Talk Radio
http://www.magickmind.net

WEATHER WARFARE
The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature
by Jerry E. Smith

Published by Adventures Unlimited Press. $18.95
Paperback: 402 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, Appendix, Bibliography, Illustrated.
ISBN: 1931882606

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WEATHER WARFARE
HAARP, Chemtrails & Weather Control

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HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon?

"Seldom does a book become the seminal voice of reason when pitted against dangerous conspiracies that advance the agenda of special interests. Jerry E. Smith's HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy does just that. With utmost logic, it paints an accurate picture of governmental technology run amok in its attempts to spread American hegemony at any cost - perhaps even including planet Earth."

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This is a "video grab" from an interview with Jerry E. Smith on the Broadband Learning Channel, conducted in December of 2004. You can watch this thirty minute segment online at http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/jsmith.htm

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
is the largest and most powerful Department of Defense (DoD) facility of its kind in the world -- just what kind of facility it is, however, is the subject of heated debate.

The government says it is a pure science research station, one intended to increase our understanding of the upper atmosphere. Detractors are not convinced.

Some researchers think HAARP is a prototype for a "Star Wars" weapons system. It may be an over-the-horizon type radar ... or it may exist to destroy incoming ICBMs … or perhaps to fry out the electronics of enemy spy satellites … or it might be used to disrupt enemy radio communications. Researchers think it might be intended to do these things because those abilities are all described in the original patents that the HAARP antenna array is based on. The folks running HAARP deny any connection between HAARP and those patents, however. This, naturally, has opened them up to charges of cover-up and conspiracy. It’s not the only thing they seem to be lying about, either.

Once one gets the idea that the government (or civilian scientists working under government contract) is lying about something, the sky is pretty much the limit in speculations about what it is they are lying about. And with HAARP the sky is just the beginning!

Many researchers have looked into what HAARP is really intended for – and some have come up with some very strange sounding things! Some think it will be used to control the weather … others say it could be used to set off volcanoes, or trigger earthquakes. Still others see its potential for “Wining the Hearts and Minds” of our enemies by beaming emotions or commands directly into their brains. And some few even speculate that it will be used by the New World Order to take over the world by projecting holographic images into the sky while beaming thoughts directly into our heads, telling us to accept the new "god" of their design. And still others think it is part of a planetary defense system to protect us from invading aliens from outer space. And there are even wilder ideas about what “they” want to do with HAARP!

I began writing my 1998 book HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy with the intent to sort out truth from fiction in the many claims about what HAARP could or couldn’t do. I quickly learned that HAARP was but the tip of a very nasty iceberg.

I soon learned more about the down side of electromagnetic (radio frequency) technologies than I ever wanted to know. And that things are far worse in the Military-Industrial-Educational Complex than even I, as a “peacenik” from the ‘60s, imagined. My book became an examination of two major questions: what is the fundamental flaw in how we fund and conduct science, and how can a democracy defend itself from its own military and covert intelligence agencies?

FROM THE BACK COVER:

The HAARP project in Alaska is one of the most controversial projects ever undertaken by the U.S. Government. This futuristic technology is everything from super-beam weapon to world-wide mind control device. HAARP has many possible scientific and military applications, from raising a planetary defense shield to peering deep into the earth. Jerry Smith gives us the history of the HAARP project and explains how it can be used as an awesome weapon of destruction. Smith exposes a covert military project and the web of conspiracies behind it and leads the reader down a trail of solid evidence into ever deeper and scarier conspiracy theories. By the end of the book, Smith convinces the reader that HAARP represents the ultimate in science out of control. It could be the most dangerous device ever created. The Star Wars future is now!

HAARP:
The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy
by Jerry E. Smith

Published by Adventures Unlimited Press (1998). $14.95
Paperback: 256 pages; 6x9 Trade Paperback, Illustrated, Appendix.
ISBN: 0-932813-53-4.
Now in its 8th printing. Also available in a Polish Language translation from Amber Supermedia  and in Portuguese from Editora Aleph . 

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The HAARP story is also available in lectures given by Jerry E. Smith.

HAARP, Weather Warfare & Chemtrails given at CONSPIRACY CON 7, San Jose, California. May 26, 2007 is NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD!

HAARP: The Technology of Global Control given at CONSPIRACY CON 3, Santa Clara, California, on May 24, 2003 is NOW AVAILABLE ON VIDEO AND AUDIO TAPE!

 

 "Smith and Piccard explore unexpectedly vast territory in Secrets of the Holy Lance."

-- Nexus: New Times Magazine, Vol 13, No 1, January - February 2006

According to the Gospel of John in the New Testament, as Jesus Christ hung on the Cross a Roman centurion pierced His side with a spear. A legend has arisen that "whosoever possesses this Holy Lance and understands the powers it serves, holds in his hand the destiny of the world for good or evil."

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A "video grab" from Jerry's appearance on Encounters with the Unexplained, hosted by Jerry Orbach, on the PAX TV Network

A BIOGRAPHY OF
JERRY E. SMITH


OVERVIEW:

With three mass market non-fiction books under his belt and successful speaking engagements from Brisbane to The Bahamas, Jerry E. Smith is an “overnight sensation” that has been more than three decades in the making. His career as a writer, researcher, activist, editor and lecturer began with the first professional sale of his writing back in 1969.


"Video grab" of Jim Keith from his appearance on With Liberty And Justice For All. Also joining Host Dennis Grover for that episode were Juanita Cox, Citizen Lobbyist, and Jerry E. Smith.

In 1991 Mr. Smith and Jim Keith, author of Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order and numerous other conspiracy and mind control books, founded the National UFO Museum (NUFOM) in Reno, Nevada. From 1991 to 1994 Mr. Smith was the Executive Director of NUFOM, while Mr. Keith acted as the Chairman of the Board. In addition to his administrative duties of running the day-to-day operations of NUFOM, Mr. Smith also edited and wrote for that organization's quarterly journal, Notes from the Hangar.

At the same time Mr. Smith worked as an editor/graphic artist with Jim Keith's magazine Dharma Combat: The Magazine of Spirituality, Reality and Other Conspiracies, until Jim's untimely death in 1999. Jerry served variously as Managing Editor and Art Director from Dharma Combat's inception in 1988. He was also a regular contributer under the penname of jarod o'danu.

Mr. Smith's life-long political and environmental activism and research has resulted in the publication of scores of news stories, opinion pieces and book and movie reviews for local and regional magazines and newspapers throughout the western states. Mr. Smith's work has also appeared in such national publications as Fate Magazine and Paranoia: The Conspiracy and Paranormal Reader.



Jerry E. Smith Presents... The Loch Ness Monster! This photo of Jerry and a replica of the monster was taken at the Loch Ness Visitor Center in the famous village of Drumnadrochit on the banks of Loch Ness by David Hatcher Childress on May 12, 2008


DETAILS:

Jerry E. Smith’s interest in technology and its impact on society began early. At the impressionable age of eight he read Robert A. Heinlein’s Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, in which the teenaged hero is brought into an intergalactic court and forced to defend why humanity should not be terminated. That introduction to science- or speculative-fiction, which forced the reader to think, was overpowering. By age twelve he had read every sci-fi book in the local library; by the time he passed out of his teens he had read over 10,000 sci-fi and fantasy novels. What’s more he had become fascinated with ancient history and had read many of the surviving plays and epics of ancient Greece, Rome and Norse mythology. In school he excelled in the soft sciences (social studies and history). He had also begun what became a life-long study of the world’s great religions and philosophies.

Outside of school be became an activist, involved initially in the Civil Rights, and then the Anti-War movements. In 1967-68 he campaigned for Dick Gregory’s write-in bid for the Presidency. Throughout the late 1960s and early '70s he attended anti-war rallies and worked for liberal candidates. As an idealistic youth, not realizing where the liberal agenda was really coming from, he even joined pro-one-world-government organizations like The World Federalist Association and The Gradualist Way to World Peace.

As the Vietnam War wound down he turned his activism to the Environmental Movement. He joined the Sierra Club and became a founding member of The Cousteau Society. In the 1990s he would discover that globalist control freaks (like Maurice Strong, head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, who said: "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring about?") had penetrated the environmental movement. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Jerry says, International Communism traded in its worn out red flag, wrapping itself in a new environmentalist green one.

“For proof of this,” Jerry wrote, “one hardly needs look further than the Green Cross International. Its purpose is to pick up where the Rio Earth Summit left off. It was founded in 1993 by Mikhail Gorbachev, a ‘hard line’ Communist and the last Supreme Dictator of the Soviet Union. ‘Gorbie,’ so beloved by the dominant, globalist owned media, said in an address to the United Nations, in December 1988: ‘Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a New World Order.’ What is Gorbie’s New World Order? The Green Cross says its mission is ‘to help create a sustainable future by cultivating harmonious relationships between humans and the environment. Green Cross concentrates its efforts on programs whose common theme is to promote a significant change in human values leading to greater respect and care for Earth's community of life in all its diversity, and to address the environmental causes and consequences of wars and conflict.” Are you ready to have green-for-red commies change your values? I’m not.” With that, he left the environmental movement.

Jerry’s work in writing and publishing began in amateur “little literary” magazines (these days called "zines") in 1966. Jerry met Jim Keith in high school. Jim was already active in science fiction “fandom,” a nearly century old “counter-culture” of clubs, conventions and amateur publishing. Jim introduced Jerry to fandom. After publishing his first science fiction fan magazine Jerry was hooked, and his declining grades in high school proved his "addiction." He soon became active (perhaps even "hyperactive") in the zine scene. He appeared regularly in APAs (Amateur Press Alliances); like the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society's weekly APA, APA-L, and the Valley Science Fiction Association's biweekly, ValAPA. He also published several critically acclaimed general distribution fanzines (called "genzines"), such as untitled with (unindicted co-conspirator) Jim Keith. He founded the fantasy fiction oriented club, The Unicorn Society, and its Unicorn Amateur Press Alliance (UnAPA) in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1974.

In middle school and high school he was also an art student, eagerly studying drafting and architecture, and fine and commercial art. Before deciding on a career as a writer he had planned to be, first, an architect, then, a painter. But eventually his love for the written word won out. Jerry briefly considered going to college. By the time he was ready to seriously consider it he had already sold his first novel (long out of print) and, as a regular attendee of science fiction clubs and conventions was on a first name basis with about 40 professional authors and about a dozen editors. In 1971, around his 21st birthday, he took a survey of those publishing professionals, asking each of them if they had gone to college, and why. He was amazed to learn that only one of the authors, Larry Niven, had gone to college, but all of the editors had – and all of them had gone to learn to write! Jerry concluded that college must fill one up with the rules, stifling creativity. As one who wanted to be a professional science fiction author, college sounded like the last place on earth he should go! So, he has no academic credits, no initials after his name – just a lifetime of continuous research, reflection, observation and study.

Jerry moved from Southern California to Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1972. There he explored a variety of arts beyond painting and publishing. He got into amateur theater, performing both in front of and behind the curtain in plays presented by the Klamath Civic Theater and Klamath Children's Theater (co-authoring the Children's Theater production he co-starred in). He also worked in an air-brushed-art on T-shirts shop, designing the art that he painted on shirts. For a short while he and Jim Keith co-hosted a weekly current affairs radio show on KTEC, broadcasting from the campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT). In 1973 he worked as the Art Director of the shopper-style newspaper The Linkville Star. In 1979 he wore that same hat at Skyline: Klamath Falls, where in addition to doing the make-up on each issue, he also did investigative reporting and ad sales.

During the period 1976-79 he saw more than thirty of his poems see print in the United States and Canada. Nearly all of his poems were published under the pen name of jarod o'danu. He has attended, and read at, more than 200 poetry readings. It was during this same period that he was introduced to Conspiracy Theory via Gary Allen’s None Dare Call It Conspiracy. He soon learned, such as through the private writings of Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) the preeminent British historian, that the Accidental Model of history was a bought and paid for hoax, needed to hide the fact that history does not just “happen” but is made, that all political events are the result of intent, and are usually engineered by a cadre of the elite.

He also branched out into writing for private parties, largely as a ghostwriter. He wrote all or part of over 40 novels, all of which appeared under someone else's name or a pen name. One such work was a 20,000-word history of a complex of mansions south of Reno called Rancharrah. The estate was founded in the late 1930s by Norman Henry Biltz, who was dubbed the "Duke of Nevada" by Fortune Magazine in 1954. Biltz sold out to William F. Harrah, the casino magnate, in 1956. His son, John Harrah, who lives there now, commissioned the history in 1996. John Harrah's intent was to produce a booklet he could give as a handout to his guests. You will find an up-dated version of this text in the articles archive on Jerry's website. Jerry’s first national magazine exposure under his own name was the article Star Trek: Sci-fi or Psy-war? in the Fall 1996 issue of Paranoia Magazine and reprinted in book form in The Conspiracy Reader: The Best of Paranoia Magazine, edited by Al Hidell and Joan d'Arc, Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing.

It was in 1991, or so, that Jerry read Timothy Good’s Above Top Secret and realized that one could not study UFOs to any depth without hitting Conspiracy Theory. UFOlogy is filled with evidence of government lies and cover-ups. At the same time he read a limited circulation underground book on Hitler’s disk-shaped aircraft. One of Jerry’s friends was intrigued with the possibility of building such a craft. Jerry’s attempt to find evidence, and technical specifications, for these craft led to the discovery that, at that time, there did not exist a museum of UFOs anywhere in the world – and he and Jim Keith decided to create one. For almost three years Jerry sank all the money he earned into trying to get the National UFO Museum (NUFOM) off the ground. The project was finally abandoned after Jim and Jerry learned that mainstream UFOlogy, in particular the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), did not take kindly to these strangers invading their turf and had started a whisper campaign against them.

In 1996, a few years after closing the doors on NUFOM, Jerry’s career really took off with the contracts to write A History of Rancharrah for John Harrah and HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy for Ron Bonds at Illuminet Press. Ron had contacted Jim Keith asking Jim to write a book for Illuminet on HAARP, telling him that HAARP was the hottest subject on the Internet at the time. Jim declined, on the grounds that he was backlogged on four book contracts – but Jim put Ron in contact with his friend, Jerry E. Smith. Ron gave Jerry the go-head on the project in February 1996. It took until September to complete the first draft. Ron hated the draft and cancelled the project. Jerry sat on the manuscript for a year before remembering David Hatcher Childress at Adventures Unlimited Press (AUP). AUP had helped NUFOM, providing it with a number of UFO and other “off trail” books. David, it turned out, was looking for a book on HAARP and snapped it up.

Since the publication of HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy by AUP in 1998 Jerry has had an exhausting schedule, appearing regularly on TV and radio, as well as speaking at seminars and conferences across the US and around the world.


Jerry E. Smith working in the Adventures Unlimited Press warehouse in 2007, from Atlantis Ho! an article in the Chicago Reader.

Today Jerry E. Smith operates out of the World Explorer's Club in Kempton, Illinois while working for Adventures Unlimited Press as the Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations. He continues to research and write about geo-politics and emerging technologies that threaten our freedoms.

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Jerry E. Smith at Beyond Knowledge
Liverpool, United Kingdom, May 2008. Photo by Katherine Proimos.

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Jerry E. Smith has the article Constantine and the Spear of Destiny in the last magazine format issue of Paranoia: the Conspiracy Reader on newsstands now. Order it at http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/currentissue.html

Rusty O'Nhiall's Mysterious and Unexplained
Monday, September 21, 6 PM
http://www.mysteriousandunexplained.com

Gia Scott's Dawn of Shades
Tuesday, September 22, 7 PM
http://www.exogenynetwork.com/dawnofshades.aspx

Altered States Paranormal Radio, with Co-Hosts Thomas Durant, David Harvey and Louis Gonzales
Thursday, September 24, 7 PM
http://www.AlteredStatesParaRadio.com

Truth Jihad Radio, with Host Dr. Kevin Barrett
Saturday, September 26, 5 PM
http://www.truthjihad.com/
http://www.wfuradio.com/

TruthBrigade Radio, with Host Christie Czajkowski
Monday, September 28, 7 PM
http://truthbrigade.com/
http://www.AmericanFreedomRadio.Com

Rayedio RMN, with Host Rayelan Allan
Thursday, October 1, 1 PM http://www.rumormillnewsradio.com

Paranormal Insight Radio, Hosted by Ladean & Melissa
Friday, October 2, 6 PM
http://www.para-x.com/pi.html

Just Energy Radio, with Dr. Rita Louise
Friday, October 16, 2 PM
http://www.soulhealer.com
http://www.justenergyradio.com

Other World Radio, with Co-Hosts Sandra D. Sabatini and Richard Smith
Saturday, November 21, 9 PM CST
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/otherworldradio

Jerry E. Smith will be the Featured Special Guest Lecturer at the Munroe Falls Paranormal Society's first annual Northeast Ohio Paranormal Conference (NEOPC) to be held at the NEOUCOM Ralph Regula Conference center in Rootstown, Ohio on Saturday, October 31st, 2009.
The Northeast Ohio Paranormal Conference was born from an idea to bring together people that were interested in the paranormal and wanted to learn more and share their ideas. NEOPC will be free to attend. The conference will provide a forum for both experienced and non-experienced paranormal investigators and enthusiasts to share ideas, learn new techniques, see the latest technologies and much more. There will be short seminars throughout the day with workshops, technology displays and more. The conference will start at 9:00 AM and conclude at 7:00 PM. There will be several raffles through the day.
Jerry E. Smith will give two talks on The Spear of Destiny, aka The Holy Lance. His morning address with cover from the Crucifixion of The Christ to the Lance's being sent into hiding to avoid Napoleon's clutches. This talk will focus on the paranormal powers of relics and in particular how the Spear of Destiny directed Constantine, The Great, to convert Rome to Christianity. The second talk, in the afternoon, will continue the story of the Spear of Destiny into the modern era, focusing on the Nazi's possession of the Spear and its use in SS Black Magic rituals; and beyond, to wild stories of Nazi flying saucers, a secret SS Base in Antarctica and the battle there between Nazis and Admiral Byrd in 1947.
http://neoparacon.com/

BURNING MAN

A Toast To You from Jerry E. "The Colonel" Smith.
Shot in Atomikamp at Burning Man 2007 by Danielle Fewings.

Every year since 2000 (except for 2005) I have attended Burning Man, the annual art festival held in the Nevada desert. For a look at what I've experienced at Burning Man see Exploring Black Rock City: America’s Newest "Lost" City an article that appeared in World Explorer magazine, Vol.4, Number 7, Summer 2007. It is in the articles archive of this site at http://www.jerryesmith.com/index.php/136.

To learn more about Burning Man from The Source see http://www.burningman.com/

The group I camp with is called Atomikamp because we are members of and hangers-on to the Reno-based dance band The Atomiks.

The leader of the Atomiks is my best friend George Pickard. His first year at Burning Man was 1998. In 1999 he and our mutual best friend Jim Keith attended together. Tragically, Jim suffered a broken knee that led to his death a few days later. In 2000 I attended for the first time, in part to see what contributed to Jim’s death. Jim predicted that I would love Burning Man, and he was right.

In 2000 I went with George and a few of his close friends. The Atomiks were signed to 702 Records http://www.702records.com/, owned by Pete Manchetti, who also owns Sticker Guy http://www.stickerguy.com/. We all camped with Pete and his entourage at his theme camp, Installation 23, located on the corner of 7:30 and Throat. At Installation 23 George built a cardboard sanctuary to the UFO Jesus. Among the notable events that year was that it rained most of the day Friday and all night, turning to a dusting of snow to the playa floor by morning. It being my first year and not knowing what to expect I packed a little of everything including two snow suits. We got there late Wednesday night. The fellows laughed Thursday when they saw the snow suits – and stopped laughing the following day when George and I were warm and they were shivering! Since then I always take several suitcases of clothes and severe weather gear, leading my campmates to compare me to Mrs. Howell from Gilligan’s Island – which I don’t mind a bit!

In 2001 George, his wife Kristin, and I again camped with Pete. This time I arrived early, on the Wednesday before opening day. I spent the week before opening help other camps get set up and wandering about engaging in conversations with the artists and artsy types. Pete’s camp that year was FellowHumans.org, from a website he has http://www.fellowhumans.org/. The website has about 4000 photos of people’s faces that he'd taken. Looks like he has not up-dated the site since 2003. For Burning Man 2001 he had planned to set up a photo booth but never got around to it. All he managed to pull together was a bar featuring music from the "trash rock" bands he had signed to 702 Records. George created a computerized preacher that babbled religious nonsense at passers-by called The Rant-o-matic. We were located on 3:30 right behind the Esplanade. The camp on the corner of 3:30 and Esplanade next to us was called Jungle. It was a twenty-something-year-old stripper from San Diego and her two boyfriends. They intended to put up a 26-foot geodesic dome and fill it with plastic plants and misters making a chill space. They spent most of the week at it and only got the dome about 1/2 up. At Exodus they asked us if we wanted the dome and gave it to us so they didn’t have to take it down. Pete has used it in several years since. 702 Records was called that because Pete wanted to sign every band in Nevada, and the area code for Nevada was 702. In 2001 the phone company split the state’s area code, making Las Vegas 702 and the rest of the state 775. This gave Pete a problem, as he then needed a new name for his label. Pete was too busy having fun to really run the camp and the bar got horribly messy, with empty beer bottles and trash everywhere. I complained to Pete, telling him he was slovenly. He didn't know what the word meant! He got back to Reno, looked it up and went "Yes!" and renamed 702 Records Slovenly Recordings. I guess I don’t know my own strength! Later he bought a bar in Naples, Italy (where he lives part of the year) and called it Bar Slovenly.

Fake movie poster for the non-existent film, created by George Pickard.

In 2002 Atomikamp went Big Time. That year the over-arching theme for Burning Man was The Floating World. George wanted the Atomiks to play at Burning Man that year, and he wanted to be on the Esplanade to ensure a good crowd. He asked me to come up with an idea that would make that happen. I came up with Irwin Allen’s Beneath The Floating World, a disaster movie that had it self become a disaster. We were the big blue box on the corner of Esplanade and 3:30. We built and operated a full-on nightclub, with stage for the band, 2 DJs, go-go dancers, and more. Each area of the camp was a set from the film, such as the bar was Barnacle Bill’s Barter Bar and Bachinalium. In it I gave away 40 gallons of my homebrewed beer. Irwin Allen’s Beneath The Floating World was a huge success, but a fantastic amount of work. We had all of Pete’s people in the camp, plus a lot of fans of the band, making for some 38 campmates – and only about a dozen actually helped run (and clean up) the nightclub. I was totally burned out and vowed never again. I am still pissed off about slacker twenty-somethings…

In 2003 I had had it with being in the heart of the action and convinced George, who brought his mom that year, to camp out it the ‘burbs. We were just Atomikamp and did nothing on site, content to spend our time wandering about Black Rock City. We were located at about 7:15 and Reality. Atomikamp was just a few yards from a camp with over 200 Russians. We partied with them during the week and sampled cool Russian food. Our location was too far from most everything and we moved back closer to the action in 2004.

In 2004 Atomikamp became a sub-camp of Jub Jub’s. We were located at the back of that huge camp, which was on the Esplanade at about 2:55. We were only a few yards from where we had been in 2001. That year George built an art car, The Hideous Monster Comet, an escaped villain from a made-up Japanese monster flick.

Two view of George's art car, The Hideous Monster Comet, in Reno before going out to Black Rock City.

I missed 2005. A week before The Burn I was mugged and had my head crushed in. Opening Day I went under the knife at St. Mary’s Medical Center.

In 2006 Atomikamp was supposed to again be a part of Jub Jub’s but there wasn’t room for us, so we pitched camp a block or so away. We were on a street corner (I forget exactly where, maybe 8:30 and A or B) and all agreed we preferred being on a corner. Again we didn’t do a theme camp, but just watched Burning Man go by.

George Piccard and his son George at our spontaneous BUBBA GUMPS SHRIMP CUP-O-NOODLES DISTRIBUTION CENTER in front of our camp in 2007. Jerry E. Smith is seated in the camp wearing a white pith helmet and sunglasses. The Yardist, a friend in Sparks, donated several cases of shrimp ramen, which the Georges passed out to passers-by. That year Atomikamp was The Lion's Head Bar and Observatory. If I recall correctly this photo was taken by Nico Aguilera.

In 2007 we were again on a corner, 8:30 and Grassland (I think), and decided to try our hand at a theme camp again. George asked us each what we liked most about Burning Man. I said the dust storm whiteouts. That gave George an idea. He built a platform on top of the band’s van, the AtomiVan, to be an observatory. Initially it was to be a weather/whiteout observatory, then we discovered our neighbors across 8:30 had trampolines, and we found watching naked people jumping on trampolines hilarious.

It was an awesome year for observations! That year we had every kind of weather, including whiteouts, day-time "blackouts" (from dense rain clouds above the dust storms), rain, a double rainbow, an eclipse of the moon, and a meteor shower and The Man burned early by a nut-job! We also set up a small bar on the corner to invite passers-by to join us in libations. George’s co-workers had given him a fiberglass lion’s head which he placed on the bar, naming us The Lion’s Head Bar and Observatory.

Primary signage for The Black Rock City Fallout Shelter (and Afterglow Lounge), Burning Man 2008, taken by Danielle Fewings. Behind the sign is The Wall Of Hope. To the right was the entrance to the elevator lobby and to the right of that was The Wall Of Fear. Passers-by were invited to record their Hopes and Fears on these walls. The arrows below ATOMIKAMP point down as we were 200 feet down, inside an abandoned US Government survival bunker.

…strolling along the dusty streets of Black Rock City, you come upon an elevator.  Above the elevator doors is the universal fallout shelter sign, to your right, a button with a down arrow.  You reach a finger out, and press.  The button illuminates, and shortly after, the doors open.  You walk in, the doors close behind you.  

Inside the elevator, there are two sets of doors — the ones which you’ve just come through, and those in front of you.  In front, there are windows, and you can see the playa.  You hear a tremendous explosion.  As you feel the elevator begin to descend, you watch through the windows, and see a mushroom cloud envelop BRC.   And then, just before the nuclear fireball reaches you, the elevator sinks below ground.  A recorded message begins:”You’re about to enter the Black Rock City Municipal Fallout Shelter, where you’ll be safe from whatever disaster has brought you here…”  

The elevator stops.  Through the dust coated windows you can barely make out the details of the room in front of you.  The doors open, you step forward into the shelter.  There are stockpiles of food and water, gas masks, tables with board games and wine bottles.  Dozens of burners are drinking, dancing, and laughing.  Don’t they know the outside world has just been obliterated?    A black and white television in the corner has the news on it.  Footage of the nuclear holocaust is looped, as the anchorman repeats in disbelief… ”All is lost.  The world as we know it, annihilated.”

So read George Pickard's description of our Theme Camp, as submitted to Burning Man organizers in our request to be assigned a slot as one of the official theme camps for 2008. They liked the idea so much we were again given a place on the Esplanade.

2008 was a near exact repeat of 2002. We again built a full-on nightclub on the Esplanade -- totally walled in and roofed this time. Instead of pods for go-go dancers, this year the bar had a cage -- and women went crazy in it! More than merely another bar, ours was the only one on the playa with a motion simulator ride as a front door!

Girls in the cage inside the Fallout Shelter, taken by George Pickard, early in the week.

George, on the left, beside Chris, AKA The Phunny Guy, tending bar at the Afterglow Lounge. Behind Chris is Dani, Nico's girl friend, and farthest away is Kristin, George's wife. Photo by Nico Aguilera.

We were The Black Rock City Fallout Shelter (and Afterglow Lounge). We took celebrants down 200 feet beneath the playa to party in an abandoned US Government survival bunker – at least that was the story. We built a gizmo that simulated an elevator so well that literally scores of people came up to the bar asking "are we really underground?" Another big success! And it was another year that was a lot of hard work – but luckily I did not find it as overwhelming as 2002.

Will and his son Aryx. Photo by Nico Aguilera.

One of the Atomikampers is Will, a retired school teacher from San Francisco (who taught George and two of his friends, Chris (The Phunny Guy) who always kamps with us, and James, who joined us for the first time this year, in Junior High) . Will's son, Aryx, camps with a group from New York called Heyyy Camp. In 2008 father and son wanted to camp together so we combined the camps. Again we had 30 plus people in the camp. I think we merged to two camps fairly well, but I doubt if we’ll do it again.

The AtomiVan with the walls and other major pieces of our 2008 kamp in Nixon, Nevada, on the way to Black Rock City. Photo by George Pickard.

I arrived on-playa on Wednesday before opening day, as in 2001. This time I wasn’t alone. George and I went out together with the 60-some 4x8 panels, palette jack, and other hardware that made up the bulk of the lounge and "elevator", arriving near sunset and stymied by strong winds and blowing dust. We just got the tent up and slept. We unloaded the trailer Thursday morning. It had taken a team of half a dozen people almost 3 weeks to build the lounge and elevator in Reno (in George’s back yard), a day for the team to dismantle it and 3 hours more to get it into a borrowed trailer. George and I unloaded it and got the walls back up in a few hours! We had to do redesign on the fly -- we got the first wall up and immediately the wind came up and blew it down! But by mid-afternoon we had the bar fully enclosed. George then returned to Reno, en route to a business meeting in San Diego the following day! We still had a lot of work to do to finish it. Over the course of the following week other Atomikampers and Heyyy Campers filtered in. Some helped with the construction, some didn’t. We were finally ready to open Tuesday night, a day after Burning Man opened.

Jerry E. Smith sitting in front of the Wall of Hope. Photo by Danielle Fewings.

I spent most of each day, the week of The Burn, just sitting on the Esplanade in front of the Wall Of Hope watching Burning Man go by; and most of each night helping operate the lounge and its motion simulator, taking turns as Elevator Operator and crowd control/"ticket taker".

I did achieve one of my Burning Man dreams that year. One morning I got to ride through all of Black Rock City on a art car playing classical music.

Jerry E. Smith with Preston Dane, David Ort and Annie Vainchenker, at Burning Man 2008. Photo by Nico Aguilera.

These three young New York artists created Arbor Animus, meaning Spirited or Courageous Tree. It was a 15-foot-tall, multimedia, fully-interactive, artistic representation of an American Willow tree which evoked the American Dream. On each colored leaf of the tree is an image that represents the actual “American Dream” of a different individual from across this country. Combining figurative painting and sculpture with LED and fiberoptic lighting, this gentle giant provided shade during the day and brilliant lighting effects at night. See: http://www.arboranimus.com

Preston, David and Annie joined Atomikamp for a Feed The Artists Dinner on August 23, the Saturday Night before the official opening of Burning Man at 12:01 AM Monday, August 25. After dinner we were joined by Larry Harvey, Burning Man Founder and Christine Kristen aka LadyBee, Curator of the Arts at Burning Man. Photo by Nico Aguilera.

As best I can tell, we are agreed, next year will build another art car. When we have plans for 2009 I’ll post them here.

If you want to join us let me know!