Now 34 Strange National Park Clusters of Missing Persons Across America

Update:

A third book entitled: “Missing 411-North America and Beyond” by David Paulides is the "first edition that presents missing people and relevant facts from five countries (Australia, England, France, Iceland and Indonesia) outside of North America and examines the parallels between the cases. The book also includes a multitude of new stories from North America.

“David Paulides has shined a light onto one of the greatest and most disturbing mysteries of our time: the simple and awful fact that people disappear, especially in our national parks, and little effort is made to find them, let alone inform the public about the danger.

Even when massive searches are mounted, and people are found, the events surrounding their loss and recovery are often far beyond logical explanation.

This is the most comprehensive and expertly presented series of books on the subject ever written, and the latest volume, which includes stories from five countries, is sobering, chilling and far too well researched to ignore. Essential reading."

Lost in Oregon: Hiker's 2012 disappearance joins hundreds of unsolved wilderness cases

“A staggering 189 men and 51 women officially remain listed as missing since 1997 by the Oregon Office of Emergency Management after trekking into Oregon's wildest places, said Georges Kleinbaum, search and rescue coordinator for the office.

Former police officer turned investigative journalist, and author of Missing 411, and Missing 411 Eastern US, David Paulides, discovered weird and odd disappearances in U.S. national parks and forests that no one can explain. These isolated missing person cases from National State Parks (NSP) were beginning to form clusters around certain mountainous regions. Sometimes these clusters are purely geographical while others identify a linkage based on age and sex of the victims. Sometimes the only clues left by the missing were their clothes, neatly piled.

In many of the cases, victims appear to travel a vast distance or into a location which should be physically impossible to reach. For instance, a two-year-old boy named Keith Parkins, who vanished near Umatilla National Forest. The child would eventually be found 12 miles away after being gone for only 19 hours. The journey required that the toddler venture over two mountain ranges, as well as fences, creeks, and rivers. This case is just one of many where children disappear and are later found "several hundred percent" outside of the grid system carefully designed by search and rescue teams. Moreover, there are some rare cases where, after tracking dogs have led rescuers to a large river, search teams will explore the other side and "miles away, they find the kid."  Other times, the dogs pick up no scent at all, and give up.

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On Behalf of National Interest: Shining a Light on Black Operations

America's budget for its 16 intelligence agencies is $75 billion, These 16 agencies employ more than 200,000 operatives worldwide, many of whom are mercenaries. There is no oversight, no accountability.

Part 1: Counter-Intelligence: The Company: Shining a Light on Black Operations



Some highlights:

What does “National Interest” really mean?

National interest or national security doesn't really have meaning, other than to be a political tool for keeping the public uninformed. It’s a “highly flexible frame of reference” where simple explanations, or jingles are used to justify actions taken on behalf of this “national interest”. If one boils it down, “national interest” and/or “national security” means protecting the profits of western corporations.

The U.S. Intelligence Apparatus:

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a US intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the US Armed Forces.

Truman didn’t trust the OSS because he thought it was dominated by parts of the Democratic party that he didn’t align himself with, so he abolished it. Subsequently,  a smaller intelligence agency was formed from the remains of the OSS called the Central Intelligence Group (CIG).   It was focused on analyzing intelligence rather than covert operations.

Two years later, in 1948, many of the agents who worked on the covert operations side--the paramilitary operations, black operations--were reestablished in an outfit called The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) which eventually grew to have 5,000 agents in the early Cold War years. The existence of this office was entirely top-secret. It had no public existence at all. Several years later the OPC was folded into the CIA, which had both a black operations arm and a intelligence analysis arm.

At the same time, the OPC became operational, the National Security Council (NSC) approved a radical new policy. It secretly authorized the CIA to conduct programs which were officially non-existent, thereby passing the U.S. Congress. The NSC ordered that the new operations be deniable: “Planned and executed so that any U.S. government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that for those uncovered the US government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility.” (N.S.C. 10/2, 1948)  The OPC was set up to organize propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, sabotage, demolition, subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world (NSC 10/2, 1948)

Frank Wisner, former head of OSS, and a prominent Wall Street lawyer later became chief of black operations, and Allen Dulles, who prior to WWII, was an international trader became CIA director. From the beginning the CIA was steeped in elitism. Its top leadership were mostly Wall Street lawyers while new recruits were sought through the top Ivy League Universities.

“Yale has influenced the CIA more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.”—Gaddis Smith

What does “National Interest” “National Security” really mean?

National interest/security is a "highly flexible frame of reference", a political tool for keeping the public uninformed, where simple explanations, or jingles are used to justify actions taken on its behalf. If one boils it down, “national interest” and/or “national security” can be defined as protecting the profits of western corporations.

Mercenaries and Dyncorp International

When Obama announced the withdraw of troops from Iraq, many Americans did not realize that thousands of mercenaries, funded by the U.S. taxpayer would remain in place. Far from saving cost, these private contractors have repeatedly robbed the U.S. taxpayer for millions of dollars. But from a military intelligence perspective, they serve multiple purposes: establish plausible deniability, further minimize congressional oversight, bypass rules of war such as the Geneva Convention, and create enormous profits for their benefactors.

A case in point is the extremely dangerous paramilitary, mercenary, private corporation named DynCorp International, who receives half its revenue from the DOD. Since its beginnings in 1946, it advertises itself as “a major government contractor for data processing, military operations and intelligence work.” DynCorp lists its primary “public sector clients” as: The Center for Disease Control (CDC), Department of Defense (DoD), Bureau of Census, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

DynCorp International also provides training for police forces worldwide. It is the primary “private security force” in Iraq and provides top security for the CIA’s extensive poppy fields in Afghanistan. It also provided the security for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. It is responsible for patrolling the U.S./Mexican Border, performs “essential services” in Colombia to known drug cartels, and of course – is deeply involved in the international “sex slave” trade.

In 2002, DynCorp was found to be working with the Serbian mafia in the trafficking of sex slaves including children. While all of this was going on Dyncorp kept its contracts with American government. In 2009, DynCorp was arranging sex parties for Afghan politicians involving small boys.

CIA/Nugan-Hand Operation

In Australia, in December 1972, the Labor Party was elected into office for the first time in 23 years, but the it would be brought down in a coup d'etat by the CIA in conjunction with MI6 and Australia’s own intelligence.

Unbeknownst to elected leader Prime Minister Gough Whitlam--who had enacted a series of reforms, including raises in wages, pension and unemployment benefits, free national health care, equal pay for women, the abolishment of tuition fees, new services for aboriginal peoples, and the replacement of “God Save the Queen” with Australia’s own national anthem in the first 100 days in office--Australian's intelligence security organization was working closely with the CIA, illegally passing on dossiers, concerning every member of the Labor Party as well as union leaders, peace activists and other Australian citizens. Most disturbing to Washington was the withdraw of Australia’s troops from Vietnam, the support of Palestinian rights, and the proposal of an Indian Ocean zone of peace. Worst of all Whitland hinted that he might shut down American military bases including Pine Gap.

“We were to become the paymasters of the CIA around the world. In other words, we were putting ourselves in the position to disburse funds for the CIA to whoever they directed... The idea was that the money would be deposited into the Nugan Hand Bank by the CIA through various channels, and also that the Nugan Hand Bank would be the repository for funds coming in for various CIA enterprises, namely drugs...then the Nugan Hand bank would be responsible for re-routing that money to an account in America ." -- Neil Evans, Former Bank Executive, Nugan Hand Bank, who claimed the CIA made millions to finance its secret projects

CIA director, William Colby petitioned his counterpart, Sir Maurice Oglefield stressing that Australia was traditionally Britain’s domain, and that if Pine Gap were closed the alliance would be blinded strategically.

“Australia is going to be increasingly important to the United States, and so long as Australians keep electing the right people then there'll be a stable relationship between the two countries." – ((A Secret Country,, p. 353).

“Australia gained the distinction of becoming the only country in the world to have supplied uranium for nuclear bombs which its Prime Minister allowed to be dropped by a foreign power on his own people without adequate warning." (A Secret Country, p. 168).

CIA How to Assassinate Guide:

Beginning with the ironic disclaimer, “Murder is not justifiable…” the agency’s “how to guide” on assassination goes on to state that

“Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is clear and present danger to the cause of freedom may be held necessary…Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it .”

From there, the guide highlights potential methods:

“...the simplest local tools are often the most efficient… a hammer, a screwdriver, a fire poker, a kitchen knife, a lampstand, or anything hard, heavy and handy will suffice, like a rope, a wire, or a belt will do if the assailant is strong and agile.

For secret assassination, a contrived accident is the most effective technique. Once successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated. The most efficient accident is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface--elevator shafts, stairwells, unsecured windows and bridges will serve. Falls into the sea, or swiftly falling river can suffice if the subject cannot swim. Arson can cause accidental death if the subject is drugged and left in a burning building. Reliability is not satisfactory unless the building is isolated and highly combustible. If the subject drinks heavily, morphine or narcotic can be injected at the passing out stage and the cause of death will often be attributed to acute alcoholism....

Puncture wounds of the body cavity may not be a reliable unless the heart is reached. The heart is protected by the ribcage and is not always easy to locate. Absolute reliability is obtained by severing the spinal cord in the cervical region. This can be done with the pont of a knife. Or a hatchet. Another reliable method is the severing of both jugular and carotid blood vessels on both sides of the wind pipe…”.

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Pulling Yourselves Up by Your Bootstraps When You Don't Have Any Boots.

Individualism - where everyone is expected to look after him or herself and his or her immediate family, and where it is believed that anyone, regardless of their status can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and raise themselves from poverty - is quintessentially American. It is what defines our culture, above all else, yet more than ever, Americans are falling victim to this "everyone for himself" belief system, generated by those (power elite), who most benefit from we the people's ignorance of this ideology's mythological proportions.

We rank highest in the world, on the individualism (IDV) index, which is part of the five dimensions of culture, created by Geert Hofstede, who conducted the most comprehensive study of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture, and after analyzing a large data base of employee values scores collected by IBM between 1967 and 1973 that covered more than 70 countries.

Placing so much significance on this one aforementioned dimension can be very destructive when government policy, not only fails to provide the level playing field required to make it work, but, in addition, sets up barriers that make it impossible, for all, but those with the luck of a jackpot lottery winner, to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, despite the lack of boots. Of course, then, those lucky individuals will serve as the token success stories that sustain the "bootstrap" mentality.

As more and more of our professional class find themselves facing situations - lack of health insurance, unemployment, foreclosure etc. - previously thought as something that only happens to slackers, the better the chances are that this "bootstrap" myth will be put to rest.

Fortunately, culture is not a fixed entity, rather, it is, or should be, dynamic and fluid, however this requires that we the people take off our blinders and refuse to live in denial or remain in a state of complacency, and instead develop a culture of cooperation, fairness and respect for the individual, regardless of that person's social status.

Hofstede's five dimensions of culture:

Power Distance Index (PDI) is how individuals interact with people with authority or status over them. It focuses on the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in the country's society. A High Power Distance ranking indicates that inequalities of power and wealth have been allowed to grow within the society. These societies are more likely to follow a caste system that does not allow significant upward mobility of its citizens. A Low Power Distance ranking indicates the society de-emphasizes the differences between citizen's power and wealth. In these societies equality and opportunity for everyone is stressed.

Individualism (IDV) focuses on the degree that society reinforces individual or collective, achievement and interpersonal relationships. A High Individualism ranking indicates that individuality and individual rights are paramount within the society. Individuals in these societies may tend to form a larger number of looser relationships. A Low Individualism ranking typifies societies of a more collectivist nature with close ties between individuals. These cultures reinforce extended families and collectives where everyone takes responsibility for fellow members of their group.

There are only seven (7) countries in the Geert Hofstede research that have Individualism (IDV) as their highest Dimension: USA (91), Australia (90), United Kingdom (89), Netherlands and Canada (80), and Italy (76).

Masculinity (MAS) focuses on the degree the society reinforces, or does not reinforce, the traditional masculine work role model of male achievement, control, and power. Do values of assertiveness and competition dominate? A High Masculinity ranking indicates the country experiences a high degree of gender differentiation. In these cultures, males dominate a significant portion of the society and power structure, with females being controlled by male domination. A Low Masculinity ranking indicates the country has a low level of differentiation and discrimination between genders. In these cultures, females are treated equally to males in all aspects of the society.

Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) focuses on the level of tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity within the society - i.e. unstructured situations. A High Uncertainty Avoidance ranking indicates the country has a low tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. This creates a rule-oriented society that institutes laws, rules, regulations, and controls in order to reduce the amount of uncertainty. A Low Uncertainty Avoidance ranking indicates the country has less concern about ambiguity and uncertainty and has more tolerance for a variety of opinions. This is reflected in a society that is less rule-oriented, more readily accepts change, and takes more and greater risks. Are unknown situations threatening or acceptable?

Strong: South Korea, Japan, and Latin America
Weak: US, the Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, Britain

Geert Hofstede added the following fifth (5th) dimension after conducting an additional international study using a survey instrument developed with Chinese employees and managers. That survey resulted in addition of the Confucian dynamism. Subsequently, Hofstede described that dimension as a culture's long-term Orientation.

Long Term Orientation Long-Term Orientation (LTO) focuses on the degree the society embraces, or does not embrace, long-term devotion to traditional, forward thinking values.

Long term cultures:
Supports a strong work ethic where long-term rewards are expected as a result of today's hard work.
High respect for tradition and family honor.
Avoiding shame and "Saving Face" is desirable.
Knowing true way of doing things important.

China; Hong Kong; Taiwan, Japan and India.

Short-term cultures:
Change can occur more rapidly as long-term traditions and commitments do not become impediments to change.
Focus on one's own reputation and security and pursuit of personal happiness.
Avoiding guilt is motivating.
Gaining status and wealth desirable.
Tolerance and diverse opinions are acceptable.

Britain, Canada, the Philippines; Germany, Australia.

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Our Decisions Regarding Health Care Could Result in a New Enlightenment Age or the Beginning of the End

Our current health care system is weakening and tearing apart the strands that hold together the fabric of our society more and more every day. Since 2000, employment-based health insurance premiums have increased 87%, rising four times faster than wages. Our out of pocket expenses, co-pays, deductibles etc, have increased 115% and the average employee contribution to company-provided health insurance has increased more than 143%.

The hospitals, insurance companies, and the government health care system are all driven by "economies of scale" thinking which base its decisions, not on what is best for the patient, rather decisions are based on what will result in enormous profits for the industries involved.

There is no safety net. Medicaid only covers a small fraction of people without health insurance. The eligibility rules vary widely state to state, and most states require people to be completely destitute parents to qualify. In some states working adults without children can get Medicaid coverage for themselves but only if they make less than, let's say 30-40% of the federal poverty level, or in other words, $3-4,000/year. Medicaid eligibility discourages people from working because most programs only allow people to earn a salary below the poverty level in order to qualify. Where is the incentive to work more hours or find better employment?

The bottom line is that it's next to impossible to secure health benefits for the average American today unless their employer offers it, and even then it's becoming prohibitively expensive. If we allow the health of American citizens to deteriorate in the most affluent country on earth, not only does it place a great burden on our labor force, infrastructure, and market system, it calls into question how civilized "We the People" really are. Ignoring the needs of the sick so that big industry can profit is heartless, insensitive, greedy and self-serving and much more characteristic of a barbaric society than the enlightened, continually evolving nation we claim to be.

We cannot continue to allow billions of our tax dollars to fund what is ultimately destructive to the public interest, and at the same time, refuse citizens who work hard, pay taxes, and play by the rules, decent health care. If we permit American citizens to fall into economic hardship because of health care costs, we are no different than the many"civilizations" that have gone before us, failing because of their inability to transcend the selfish, power hungry part of human nature.

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link”, is a common metaphor often applied to groups of people from small organizations to -- in an era of global economies and growing interdependence -- the world at large. However, although this statement is true as far as a chain and a broken link, fortunately, this analogy is only partially true when applied to society or government, because one broken link will not render society or government useless. The reality is the strength of the other links will normally compensate for the broken one and society will continue to function. "Fabric is only as strong as its weakest threads" might be more accurate when referring to how groups of people function. A broken health care system, if not mended soon, will inevitably unravel the societal fabric weaving us all together.

We are at a crucial crossroads in American history and our decisions regarding the value we place on the quality of human life could either result in a "New Enlightenment" age or signal the beginning of the end of what was a very noble experiment in democracy.

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If Catastrophic Emergency Should Occur, Bush Wants Full Control of Federal Government

This piece of news is not surprising at all as we are all familiar with President Bush's enormous appetite for power and control. What is surprising is the lack of response and/or reaction from the media to this alarming piece of news.

The Framers designed our system of government with the knowledge that there never was a democracy that did not commit suicide. During a time when distractions were few and politics were almost a form of entertainment the way sports are today, the Framers were well aware of the importance of a vigilant, informed and educated citizenry to maintain what they created. Considering the technological advances that have taken place since that time, it's amazing our republic is still in existence but it's only a matter of time before this "timeless" masterpiece, our Constitution, is destroyed if we continue to ignore what our leaders are up to.

With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.

In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.”

Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.”

He laid this all out in a document entitled “National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51” and “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.”

The White House released it on May 9.

Other than a discussion on Daily Kos led off by a posting by Leo Fender, and a pro-forma notice in a couple of mainstream newspapers, this document has gone unremarked upon.

The subject of the document is entitled “National Continuity Policy.”

It defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function.”

This could mean another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California, I imagine, since it says it would include “localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies.” Read more...

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36 % of Adults in Washington D.C. are Illiterate.

21% is the national average for illiteratcy. Teenage illiteracy is estimated to be as high as 50%.

By 8th grade, more than half of New York State students do not meet reading standards, and in New York City the figure is closer to two-thirds. Many of these adolescents are reading at only a 3rd- or 4th-grade level, and it is difficult for them to keep up in subject-specific classes because they cannot read assigned texts.

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