Dr. Peter David Beter - Audio Letter 33: Inflation; Flight 902; USA Republic - April 28, 1978
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Date: 2014-10-15

Dr. Peter David Beter - Audio Letter 33 - April 28, 1978
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MP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_33.mp3
(1) Inflation, gold, and the stock market bear trap
(2) Korean Airlines Flight 902: the flying Lusitania
(3) The twilight of the United States republic

" Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is April 28,
1978, and this is my Audioletter No. 33.

On a summer day in 1971, two men in space suits sat aboard an
awkward looking four-wheeled vehicle that was making its way
across the surface of the moon. American astronauts David Scott
and James Irwin, the lunar landing crew of Apollo 15, were on
their way to get a close look at the gigantic lunar canyon known
as Hadley Rille. They were the first men in history to go for a
ride on the lunar surface. As they bumped along, they passed the
rim of a crater, which they named Earthlight Crater. Mission
Control in Houston radioed back, "Arthur Clarke would be proud of
you." Sixteen years earlier, in 1955, the renowned British
writer Arthur C. Clarke had published a prophetic book with the
title "Earthlight." Published two years before the Space Age
dawned with Sputnik One, Earthlight was about man's then future
occupation of the moon; and in honor of Clarke's vision, the
Apollo 15 astronauts named Earthlight Crater after the book. And
very often during television coverage of the American visits to
the moon, Walter Cronkite of CBS News had at his elbow none other
than Arthur C. Clarke. In his book, Clarke painted a vivid
picture of the great value the moon would
acquire--scientifically, economically, and strategically. The
climax of this book, honored so uniquely by the Apollo 15
astronauts, is called the "Battle of Pico", a hypothetical space
battle centered on the moon; and while the details are quite
different, Clarke's fictional Battle of Pico foreshadowed in
eerie ways the real space battle that took place more than two
decades later in September 1977. The Battle of the Harvest Moon
has been kept a secret from the public, both by the victor (the
Soviet Union), and by the vanquished (the United States of
America); but it is the key to understanding the increasingly
headlong retreat of the United States on all fronts under the new
boldness of the Kremlin.

Like September 1977, April 1978 has been a watershed month in
the needless decline and fall of the United States and of the
western world. Now, as last September, crucial developments have
taken place under the shroud of secrecy with no official hint of
what is actually taking place. Now, as then, the only public
clues to the momentous developments going on behind the scenes
are obscure diplomatic maneuvers and mysterious occurrences of
all kinds. Last September, for example, there was the mystery of
the so-called UFO over Petrozavodsk in the Soviet Union. Then, a
scant week later, there was the loudly trumpeted breakthrough in
SALT II negotiations. This breakthrough, we were told, accounted
for the highly unusual sudden nighttime meeting with Jimmy Carter
at the White House demanded by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko. As I told you that month in Audioletter No. 26, the
object over Petrozavodsk was not a UFO, and the major media
stories about a SALT breakthrough were lies to mislead the
public; and today, seven months later, there still is no SALT II
agreement.

This month there is the alleged mystery of the Korean air
liner that intruded into Soviet airspace while Secretary of State
Vance was in Moscow to discuss arms limitations. The talks took
place against a background of clear Soviet threats that this was
to be America's last chance to conclude a SALT II treaty. The
talks ended as deadlocked as ever; but suddenly the Soviet stance
in public is the embodiment of sweet reason and patience.
Meanwhile, Secretary Vance refuses to tell the public anything
about what went on in Moscow. [...]"