In our efforts to push a strong effort at Nation-building we usually fail, not for lack of trying but because we are usually running up against hundreds of years of opposite thought. Recently, for some reason (probably the media), the American public has suddenly taken an interest in what’s happening right this moment in Afghanistan. Why? Because recently some GIs accidentally burned some Korans that had been defiled by Afghani prisoners, which is exactly how defiled Korans are dealt with in the first place, with fire, and because of the unfortunate incident involving an Army Staff Sergeant who went on a drunken rampage and killed numerous innocent civilians in a village outside the gate where he lived.

As I said however, this isn’t anything new. Six U.S. service members were killed by their Afghan counterparts since the burning of those Korans, two at a U.S. and Afghan base in Nangarhar, two at a joint base in Kandahar, and two within a high-security Ministry of the Interior compound somewhere in Kabul. There were also eight U.S. soldiers and a U.S. Contractor killed by an Afghan Air Force pilot in Kabul following an argument. In fact, estimates on how many U.S. and allied troops who have been killed by Afghan soldiers and police are actually unknown, at least to us the general public.

Over the past few years we do know that multiple dozens of American and European soldiers have been shot or blown up by members of the regime’s security forces and a lot more have been wounded. NATO says at least 58 Allied soldiers have been killed by their Afghan partners since only May of 2007 and does not include the recent incidents. Other estimates put that number much higher. Pentagon data suggests that in just five years more than 75 coalition personnel have been killed by Afghan security forces and over 110 have been wounded – these are U.S. Soldiers, fathers, and husbands too.

During the Vietnam War, there were many isolated atrocities committed by American soldiers. This produced a flood of outrage from anti-war critics and the U.S. news media. Americans who deliberately killed civilians received court martials and harsh prison sentences. On the other hand, Communist atrocities exercised on the innocent civilian population were so common they received little or no attention throughout the war, especially from our media. The United States went out of its way to minimize or prevent the attacks on civilians while the Communists received medals for them. According to historical statistics, from 1957 to 1973, the National Liberation Front assassinated 36,725 South Vietnamese and abducted another 58,499. The death squads focused on leaders at the village level and on anyone who improved the lives of the peasants such as medical personnel, social workers, and schoolteachers. We of course had our PHONIX group, but they targeted known enemy sympathizers and traitors.

The fact of the matter is that there are no wars that have no atrocities. By its very nature, war is nasty, brutal, and unfair, and innocent people die in large numbers, they’re called collateral damage. Probably for political or historical reasons, there are seldom accurate figures about this, at least none that I could find, at least for innocent civilian deaths at the hands of the U.S. Military, but you can bet given the destructive level of our technology, it was probably very high.

What is not new when involved in an insurgency is seeing and knowing who the enemy is, it’s impossible! There are friendly allies, guys we work with every day, who report directly to the enemy; usually we call them spies. There are some who live their lives as our friends, and when we turn our backs, they stick a knife in us. And, there are some who by day aid and assist us, but by night plant bombs to blow the legs and arms off our young men and women.

From the get go, the U.S. Military’s mission, going all the way back to the beginning of our involvement in Afghanistan, is to deal with it. We go into the situation of war from the very beginning with a expectancy and a understanding that we must weather through these ambushes, assaults, threats, and murders of our kids in order to bring civil order and the rule of law to areas of the world that in some cases neither want our help, nor have any desire to change. It’s always been part of the mission. It’s what we in the military are expected to deal with, to tolerate, that’s what we do. Our young men and woman today do this very well, and I’m so very proud of them, they serve our cause with honor and distinction.

What is a terrible aggravation to me in this moment in time, is how the media seems to completely ignore or forget this small tidbit of reality, choosing instead to focus on the unfairness of it and the severity of the impact on our relationship with Afghanistan; how they treat this as suddenly a new or different thing, it’s suddenly a new issue that has appeared. And because of this belief, fickle Americans begin to raise their head and suddenly take notice, and the rolling clouds of despair and dissent begin to form on the horizon – it suddenly becomes a good enough reason to get out of Afghanistan, to abandon the work done to date.

Like Vietnam, I can see now how this war is already beginning to re-shape itself, formulate into another war ‘Lost’ by those who have been fighting it. By the end of the year, the war in Afghanistan will no longer be that favored war we started over ten years ago to eradicate the terrorists behind the World Trade Center disaster, all will have forgotten their quest for revenge and immediate feedback. We will have mysteriously lost our reason for being there, and our politicians will be jockeying for appropriate positions of denial in that regard.

Please, do not mistake where I’m coming from. I personally never saw the need to go to war in Afghanistan, nor did I see a reason to politicize our entire counter terrorism effort. In my opinion we were doing just fine clandestinely. Yes, mistakes had been made, but we made efforts in that regard to fix them. But launching a war in an area of the world where nothing has changed since the year 1,000 just didn’t seem like a smart thing to me. But, decisions were made by the Commander in Chief and agreed upon by our Congress as professed and backed by the American public and we went in to do the job we decided needed to be done. As a soldier I can tell you, now is not the time to be deciding the original reasons for being there are no longer existent.

As to the deranged and drunken Staff Sergeant who allegedly killed the innocent civilians – that is an entirely separate matter and should be treated as such. My understanding from what has been told is he was recovering from multiple diagnosed Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and was also known by those around him at least, to be self-medicating with alcohol. My immediate question would be; “What in the hell was he doing in Afghanistan?” The policy as I understand it is that he should be in treatment somewhere, anywhere except there. What in God’s name was he doing in a war zone, serving a fourth tour in combat?

In my opinion, his immediate supervisor (Platoon Sergeant) and his Commanding Officer (Platoon Commander) should have ensured that he was in treatment if not fit for duty. They and whoever, officially or unofficially, encouraged his assignment are just as accountable as he is for his actions, and they too should be prosecuted.

Unfortunately, this is not the way I believe everything will turn out. Our young men and women who are and have served honorably and who have lived with the stress of immediate death as part of the job will also bear the brunt of what’s occurred here. The military upper crust and politicians will turn this into a call for immediate withdrawal and they will try to speed up the calendar of expected events, and once again, our soldiers, sailors, and airmen will be painted as failures for not holding up their end of the bargain. This is far from the truth of it.

And as for us proud and independent thinking Americans? We’ll, once again we will all just go along with it.

Joseph W. McMoneagle, CW2, USA Ret., CStS

On March 16th at Centre Malesherbes Grand Amphitheatre in Paris, Joe will engage in a public dialogue with writer, director and journalist, Stéphane Allix, about remote viewing and whatever other topics arise from their conversation!

Stéphane is the president and founder of INREES, an organization whose objective is to help advance knowledge about the extraordinary and often misunderstood topics, with an emphasis on learning how the world works and exploring the unknown. With its magazine, major conferences, web space, books and television shows, INREES addresses science and spirituality, recent research on the consciousness of life and death, and brings a rigorous, open and scientific approach to investigating such topics, without taboos or bias.

You can learn more about Joe’s appearance at this INREES event at: http://www.inrees.com/Conferences/les-espions-extrasensoriels-avec-Joe-Mc-Moneagle/ If you’d like to make a reservation to attend, click here: Réserver vos places

First, a note:  Joe McMoneagle will be interviewed on the State of Things on WUNC radio on Friday, June 25th at 12:20 pm. (That’s North Carolina Public Radio.)

Joe will be  at the Rhine Research Center this weekend. Here’s the details:

Let’s Talk about PSI; What It Is and What It Isn’t
Talk: Friday June 4, 2010 7:30-9:00 pm
Stedman Auditorium Duke Center for Living Campus
Friday Night: Rhine Members $15.00, Non-Members $20.00

Workshop: The Art of Remote Viewing
Workshop: Saturday June 5, 2010  10:00-2:00 pm
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
Workshop (incl Friday talk): Members $60.00, Non-Members $75.00

You can get tickets online.

Here’s the write-up that Rhine’s website gave to this weekend with Joe:

Want to learn more about your PSI ability from a master? Come hear firsthand from one of the most outstanding remote viewers of the US government’s highly successful 20-year psychic spying program.

Joseph W. McMoneagle, CW2, USA Ret., will speak about many of the interesting and bizarre occurrences he’s experienced over his years of involvement within the previously classified, U.S. Army, Star Gate Program. He will share information that can assist those interested in PSI in determining what is real and what isn’t within the paranormal world; providing examples of how Remote Viewing has been and can be used within the modern world.

Joseph McMoneagle is a much-decorated retired Army officer and the Owner/Executive Director of the Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., a Virginia based company which has provided PSI support to government, businesses, and individuals for over twenty-five years. As an original member of the Star Gate unit and a full member of the Parapsychological Association, he has also been a Research Associate for the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, California, and a past consultant for PSI laboratories at SRI and SAIC. He’s authored numerous books on remote viewing and has successfully demonstrated Remote Viewing, live, on national television in seven countries. He is a long-time Advisory Board member and friend of the Rhine Research Center He currently lives in Nellysford, Virginia with his wife Nancy. Read more about Mr. McMoneagle at www.mceagle.com.

I’ll also be giving a presentation at a nearby locale, Saturday after Joe’s workshop. Here’s the writeup on that:

Nancy McMoneagle: Never Mind 2012!  How to Best Navigate the Choppy Waters of 2010-2011
Saturday, June 5th at 3:00-5:00 pm

About the talk:

Anyone who is concerned about what’s going to happen in 2012  will want to hear Nancy McMoneagle’s fun and educational presentation about why focusing on how to deal with the “astrological weather” patterns in 2010 and 2011 is far more important than worrying about the end of the Mayan Calendar.

Drawing on her 20-plus years as an astrologer, Nancy will give tips and insights about how you can most productively use your astrological sign’s gifts and challenges for the demanding times ahead.  Come learn how you can plot the best course and timing for an optimum journey into the future.

Nancy McMoneagle is a professional astrologer and works as a consultant with her husband Joe in their company, Intuitive Intelligence Applications (www.mceagle.com).  Astrology has been Nancy’s passion for over 30 years and her prime vocation since 1991 when she completed her tenure as Director of the internationally acclaimed Monroe Institute.  She resides with her husband, two dogs and their six feline “fur children” in the mountains of central Virginia. Nancy does astrological chart consultations in person and over the phone, and may be contacted at P.O. Box 100, Nellysford, VA  22958.

For tickets, contact Sally srfeather@nc.rr.com or (919)644-0677 to signup/info. Cost: $15 (to Nancy).

Hope to see some of you there!

Bon spectacle!

P.S. If you’d like to have a taste of what the French show is about, here’s a link to the show teaser: http://www.wat.tv/video/soiree-etrange-samedi-27-fevrier-29bjv_1knnk_.html

Anyone wanting a chuckle may want to check out Joe doing a commercial for the Japanese chocolates, DARS.

Here’s the web site, if you’d like to see it: http://www.morinaga.co.jp/dars/ .

I believe they’re also going to air another version on Japanese television in the winter.  He had great fun making it.  If you can imagine, it took two full days of filming here at our house for a 10-second and a 15-second commercial!

After the TV commercial is over, if you wait a  second or so (or click icon at bottom left, or go directly to http://www.morinaga.co.jp/dars/dcs/index.html ), then you will see the DCS special contents page with Joe, where his image turns around in a chair, etc.

Happy autumn to all!

Cheers,
Scooter

Recently both Joe and Nancy had ‘chat interviews’ live online with the TKR Remote Viewing project, as part of TKR’s “Remote Viewing Expo Summer 2009.”

Really interesting, and great to talk with them!

For those of you who missed the occasion to attend and to suggest questions for the interviewer, transcripts for both interviews are now available online for review.

Both of these are in PDF format.

Joe’s is linked from his RV Expo page:
http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/Joe/

Nancy’s from hers:
http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/Nancy/

Ten more questions are still to be answered by Joe via email per his kind offer in the chat, and that will be posted as an interview or part of one at TKR and/or the Dojo Psi in the next few months.

Palyne (webmaster)

Nancy McMoneagle is going to be live online in chat with the TKR Remote Viewers, Tuesday, July 21, at 9:00pm Eastern time.

Folks at the chat can suggest questions to the moderator (that’s me, and I use all those I can). If you’re interested in either astrology or remote viewing project management, or Nancy personally, feel welcome to come by and help us make her feel welcome!

The chat room is here: http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/index-conference.cfm

There will be a transcript within a week, posted on Nancy’s feature page at the Dojo Psi, here: http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/Nancy/

Palyne

Note from the webmaster:

Joe McMoneagle will be live in a text-chat online for TKR at the Dojo Psi on July 11, 2009, at 5:00pm Eastern Time, which is 10:00pm GMT/Zulu.  This is one of the few online activities that our UK friends can easily attend!  Joe is holding it on a weekend during the day just so that can happen. I believe in other timezones that is 11:00am in Hawaii, 2:00pm Pacific, and in a neat feat of time-travel that is 7:00am the next day (12th) in Tokyo and 8:00am the 12th in Australia.

The chat will be held here: http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/ It is a moderated chat interview; the interviewer is PJ Gaenir, but most questions come from people who attend the chat and submit them for consideration as it goes on. So if you have any questions for Joe, come check it out!

A transcript will be provided within a few days after the chat, at Joe’s Dojo Psi feature page, here: http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/Joe/

Note the groovy icon at right. An animated flash version of this is on his feature page. (This stuff probably cracks him up.)

Will post later about Nancy’s upcoming chat. Stay tuned!

Dr. Edwin C. May is Director of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research and the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and former Director of the research projects now collectively compiled under the name STAR GATE. The majority of science research in those projects was published by Dr. May, who is also author or co-author of some of the most groundbreaking papers in psi research history.

Dr. May is going to be live in an online text chat for the TKR Remote Viewing Project, at the Dojo Psi Remote Viewing chat: http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/ on July 9, at 6:00pm Pacific / 9:00pm Eastern. Feel welcome to stop by and send your questions to the interviewer, who uses as many live submissions as possible as the base of the interview.

Dr. May has an exciting book coming up soon, and TKR hopes to talk with him about Associative Remote Viewing and Fuzzy Set Analysis as well. Come say hello!

FYI, Joe is a Research Associate at CSL. You can find the website at http://www.lfr.org

Pssst: Both Joe and Nancy have interviews coming up shortly! Joe’s is July 11th at 5:00pm Eastern and Nancy’s is July 21st at 9:00pm Eastern, but I will post a formal announcement about each prior to those dates. There will also be transcripts on their RV Expo pages and I’ll make a link for y’all in case you can’t make the chat. But if you can, come tell them hello and submit questions! I’m trying to convince them to use their blog a little more often (ok… at all…!) so maybe that would encourage them. ;-)

Best,
Palyne

The show centers around Unidentified Submerged Objects [USO's], specifically in the Andros Island area of the Bahamas. There is a belief that a US Navy base called AUTEC, located on the eastern shore of Andros Island is somehow connected with UFO’s. Joe was tasked with a blind remote viewing of the AUTEC Base some time ago and his opinion was asked regarding the possibility of alien submersibles in the Andros/AUTEC area.

While Joe has seen some very unusual things in the waters of the Bahamas, he has not seen anything that he feels ties directly to an alien underwater craft. This does not preclude the possibility that such exists. Watch the show and see what others besides Joe feel about such possibilities.