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Chapter 10 - The End of History.After Ross and Heather had moved to Mexico, our immediate circle had become noticeably smaller. Tony, Dag, and Al had taken over Ross' monitoring station. Fred became a more frequent visitor after that. He would arrive on his beloved motor cycle that he bought after our return from Caracas. He became rather exited about our plan that we had secretly worked out, to stage a private conference that would bring us all together for a week, to share notes, solve problems, support one another and to explore new avenues for dealing with the growing dangers in the world. We told him that the grand event would be held on Cozumel, Mexico. We told him that we felt that the meeting was needed, since it had become evidently too dangerous to talk openly about the fondi's "End of History" project that was rumbling in the background with ever greater intensity, but wasn't yet promoted openly. Perhaps the reason why one could hear those rumbling actually openly, was that this incredible imperial project had become too unbelievable for people to take serious. The death star event, that killed eight million people, had started this official trend of utilizing the credibility gap as a means for covering up atrocities that what would normally cause a public outrage. They called the death star a terrorist act and started a global persecution rampage in its wake, in total contrast to their deafening silence to our pleas for help in bringing the death star down. Steve's assessment from China was, that the fondi and their agents worldwide, had taken off their own terrorist mantle and put it on everyone else, while they themselves remained to be the true terrorists, and this so openly that nobody actually believed that they themselves, as civilized people, could be the actual terrorists behind those atrocities. Steve called this new trend their most clever ploy yet, and warned us that this new trend would set the stage for much bigger things to come down the line. He also warned us to be alert of some coming world-shaking events in the political arena that would be staged not for what they seemed to be, but as a diversion. He hinted that he could not say anything more on the phone. He suggested that he might have said too much already. Little did we realize that our meeting in Cozumel would turn out to be quite different than any of us had imagined. Indeed, none of us had taken Steve seriously until Ross briefed us a few days before the conference was to begin, about a renewed nuclear encroachment by the West against Russia and China, that had totally altered the strategic landscape of the world almost over night. "This is worse," said Ross, "far worse than when Latvia, Lithuania, and the Ukraine were 'accepted' into NATO. Is this what Steve had forecast would happen?" We became painfully aware that the new encroachment brought NATO's nuclear forces to within just a few hundred miles of the Russian heartland. A fast airplane could cover this distance in a few minutes, and a missile in a fraction of that. Our Cozumel conference, however, became focused quite differently. It certainly started out differently. Without anyone's intent, it became focused on exploring the reasons behind the death star threat, and what could be done to counter the driving force behind that. Unfortunately, Nina had not able to attend. The Iron Curtain had descended once again after the death star incidence, just days before our conference was scheduled to begin. Indira, however, had come, all the way from India. She had come on Fred's invitation by my own bidding. It should have been a joyous reunion, with so many of us coming together, but strangely, we didn't feel safe anymore to be seen together, without even knowing why, not even at the beach in Cozumel. There was a great fear in the air. Many governments had become frightened of a threat they couldn't see. Too many civil laws and civil rights had become set aside in this atmosphere of fear that grew like wildfire in the wake of the death star, even though nothing further had yet happened to justify this fear. Rumors had it that people were being arrested in some countries for almost no reason at all, often even outside of their country. The growing strategic fears in the world were suddenly reflected in the form of a growing repression. This meant that we had to conduct our meetings in secret, outside on the beach, far from anyone, where no one could hear us. We pretended as much as we could, to be tourists and nothing more. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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