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N E X U SNEW TIMES MAGAZINE

Volume 8, Number 4 JUNE – JULY 2001

PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560, Australia Website: www.nexusmagazine.com

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.............................................4

GLOBAL NEWS.............................................................6

News you may have missed, including a study thatproves irradiated food can cause DNA damage,plans to create a super-currency, and research thatvindicates Dr Benveniste's molecular memory find.

PROJECT CENSORED'S TOP 25 NEWS STORIES........13

Compiled by the Project Censored team. Headingthis round-up of news stories most ignored by theUS media last year is a report on water privatisationmoves by corporations and the World Bank.

MILKING THE TRUTH WITH GE HORMONES..........21

By Jane Akre and Steve Wilson. How Monsantopressured Fox TV not to air a series that questionedthe safety of its GE bovine growth hormone isevident in this annotated audio-video script.

US & UN FINANCE WAR IN THE BALKANS..............29

By Michel Chossudovsky. Both sides of the conflictaffecting Kosovo and Macedonia are being fundedbehind the scenes by the Pentagon, with help fromthe United Nations, NATO and narcodollars.

HEALING POWER OF FULL-SPECTRUM LIGHT.........35

By Joseph G. Hattersley. Contrary to advice fromthe US EPA, we need regular exposure to full-spectrum sunlight with traces of ultravioletfrequencies in order to maintain good health.

SOVIET AMPLIFIED MIND POWER RESEARCH.........41

By Martin Ebon. By the middle of the Cold Wa rera, the Soviet Union's psychic research programhad advanced so far that the United States had toembark on a crash program to try to catch up.

SCIENCE NEWS..........................................................49

By Jerry W. Decker. Free energy researchers are notaiming to create "something from nothing", but toconvert gravity and other ambient forces intomechanical or electrical energy that can do work.

WHERE IS ALL THE FREE ENERGY?............................53

By Peter Lindemann, DSc. Free energy technologiesare a reality, but their spread has been curbed by themoney monopoly, governments, deluded inventorsand charlatans as well as a non-demanding public.

THE DEEP DWELLERS—Part 3....................................61By Wm Michael Mott. Modern-day accounts ofalien abductions and Men in Black incidents haveparallels with planet-wide legends of mysterioussubterranean creatures and humanoids.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE................................................66

This issue's "out of this world" news includes Hopi"final days" prophecies compiled by John Hogue,Soviet military reports of underwater aliens andUFOs from George Filer, and the discovery of anancient Peruvian city as old as Egypt's pyramids.

R E V I E W S — B o o k s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1"Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century" by Dr Archie Kalokerinos"The Big Breach" by Richard Tomlinson"The Arcadian Cipher" by Peter Blake and Paul S. Blezard"The Philadelphia Experiment Murder" by Alexandra Bruce"Cancer – Cause & Cure" by Percy Weston"Politics in Healing" by Daniel Haley"The Land of No Horizon" by Kevin Taylor and Matthew Taylor"The Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity" by Peter A. Lindemann"Beyond Amalgam" by Susan Stockton"Stone Age Farming" by Alanna Moore"Wake Up Down There!" edited by Gregory Bishop"The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK", by R.G. Ross"Sweet Poison" by Janet Starr Hull"Underwater and Underground Bases" by Richard Sauder, PhD

R E V I E W S — Vi d e o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon" by Bart Sibrel

R E V I E W S — C D - R O M s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8"WingMakers: First Source – Volume 1" from the WingMakers"Gridworks 2.0" produced by Rod Maupin

R E V I E W S — M u s i c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 9"Déjà-Blues" by Steve Halpern"Breathing Rhythms" by Glen Velez"Buddha and Bonsai – Vol. 3" by Oliver Shanti, Family & Friends"Space Lullabies and Other Fantasmagore" by Ekova"Gardens of Eden" by various artists

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NEXUS MAGAZINEVolume 8, Number 4

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NEXUS Magazine Pty Ltd, ABN 80 003 611 434

EDITORDuncan M. Roads

CO-EDITORCatherine Simons

ASSISTANT EDITOR/SUB-EDITORRuth Parnell

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OFFICE ADMINISTRATORJanine Carmichael

CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUEProject Censored; Jane Akre and Steve Wilson;

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky; Joseph G. Hattersley;Martin Ebon; Jerry W. Decker;

Peter A. Lindemann, DSc; John Hogue; Wm Michael Mott; George A. Filer

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Editorial

It is hard to imagine that just a few weeks ago I was clambering through tunnelsand shafts of the Great Pyramid, cruising the Nile and haggling with street vendors.

What can I say to you, except that the "Mysterious Egypt" trip with John AnthonyWest was way above my expectations. Everything—the organisational details forour group of thirty, the temples and tombs, the food, the people in our group plusthe locals—was just fantastic. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that we allhad a great time. If you feel a desire to visit Egypt—and you want to do so withlike-minded people, in style and comfort, and with a switched-on tour guide whogives quality time at each site—then go on one of John Anthony West's trips. Hedoes several per year, and they are worth every cent! If there's not an advert in thisedition, I suggest you visit his website at www.trueorigins.net/jaw/travel.htm.

Catherine and I also visited Turkey prior to meeting the group in Cairo. We onlyhad a few days, so we decided to relax and explore Istanbul. During this time wemet up with Haktan Akdogan, Turkey's high-profile UFO researcher/TV presenter.It looks like NEXUS will soon have a Turkish edition to include in our foreign-language stable.

The subject of UFOs has left its mark of late on the media, at both ends of thespectrum. A few weeks ago, an obscure UFO group that hardly anyone had everheard of announced dramatically that it was folding due to a lack of UFO reports.Naturally, the mainstream media reported it all around the world, thus creating theimpression that UFOs are a non-event. But when UFOs hover over the world'slargest city for hours on end in broad daylight, in full view of hundreds of thousandsof people—as they did in Mexico City in the early 1990s—the media silence is deaf-ening.

The UFO Disclosure Project held its press conference on 9 May at the NationalPress Club in Washington, DC, where over 20 military, intelligence, government,corporate and scientific witnesses testified to the reality of UFOs/extraterrestrialvehicles, alien life-forms and advanced energy and propulsion technologies. Nearlyall mainstream media organisations have run stories, most of them neutral to posi-tive. So far, the Washington Post is the only media outlet I have seen run a sneeringstory, written by one Joel Achenbach. Joel probably expected the rest of the ratpackto follow suit; but surprisingly, other media organisations have treated theDisclosure Project with almost an air of respect. Is this a sign of change in mediareporting? We hope so!

Meanwhile, we have plenty of thought-provoking material in this edition. Ourfirst feature is a summary of Project Censored's top 25 under-reported news storiesfor 1999/2000. (Maybe one day Project Censored will realise that the UFO phe-nomenon is an under-reported news story, too!)

This issue sees plenty of Russian material, ranging from Soviet-era research intomind-power to Russian underwater UFOs. All very fascinating!

Free energy research also gets a good serve in this edition—and without lots oftechnical-looking diagrams! Peter Lindemann has submitted a thought-provokingand informative article on why we all don't have free-energy-powered homes andcars—yet. And the legendary Jerry Decker of KeelyNet has let us publish his excel-lent piece, "Something from Nothing, Revisited". If you've never read a science arti-cle before, please make sure you read these two; you will then have a goodoverview of the true status of free energy research across the globe.

Another of the must-read articles this issue is "Milking the Truth". Not only does ithighlight how dangerous genetically engineered bovine growth hormones are tocows—and to humans who drink their milk—it also reveals disturbing insights intohow media organisations gag, spin and distort the truth. Fortunately in this case, thetwo reporters refused to change their story, resulting in an embarrassing court casefor Fox TV and bad publicity for Monsanto.

Until next time, our best regards to you all.Duncan

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Mad Cow Disease is AncientHi, Duncan: The ABC 4

Corners TV show [23 April]demonstrated that although insecti-cides can damage prions, they donot cause a contagious type ofdamage that can be transferred toanother animal. Prions damagedby insecticide cannot transfer thatdamage to another animal.

Manganese does replace copperin infected animals. The rich man-ganese in soils can accelerate thatdamage by supplying an abun-dance of manganese, which thedisease will happily utilise, andmay accelerate an already existingdisease. But manganese does notcause the infection.

Petrol will fuel a fire—but unlessthere is already a fire, the petrolwill not cause any fire. The Kuruin New Guinea happened where noinsecticides were used.

This is an ancient disease. It ismore likely to have come fromouter space than from insecticides.Reason: no life form can with-stand 600°C [1,112°F], yet CJDmultiplies even after experiencingthis temperature.

The mark of the beast has a newmeaning.

Regards, Peter O., [email protected]

Thinking Outside the SquareDear Duncan: I have been an

avid N E X U S reader for aboutseven years now, and I want tocongratulate you on an editing jobthat from my perspective has beenexcellent. Far from making me ananti-social paranoid, your maga-zine has provided and continues toprovide an alternative viewpointthat really makes me think outsidethe square. As a third-year univer-sity student, I find this of particularvalue.

When I first began receivingyour magazine as a 15-year-old, Ibelieved that everything you pub-lished was so well researched thatit had to be true. I have nowreached a slightly more reasonablepoint in my life where I don't nec-essarily believe everything I readin N E X U S. In fact, I now useNEXUS the same way I do everyother publication I read: as a valu-able perspective on events in theworld. Not fact, not fiction; just aperspective.

I hope you don't see this as adevaluation of NEXUS, because it

is much more valuable to me nowthan it could ever have beenbefore.

Philip Doyle, [email protected]

Few Medical Studies on GarlicDear Duncan: I've trawled the

PubMed papers for Garlic refer-ences for the entire 1970s andcould not find a study relating toStanford, which is given in BobBeck's article already mentioned toyou [see 8/02]. I also tried underBiofeedback and EEG, whichstarts at 1972, and could find noth-ing about garlic.

There is the problem that not alldetails are always given "on line",so the research could be elsewhere,or there's often "no abstract avail-able" to say where something isbeing done or giving more detail.Even so, it's difficult to form anopinion on what has been saidwithout any "evidence" to hand.

"A system for biofeedback con-ditioning of electroencephalo-graphic activity" goes back to1975; and "Detection of EEGabnormalities with feedback stimu-lation" (Mulholland, T., Benson,F., Biofeedback Self-Regul. 1 9 7 6 )says, "However, the feedback EEGmethod is not yet a proven diag-nostic technique". So there's noth-ing to go on before that time, even.The early EEG and biofeedbackwork seems to have been predomi-nantly on epilepsy, then alco-holism, drugs and some heartexperiments.

The only mention of garlic andEEG was in a paper in Int. J.P s y c h o p h y s i o l . 1998 by G.N.Martin—"Human EEG response toolfactory stimulation: two experi-ments using the aroma of food".In the first experiment, garlic"smell" was tested on "synthetic"odours of chocolate, spearmint,almond, strawberry, vegetable,garlic, onion and cumin, and noodour was recorded from 19 elec-trodes in all EEG frequencies,delta, theta, alpha, beta-1 and beta-2.

In the second experiment, on theresponse to odour of real foods—chocolate, baked beans and rottingpork—chocolate odour wasassociated with significantly lesstheta activity than was any otherstimulus. It is hypothesised thatthe alterations in theta reflect shiftsin attention or cognitive loadduring olfactory perception, with a

reduction in theta indicating areduced level of attention. Toobusy feeling pleasure of the smell,perhaps? This neither proves nordisproves anything about garlic!

If you can help with finding out"evidence" for the garlic claims, Iwould be grateful, because to datethe balance of research papers ongarlic makes it one of the fewnatural things on offer that's a foodmedicine that can help people, e.g.against H. pylori, bacteria, viruses,etc. I'm not trying to discreditBeck—I want his stuff to becorrect—but one can't just takeanything as read without any hardevidence.

Sincerely, Helen Knowles,H e l e n @ s i l v e r c r y s t a l . f r e e s e r v e . c o .uk

Holy Grail & Bloodline of JesusI just want to say "Hats off to

you!" Well done in putting out theHoly Grail bloodline of Jesus onthe Web!

As a direct descendant of theStuart/Stewart line of Kings andQueens, the Holy Grail bloodlinesare a direct part of my familygenealogy, and the "TemplarKnights" a direct part of of my her-itage (my paternal grandfather wasof the highest order of KnightsTemplars, and it is through hiswife, my maternal grandmother,that we get our Royal Stewart her-itage and lineage back to Jesus andMary Magdalene).

Today, the names of Arthur,James, Joseph, John, Thomas,Maria (Mary), Anna, Alma(Hebrew Almah), still dominatethe first names in my immediatefamily.

I am so glad that in this modernday and age of the Internet, thetruth can finally be told! This isthe new golden age of knowledge,and the truth can no longer be sup-pressed by churchianity.

Sincerely, Karen Vogel,[email protected]

Hurricane Andrew CoincidencesHello! First, I think your maga-

zine is excellent. I am very grate-ful for the work you do and thecourage you show.

Second, a question. In your edi-torial in 8/03 you say about thehurricane survivors: "...they wereleft to fend for themselves in anarea that had become radioactiveand overrun by primates which had

escaped from a nearby researchlab." Unless I read poorly, I didnot see anything in the articleabout primates from a nearbyresearch lab. Did I miss some-thing?

About Dade County: what isgoing on there? A couple things:the hurricane, the voting mess lastyear... Also—and please don'tthink I'm crazy—I read theMontauk Project books, whichindicate the possibility of interdi-mensional activity going on ingovernment experiments and inaddition talk about the "metaphysi -cal importance of August 23rd" inrelation to Aleister Crowley andfriends who performed a "work-ing" to open that space. Then I seethat Andrew landed August 24thand behaved like something not ofthis Earth.

I don't know what it all means,but it is too many coincidences formy taste.

All the best, Janet Brown,[email protected]

[Dear Janet: Encounters withescaped primates are described ink. t. Frankovich's book, but we ranout of space to include a mentionin her article. Also, I thought thesignificant Montauk date wasAugust 12th. Ed.]

Wondering about WingMakersDear Duncan: Articles on the

subject of WingMakers haveappeared in your magazine no lessthan four times now. I have readthe articles and checked out thewebsite, and it is, as you say,"intriguing stuff". Taking intoaccount the amount of materialthat you review for publication inNEXUS, what part of theWingMakers' message strikes achord in you?

For me, your editorial is the mostvaluable part of the magazine. Ihave never met or seen you, butvalue your opinion; and when yousay look, I look. But WingMakershas me wondering why.

Still in the arena of other dimen-sions, I'm thinking about buying aLifetools meditation device. Idon't know if you have had anyexperience with them or any otheralpha/theta-generating devices.What's your view or advice?

Thanks heaps, Darren,[email protected]

[Dear Darren: Lifetools has anexcellent reputation. Ed.]

Letters to the Editor ...


Reading for Vampire-Slayers!Hi, NEXUS: As a subscriber

since almost the first issue, Ithought it was time for me to con-tribute something.

I was watching tonight's B u f f yepisode, "Triangle" [1 May], andnoticed a copy of NEXUS in oneof the scenes. It was in Giles'smagic shop and was only visiblefor less than a second, but the largeheading was unmistakable.

Regards, Adrian Sheedy,[email protected]

Brazilian Healing: Another ViewDear Sir: I read the letter by

Conan Mishler ["HealingExperience in Brazil", 8/03]. I,too, went to be healed after I readyour very positive article. I trav-elled from the UK and spent threeweeks there at the beginning of theyear. I have hypertension/kidneyfailure. I must report that I felt nodifferent, apart from having thegood weather and complete lack ofstress. I was told by the entity thatI would be well, but have not sofar seen the proof of this. I amcontinuing to search for other ther-apies that might help me, and amstill positive.

I think that your readers shouldbe aware of the balanced view, asMr Mishler says. If we travel longdistances, which takes a lot oftime, in sometimes difficult condi-tions that may be detrimental toour health and with no insurancecover for our problem, we need tohave an honest view of the likelysuccess of our efforts. In addition,the money we spend on such aventure could possibly be used insome other more useful treatment.

I think you are obliged, as aresponsible magazine, to publishalternative points of view so thatreaders can make up their ownminds.

Yours faithfully, Otto Melbye,Oxford, UK, [email protected]

Garlic as Medicine, not FoodWe initially found Bob Beck's

comments that garlic has anadverse effect on brain functionshocking as well [8/02]. As Bobexplains on the tape, his discoveryabout garlic's effect on the brainwas quite by accident when he wasinvolved in brain research.

We have since learned, however,that some groups practising medi-tation discourage the use of garlic.

A Buddhist friend studying to be amonk told us he was asked torefrain from eating both garlic andonions—onions being in the samefamily. Another friend told ussome yoga groups also discourageeating garlic, as it is believed tointerfere with spiritual awareness.

Many people today experiencewhat has become known as "brainfog". My daughter suffered frombrain fog for years until she heardBob Beck speak. When she elimi-nated garlic from her diet, she dis-covered her brain fog cleared.When she consumed garlic in herfood, she would again experiencebrain fog.

In addition, a master herbalist inthe US warns that we're now usingmany herbs that have excellentmedicinal properties as commonfoods. For maximum effective-ness, medicinal herbs should onlybe used when needed. Since garlicdoes boost the immune system, wehave come to the conclusion it maybe one of those medicinal herbsthat should not be used as part ofour daily food intake.

Sincerely, Carole Punt, Oroville,Washington, USA, http://www.sharinghealth.com/

Dr John Whitman Ray's PassingDear Duncan: Many of you will

be as shocked as I was to learn ofthe death of Dr John Whitman Rayon 21 April 2001 in New Zealand.The founder of Body Electronics(BE), he will be sadly missed bymany. In his lifetime, "Dr John"worked in several countries andhelped thousands of people torecover from serious illnesses,many of them "terminal".

Five years ago I first contactedhim through an advertisement inyour magazine, as I was sufferingfrom longstanding serious healthproblems and intense lower backpain due to a disc injury in 1989.Those who knew Dr John won't besurprised to learn that after goingon his BE program, my [Helene's]health improved dramatically;those two problem discs regenerat-ed in a very short space of timeand the associated pain disap-peared. I also watched my moth-er's health improve swiftly from aserious throat infection when shewent on Dr John's program.

Dr John Whitman Ray had beenliving in Australia when, on 7April, he left Australia with anovernight bag. He was heading off

to New Zealand for a day or two,just to renew his visa. We knowhe planned to return very quicklyto Australia as he was scheduled toconduct a BE Intensive inToowoomba, Queensland, overEaster. He had also planned to livein Toowoomba and run a naturalhealth cancer clinic there in thenear future.

So we, his friends, would like toknow why he was detained atBrisbane Airport and then sent offwith his visa stamped "Not permit-ted to return to Australia for threeyears". He subsequently foundhimself stranded in New Zealandwith all his possessions left inAustralia. He died two weeks laterof a heart attack.

We cannot see how such a truepioneer in the natural health field,with his awe-inspiring track recordand high standing (Prof. Dr SirJohn Whitman Ray, BA, ND, DSc,NMD, CT, MT, CI, PhD, BC,DipN, MD (MA), DAc, FFIM,FWAIM, RM, BEINZ, SNTR, NZChar. NMP, NPA, and winner ofthe Pax Mundi World PeaceAward) could be treated in thismanner.

We feel that a public inquiryshould be held to ascertain why hewas banned from Australia forthree years by the ImmigrationDepartment, particularly in view ofall the good, compassionate workhe was doing. Does anyone elseout there feel the same way? Ifyou have any further informationor would like to assist in gettingsome answers, please write to us atthe address below.

Sincerely, Helene Minto andPeggy McDougall, PO Box 775,Mudgeeraba, Qld 4213, Australia

Eastern Australia Tsunami AlertHi, Duncan: Two years ago, my

book Violent Weather Predictions2000-2001 was published, inwhich I gave dates for severeweather and seismic activityworldwide [see article and review,7/02]. I prefaced these predictionsby stating that not all of theseevents would happen, but some ofthem could well come to pass.

As a professional long-rangeweather forecaster and hurricanepredictor, my work primarilyinvolves working in astrometeorol-ogy, a field not yet recognised byscience. The basis of this scienceinvolves studying the effects ofsunspot activity, resultant solar

flares and the combined influencesof the Sun, Moon and planets inangular relationship to each otheron Earth's magnetosphere, in turnaffecting terrestrial weather pat-terns and the molten interior of ourplanet. Our solar system andgalaxy are part of one huge elec-tromagnetic machine; everythingin it is interdependent, interrelatedand interactive.

The reason for my writing toNEXUS now is to forewarn peopleliving near the east coast ofAustralia—particularly fromBundaberg, Queensland, to north-ern New South Wales—of a strongpossibility that a powerful tremormay strike between June 12 to 21this year.

My concern is not based on aprofessional observation alone—i.e., that the Sun, Moon and plan-ets will be affecting the east coast,along with the solar eclipse fallingon the winter solstice—but alsostems from a powerful vision I hadalmost 20 years ago.

The vision was of the east coastof Australia where I saw a gianttsunami, around 100 feet [30.5metres] high, sweeping hundredsof people out to sea. The visionwas so graphic that I tried to pullmyself out of it; and as I did so, Isaw a huge white-robed arm ofGod extended outward from elbowto fingertips, pointing to a solareclipse at 0 degrees of Cancer.The whole thing was so terrifyingthat I wanted to erase it from mymemory.

I had bought a book on planetaryphenomena, giving the degrees ofthe solar eclipses from 1700 to2050, and was astounded to findthat there hadn't been a solareclipse at that degree in 300 years.The only one coming in my life-time was due on June 21, 2001.The next one, 2020.

It is possible that the June 12–21period could bring another roundof mega solar flares, which couldfurther intensify severe weatherand seismic activity. A tremor ofsizeable magnitude could wellraise a tsunami.

In closing, I would like to saythat neither visions nor predictionsare absolute and may never cometo pass. However, it is far better tobe prepared for something thatmay never happen, than not to beprepared for something that will.

Jennifer Lawson, [email protected]

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A NEW AGE OF NEURAL IMPLANTS

Have we entered the age of neur-al implants? Research in the

field is booming. Medtronic, Inc. ofMinneapolis, USA, has developed adevice called a "deep brain stimula-tor", based on an electrode insertedin the brain. A tiny generatorimplanted in the chest cavity sendssignals to the electrode which stim-ulates the brain, supposedly reduc-ing neuromuscular tremors associ-ated with Parkinson's disease.

Philip Kennedy and Dr RoyBakay at Emory University inAtlanta, Georgia, have usedimplants to help speech-impairedpatients communicate through acomputer. And researchers at theUniversity of Southern Californiaare developing microelectromechanicalsystems that bind to and wirelessly moni-tor individual neurons—devices they hopeone day will reconnect the severed bridgebetween a paralytic's mind and muscle.

Using very large scale integrated circuittechnology, or VLSI, scientists can buildmillions of transistors on a single wafer,creating circuits that mimic basic neuraloperations in mammals.

A Los Angeles team at the University ofSouthern California, for example, hasmathematically modelled neural circuitryand recreated it on silicon-based integratedcircuits small enough to be implanted inthe brain. Those circuits, if firmly affixed

to groups of neurons, could theoreticallyrecouple neuronal connections destroyedby disease or accident.(Source: By Kelly Hearn, United PressInternational, 9 May 2001)

CELLPHONES TO HAVELOCATION-TRACKING BY 2005

By 2005, the government will be able totrack you down through your cell-

phone. Cellphone manufacturers in theUSA are under a federal mandate to equipmobiles with location-tracking technologybeginning this October.

By 2005, 95 per cent of all cellphonesmust be able to be traced with an accuracy

of about 1,000 feet or better.While such phones could be life-

savers in an emergency, the orderfrom the Federal CommunicationsCommission has raised serious ques-tions about invasion of privacy.Making mobile phones capable oftracking users' locations will involveplanting GPS chips in the handsets orinstalling new infrastructure in cellsites.

Cellular providers plan commer-cial uses for the technology, such asgetting directions if someone is lost,finding nearby restaurants or locatingfamily members and friends whohave become separated in a crowd.

"Wireless operators already knowwhere consumers are by virtue of thefact that the phone is on," pointedout Ken Arneson, the chief strategy

officer at Telecommunication Systems, aprovider of the location-tracking technolo-gy. "What's different here is that now car-riers are looking to commercialise that andneed to do that to offset the cost of puttingthis technology in place."

He estimated that it could cost billionsof dollars to outfit the 110 million cell-phones in the United States with the track-ing mechanism.(Source: Foxnews, 23 April 2001,http://foxnews.com)

BIZARRE CHEMICALS FORMEDIN IRRADIATED FOOD CAN

DAMAGE DNA

In a rare opportunity to speak publiclyabout food irradiation before a captive

audience of government officials and foodindustry executives, Public Citizen hasreleased the English translation of a recentGerman study revealing that a chemicalformed in irradiated food can damageDNA.

The study confirms what safe-foodadvocates and many pioneeringresearchers have known for more than 30years: that exposing food to ionising radi-ation can lead to the formation of bizarrenew chemicals called "unique radiolyticproducts" that can cause serious healthproblems.

One such chemical, known as 2-DCB,caused "significant DNA damage" in thecolons of rats that ate the substance. Thechemical—which, ironically, is a well-known "marker" for determining whetherfood has been irradiated—has never been


... GL BAL NEWS ...found naturally in any food on Earth.

The study was conducted in 1998 underthe auspices of two prominent pro-irradia-tion organisations. It was performed atone of the most prestigious food irradiationlabs in the world: the Federal ResearchCentre for Nutrition in Karlsruhe,Germany. And it was co-funded by theInternational Consultative Group on FoodIrradiation, a United Nations–sponsoredorganisation that promotes food irradiationworldwide.

Public Citizen released an English trans-lation of the study at a meeting on 13February at the US Food and DrugAdministration in Washington, DC. Themeeting was held to preview the Marchmeeting of the Codex AlimentariusCommission, which sets food safety stan-dards for most nations of the world.

Codex officials considered a proposal toremove completely the maximum dose ofradiation to which food can be exposed.The current maximum dose is 10 kilo-grays—the equivalent of 330 million chestX-rays, and enough radiation to kill a per-son 2,000 times over.(Source: Public Citizen, 11 March 2001;http://www.citizen.org)

OESTROGEN MIMICS ARECOMMON IN SUNSCREENS

Gender-bending chemicals that mimicthe effect of oestrogen are common in

sunscreens, warns a team of Swissresearchers.

Margaret Schlumpf from the Institute ofPharmacology and Toxicology at theUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland, and hercolleagues tested six common UV screen-ing chemicals used in sunscreens, lipsticksand other cosmetics. All five UVBscreens—benzophenone-3, homosalate, 4-methyl-benzylidene camphor (4-MBC),octyl-methoxycinnamate and octyl-dimethyl-PABA—behaved like oestrogenin laboratory tests, making cancer cellsgrow more rapidly.

One of the most common sunscreenchemicals, 4-MBC, had a particularlystrong effect. When the team mixed itwith olive oil and applied it to rat skin, itdoubled the rate of uterine growth wellbefore puberty.

"That was scary, because we used con-centrations that are in the range allowed insunscreens," Schlumpf said.(Source: New Scientist Online News, 18April 2001, www.newscientist.com)

EUROPEAN UNION CANLEGALLY SUPPRESS DISSENT

The European Court of Justice (ECJ)ruled in March that the European

Union can suppress criticism to protect itsreputation.

The Court ruled that the Commissioncould restrict criticism that damaged "theinstitution's image and reputation", andthat it could do so by resorting to a legaldevice used by fascist governments to sup-press dissent in the 1920s and 1930s: "theprotection of the rights of others". ThisECJ ruling defies half a century of caselaw by Europe's other court, the non-EUCourt of Human Rights in Strasbourg, andalso resurrects the ancient offence of "sedi-tious libel", banned by the House of Lords.

The Human Rights Court has ruledrepeatedly that governing bodies may notrestrict criticism in such a way.Specifically, the term "protection of therights of others" does not apply to publicbodies. The ruling shows that the ECJ(despite paying lip-service) does not con-sider itself bound by the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights, drafted byBritish lawyers after the Second WorldWar to safeguard liberty in Europe.

This is an extremely serious develop-ment, because the EU's new Charter ofFundamental Rights extends the ECJ'scompetence into the area of civil liberties,transforming it from a commercial courtdealing with single market issues to a fullyfledged supreme court. The ECJ hasalready begun referring to the charter in its

rulings, demolishing the BritishGovernment's pretence that the documenthas no real legal status.

The door could be soon be open for theECJ to start ruling on free speech casesinvolving ordinary EU citizens or, indeed,Euro-sceptic newspapers. We now havetwo rival sets of European rights law, over-seen by rival courts with very differentviews of civil liberty: the ECJ and theCharter on one side, set against the HumanRights Court and the Convention on theother. The battle is just beginning.(Source: By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, TheT e l e g r a p h , London, 10 March 2001,www.telegraph.co.uk)

NEW SMART BARCODES RAISEPRIVACY CONCERNS

Within a few years, unobtrusive tagson retail products will send radio

signals to their manufacturers, collecting awealth of information about consumerhabits—and also raising privacy concerns.

It's 2010, and an ordinary day on anassembly line. A bottle of root beer isstamped with an innocuous little tag thatimmediately begins sending messages intocyberspace. The tag radios the soda com-pany's website to report the bottle's where-abouts, allowing computers to track thebottle as i t moves from the factory,through warehouses and distribution cen-tres and into a refrigerator at a cornerstore. When the bottle is sold, the manu-facturer is alerted and orders a new one totake its place. Finally, facing reincarnation


... GL BAL NEWS ...at a recycling plant, the bottle radios its"last words" to a robotic separator that liftsit from a pile of plastic and newspaper andtosses it into a container of broken glass.

At the heart of this scenario is a littledevice called a "radiofrequency identifica-tion tag"—a silicon chip that boots up andtransmits a signal when exposed to theenergy field of a nearby reader. The ulti-mate goal is to put a radio tag on virtuallyevery manufactured item, each tracked by anetwork of millions of readers in factories,trucks, warehouses and homes, transform-ing huge supply chains into intelligent,self-managing entities.

Manufacturers hope to use these tags as anext-generation barcode, linking manufac-tured items to online databases containingproduct-specific information.

Steve Halliday, Vice-President ofTechnology at AIM, a trade association formanufacturers of tagging technology, said:"If I talk to companies and ask them if theywant to replace the barcode with these tags,the answer can't be anything but yes. It'slike giving them the opportunity to rule theworld." (Source: By Charlie Schmidt, March 2001,via www.rense.com)

THE EURODOLLAR: A SINGLE WORLD CURRENCY?

The anti-euro newsletterD e u t s c h l a n d b r i e f (April 2001)

reports—strictly as an unconfirmedrumour—that plans are afoot to create a

mega single currency by blending the euroand the dollar.

The central bank for this super-currencywould be the Bank for InternationalSettlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, towhose board the United States has recentlyappointed members after many decades ofn e g l e c t . Alan Greenspan, the US FederalReserve Chairman, said as far back as 1994that the BIS was likely to assume greaterimportance in the future.

In 1995, following the Maastricht Treatysigning, the Americans took up their seatstogether with the Canadians and Japanese,thus starkly changing the composition ofthe BIS. This move was not least becausethe Maastricht Treaty removed most of theBIS's raison d'être. It had previously beenused for intra-bank settlements in Europe.It was also the clearing centre for the ecu,the forerunner of the euro. With the intro-duction of the single currency, this functionceased to have any significance. On 11September 2000, moreover, the BIS riditself of its private shareholders by compul-sorily buying them out. This had theeffect of closing the bank's books to publicscrutiny.

It is also relevant that Robert Mundell—the Nobel Prize–winning economist whowas awarded his prize for being the "intel-lectual godfather of the euro" (even thoughmany economists have argued that his the-ory of optimal currency zones preciselyproves why the euro is a bad idea)—calledfor a link between the dollar and the euro at

a conference in Paris in November 1999.(Source: European Foundation IntelligenceD i g e s t, no. 117, 6–19 April 2001, websitewww.europeanfoundation.org)

THANKS FOR THE MEMORY:BENVENISTE VINDICATED

About homoeopathy, ProfessorMadeleine Ennis of Queen's

University, Belfast is, like most scientists,deeply sceptical. That a medicinal com-pound diluted out of existence should stillexert a therapeutic effect is an affront toconventional biochemistry and pharmacol-ogy, based as they are on direct and palpa-ble molecular events. The same goes for apossible explanation of how homoeopathyworks: that water somehow retains a"memory" of things once dissolved in it.

This last notion, famously promoted byFrench biologist Dr Jacques Benveniste,resulted in his excommunication from thescientific mainstream. More than a decadelater, Professor Ennis jumped at the chanceto join a large pan-European research team,hoping finally to lay the Benveniste"heresy" to rest. But she was in for ashock, for the team's latest results contro-versially suggest that Benveniste may havebeen right all along.

A consortium of four independentresearch labs in France, Italy, Belgium andHolland, led by Professor M. Roberfroid atBelgium's Catholic University of Louvain,used a refinement of Benveniste's originalexperiment that examined another aspect ofbasophil activation.

The team knew that activation ofbasophil degranulation by aIgE leads topowerful mediators being released, includ-ing large amounts of histamine, which setsup a negative feedback cycle that curbs itsown release. So the planned experimentinvolved comparing inhibition of basophilaIgE-induced degranulation with "ghost"dilutions of histamine against control solu-tions of pure water.

The result, soon to be published inInflammation Research, was the same: his-tamine solutions, both at pharmacologicalconcentrations and diluted out of existence,led to statistically significant inhibition ofbasophile activation by aIgE, confirmingprevious work in this area.

Jacques Benveniste is unimpressed."They've arrived at precisely where westarted 12 years ago!" he said.(Source: By Lionel Milgrom, Guardian, 15March 2001, www.guardian.co.uk)


... GL BAL NEWS ...FARMER UNJUSTLY LIABLE FOR

VIOLATING GE SEED PATENT

On 29 March 2001, a Canadian judgedealt a crushing blow to farmers' rights

by ruling that Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation Saskatchewan farmer, must payMonsanto thousands of dollars for violat-ing the corporation's monopoly patent ongenetically engineered (GE) canola seed.

Under Canadian patent law, as in the USand many other industrialised countries, itis illegal for farmers to re-use patentedseed or grow Monsanto's GE seed withoutsigning a licensing agreement.

If the biotech corporations and US tradereps get their way, every nation in theworld will be forced to adopt patent lawsthat make seed-saving illegal. The rulingagainst Schmeiser establishes an even moredangerous precedent because it means thatfarmers can be forced to pay royalties onGE seeds found on their land, even if theydidn't buy the seeds or benefit from them.

Percy Schmeiser did not buy Monsanto'spatented seed, nor did he obtain the seedillegally. Pollen from Monsanto's GEcanola seeds blew onto his land fromneighbouring farms, without his consent.(Percy Schmeiser's neighbours and an esti-mated 40% of farmers in western Canadagrow GE canola.) Shortly thereafter,Monsanto's "gene police" invaded his farmand took seed samples without his permis-sion. Percy Schmeiser was a victim ofgenetic pollution from GE crops, but thecourt says he must now pay MonsantoUS$10,000 for licensing fees and up toUS$75,000 in profits from his 1998 crop.

The GE canola that drifted ontoSchmeiser's farm was engineered to with-stand spraying of Monsanto's proprietaryweedkiller, Roundup. But Schmeiser didnot use Roundup on his canola crop. Afterall, if he'd sprayed his crop, the chemicalwould have killed the majority of hiscanola plants that were not geneticallyengineered to tolerate the weedkiller!

Schmeiser didn't take advantage ofMonsanto's GE technology, but the courtruling says he's guilty of using the seedwithout a licensing agreement. He has nowfiled a counter-suit against Monsanto, butneeds help with legal costs (visit SchmeiserDefense Fund, www.percyschmeiser.com).

Meanwhile, Monsanto has threatened to"vigorously prosecute" hundreds of casesagainst seed-saving farmers. (Source: Rural Advancement FoundationInternational, 2 April 2001, www.rafi.org)

THE LAST PRESIDENT TO DEFY THE FEDERAL RESERVE

President John F. Kennedy was the last President on record to defy the FederalReserve System—and look what happened to him. The circumstances surrounding

the assassination of President Kennedy remain unresolved at best. What is known, how-ever, is that Kennedy was in many ways a maverick, who, as President, often acted inde-pendently and at times in direct conflict with the agendas of many powerful Washingtoninsider interests. One of the most powerful of these interests was the Fed.

Economist Seymour Harris described Kennedy as "by far the most knowledgeablePresident of all time in the general area of economics". Professor Donald Gibson, in his1994 book, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency , documents much of theKennedy economic program, including: • Tax proposals to redirect the foreign investments of US companies; • Making distinctions in tax reform between productive and non-productive investment;• Eliminating the tax privileges of US-based global investment companies;• Cracking down on foreign tax havens;• Supporting proposals to eliminate tax privileges for the wealthy;• Proposing increased taxes for large oil and mineral companies;• Revising the investment tax credit;• Making a proposal to expand the powers of the president to deal with recession.

President George W. Bush, to bolster his tax-cut proposal, has accurately demonstrat-ed how Kennedy, in 1961, passed a much larger and broader tax cut than the one he ispresently proposing. At the time, Kennedy articulated a profound understanding of theeconomic principle of leaving the maximum amount of capital at the source of produc-tion, with the taxpayer. Most economists agree that the Kennedy tax cut contributedgreatly to the prosperous economy of the 1960s. And President Reagan's 1981 tax cutcontributed to the prosperity of the 1980s and 1990s.

With regard to the Fed, James J. Saxon, Kennedy's comptroller of the currency,encouraged a policy of broader investment and lending powers to be granted to non-Fed-affiliated banks. This would involve allowing for the setting of interest rates bythese independent banks and lenders that could compete with those set by the Fed andits affiliates. Saxon also decided that these non-Fed banks and institutions could under-write state and local bond issuances, an area that had been a bailiwick for Fed-affiliatedbanks. These policies set the Kennedy administration at odds with the powerful centralbanking system. The Fed seeks to increase further its monopolistic prerogative over theissuance of currency and the setting of interest rates.

In June 1963, President Kennedy authorised the issuance of more than US$4 billion indebt-free "United States Notes" through the US Treasury. This extraordinary act com-pletely circumvented the Fed, which expects to be called upon to lend currency—atinterest accruing to themselves—to the US Government. Perhaps Kennedy reasonedthat this currency would reduce the national debt by avoiding the necessity of payinginterest to the Fed.

The last time a President tried this was in 1862, when Abraham Lincoln authorisedthe issuance of US$450 million in debt-free currency—known at the time as"greenbacks"—through the US Treasury, rather than borrow money from the bankingestablishment. Lincoln stated: "Government possessing power to create and issuecurrency…need not and should not borrow capital at interest… The privilege ofcreating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of the government, butis the government's greatest creative opportunity."

It is a fascinating coincidence that Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedywere both assassinated. Kennedy opposed many powerful interests during his all-too-brief Presidency, not the least of whom were those in his own government, such as thelikes of McNamara, Rusk, Rostow and the Bundy brothers, who were clamouring forwar in Vietnam.

The widow of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, in a 1994 interview with authorA. J. Weberman, said the following: "The answer to the Kennedy assassination is withthe Federal Reserve Bank. Don't underestimate that. It's wrong to blame it on [CIAofficial James] Angleton and the CIA per se only. This is only one finger of the samehand. The people who supply the money are above the CIA."

(Source: by Chuck Morse, 29 March 2001, www.chuckmorse.com)


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1. World Bank and Multinational Corporations Seek to Privatise Water

Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years, more than twice the rate ofhuman population growth. According to the United Nations, more than one billion

[1,000,000,000] people already lack access to fresh drinking water. If current trends per-sist, by 2025 the demand for fresh water is expected to rise by 56 per cent more than theamount of water that is currently available.

Multinational corporations recognise these trends and are trying to monopolise watersupplies around the world. Monsanto, Bechtel and other global multinationals are seekingcontrol of world water systems and supplies. The World Bank recently adopted a policyof water privatisation and full-cost water pricing. This policy is causing great distress inmany Third World countries, which fear that their citizens will not be able to afford for-profit water.

San Francisco's Bechtel Enterprises was contracted to manage the water system inCochambamba, Bolivia, after the World Bank required Bolivia to privatise. WhenBechtel pushed up the price of water, the entire city went on a general strike. The militarykilled a 17-year-old boy and arrested the water rights leaders. But after four months ofunrest, the Bolivian government forced Bechtel out of Cochambamba. Bechtel GroupInc., a corporation with a long history of environmental abuses, now contracts with thecity of San Francisco to upgrade the city's water system. Bechtel employees are workingside by side with government workers in a privatisation move that activists fear will leadto an eventual take-over of San Francisco's water system.

Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacygroup, and a director of the International Forum on Globalization, states: "Governmentsaround the world must act now to declare water a fundamental human right and preventefforts to privatise, export and sell for profit a substance essential to all life."

Governments are signing away their control over domestic water supplies by participat-ing in trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and ininstitutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). These agreements givetransnational corporations the unprecedented right to the water of signatory companies.Water-related conflicts are springing up around the globe. Monsanto estimates that waterwill become a multibillion-dollar market in the coming decades.References• Maude Barlow (www.canadians.org), "The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification ofthe World's Water Supply", International Forum on Globalization: Special Report, June 1999,in Prime, July 10, 2000, www.ifg.org/bgsummary.html• Jim Shultz ([email protected]), "Water Fallout", Canadian Dimension, February2000; "Water Fallout: Bolivians Battle Globalization", In These Times , May 15, 2000,www.inthesetimes.com; "Just Add Water", THIS, July/August 2000• Vandana Shiva, "Monsanto's Billion-Dollar Water Monopoly Plans", Canadian Dimension,February 2000, www.purefood.org/Monsanto/waterfish.cfm

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2. OSHA Fails to Protect United States Workers

United States labour laws are poorly enforced and fail to meetthe basic human rights of US workers. Each year, about

6,000 workers die on the job from accidents and another 50,000 to70,000 workers die annually from "occupationally acquireddiseases".

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) isnot capable of effectively overseeing US workplaces. The entirefederal and state worker health and safety apparatus involves just2,300 inspectors who must cover America's 102 million workersin 6.7 million workplaces. That comes to one inspector for every44,348 workers. Theoretically, it would take OSHA 110 years toinspect each workplace under its jurisdiction just once.

Needed by labour and despised by business, OSHA may beworkers' best friend in government, but crit-ics say OSHA has never been weaker or lessworker-friendly. Recent studies show thatUnited States labour laws have loopholes,are poorly enforced and fail to meet humanrights standards required of other countries.

In these times, it is hard to get the atten-tion of an OSHA inspector as there are sofew of them, and OSHA is woefully ill-equipped to monitor the workplaces ofAmerica.Reference• Christopher D. Cook ([email protected]),"Losing Life and Limb on the Job", TheP r o g r e s s i v e, February 2000, www.pro -gressive.org/cook0200.htm

3. US Army's PsychologicalOperations Personnel Worked atCNN

From June 1999 to March 2000,CNN employed military specialists

in "psychological operations" (Psyops)in their Southeast TV bureau and CNNradio division.

CNN had hosted a total of fiveinterns from US Army Psyops: two intelevision, two in radio and one in satellite operations. The mili-tary/CNN personnel belonged to the airmobile FourthPsychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, NorthCarolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1,200 sol-diers and officers is to spread "selected information".

The propaganda group was involved in the Gulf War, the war inBosnia and the crisis in Kosovo. The military personnel stayedwith CNN for at least two weeks "to get to know the company andto broaden their horizons".

Still, the Psyops people in Arlington were not entirely satisfiedwith news handling during the war on Serbia. In their opinion,too much information about the results of the bombings came tothe surface.

CNN reports and other media coverage of the war in Kosovohave attracted criticism for being one-sided, overly emotional,oversimplified and too heavily reliant on NATO officials. On theother hand, journalists have complained about the lack of reliableinformation from NATO; for almost all of them, it was impossibleto be on the battlefield and file first-hand reports. Reference• Alexander Cockburn, "CNN and Psyops", CounterPunch, February16 and March 1, 2000, www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html

4. Did the United States Deliberately Bomb the ChineseEmbassy in Belgrade?

Elements within the CIA may have deliberately targeted theChinese Embassy in Belgrade, without NATO approval,

because it was serving as a rebroadcast station for theYugoslavian Army. The London Observer and the CopenhagenPolitiken [dates not given] reported that, according to senior USand European military sources, NATO knew very well where theChinese Embassy was located and listed it as a "strictly prohibitedtarget" at the beginning of the war.

The O b s e r v e r stated that the CIA and its British equivalent,MI6, had been listening to communications from the ChineseEmbassy routinely since it moved to its new site in 1996. TheChinese Embassy was taken off the prohibited target list after

NATO detected it sending YugoslavianArmy signals to forces in the field.

"Nearly everyone involved in NATO airoperations (radio) signals command knowsthat the bombing was deliberate," said JensHolsoe of P o l i t i k e n , lead investigativereporter with the news team reporting on thestory. President Clinton called the bombinga "tragic mistake" and said it was the resultof a mix-up. NATO claimed that they wereusing old maps and got the address wrong.However, O b s e r v e r reporters quoted aNaples-based flight controller who said the

NATO maps used during the campaignhad correctly identified the ChineseEmbassy.

A French Ministry of Defence reportstated that the flight that targeted theChinese Embassy was not under NATOcommand but, rather, was an indepen-dent US bombing raid.

In July 1999, CIA director GeorgeTenet testified before Congress that, ofthe 900 sites struck by NATO duringthe bombing campaign, the only onetargeted by the CIA was the ChineseEmbassy.

References• Yoichi Shimatsu, "Reports Showing US Deliberately BombedChinese Embassy Deliberately Ignored by USMedia", Pacific News,October 20, 1999• Joel Bleifuss ([email protected]), "A Tragic Mistake?", In TheseTimes, December 12, 1999, www.inthesetimes.com

5. United States Taxpayers Underwrite Global NuclearPower Plant Sales

The US tax–supported Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) is solidlybacking major US nuclear contractors such as Westinghouse,

Bechtel and General Electric in its efforts to seek foreign marketsfor nuclear reactors.

Between 1959 and 1993, Ex-Im spent US$7.7 billion to helpsell American-made reactors abroad. Most countries do not havethe capital to buy nuclear power, so contractors, in order to becompetitive, provide 100 per cent of the financing. Ex-Im offersterms too good for Third World and Eastern European buyers topass up. If the host country defaults on its loan, Ex-Im steps inwith American taxpayer dollars.

Westinghouse built the Bataan nuclear power facility in ThePhilippines in 1985 at a cost of $1.2 billion, 150 per cent above its


"Nearly everyoneinvolved in NATO

air operations (radio)signals command knows that the

bombing [of the Chinese

Embassy] was deliberate."

— Jens Holsoe, Politiken

projections. However, the Bataan plant was never brought on linedue to the fact that it was near an active volcano. Despite this,The Philippines still pays about $300,000 a day in interest on theEx-Im loan that funded the project. Should The Philippinesdefault, US taxpayers will pick up the tab.

"American contractors are selling a product that most peopledon't want," says Dave Martin of the Toronto-based NuclearAwareness Campaign. US taxpayers are subsidising this industry.Without Ex-Im, which offers terms just too good for Third Worldcountries to pass up, American firms would not succeed in sellingnuclear power plants worldwide.Reference• Ken Silverstein and Ian Urbina ([email protected]), "Pushing theNuclear Plants: A US Agency Hooks Foreign Clients", T h eProgressive, March 2000, www.progressive.org

6. International Report Blames United States andOthers for Genocide in Rwanda

Bill Clinton and his administration allowedthe genocide of 500,000 to 800,000 peo-

ple in Rwanda in 1994. In a clear effort toavoid responsibility and embarrassment, theClinton administration has refused toacknowledge its role in failing to prevent thegenocide in Rwanda.

This allegation comes from the recentreport released in July 2000 by a panel affili-ated with the Organization for African Unity(OAU). OAU set up a panel comprised oftwo African heads of state, chairwomen of theSwedish Committee for UNICEF, a formerChief Justice to the Indian SupremeCourt and a former CanadianAmbassador to the United Nations.

The panel was asked to review the1994 genocide, the actions preceding themassacre and the world's response to thekillings. The panel concluded that thenations and international bodies thatshould have attempted to stop the killingchose not to do so. The report convinc-ingly condemns the United Nations,Belgium (a former colonial occupier),France (which maintained close relationswith Rwanda) and the United States.The panel found that after the genocide began, the Clinton admin-istration chose not to acknowledge that it was taking place.

According to the report, the killings could have been stoppedbefore they began. The report refers to the well-known fax thatCanadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, commander of theUN peacekeeping troops in Rwanda, sent to the UN three monthsbefore the genocide began. In it, Dallaire warned that an extermi-nation campaign was coming. He asked for an additional 3,000UN troops, which would have brought the total to 5,000—a num-ber likely to have been able to prevent the genocide. However,Madeleine Albright played a key role in the UN Security Councilin blocking the troop expansion. References• David Corn, "Loyal Opposition: Clinton Allowed Genocide",Alternet, July 25, 2000, www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9494• Ellen Ray, "The Role of the US Military", Covert Action Quarterly,Spring/Summer 2000 • OAU report, www.oau-oua.org/Document/ipep/ipep.htm

7. Independent Study Points to Dangers of GE Foods

In 1998, Arpad Pusztai, a researcher at Rowett Research Institutein Aberdeen, Scotland, performed the first independent, non-

industry-sponsored study analysing genetically engineered foodand its effects on mammals. The study had been undertaken todetermine whether or not the spliced genes themselves could bedamaging to the mammal ingesting them. However, preliminarydata from the study suggested something even more startling.

Pusztai's study found that rats fed transgenic potatoes (artificial-ly bioengineered to include a gene from another species) showedevidence of organ damage, thickening of the small intestine andpoor brain development. The potatoes used in the study had beengenetically engineered to contain lectin, a sugar-binding protein,to make the plants pest-resistant. The adverse reactions onlyoccurred in the group that was fed the transgenic potatoes, andwere not caused by the added lectin but by the process of geneticengineering itself.

In August 1998, Pusztai appeared on the British television pro-gram The World in Action to report the find-ings of his study. In an attempt to quell theresulting public furore, Rowett Institute direc-tor Philip James (who had approved Pusztai'sTV appearance) said the research didn't exist.He fired Pusztai, broke up his research team,seized the data and halted six other similarprojects. It came out later that Monsanto, aleading US biotech firm, had given theRowett Institute a US$224,000 grant prior toPusztai's interview.

Evidence emerged to support the legitimacyof Pusztai's research. The British medical

journal L a n c e t published a peer-reviewed paper that Pusztai had co-authored, supporting the research.

Back in 1992, the US Food and DrugAdministration determined that geneti-cally engineered foods were in mostcases "the same as or substantially simi-lar to substances commonly found infood" and thus are not required to under-go specific safety tests prior to enteringthe market. References• Ben Lilliston ([email protected]),"Don't Ask, Don't Know", M u l t i n a t i o n a l

M o n i t o r, January–February 2000, www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/mm0001.05.html• Joel Bleifuss, "No Small (Genetic) Potatoes", In These Times ,January 10, 2000, www.inthesetimes.com

8. Drug Companies Influence Doctors and HealthOrganisations to Push Medications

More than 130 million prescriptions were written in 1999 [inthe USA] for depression and mental health–related symp-

toms at a cost of US$8.58 billion. Physicians know that antide-pressants are only part of the answer for mental health, but mar-keting by drug companies has created the mythology of pills ascure-alls. However, a 1999 federal research study found that thenewer antidepressants were effective in only half of the cases andoutperformed placebos by only 18 per cent.

Drug companies spend $5 billion annually to send sales repre-sentatives to doctors' offices. Sales reps keep FBI-style dossierson physicians, which include information such as the names of


Physicians know that antidepressants are only part of theanswer for mental

health, but marketing by drug companies

has created themythology of pills

as cure-alls.

family members, golf handicaps and clothing preferences. Hardsales tactics and small gifts are part of the pitch. In addition,pharmaceutical companies provide perks and outright compensa-tion to doctors for their participation in the prescribing of particu-lar drugs to their mental health patients.

On another front, pharmaceutical companies are reaping bigprofits by promoting forced drug use through programs at theNational Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). Mother Jonesresearchers used internal documents to prove that NAMI received$11.72 million from the psychiatric drug industry in just two-and-a-half years. NAMI's leading donor is Eli Lilly and Company, themaker of Prozac.Reference• Ken Silverstein, "Prozac.org", Mother Jones , MOJO WireMagazine, November/December 1999, www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND99/nami.html

9. EPA Plans to Disburse Toxic/Radioactive Wastes intoDenver's Sewage System

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to pumptoxic waste water into Denver's sewer system in order to clean

up a Superfund site at the Lowrylandfill.

Between 1950 and 1980 at theLowry landfill near Denver, mil-lions of gallons of hazardous indus-trial wastes were dumped into shal-low unlined pits. The EPA declaredthe 480-acre site a Superfund site in1984. Now the EPA wants to treatthe contaminated groundwater at thelandfill and discharge it into theDenver metro sewage system. Thesewage system would then use thesludge from the treated water to fer-tilise Colorado farmlands.

Citizen groups say that the land-fill is widely contaminated withhighly radioactive plutonium andother deadly wastes. Adrienne Anderson, a lawyer and instructorat the University of Boulder, stated that the EPA's plan is a way to"legally pump plutonium into the sewer line". Anderson and herstudents have accrued some 200,000 files on the Lowry landfill.

One document—"Preliminary Evaluation of PotentialDepartment of Energy Radioactive Wastes", dated December 13,1991—showed that the levels of plutonium and radioactive ameri-cium detected at the Lowry landfill were 10 to 10,000 timesgreater than the average levels reported for a nuclear weaponsplant in that area. The document had been released by the LowryCoalition, a group of corporations and government agencies thatdumped materials at the site. References• Will Fantle, "Plutonium Pancakes", The Progressive, May 2000,www.progressive.org

10. Silicon Valley Uses Immigrant Engineers to KeepSalaries Low

Highly skilled immigrant workers in Silicon Valley are beingexploited by employers. Existing immigration law sets a cap

on the number of H1-B visas the industry can use to hire immi-grant engineers, so this year the Silicon Valley electronics giantshave been pushing for more H1-B workers.

While H1-B-status labourers boost corporate bottom lines, there

is a devastating effect on the workers themselves. AFL-CIO Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson accuses the

industry of using the H1-B visa program to keep their workers ina position of dependence. She points out that these workers areoften hired under individual contracts, which by US law meansthey don't have the right to organise. The H1-B program givesemployers the power not only to hire and fire workers but to grantlegal immigration status as well. If an employer does not likesomething a worker does, the employer has the power to deportthe worker. Labour advocates say the problem is not a labourshortage but the industry's unwillingness to pay the salaries thatAmerican high-tech workers demand. Reference• David Bacon ([email protected]), "Silicon Valley Sweatshops",Washington Free Press, July–August 2000

11. UN Corporate Partnerships: A Human Rights Peril

In a move to make the United Nations more corporate-friendly,officials are calling for UN–corporate partnerships. The UN's

new partners include multinational giants like McDonald's,Disney, Dow and Unocal. A business-friendly ideology at the UN

is based on a desire to gain favourwith the United States, the UN'slargest funder, and to raise moneythrough private sources.

UN agencies have entered into anarray of partnerships with giant cor-porations, including many whichcitizens movements havedenounced for violations of humanand labour rights.

Human rights groups around theworld are increasingly challengingthe new partnership arrangementsfor fear that these new relationshipswill undermine the UN's ability toserve as a counterbalance to globalcorporate power. Reference

• Danielle Knight, "Perilous Partnerships", Multinational Monitor,March 2000, www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00march/econom -ics1.html

12. Cuba Leads the World in Organic Farming

Cuba has developed one of the most efficient organic agricul-ture systems in the world. Due to the US embargo and the

collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba was unable to import chemi-cals or modern farming machines to uphold a high-tech corporatefarming culture. The lost buying power for agricultural importsled to a general diversification within farming on the island.

Cuba's new revolution is founded upon the development of anorganic agricultural system. The migration of small farms andgardens into densely populated urban areas has also played a cru-cial role in feeding citizens. Havana, with nearly 20 per cent ofCuba's population, now has more than 8,000 officially recognisedgardens, which are in turn cultivated by more than 30,000 peopleand cover nearly 30 per cent of the available land. The qualityand quantity of crop yields have increased—at a lower cost andwith fewer health and environmental side effects than ever. References• Alison Auld, "Farming with Fidel", Sustainable Times, Fall 1999 • Hugh Warwick, "Cuba's Organic Revolution", Third WorldResurgence, issues 118–119, Spring 2000

Cuba has developed one ofthe most efficient organic

agriculture systems in the world.


13. The WTO is an Illegal Institution

Something not mentioned by the corporate press, or most of the1,200 groups from 85 countries that opposed the World Trade

Organization (WTO) policies during and after the Seattledemonstrations in 1999, is the fact that the WTO is actually anillegal institution.

The WTO was put in place following the signing, in 1994 inMorocco, of a "technical document" negotiated behind closeddoors. Following the Morocco meeting, the agreement was eitherrubber-stamped or never formally ratified by national govern-ments, yet membership in the WTO requires acceptance of its pre-cepts without exception.

The 1994 agreement has been casually embodied in internationallaw, bypassing the democratic process in mostly all of the membercountries. It blatantly overrides national laws and constitutionswhile providing extensive powers to global banks andmultinational corporations. This totalitarian intergovernmentalbody has been empowered under international law to "police"country-level economic and social policies, suppressing the rightsof national governments. Also, the WTO neutralises the authorityof UN agencies, such as the International Labor Organization,designed to oversee international trade conduct. It furthermorecontradicts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Reference• Michel Chossudovsky, "Seattle andBeyond: The Illegality of the WTO",Covert Action Quarterly , Spring–Summer 2000, www.caq.com

14. Europe Holds CompaniesEnvironmentally Responsible

The European Union will soon holdany company that enters the

European market responsible for theenvironmental impacts of its products.

Known as Extended ProducerResponsibility (EPR), the new EUrules will make manufacturers changeproduct design, the materials used inmanufacturing and the methods bywhich products are disposed to ensure environmental integrity.The regulations will cover products that contain electrical circuits,and the phasing out of toxic metals used in the production ofconsumables like refrigerators and computers. Reference• Joel Bleifuss, "The Big Stick Approach", In These Times, April 17,2000, www.inthesetimes.com

15. Gerber Uses WTO to Suppress Laws PromotingBreastfeeding

Gerber Baby Foods Corporation has used the World TradeOrganization to suppress a Guatemalan law that encouraged

mothers to breastfeed their children. In 1983, the government of Guatemala passed a law and regula-

tions with the goal of inspiring new mothers to breastfeed theirinfants and understand fully the harm that could be done to theirbaby if they used breast-milk substitutes.

Gerber objected to Guatemala's law. It refused to remove itstrademark picture of a smiling chubby baby from its productlabels. It also refused to add a phrase to the labels saying thatbreast milk is superior. In November 1993, Gerber lost its appealbut opened up a new line of attack on Guatemala, stating that thelaw was an "expropriation of Gerber's trademark". In 1995, when

the World Trade Organization came into being, Gerber droppedits claim regarding expropriation and began to challengeGuatemala before a WTO tribunal. Guatemala realised it was inbattle with an immense power. The government changed its lawto concede to Gerber's marketing practices. Reference• Peter Montague ([email protected]), "Corporate Rights vs HumanNeed", Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly , November 18,1999, www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4

16. Human Genome Project Opens the Door toEthnically Specific Bioweapons

The Human Genome Project may now open the door to thedevelopment and use of genetic weapons targeted at specific

ethnic groups. This project is currently being conducted under theauspices of the US Energy Department, which also overseesAmerica's nuclear weapons arsenal.

Current estimates of the cost of developing a "gene weapon"have been placed at around $50 million—well within the capabili-ties of covert government programs.

On November 15, 1998, the London Times reported that Israelclaims to have successfully developed a genetically specific"ethnic bullet" that targets Arabs. When an Israeli governmentspokesman was asked, he did not deny that they had them.

References• Roy Blake, "Genetic Bullets, EthnicallySpecific Bioweapons", Washington FreePress, Jan/Feb 2000 • Greg Bishop, "Ethnic Weapons forEthnic Cleansing", K o n f o r m i s t, March2000, www.konformist.com

17. IMF and World Bank StaffTightly Connected to NewYugoslav Government

The G-17 is a Yugoslav economistsgroup that supported presidential

candidate Vojislav Kostunica andwrote the policy statements for thepost-election economic reform of

Yugoslavia. The impression the G-17 likes to give is that it is an indepen-

dent and Yugoslav-oriented group. The reality is vastly different.It is actually funded through the Washington-based Center forInternational Private Enterprise (CIPE)—a group set up throughthe National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA-related group cre-ated in 1983. The G-17 group calls for Yugoslavia to work moreclosely with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) towards thedevelopment of a market economy. Former Eastern bloc neigh-bouring countries that have followed this tactic have had massivewage deflation and increased poverty for the bulk of their citizens.

According to writer and IMF researcher Professor MichelChossudovsky, the G-17 paradigm economic program forYugoslavia contains the same measures the IMF forced on Russia,Ukraine, Bulgaria, Peru and many other nations. The results havebeen social and economic devastation. References• Christian Parenti, "Colony Kosovo", San Francisco Bay Guardian,August 23, 2000, www.sfbg.com/News/34/47/47wvkoso.html• Michel Chossudovsky ([email protected]) and JaredIsrael ([email protected]), "The International Monetary Fundand the Yugoslav Election", Emperor's New Clothes, September 28,2000, emperors-clothes.com/indexe.htm

Something not mentioned bythe corporate press, or most of the 1,200 groups from 85countries that oppose WTOpolicies, is the fact that theWTO is actually an illegal

institution.


18. Indigenous People Challenge Private Ownershipand Patenting of Life

There is a portion of the WTO agreement, called Trade-RelatedAspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), that will

allow multinational corporations to apply for patents on livingcreatures and life processes. However, indigenous peoples fromaround the world believe that private ownership of life forms isunnatural and inappropriate.

On July 25, 1999, a gathering of indigenous peoples signed adocument that called for an amendment to the TRIPs agreement,which would be put as a priority item on the agenda at the WTOMinisterial Conference in Seattle. The document eloquentlystates that all life forms and life-creating processes are sacred andshould not be subject to proprietary ownership.

Specifically targeted is Article 27.3b of TRIPs, which will deni-grate and undermine rights to cultural and intellectual heritage,destroy plant, animal and genetic resources and even discriminateagainst indigenous ways of thinking and behaving. The peopleare very specific that the amendments to Article 27.3b shouldclearly prohibit the patenting of plants and animals. They aim toensure that a system is created that will protectknowledge, innovations and practices in farm-ing, agriculture, health and medical care andconserve the biodiversity of indigenous peo-ples and farmers. References• Kimberly Wilson, "Indigenous Peoples'Statement on the Trade-Related Aspects ofIntellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and theWTO Agreement", GeneWatch, October 1999 • "A Call for Support for African Group Proposalon TRIPS Article 27.3(b) on Patenting of Life",Third World Resurgence , nos. 110, 111,Fall 1999

19. United States Using DangerousFungus to Eradicate Coca Plants inColombia

The United States plans to deploy, ormay have already deployed, new bio-

logical weapons for the war on drugs thatseriously threaten both humans and theenvironment.

The bioweapon is Fusarium EN-4, aplant fungus used in many chemical weapons developed by theUnited States in 1950s and '60s. Fusarium is being redesigned toattack coca, cannabis and opium crops in producer countries inthe Third World. This work is proceeding despite evidence thatthe fusarium, if deployed, will have profound and disastrousimpacts on the humans and ecologies of the countries in whichthey are used.

Pathogens developed long ago at Fort Detrick, Maryland, thecentre for the US biowarfare program, were frozen but notdestroyed when the facility was closed by President Nixon in1969. Veterans of the Soviet biological warfare effort are nowworking on this research with UN funding in order to shield theUnited States from charges of violating the internationally negoti-ated Biological Weapons Convention.

Peru has already banned the testing and/or deployment of thefusarium fungus. Colombia, however, was forced to accept spray-ing as part of a $1.8 billion aid package that was approved by USCongress in July 2000.

Eduardo Posada, president of the Colombian Center for

International Physics, found fusarium to be "highly toxic".According to his data, the mortality rate among hospital patientswho were immune-deficient and infected by the fungus was 76per cent. "The mutated fungi can cause disease in a large numberof crops, including tomatoes, peppers, flowers, corn and vines,"he said. He added that the mutated genus could stay in the groundfor 40 years. Reference• Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair, "McCaffery's Plagues:New Biowar on Drugs", CounterPunch, O b s e r v e r, London, June1–15, 2000 and July 2, 2000

20. Disabled Most Likely to be Victims of Serious Crime

Research consistently finds that people with substantial disabil-ities suffer from violent and other major crime at rates 4 to 10

times higher than that of the general population. Estimates are that around five million disabled people are vic-

tims of serious crime annually in the United States. Disabilitiesoften make people easy targets for crime and abuse.

Several studies suggest that 80–85% of criminal abuse of resi-dents in institutions is never reported to author-ities. Evidence also shows that when thesecrimes are reported, there are lower rates ofpolice follow-up, prosecutions and convictions. Reference• Dan Sorensen (dsorense@dmhhq. state.ca.us),"The Invisible Victims", Tash Newsletter, March2000, 158.96.231.221/dmhsearch/dmhquery. asp

21. US Military Bombing RangeDestroys Korean Village Life

Every weekday for the past 50 years,from 8 o'clock in the morning to 11

o'clock at night, US fighter planes inKorea have dropped 400 to 700 bombs onthe Koon-ni range less than one mile fromlocal villages.

The targets for the bombs are islands inthe beautiful Aia Bay where the peoplederive their livelihoods by fishing. As theA10 and F-16 US fighter aircraft swoopover the countryside, they drop depleteduranium (DU) shells. The DU shells addradioactive contamination to the other

toxic wastes and oil that have been accumulating near these vil-lages for the last half-century.

Throughout the years, at least 12 people have been killed andnumerous others have been wounded. The number of cancercases is disproportionately large and growing, and women areincreasingly experiencing miscarriages and birth defects. Noiselevels have been measured off the decibel scale. Mental health isa serious issue, with constant tension from noise.

Lockheed–Martin now owns the Koon-ni range. This kind ofprivatisation of the military comes as no surprise, because 50years of dropping bombs and spraying bullets has been very lucra-tive for arms manufacturers.

For the good part of 50 years, most Koreans knew nothingabout this, but protests are growing. References• Karen Talbot, "US Bombing Range in South Korea: 'Hell OnEarth!'", Freespeech.org, September 1, 2000, www.freespeech.org• Corporate media coverage: Christian Science Monitor , June 2,2000; New York Times, June 18, 2000


There is a portion of the WTO agreement,called Trade-Related

Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPs),

that will allowmultinational

corporations to apply patents on livingcreatures and life

processes.

22. US Repressed Marijuana Tumour Research

ASpanish medical team's study released in Madrid in February2000 has shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active

chemical in marijuana, destroys tumours in lab rats. The researchwas conducted by a medical team led by Dr Manuel Guzman ofComplutence University in Madrid.

These findings, however, are not news to the US Government.A study in Virginia in 1974 yielded similar results but was sup-pressed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The1974 study—published in an article, "Antineoplastic Activity ofCannabinoids", in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in1975—does not mention breast cancer tumours. These were fea-tured in the only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974study. The Washington Post story (August 18, 1974) read in part:"The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of threekinds of cancer in mice and may also suppressthe immunity reaction that causes rejection oforgan transplants... The researchers found thatTHC slowed the growth of lung cancers,breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia inlaboratory mice, and prolonged their lives byas much as 36 percent."

In 1976, President Ford put an end to allpublic cannabis research and granted exclu-sive research rights to major pharmaceuticalcompanies. In 1983, the Reagan/Bush admin-istration tried to persuade US universities andresearchers to destroy all cannabis researchwork done between 1966 and 1976 aswell as compendiums in libraries. References• Corporate media coverage: AP and UPInews wires, February 29, 2000• Raymond Cushing (raymondcushing@ire -land.com), "Pot Shrinks Tumors;Government Knew in '74", Alternet, May31, 2000, www.alternet.org/

23. Very Small Levels of ChemicalExposures Can be Dangerous

For years, the public has been told thata low level of chemical exposure

holds no significant risk to humans. However, the results ofrecent studies show that even small amounts of chemicals (indrinking water, in foods) may in fact be very damaging.

New research in the field of endocrine disrupters has shownthat chemicals like dioxin, PCBs and DDT act at very low levelsto interfere with normal hormone functions of the body. Very lowlevels of these chemicals have been linked to a wide variety ofhealth problems, such as neurological and developmental prob-lems, immune system disruption, learning disabilities, birthdefects and other reproductive anomalies.

According to Dr Pete Myers, co-author of Our Stolen Future,chemical attacks against foetal development work because somechemicals act as imposters, insinuating themselves in the body'snatural hormone system that normally directs foetal development.What is becoming apparent is that important low-level effects,such as disruption of a hormone signalling system, may be hiddenby higher levels of chemical exposure, which cause more obviousimpacts that are easier to measure. Reference• Stephen Lester, "Understanding 'Low Level' Chemical Exposures",Everyone's Backyard, Summer 2000

24. Pentagon Seeks Mega-Mergers BetweenInternational Arms Corporations

AUS Government task force has released its final report to thepublic, recommending globalisation of the US defence indus-

try, even if it results in proliferation of conventional weapons. The Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Globalization

and Security is a 27-member appointed board, composed mostlyof Department of Defense (DoD) and private industry representa-tives. The DSB encourages the Pentagon to facilitate transnation-al mergers of defence corporations in order to avoid eventual con-flicts with European countries over global arms market shares.Overall, the DSB Task Force advocates reducing the DoD's rolein controlling arms exports.

A few large companies already dominate the American armsindustry, and Europe's defence firms are rapidly consolidating as

well. Germany's Daimler-Chrysler andFrance's Aérospatiale announced a plannedmerger to form the European Aeronautics,Defence and Space Co. (EADS), and BAESystems now monopolises the UK defenceindustry.

Increased partnership between US and EUdefence corporations is needed, DSB warns, toavoid a protectionist "Fortress America" fromgoing to war with a hostile "Fortress Europe"over market share.

The Federation of American Scientists isconcerned that transnational arms mergers will

create very powerful defence companies,further shifting control away from gov-ernments and towards private industry. Reference• Federation of American Scientists, "ArmsCompany of the Future:BoeingBAELockheedEADS, Inc?", A r m sSales Monitor, January 2000, www.fas.org

25. Community Activists OutsitMcDonald's

On Sunday December 13, 1998, localresidents of Hinchley Wood,

England, occupied the parking lot of theirlocal pub to prevent McDonald's from building on the site. Their24-hours-a-day sit-in campaign lasted 18 months, received nation-al publicity and galvanised community support againstMcDonald's.

The community organised to become Residents AgainstMcDonald's (RAM). Their campaign forced McDonald's onto thedefensive, stopping all work on the site. RAM exposed how localplanning laws allow companies to steamroll over the wishes ofcommunities, ignoring expressed concerns over the quality oflocal lives and environment.

When McDonald's leases or purchases neighbourhood pubs toavoid the usual local planning applications and guidelines, localresidents become outraged and feel compelled to resist. This timethe residents were successful.

After RAM's incredible 552-day continuous occupation,McDonald's threw in the towel and handed back the lease on thepub to the original owners. RAM celebrated an historic victory. Reference• McLibel Support Campaign, "Residents defeat McDonald's aftermammoth 552-day occupation", A-Infos New Service, June 16, 2000,www.mcspotlight.org


...transnational arms mergers will

create very powerfuldefence companies,

further shifting control away fromgovernments andtowards private

industry.



In the June–July 1998 issue (5/04), we ran a Global News item entitled "The CancerRisks from rBGH in Milk". It reported on the health risks to cows treated with thegenetically engineered bovine growth hormone rBGH (or bovine somatotropin,rBST) to increase their milk production, and the potential dangers to humans from

drinking milk from these cows. It also discussed the sacking in December 1997 by FoxTV of Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, award-winning journalists who had produced a seriesof reports exposing the prolific use of Monsanto-manufactured rBGH in Florida's dairycows and the link between rBGH and cancer.

Following representations by Monsanto's lawyers, Fox cancelled the series three daysbefore the first broadcast scheduled for February 24, 1997, then tried to water it down,offering to pay the two reporters if they would leave the station and "keep mum" aboutwhat Fox had done to their work. Akre and Wilson twice refused big-money deals andfiled a landmark lawsuit on April 2, 1998. They also survived three attempts by Fox tohave their case summarily dismissed.

BGH Bulletin reports that after a five-week trial and six hours of deliberation, whichended on August 18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox"acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting onBGH". In that decision, the jury also found that Jane Akre's threat to blow the whistle tothe FCC on Fox's misconduct was the sole reason for the termination. The jury awardedawarded US$425,000 in damages, making her eligible to apply for reimbursement for allcourt costs, expenses and legal fees. This is the first time journalists have used a whistle-blower law to seek legal redress for being sacked for refusing to distort the news.

In April 2001, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were honoured with a GoldmanEnvironmental Prize, one of the world's most prestigious environmental awards, for theircourageous efforts to expose the potential threat to public health from rBGH.

The following audio-video script contains parts I and II of the four-part "Reporters'Version" (Version 29, lawsuit Exhibit R), which is the story Akre and Wilson wanted totell but which Fox TV would never broadcast. The "Fox-mandated Version" of the script(Version 28, lawsuit Exhibit Q) contains comments from the journalists, detailing the lies,distortions and slanting of the story to which Steve and Jane consistently objected. Thesecomments are interspersed through the Reporters' Version below in sections of bold type.The full text of both versions is available at the BGH Bulletin w e b s i t e ,www.foxBGHsuit.com

— Editor

PART ISound: (Milk being poured into glass)Narration 1: Nature's most nearly perfect food—that's how most of us have always

thought of milk…wholesome, nutritious and pure, just like it says on some of the trucksthat deliver it. But down on the farm where most of us never see? Some Florida farmershave been quietly squeezing more cash from their cows by injecting them with an artifi-cial growth hormone so they'll produce more milk than nature intended.

Thurman Hatten, Florida Dairy Farmer: Yes, I would say people in Florida areusing it.

Jane Akre, Reporter: And you yourself? Hatten: Aah…

Monsanto and FoxTV went to great

lengths to deny thepublic's right toknow about the

effects of GEgrowth hormoneson dairy cows and

their milk.

© by Jane Akre & Steve Wilson

From the BGH Bulletin websitewww.foxBGHsuit.com


Narration 2: Thurman Hatten is one of many Florida dairy-men reluctant to admit that they're injecting their cows every twoweeks…

Hatten: ...it's possible I could be using it.Narration 3: The drug some Florida farmers don't want you to

know they're using is a MonsantoLaboratory version of bovine growthhormone, known as BGH. Here'show it works: when the cow getsinjected with extra BGH, it stimu-lates the production of another hor-mone called IGF-1. That's really thestuff that speeds up the cow's metab-olism, causing her to produce up to30% more milk. But some scientistslike Dr Samuel Epstein are warningthat what might be good for the farm-ers' bottom line might be big troubledown the line for people drinking themilk from treated cows.

Dr Samuel Epstein, Scientist,University of Illinois: ...there arehighly suggestive if not persuasivelines of evidence showing thatconsumption of this milk poses risksof breast and colon cancer.

Reporters were instructed not toinclude information that details thebasis for this frightening claim, leaving viewers unable tomeaningfully understand it out of context and likely to justshrug it off as another unfounded "cancer scare" with nolegitimate scientific basis whatsoever.

The artificial hormone works byincreasing the cow's natural pro-duction of insulin-like growth fac-tor (IGF-1). This is what "revsup" the cow, causing her mamma-ry glands to produce more milk.The basis of Dr Epstein's con-cern—and that of others aroundthe world—is that studies haveshown that injecting cows withsynthetic BGH causes an increasein IGF-1 levels found in the cow'smilk. This is cause for concernbecause a growing body of evi-dence points to IGF-1 as a poten-tial cancer promoter known tocause cell proliferation and tumourgrowth, particularly in the humancolon and breast.

Narration 4: Dr Epstein is a sci-entist at the University of IllinoisSchool of Public Health. He's earnedthree medical degrees, written eightbooks and is frequently called upon to advise Congress aboutthings in our environment which may cause cancer.

Reporters were repeatedly instructed to remove informa-tion that more completely details Dr Epstein's widelyacknowledged expertise. The deliberate omission of thoseknown facts minimises the credibility of this BGH critic andthereby slants the story in favour of the product.

Cancer warnings from "experts" with dubiousqualifications have left viewers sceptical of all such claims. Itis important for that reason, as well as for proof of responsibledocumentation, that viewers understand Dr Samuel Epstein'sbackground and qualifications to reach such conclusions as he

voices in the report. But despitehis three medical degrees, aprofessorship of Occupationaland Environmental Medicine atthe University of Illinois School ofPublic Health, his frequentcongressional testimony as anexpert on public health andenvironmental causes of cancer,his authorship of eight books andcountless editorials appearing insome of America's leadingnewspapers, reporters wererepeatedly blocked fromdescribing him more completely.

Original references to him as a"reputable scientist(s)" which wasacceptable in Versions 1–3, waslater changed to "respected scien-tist(s)" which was acceptable inVersion 11, and then "well-cre-dentialed MD", which was okayin Versions 10–18 until, ultimate-

ly, reporters were told no such reference was acceptable, mak-ing him sound like a run-of-the-mill academic with no specificor relevant expertise.

Reporters have located and confirmed more than a dozenindependent studies of the artifi-cial hormone, publishedpost–FDA approval. These raiselegitimate concerns about the riskof cancer to adults and childrenwho drink milk from cows inject-ed with BGH. Nonetheless,reporters were first instructed tomischaracterise the availableresearch simply as "publiclyavailable at the time of approval".When reporters demonstratedhow that mandated language wasinaccurate, they were instructedto call it "a body of peer-reviewedresearch". This is also inaccurateand deliberately misleads theviewer by presenting a distortedpicture that fails to report moreaccurately and fully that many ofthe troubling findings are fromrecent research, and that the evi-dence of a cancer link appears tobe growing more clear.

Monsanto, on the other hand, contends the latest researchconfirms the overall safety of its synthetic hormone. In fact,the research Monsanto most frequently refers to is a study ofthe synthetic hormone's effects on BGH-treated cows moni-tored by Monsanto, not people who drink the cows' milk.Reporters were not allowed to make this fact clear in thereport.

Jane Akre, speaking at a genetic engineering conference in St Louis, USA. (Photo: Nic Paget-Clarke)

Steve Wilson, addressing the audience in St Louis. (Photo: Nic Paget-Clarke)

Dr Epstein and others, like Dr William von Meyer, point towhat they say is a growing body of scientific evidence of a linkbetween IGF-1 and human cancers, which might not show up foryears to come.

Dr William von Meyer, Research Scientist: We're going tosave some lives if we review this now. If we allow BGH to goon, I'm sure we're taking excessive risks with society.

Reporters were instructed to edit the first sentence of Drvon Meyer's quote, and thus deprive the viewer of the fullthrust of his true position and meaning: that further scientificreview of this situation could save human lives. Out of propercontext, the viewer cannot understand the true possibleimportance of further review or that it is, in Dr von Meyer'sview, an alternative to taking excessive risks.

Narration 5: Dr von Meyer has spent 30years studying chemical products and testingtheir effects on humans. He's supervisedmany such tests on thousands of animals atschools such as the University of London andUCLA. He's headed agricultural, chemicaland genetic research at some of America'smost prestigious companies. His concernsabout BGH have sparked an inquiry byCongressman Scott Klug, who wants toknow just how BGH was ever approved foruse in this country three years ago [1993],while a dozen European countries, Canadaand New Zealand have all blocked theuse of it there.

As with Dr Epstein, reporters werepressured to remove any reference toDr von Meyer's qualifications toquestion the safety of the product,while being instructed to reportMonsanto's contention that "the can-cer experts don't see the healthissue". Reporters were blocked fromincluding the facts that Dr von Meyerhas spent 30 years studying chemicalproducts and testing their effects onhumans, has supervised many suchtests on thousands of animals atschools such as the University of London and UCLA, and hasheaded agricultural, chemical and genetic research at some ofAmerica's most prestigious companies. Ultimately, reporterswere instructed to broadcast a version which reduces thetruth about Dr von Meyer to a simple reference to him as "ascientist in Wisconsin".

Monsanto is the giant chemical company which sells the syn-thetic hormone under the brand name Posilac…and Monsanto hasconsistently rejected the concerns of scientists around the world.

Dr Robert Collier, Chief BGH Scientist, Monsanto: In fact,the FDA has commented several times on this issue after therewere concerns raised. They have publicly restated human safetyconfidence…this is not something knowledgeable people haveconcerns about.

Sound: (Calf in pen) Moo!Narration 6: While other companies have dropped by the

wayside, Monsanto has invested a mountain of money into bovinegrowth hormone. Company sales tapes encourage farmers to useit as a tool to milk more profits out of every cow.

Video clip, Monsanto sales tape: Of course you'll want toinject Posilac into every eligible cow, as each cow not treated is alost income opportunity.

Narration 7: A number of critics, including at least one stateagriculture commissioner, have called it "crack for cows" for theway it speeds up the cow's milk production…but despite itspromise of profit, some dairymen say the product doesn't alwayslead to happy trails for the cows or for those who tend them.

Reporters were repeatedly told this colourful phrase["crack for cows"] could not be used in a broadcast on FoxChannel 13, to avoid needlessly antagonising a possible plain-tiff, Monsanto. Because the quote so accurately describes theeffect of the hormone in a non-scientific way viewers can easi-ly understand, reporters persisted by showing evidence of its

use by other responsible newspapers suchas the Boston Globe , St LouisPost–Dispatch, Time and 11 other publica-tions. Only after reporters located areport of the statement being made by apublic official was it allowed to be includ-ed. And even then, in a further effort todiscourage broadcast of the phrase,reporters were instructed it could not beused unless and until the now-former offi-cial was tracked down and could confirmthat the eight-year-old quote was accurateand that he still felt that way today!Reporters located the man, now with the

USDA in Washington, and obtainedthe required confirmations.

Charles Knight, Florida DairyF a r m e r : It's a tool that can be used,but you better be careful 'cause it canburn you…

Narration 8: Near Wachula,Charles Knight won't use Monsanto'ssynthetic BGH anymore. He is one ofmany farmers who say they've watchedPosilac burn their cows out sooner,shortening their lives by maybe twoyears. Knight says he had to replace75% of his herd due to hoof problems

and serious udder infections. Those are two of more than 20potential troubles listed right on the product warning label. Butapart from potential suffering for the animals, the major concernis how the hormone injected into the cow changes the milk thatends up on our tables.

Dr Robert Collier: …this is the most studied molecule cer-tainly in the history of domestic animal science.

Despite intense scrutiny of every claim made by thoseopposing the Monsanto product, reporters were required toinclude this and other company claims without documentationof accuracy. Experts in the field of domestic animal sciencesay this claim is demonstrably false.

Throughout the process of preparing the various versions ofthis report, reporters were repeatedly instructed to includeunverified and even some outright false statements byMonsanto's dairy research director, whose doctorate degree isin dairy research. Among them:

"...suffice it to say the cancer experts don't see the health issue..." "Posilac is the single most-tested product in history..."


As with Dr Epstein,reporters were pressuredto remove any reference

to Dr von Meyer'squalifications to

question the safety of the product, while being

instructed to reportMonsanto's contentionthat "the cancer experts

don't see the healthissue".

"He [Dr von Meyer] has no credentials in human safetyevaluation."

At the same time, a markedly different standard—actualproof of each and every claim—was applied to statements,even expressions of opinion, made by Monsanto critics. If thehigher, tougher standard of verification of their statementsand opinions was not met, quotes critical of the product wereordered deleted from the report.

Reporters were also required to exhaustively research thebackgrounds of those raising questions about the Monsantoproduct, while no similar efforts were required to ascertainthe expertise of Monsanto company experts, who reportersknow to have fewer credentials than some critics.

Narration 9: While that claim may be open to dispute, theMonsanto product did put the product through a decade's worth oftesting before it was approved by the FDA's Center for VeterinaryMedicine as an animal drug. But that's partof the problem, according to many scientistswho say that since BGH alters the milk wedrink, it should meet the higher safety stan-dards required of human drugs. The criticssay tests on BGH milk that could haveanswered these concerns about long-termrisk to humans were just never done.

Whether there is in fact anything dif-ferent about a glass of milk you drinkfrom a BGH-treated cow is at the heart ofhuman health concerns about the prod-uct. The reporters' research uncoveredseveral studies, including one frequentlycited by Monsanto, which indicate thatthe milk is indeed different. Severalhave shown that levels of the sus-pected cancer link IGF-1 are signifi-cantly higher in milk from treatedcows—up to 20 times higher,according to one study. Other stud-ies confirm higher antibiotic levelsin the milk, as farmers inject cowswith more drugs to fight BGH-caused infections.

Fox directed reporters to "neu-tralise" these key facts by reportingthat studies show the milk is "affect-ed", as opposed to "altered".Deliberately failing to explain thatthe "effect" includes a markedlyincreased level of a known cancer promoter seriously slantsthis story and misleads the viewer.

Reporters were not allowed to explore the potential inade-quacy of BGH testing on the grounds the FDA has alreadyapproved it as safe. "Are you [reporters] an expert on theway to test drugs?" counsel asked. "Is [BGH critic DrWilliam] von Meyer right and the FDA wrong?" Even afterreporters provided textbook documentation that animal test-ing should last two full years to assure human safety fromlong-term carcinogenicity, this important issue was notallowed to be included in the report.

Citing Monsanto's repeated reminders about the FDA'sultimate approval of the drug, reporters were instructednever to characterise BGH testing as "short-term", nor allowany critic to do so. This further distorts the viewers' true

picture of the adequacy of the testing done before thesubstance entered their family's milk supply.

Dr William von Meyer: A human drug requires two years ofcarcinogenic testing and extensive birth defect testing. BGH wastested for 90 days on 30 rats at any dose before it was approved.

Dr Robert Collier: But suffice it to say the cancer expertsdon't see the health issue, and it's unfortunate the public is beingscared by an issue that shouldn't be of concern.

Reporters were instructed to include this claim without con-tradiction, despite the knowledge by all that it is flatly,demonstrably false. A number of experts in the cancer field—including two who appear in this very report—and countlessothers who have acted to prevent the product from being soldin at least 17 other countries obviously do see the health issue.Presenting this mis-statement as fact, without pointing toknown facts which contradict the statement, is an obvious and

serious distortion of the truth.

Narration 10: Monsanto's dairyresearch director points to what the FDAhas repeatedly said since the day itapproved BGH back in 1993: "The publiccan be confident that milk and meat fromBGH-treated cows is safe to consume."Nonetheless, influential food safety offi-cials from around the world remain uncon-vinced.

Reporters were told not to report theseblanket government assurances in thecontext that they are based primarily onMonsanto company studies which never

looked at potential chronic, long-term human health effects. Duringa May 27 phone conference, counseltold reporters: "I want you to doexactly as I said. The FDA reviewsays it's safe for humans. I justwant a statement. That's what Iwant for balance."

In fact, whatever counsel's statedmotivation, viewers are seriouslymisled when such claims are pre-sented outside the context of impor-tant related facts.

Just last summer, the members ofan important United Nations commit-tee again blocked efforts to give a vir-

tual green light to selling the drug around the world. For the sec-ond time in two years, the committee decided synthetic BGHneeds more study.

Reporter Jane Akre stand-up: So just how many dairy cowsin Florida are being injected with this synthetic hormone? No oneknows for sure, but it's enough to virtually assure that at leastsome of the milk in every jug you bring home from the supermar-ket these days comes from treated cows.

Clip of consumer protestors chanting: No more BGH, nomore BGH...

Narration 11: Tomorrow: how consumers across Americahave fought to stop the use of the drug...and why here in Floridayou can't know if the supermarket milk on your family's tablecomes from treated or untreated cows.

Sound: (Milk being poured into tall glass)


Reporters were told not to report these blanketgovernment assurances in the context that they

are based primarily on Monsanto company

studies which never looked at potential chronic, long-term

human health effects.

PART II Sound: (Cow in field) Moooo!Narration 1: You won't find Ol' Flossie and Bossie on Fred

Gore's dairy farm in Zephyr Hills. On Fred's farm, all the cowshave numbers instead of names—and they're watched byelectronic eyes, 24 hours a day.

Fred Gore, Florida Dairy Farmer: ...they help tell me ifproper procedures are being followed.

Narration 2: At a modern dairy farm, cows wear transpondersthat even tell a computer how much milk they gave today.

Farmer Gore: She's giving 121 pounds a day. Narration 3: In the competitive business of dairy farming

these days, productivity is paramount. That's why Fred Gore andothers like him were all ears when the giant Monsanto chemicalcompany started promoting its new product called Posilac.

Clip from Monsanto sales tape: Posilac is the single most-tested product in history and it helps increase your profitpotential.

Narration 4: Monsanto promised that Posilac—a laboratoryversion of the cow's natural growth hormone—could get Ol' 2356and her friends to produce up to 30% more milk. That was goodnews to Florida farmers, who need all the help they can get in astate where high heat, humidity and little local grain make dairyfarming a struggle. The "promise of Posilac" sounded great todairyman Charles Knight...but he says it didn't turn out that way.

Charles Knight, Florida Dairy Farmer: About the sametime, we began having a lot of foot problems with our cows...theygot so crippled they couldn't walk.

Narration 5: Right after he started using the drug on his herdnear Wachula three years ago, Knight says his animals wereplagued with those problems and serious infections of theirudders. Troubles he attributes to Posilac eventually caused him toreplace the majority of his herd. He says that when he calleddairy experts at the University of Florida and at Monsanto, theyboth had the same response.

Farmer Knight: It was, like, overwhelming because they said,"You're the only person having this problem, so it must be whatyou're doing here; you must be having management problems."

Narration 6: The University of Florida, by the way, did muchof the research on BGH and has received millions in gifts andgrants from Monsanto. Knight says neither the university nor thecompany ever mentioned Monsantoresearch that showed hundreds of othercows on other farms were also sufferinghoof problems and mastitis, a painful infec-tion of the cow's udders. If untreated, theinfection can get into the cow's milk, sofarmers try to cure it by giving the cowshots of antibiotics…more drugs that canfind their way into the milk on your table,which could make your own body moreresistant to antibiotics.

Dr Michael Hansen, Scientist,Consumers Union: So for example, if youdrank milk that had residues of ery-thromycin in it, then bacteria in your stom-ach could pick up resistance to that ery-thromycin, so that if you came down withan illness you wouldn't be able to use ery-thromycin to treat it.

Narration 7: Dr Michael Hansen, a sci-entist with Consumers Union, is not alonein his concern. The investigative arm of

Congress and, more recently, an important group of food safetyexperts from around the world have raised this very concern relat-ed to the use of Monsanto's drug. Even the Posilac label warns:"…use of Posilac is associated with increased frequency of theuse of medication in cows for mastitis…" Citing thorough studyof the product both before and after approval by the FDA,Monsanto insists there are safeguards in place to detect any poten-tial problem with antibiotics in the milk.

Dr Collier: Not only is every tank truckload tested, but a sam-ple is taken from every bulk tank; that way, if a truck is found tobe contaminated, you have to be able to identify which farm itcame from.

Narration 8: At the Tampa Dairy Co-op, checks are routinebut Co-op officials admit the testing is just not thorough enoughto detect the many antibiotics a farmer could use. More completechecks are done by a few grocers and by the state, but only on aspot basis.

Dr Hansen: In fact, there are over 60 drugs that they believecan be used on farms, and they test for a very small percentage ofthem.

File video of consumer protestors chanting: Boycott BGH,boycott BGH…

Narration 9: Demonstrations against the product when it wasapproved three years ago showed Americans were not very sup-portive of injecting dairy cows with synthetic growth hormones.This University of Wisconsin study conducted just last year says74% of consumers are worried about unknown harmful humanhealth effects of BGH, which might not show up until later. Andoutside the US, officials in other countries also remain sceptical.

The potential long-term human health effects is the bottomline to the series as a whole. The important concern this seriesinvestigates is the suspected link between long-term humanconsumption of BGH milk and the potential development ofcancer. Nevertheless, reporters were repeatedly instructed tocamouflage concerns about cancer by not using the word inany script after an initial reference in Part I and substituting"human health implications" as a euphemism, one whichmost viewers would not link to cancer.

This deliberately misleads viewers by omission, deprivingthem of information which would let them judge forthemselves the seriousness of concern stated by responsible


scientists and others around the world. Again, is the concerna toothache or a tumour?

Dr Collier: There are no human or animal safety issues thatwould prevent approval in Canada once they've completed theirreview—not that I'm aware of.

Monsanto's leading BGH expert categorically denies know-ing of well-publicised human health concerns in Canadawhere the product is unapproved. Reporters were instructedto minimise this expert's denial by slanting the broadcast tostate that he "downplayed" Canadian concern, as opposed toaccurately reporting the Canadian concern is "a fact DrCollier denies".

Narration 10: But long-term human safety is exactly the con-cern expressed by a Canadian House Committee on Health. Hereare the minutes of a 1995 meeting, where members voted to askCanada's Health Minister to try to keep BGH off the market for atleast two more years. Why? "…to allow members of Parliamentto further examine the human health implications" of the drug.It's still not legal to sell the unli-censed product north of the border,despite the company's efforts to gainthe approval of government regula-tors.

Sound: Monsanto, Canada, whoserepresentative allegedly raised thesubject of money…

Narration 11: In the fall of 1994,Canadian television quoted aCanadian health official as reportingMonsanto offered $1–2 million if hergovernment committee would recom-mend BGH approval in Canada with-out further data or studies of the drug. Another member of hercommittee, who was present when Monsanto made the offer, wasasked: "Was that a bribe?"

File video clip of CBC documentary, CBC correspondent tocommittee member: Is that how it struck you?

Dr Edwards: Certainly!Jane Akre on camera: Monsanto said the report alleging

bribery was "a blatant untruth", that Canadian regulators just did-n't understand the offer of the money was for research. Monsantodemanded a retraction. The Canadian Broadcasting Companystands by its story.

Narration 12: Elsewhere, New Zealand and a dozen othercountries—all members of the European Union—are also uncon-vinced about BGH. The product has been banned in Europe atleast until the year 2000. Could scepticism about the safety ofBGH around the world be fuelled by memories of earlierMonsanto products?

Dr Hansen: Monsanto has a very chequered history with someof its other products…

Narration 13: Dr Michael Hansen of Consumers Union isanother American scientist still very sceptical about BGH. Hesays Monsanto was wrong years ago when it convinced the gov-ernment PCBs were safe. Those were put inside electrical con-ductors for years…until researchers in Japan and Sweden showedserious hazards to human health and the environment.

And you've heard of Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T, the defoliant usedin Vietnam? Monsanto convinced the government that it, too,was safe. It was later proved to be extremely harmful tohumans…and a government investigator found what she said was

"a clear pattern of fraudulent content in Monsanto's research"which led to approval.

In the case of BGH, Monsanto was required to promptly reportall complaints from farmers. Florida dairyman Charles Knightsays he was complaining loud and clear that Posilac was decimat-ing his herd…but four months later? He found that the companyhad not passed one of his complaints to the FDA as required.

Charles Knight, Florida Dairyman: …so how many morehundreds of complaints out there sat and were not registered withFDA?

Narration 14: Monsanto admits a long delay in reportingKnight's complaints. A company spokesman claims that despite aseries of on-farm visits and telephone conversations with Knight,it took four months for them to understand he was complainingabout BGH. As for those safety claims for previous Monsantoproducts that turned out to be dangerous, the company offered nocomment. But back now to the dairy co-op here in Tampa and theuse of synthetic BGH by local farmers.

A Florida dairyman told reporters—and Monsanto laterconfirmed—that the company failed to make reports to

government officials about adverseBGH reactions in cattle. Thosereports were required as part of theresearch which led to US governmentmonitoring.

The reporters' investigation alsouncovered an EPA investigativereport that concluded Monsantoshowed "a clear pattern of fraudulentcontent" in the research that led toapproval of its product, dioxin, yearsago. Reporters felt this was a factdirectly relevant to helping viewersdetermine Monsanto's credibility in

making its claims about its latest product, BGH.Reporters were instructed to ignore the company's previous

withholding of scientific data and not to compare it to whathappened in the Knight case, for fear of appearing to be"building a case against Monsanto". Though undeniablytrue, Fox feared a claim of "defamation by implication", amatter that could not be won by summary judgement.

Reporters were told that if not winnable at summary judge-ment, the facts were not reportable on Fox 13: "The pointyou [reporters] don't get is it's not whether the facts are true,it's the way we present them. Summary judgement is mystandard; those are my marching orders," reporters were toldon May 29 [1997]. "I don't decide what goes on the air; [FoxGeneral Manager] Dave Boylan does, and he wanted this oneto go away," counsel claimed.

Reporter Jane Akre to Riley Hogan, Tampa Dairy Co-op:Have you ever got a communication from a grocer or processingplant asking your members not to use it?

Riley Hogan: No, ma'am.Narration 15: When we continue tomorrow, you'll see the

man who controls much of Florida's milk supply admit how localsupermarkets did once try to avoid milk from Florida cows inject-ed with BGH. We'll show you exactly how their plan didn'twork…and we'll reveal how the dairy industry has kept this issueso quiet for so long. It's only an issue if you make it an issue!

(Source: This article is edited from material posted on the BGHBulletin website, http://www.foxBGH suit.com/.)


"The point you [reporters] don't get is it's not whether the facts are true, it's the way we present them."




[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for thesame human values and principles... Fighting for the KLA is fighting for humanrights and American values.

— Senator Joseph Lieberman, quoted in the Washington Post, April 29, 1999

While Washington supports the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, it isat the same time, behind the scenes, funnelling money and military hard-ware to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), now engaged in a border warwith the Macedonian Security Forces.

In a cruel irony, Washington is arming and advising both the KLA attackers and theMacedonian defenders under military and intelligence authorisation acts approved by theUS Congress. Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), a mercenary outfit on con-tract to the Pentagon, is helping Macedonia—as part of a US military aid package—"todeter armed aggression and defend Macedonian territory". But MPRI is also advising andequipping the KLA, which is responsible for the terrorist assaults. In this war, theAmerican military-intelligence apparatus is pulling strings "on both sides of the fence".What is the hidden agenda?

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), transformed in September 1999 into the KosovoProtection Corps (KPC) under UN auspices, is behind the terrorist attacks in the Tetovoregion of Macedonia as well as in southern Serbia. In Macedonia, these assaults arewaged by the KLA's proxy: the Ushtira Clirimtare Komtare (UCK) or NationalLiberation Army (NLA). The terrorists operate from KLA bases inside Kosovo underKFOR protection.

Supported by the US, the KLA and its various proxies are well equipped. According toCarl Bildt (special UN coordinator for the Balkans), the Macedonian Security Forces "areno match" for the rebels: "...the guerrillas are a competent military organization... Theyhave a core of very experienced fighters. They are well fortified, evidently well prepared,and in all probability they control substantial parts of the hinterland."

But where did they get the money? The Western media convey the impression that theNational Liberation Army (NLA) developed into a modern rebel force overnight, sponta-neously "out of thin air" and that NATO leaders have no contacts with the KLA.

UN PEACEKEEPING FINANCES TERRORISMAccording to the London Sunday Times , "American intelligence agents have admitted

they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing ofYugoslavia".1 A review of US congressional documents would suggest that CIA supportwas not discontinued after the war.2

Moreover, while the KLA maintains its links both to the CIA and criminal syndicatesinvolved in the Balkans narcotics trade, the paramilitary organisation—renamed theKosovo Protection Corps (KPC)—has been elevated to UN status, implying the grantingof legitimate sources of funding through the United Nations as well as through bilateralchannels.

Procurement of military supplies, training of the KLA and provision of military advis-ers have been entrusted to MPRI. The pattern is similar to that followed in Croatia and inthe Bosnian Muslim–Croatian Federation where so-called "equip and train" programswere put together by the Pentagon.

The US, the UNand NATO areaccomplices in

escalating a newround of terrorismand ethnic warfare

in Kosovo andMacedonia, partly

funded bynarcodollars.

by Michel Chossudovsky ©March 2001

Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Ottawa

CanadaFax: +1 (514) 425 6224

Email: [email protected]


MPRI's training concepts, which had already been tested inCroatia and Bosnia, are based on imparting "offensive tactics...asthe best form of defence".3 In the Kosovar context, this so-called"defensive doctrine"—applied in terrorist assaults in southernSerbia and Macedonia—is intent upon transforming the KLAparamilitary into a modern military force that serves the Alliance'sstrategic objectives. In 1999, MPRI listed "ninety-one highlyexperienced, former military professionals working in Bosnia &H e r z e g o v i n a " .4 The number of military officers working oncontract with the KLA has not been disclosed.

There is, however, a consistent thread. KLA Chief of StaffAgim Ceku (previously with the Croatian Armed Forces) hasbeen involved in a long-term relationship with the MPRI. Cekustarted working with MPRI in 1995 in the planning of OperationStorm in Croatia, which led to ethnic massacres and the expulsionof more than 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia.The fact that Ceku is "an alleged war crimi-nal"—according to the files of the HagueTribunal, a body reporting to the UNSecretary-General—does not, however,seem to bother anybody in the "internationalcommunity".5

Ceku holds a UN passport (l a i s s e z -passer), which provides him with diplomaticimmunity within Kosovo. According toICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte, Ceku'sreputation and integrity are unstained,however, because the Hague Tribunal's"inquiries...relate to atrocities committed [byCeku] in Krajina...between 1993 and1995... Ceku's record in Kosovo itselfis not thought to be in question".6

Behind the polite façade of interna-tional diplomacy, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has knowinglyand wilfully approved—onWashington's instructions—theappointment of "an alleged war crimi-nal" to participate in a UN peacekeep-ing operation. In other words, the UNsystem is "financing terrorism", creat-ing an ugly precedent in the history ofa respected international body: "TheUnited Nations is paying the salariesof many of the gangsters" who are now involved in the terroristassaults into Macedonia.7

RECYCLING NARCODOLLARSUS support to the KLA is only one among several sources of

KLA financing. Various Islamic organisations have channelledmoney and military equipment to the KLA. Prior to the 1999 war,"German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to betraining the KLA in guerrilla and diversion tactics".8

Mujahedin mercenaries recruited in a number of countriesfought against Serb Security forces alongside the KLA in Kosovo.According to the Sunday Times , the recent assaults by the KLA'sproxy in the Tetovo region of Macedonia have been "encouragedby mercenaries from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia".9

Amply documented, the Balkans drug trade is used to financeethnic warfare with the complicity of the US and NATO. Thepattern of covert support—through the recycling of narcodol-lars—has been an integral part of CIA covert operations since theSoviet–Afghan War.

According to documents of the US Drug EnforcementAdministration (DEA), "members of the notorious Albanian mafiahave links to a drug-smuggling cartel'' based in Kosovo's capital,Pristina. This cartel is allegedly manned by ethnic Albanians whoare members of the Kosovo National Front (KNF), whose armedwing is the KLA. The DEA documents apparently show it is oneof the "most powerful heroin-smuggling organisations in theworld", its profits being diverted to the KLA to buy weapons.10

In the words of former DEA agent and author Michael Levine:"Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elementsof the Mujahedin in Afghanistan—drug traffickers, arms smug-glers, anti-American terrorists. Now we're doing the same thingwith the KLA, which is tied in with every known Middle and FarEastern drug cartel. Interpol, Europol and nearly every Europeanintelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drugsyndicates that lead right to the KLA, and right to Albanian gangs

in this country."11

While US aid—combined with drugmoney—is channelled to the KLA,Washington and Brussels perfunctorilycondemn the NLA Tetovo–instigated ter-rorist assaults while casually denying thelinks of the attackers to the KLA. In thewords of former NATO Secretary-GeneralJavier Solana: "...it would be a mistake tonegotiate; the terrorists have to be isolated.All of us have to condemn and isolatethem. Nothing can be achieved throughviolence...''

NATO has pledged to "starve" therebels by cutting supply lines fromneighbouring Kosovo.1 2 While con-demning the terrorists, NATO—through the UN—has also been "rais-ing the urgent need for restraint bythe Macedonian forces".13

This double-talk is of course a formof political camouflage: you say thatyou are against the terrorists, and thensupport them via the KLA with guns,ammo and military advisers paid bythe US public purse.

FINANCING BOTH SIDESBut there is something else even more terrifying that has not

been revealed to public opinion. The guerrilla war in the Tetovoregion of Macedonia is being financed and therefore controlled byWashington on "both sides" of the border. While Washingtonpumps money into the KLA, the FYR of Macedonia (which hasbeen an obedient client state) is also the recipient of US militaryaid and training. Macedonia is a member of NATO's Partnershipfor Peace (PfP) program and aspires to acquire full NATOmembership.

The same group of US military advisers on contract with theKLA is also "helping" the Macedonian Armed Forces. TheMPRI—while assisting the KLA in its terrorist assaults—is alsopresent behind enemy lines in Macedonia under a so-calledStability and Deterrence Program. The latter is intent upon"assisting the Macedonian Armed Forces...to deter armed aggres-sion and, should deterrence fail, defend Macedonian territory".1 4

What is happening is that the US mercenary company with a man-date "to defend the border" is also advising the KLA on how best"to attack the border".

But there is something else even more terrifying

that has not been revealedto public opinion.

The guerrilla war in the Tetovo region ofMacedonia is being

financed and thereforecontrolled by Washington

on "both sides" of theborder.

Is this not crystal clear? The military-intelligence ploy is tofinance both sides of the conflict, provide military aid to one sideand finance the other side. And then "make them fight". It's asinister military-intelligence game, an "insider operation" with USmilitary advisers on both sides from the same mercenary outfit(the MPRI). Macedonia's Stability and Deterrence Program is infact largely supported by US foreign military sales (FMS); name-ly, MPRI is in charge of delivering to (i.e., dumping on) theMacedonian Armed Forces obsolete weapons and hardware thatthe US Department of Defense wants toget rid of.

Moreover, with its various sources offinancing (drugs, Islamic organisations,US military aid, contributions from theUS–Albanian community), the KLAand its Macedonian proxy, the UshtiraClirimtare Komtare, have the upperedge. The money channelled from vari-ous sources, including the drug trade,far exceeds the meagre FMS allocationsgranted in the form of surplus militaryequipment to the Macedonian Ministryof Defence.15

The friendly and cordial meetingsheld in Skopje in July 2000 betweenGeneral Henry H. Shelton, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs ofStaff, and his Macedonian counterpart, General Jovan Andrevski,constitute an obvious smokescreen. While America's top brasspays lip service to its PfP partner and ally, the KLA—with thesupport of the Albanian–American community—is activelyrecruiting US citizens to fight as volunteers against theMacedonian Security Forces.16

Bear in mind that this pattern of "financing both sides" is notlimited to the Balkans. Since the end of the Cold War,Washington has been involved in channelling covert financingand triggering civil conflicts in different parts of the world includ-ing Central Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia. By financingboth sides of the conflict, the US controls the outcome of the war.

MPRI OVERSEES THE SHOWMPRI, which recruits a wide range of military

and intelligence expertise from its databank offormer military personnel, is controlled by ahandful of former generals and ex-CIA officers.

General Rich Griffitts (Retired), responsiblefor MPRI's program in Macedonia, talks to theMacedonian Chief of Staff. He also talks toKLA Commander Agim Ceku, with whom hehas had a longstanding relationship sinceOperation S t o r m in Croatia in 1995. Ceku ispart of the MPRI's "old boys' network". In col-laboration with MPRI, he was one of the mainarchitects of Operation Storm. In this capacity,he also acted as commander of the artillery divi-sion, which ruthlessly shelled Krajina Serbcivilians.7

Whether MPRI personnel stationed inKosovo are in direct contact or communicationwith their colleagues in Macedonia is not theissue: all MPRI military staff in the field reportback to Rich Griffitt, Crosbie Saint and CarlVuono (President of MPRI) at the company'sheadquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

Crosbie Saint, in charge of the company's "International Group",coordinates MPRI's various operations in Kosovo and Macedoniaas well as in Croatia and Bosnia. In turn, Saint, who is a formerdirector of military intelligence, is in permanent contact with thePentagon, KFOR and the CIA.18

THE HIDDEN AGENDA So what kind of war is this? Both sides in the Macedonia bor-

der war are controlled by the US. American military personnelfrom the same private mercenary compa-ny are stationed on "both sides of thefence", assisting their local counterpartsto fight a war on Washington's behest.

If this war is allowed to continue, itwill inevitably lead to the escalation ofethnic hatred, civilian casualties andrefugee numbers. This in turn willresult in political destabilisation andsocial unrest in both Macedonia andYugoslavia, thereby providing a pretextto Washington and NATO to intervenedirectly under the guise of "peacekeep-ing" and "confidence building". Alsoincluded in the hidden agenda is themobilisation of ethnic Albanians in

Macedonia to support or become part of the KLA's structure. In other words, Washington is "financing ethnic warfare" as a

means to achieve broad geopolitical, strategic and economicobjectives using the KLA as a proxy force.

Meanwhile, the "international community", warning of animpending "humanitarian disaster", has sent in an army ofobservers and human rights experts with a mandate to protect thepolitical and social rights of ethnic Albanians. This brokered"reconciliation"—imposed by NATO under UN auspices—isbased on the premise that ethnic Albanians in Macedonia are anoppressed social minority. It not only fosters socio-ethnic divi-sions within Macedonia; it also provides legitimacy to the KLA-sponsored "freedom fighters" as well as international media sym-pathy. It tends to discredit the Macedonian Security Forces,thereby weakening their ability to fight the KLA.


Since the end of the Cold War,Washington has been involved in channelling covert financing and triggering civil conflicts in

different parts of the worldincluding Central Africa, theCaucasus and Central Asia.

While Washington continues behind the scenes to support theterrorists, the military alliance presents itself as an impartial medi-ator. In turn, NATO's informal mouthpiece, the Organisation forSecurity and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), is placing the blameon the Skopje government, calling upon "the legal authorities inthe FYR of Macedonia, Presevo and Kosovo to act to restorepeace and security ... all sectors of the Macedonian society[should] co-operate peacefully and...build inter-ethnic confi-dence".19

The dispatching of Bulgarian troops into Macedonia (underNATO's Partnership for Peace program) to fight the rebels could,if implemented, contribute to triggering a much broader confla-gration in the region. Similarly, ethnic clashes—also engineeredby Washington—have been triggered in Montenegro, which has asizeable Albanian ethnic minority. And in Montenegro, the MUP,Montenegro's highly partisan police force, is being assisted by theCroatian Armed Forces, who in turn are being trained by theMPRI under the so-called Croatian Armed Forces Readiness andTraining System (CARTS). Likewise, demanding "autonomy" forethnic Hungarians in the north of Vojvodina is part of NATO'sploy, with large numbers of NATO troops stationed on theHungarian side of the border. More generally, the various mili-tary aid packages provided to Croatia, Bosnia and the KLA areultimately directed against Serbia.20

Despite the compliance of the Belgrade and Skopjegovernments to Washington's demands, US foreign policypurports to eventually dismantle political institutions and get ridof political parties that resist US–NATO domination. Theirobjective is eventually to break up what remains of Yugoslaviainto what UN Balkans envoy Carl Bildt has called a "patchworkof protectorates" on the "Kosovo–Bosnia model" under UN"peacekeeping"—namely, under military occupation.21

A Dayton-style agreement is the chosen framework for displac-ing and destroying existing state institutions including a fragileyet functioning parliamentary system. With regard to Macedonia,the OSCE has appointed Ambassador Robert Frowick to workwith the Skopje government. His terms of reference are clear. In1996, Frowick was put in charge of implementing "democracy" inBosnia–Hercegovina under the Dayton Agreement; the Bosnian"Constitution"—previously drafted by American lawyers at theUS Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio—was appended to the 1995US-brokered General Framework Agreement.22

DISARMING THE NEW WORLD ORDERThe terrorist assaults in Macedonia and southern Serbia are

serving Washington's strategic goals in blatant violation of inter-national law. NATO is increasingly discredited in the eyes ofworld public opinion. The lies and falsehoods are surfacing andthe people of Yugoslavia are determined to preserve their sover-eignty in the face of American aggression.

US foreign policy directed against so-called "rogue states" lackscredibility both in the US and internationally. Around the world,citizens are looking to Yugoslavia and the courage of its peoplewho have resisted the imposition of the New World Order. Thelies concerning the war against Yugoslavia have been uncoveredand revealed to millions of people. ∞

About the Author:Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at the University ofOttawa, Canada, and is author of The Globalization of Poverty(Common Courage Press, 2001). He can be contacted by fax on +1(514) 425 6224, or by email at [email protected]. Thetext of this article, originally titled "Washington Finances EthnicWarfare in the Balkans", can also be found on the Emperor's Clotheswebsite, http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm.


Endnotes1. See Tom Walker and Aiden Laverty,"CIA Aided Kosovo Guerrilla Army",Sunday Times, London, March 12, 2000.2. See "Intelligence Authorisation Act forFiscal Year 2000", HR 1555, Section 308,entitled "Report on Kosova LiberationArmy", available athttp://www.senate.gov/search/index.html.3. See Tammy Arbucki, "Building aBosnian Army", Jane's InternationalDefence Review, August 1997.4. See Military Professional Resources, Inc,"Personnel Needs", MPRI web page athttp://www.mpri.com/.5. See Michel Chossudovsky, "UnitedNations Appoints Alleged War Criminal",Emperor's Clothes, March 2000,http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm. 6. See Tom Walker, "Kosovo Defence ChiefAccused of War Crimes", Sunday Times,London, October 10, 1999. 7. Quoted in John Sweeney and Jen Holsoe,"Kosovo Disaster Response Service StandsAccused of Murder and Torture", Observer,London, March 12, 2000.8. See Michel Chossudovsky, "KosovoFreedom Fighter Financed by OrganizedCrime", Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1999;also published by Emperor's Clothes,

http://emperors-clothes.com/indexe.htm.9. See Tom Walker, "NATO Troops Caughtin a Balkan Ulster", Sunday Times, London,March 18, 2001. 10. This is according to DEA documentsreviewed and quoted in R. Chandran, "US-backed KLA Linked to Heroin Network", athttp://www.voz-rebelde.de/ipan51.htm. Seealso Michel Chossudovsky, "KosovoFreedom Fighters Financed by OrganizedCrime".11. Quoted in New American Magazine,May 24, 1999.12. Quoted in New York Times, March 20,2001.13. United Nations Interim AdministrationMission In Kosovo (UNMIK), PressRelease, March 29, 2001.14. See MPRI web page,http://www.mpri.com/subchannels/int_europe.html.15. US military aid under the FMS programfor Macedonia was $4 million in FY 2000;$7.9 million was appropriated for 2001.More recently, the US announced a $13.5-million military aid package. SeeGovernment of Macedonia, Ministry ofDefence, Communiqué, March 21, 2001;Congressional Budget Justification forForeign Operations, Fiscal Year 2001,Released by the Office of the Secretary of

State, Resources, Plans and Policy, USDepartment of State, March 15, 2000. 16. New York Times, March 19, 2001.17. See Michel Chossudovsky, "NATO hasInstalled a Reign of Terror in Kosovo", July1999, http://emperors-clothes.com/indexe.htm.18. See MPRI web page, op. cit.19. Statement by OSCE ParliamentaryAssembly President Severin on formerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia andKosovo, March 23, 2001, athttp://www.osce.org/news/generate.php3?news_id=1563.20. See Michel Chossudovsky, "The WarAgainst Yugoslavia Is Not Over", June 2000,at www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/warnot.htm.21. See Carl Bildt's statement athttp://www.usip.org/oc/cibriefing/bildt_cib.html. Bildt was the HighRepresentative in Bosnia following the adop-tion of the Dayton Agreement in 1995.22. For a discussion, see MichelChossudovsky, "Dismantling Yugoslavia,Recolonizing Bosnia", Covert ActionQuarterly, Spring 1996; also published byEmperor's Clothes at http://emperors-clothes.com/indexe.htm. The text of theBosnian Constitution is available athttp://www.bosnia.co.uk/dayton.html.




[Editor's Note: This article refers to several research studies involving animals. Wewish to advise that NEXUS does not condone animal experimentation or vivisection.]

ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT: MYTHS AND FACTS

America has a phobia, an irrational fear, about ultraviolet (UV) light. In a newscience fad, unwise practices are being urged on us. The resulting sickness andmisbehaviour will mystify yet enrich physicians, psychiatrists, dentists andcriminal specialists as well as pharmaceutical drug companies.

In too many scientific and medical fields, for a lot of researchers the truth is definedonly in relationship to the next grant, peer pressure and the fight to further an entrenchedview. This essentially political process goes on despite any—in this case very strong—evidence to the contrary.1 Much "science" research is known to be fraudulent.2, 3 Such aflow of funded research almost exclusively in one direction is characteristic of potentiallydangerous science fads. Almost all "scientists" are out to prove something so as to contin-ue their careers; to them, finding the truth is only secondary.

UV intensity is now forecast in population centres daily. The US EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) suggests that when outdoors we should "protect ourselvesagainst ultraviolet light whenever we can see our shadow". And many physicians givetheir patients the same warning. This is terrible advice. If man were a machine, a doctorcould repair or replace one part without worrying about the rest of the contraption. Man isno machine, but more like a web or hologram. Every organ and every part affects all theother parts; in fact, cells in every part communicate with all the other parts.4

As a result of the EPA's kind of advice, which is based on junk science, the use of sun-glasses is epidemic; we hide behind stylish darkened car windows, we slather our skinwith sunscreen for even brief sun exposure. People who engage in these practices areruining their disposition5 and health.

The phobia arose after investigators anaesthetised animals, propped their eyes open andshined intense UV light into them; this damaged their retinas. Excessive exposure to onekind of ultraviolet (shorter-wave, germicidal UVC) can damage tissue. But the EPAmakes the ridiculous leap from that truth to the conclusion that we should avoid all UV.UVC is not present increasingly in sunlight; a purported thinning of the protective ozonelayer has been debunked (see below). UVC is found in tanning salons and halogenl a m p s .6 In fact, the trace amounts of UV radiation in natural daylight are required forphysical and mental health, civilised behaviour, muscle strength, energy and learning. 7

Sunlight, in moderation, improves immunity and stimulates our metabolism whiledecreasing food craving, and increases our intelligence.

• Ozone Hole Danger Disproved The following passages and references are from Richard Hobday's book, The Healing

Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century.8

"There have been no increases in skin cancer, eye diseases, immune system disorders orenvironmental damage which can be attributed to an increase in ultraviolet radiation. Thelargest South American city close to the Antarctic ozone hole is Punta Arenas in southernChile. Despite reports to the contrary, there have been no ozone-related health problemsat Punta Arenas, and measurements of ultraviolet radiation show that any increases are toosmall to have any appreciable effect.[9]

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exposure to full-spectrum light.

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"A paper published in 1998 by the European Science andEnvironmental Forum challenges the consensus view on ozonedepletion, and argues that predictions made by the scientificestablishment and the media have been ill-founded.[ 1 0 ] If this isthe case, and the hole in the ozone layer is, after all, a temporarythinning of the upper atmosphere in the early spring, then there isno reason to fear that people will develop skin cancer becauseultraviolet radiation has become more dangerous.

"There is certainly no evidence to support the widely held viewthat the increase in malignant melanoma in recent years is in someway linked to ozone depletion. The trend predates the issue ofozone loss, which may have been going on for some time before itwas noticed. A paper published in the British Journal of Cancershows that from 1957 to 1984 the incidence of malignantmelanoma in Norway increased by 350 percent for men and 440 per cent for women.During the same period there was no changein ozone levels over Norway, nor any signif-icant change in annual exposure to ultravio-let radiation from the Sun.[ 1 1 ] Scare stories,such as the one about sheep in Chile devel-oping cataracts because of increased ultravi-olet radiation, are not supported in the scien-tific literature. The sheep in question werelater found to have had an infectious disease,and sunlight was not implicated.[12, 13]

"What is clear, however, is that there is agreat deal of ill-informed comment on thesubject of ozone depletion and, for thatmatter, sunbathing. Should depletionof the ozone layer ever become a causefor real concern, then some peoplemight develop cancer who might nothave, had there been no depletion, butuntil this happens there is much moreto be gained from investigating the realcauses of skin cancer and encouragingsafe sunbathing than in being preoccu-pied with the state of the Earth's upperatmosphere and blaming everything onthe Sun. Diet and lifestyle play a farmore significant part in the genesis of cancer than is currentlyrecognised. The same can also be said about another conditionthat is supposed to be on the increase because of ozone deple-tion—that of senile cataract."

Note that even low exposure to UVB significantly increases therisk of cataracts,1 4 but only with the consumption of a Westernjunk food diet rich in unsaturated fats and their oxidised prod-ucts.15, 16 Those (including myself) who consume a more sensiblediet, and supplement it with vitamins C and E, do not get cataractseven from lengthy sun exposure.17, 18

PHOTOBIOLOGYStarting from a high-school hobby of time-lapse photography,

the late John N. Ott, DScHon,19 founded the new science of photo-biology. He was active into his tenth decade.

Dr Ott's last book, one of many publications, is Light, Radiationand You: How to Stay Healthy ( 1 9 9 0 ) .2 0 In it he wrote:"Mankind adapted to the full range of the solar spectrum, and arti-ficial distortions of that spectrum—malillumination, a conditionanalogous to malnutrition—may have biologic effects." In aninterview published in 1991, he noted: "There are neurochemicalchannels from the retina to the pineal and pituitary glands, the

master glands of the whole endocrine system that controls the pro-duction and release of hormones. This regulates your body chem-istry and its growth, all organs of your body, including your brain,and how they function."21

The critical reader will ask: where are the controlled, scientifictests supporting Dr Ott's statements? The answer to that questionis: who can make money promoting sunlight? Think about it.

I. Ultraviolet Deprivation Health Effects First, let's consider the health effects of ultraviolet deprivation.

• Indoor Lighting and MelanomaMalignant melanoma is often alarmingly but wrongly blamed

on sun exposure. The dangerous kind, called skin cancer, is ulti-mately fatal if not corrected. A study by theUS Navy found the most melanoma in peo-ple who worked indoors all the time. Thosewho worked both outdoors and indoors someof the time had the lowest incidence. Also,most melanomas appeared on parts of thebody that are seldom exposed to sunlight.2 3

The inference is that both very high and verylow exposures to UV light can be harmful—and moderate exposure is healthful.24

• Sunscreens and MelanomaSunscreens block out only UVA and

UVB, which we all need in trace amounts,but not the potentially dangerous, ger-micidal UVC. No commercial sun-screens have been proved safe.25 Theirchemicals penetrate the skin into thecirculation and add to the burden oftoxins to be detoxified.2 6 C o m m e r c i a lsunscreens increase the risk ofmelanoma by causing mutations whenthe cells' chromosomes interact withthe chemicals and the light.2 7 N a t u r a lsunscreens, as well as commercialones, curtail needed uptake of vitaminD3 from UVB, increasing the risk of

the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.Moreover, Lita Lee, PhD, notes: "Mounting evidence indicates

that many of them [sunscreens] contain carcinogens and that therise of skin cancers parallels the increase in sunscreen usage. Theonly sunscreen I recommend is coconut oil, although, believe me,you c a n n o t slather this oil on your skin and bake in the sun allday. Adding a little iodine to the coconut oil for the first week ofsummer gives added protection; however, do not use the iodinefor more than a week, as continued use will inhibit your thyroidfunction. In my opinion, the only other safe (non-carcinogenic)sunscreen would be one containing titanium dioxide."28

• Fluorescent Lighting and MelanomaA study published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet and

a Russian study found that fluorescent light rather than sunlightpromotes melanoma, proportionately to the time of exposure.29, 30

In the Lancet study, among a sample of nearly 900 women, thosewho worked indoors under fluorescent lighting had 2.l timeshigher melanoma risk (95% confidence interval, CI, 1.32 to 3.32)than others. Among women exposed for 20 years or more, therelative risk (RR) was 2.6 (95% CI, 1.2 to 5.9). Relative risks werelower in women who had been most heavily exposed to sunlight,


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such as weight gain, depression,

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both playing outdoors as children and sunbathing as adults. In asmaller sample of men, the RR for fluorescent lights with 10 ormore years' exposure was 4.4; and for those who had spent theleast time in the sun while children, the RR was 7.3.

And so we see that lengthy exposure to full-spectrum sunlight,including trace UV, partially "immunised" both men and womenagainst later development of melanoma. These exposures hadtaken place in the 1960s and 1970s, before the supposed thinningof the protective ozone layer far above us. But as we saw earlier,UV penetration of the atmosphere has not increased.31, 32

All this thoroughly explodes the claim that sun exposure causesmalignant melanoma.

In the 19 years since publication of Beral's carefully researchedarticle in the L a n c e t, no one has refuted the finding. But manyignore it and could make more money if the article and its infor-mation would simply go away.

Why do fluorescent lights cause melanoma? "Emissions fromsuch light extend into the potentially carcinogenic range."33

Dr Ott found that, specifically, the cathodes located at the endsof the light tubes emit X-rays and other electromagnetic pollution.Plants living under the central portion of long fluorescent lighttubes grow normally; but when placed close to the ends of thetubes, their growth is abnormal and stunted. Laboratory animalsplaced in a cage close to the ends ofthese light tubes become aggressiveand cannibalistic.

Dr Ott also found that the lightfrom fluorescent tubes, as well as TVsets and computer terminals, causesred blood cells to clump togetherafter prolonged exposure. Thisreduces alertness, promotes a tiredfeeling and increases the risk of heartattack and stroke. 3 4 But when theends of the light tubes are shieldedwith lead and traces of UV are addedto the light, plants and animals underthem grow and function normally.3 5

And so wrapping the ends of fluores-cent light tubes with lead tape, saysDr Ott, is fully as important as full-spectrum light itself.36

Melanoma can also result from excessive exposure to sun-l a m p s ;3 7 their rays and those from bright halogen lights includesome of the dangerous UVC.3 8 If users of sunlamps consume ajunk diet, their risk of melanoma will be increased. Halogenlamps are also a serious fire hazard if they fall over or if inflam-mable material touches the extremely hot bulb.39, [40]

• Chlorination and MelanomaDrinking and swimming in chlorinated water can also cause

malignant melanoma.41, 42, 43, 44 Sodium hypochlorite, used in chlori-nation of water for swimming pools, is mutagenic45 in the Amestest and other mutagenicity tests.46, 47 Redheads and blonds are dis-proportionately melanoma-prone; their skin contains a relativeexcess of pheomelanins48 compared to darker people.49

Franz H. Rampen and his associates in The Netherlands statethat the worldwide pollution of rivers and oceans and the chlori-nation of swimming pool water have promoted an increase inmelanoma.50, 51, 52

Another major factor in the increase in reported incidence ofmelanoma has been physicians' continually relaxing theirstandards for what constitutes melanoma.

• Synthetic Hormones and MelanomaWhat about oral contraceptives and hormone replacement thera-

py (HRT)? Melanomas have increased sharply among women inthe principal Pill-taking countries of Australia, America and inEurope. In the Walnut Creek (California) study, all the womenwho developed melanomas under the age of 40 had used the Pill.By 1981, the overall increased melanoma risk for Pill-users wasstatistically significant at three times.5 3 The Pill also promotesdevelopment of heart attacks, in part by depleting body stores ofvitamin B6.54

Further, like breast cancer cells, those tumours have oestrogenreceptors. And so women on HRT are more likely to developmelanomas than non-users. A recent study of 52,705 women onHRT found that the risk of breast cancer increases by 2.3 per centfor each of the 11 years the average woman takes HRT. The goodnews is that the effect diminishes on stopping it and disappearsafter about five years. The authors comment: "These findingsshould be considered in the context of the benefits and other risksassociated with the use of HRT." 5 5 Others challenge theassumption that HRT provides benefits.56, 57, 58

II. Ultraviolet Deprivation Health EffectsCertain effects of ultraviolet deprivation are equally remarkable

and tie together with health benefits.

• FS Light & Childhood HealthIn 1973, radiation-shielded full-

spectrum (FS) lights were installed infive classrooms in Sarasota, Florida.And what happened? Severalextremely hyperactive, learning-disabled children calmed downcompletely and learned to read.Absenteeism dropped. The childrenin four standard-lit rooms continuedto misbehave (as tracked byconcealed motion-detecting cameras);their learning disabilities andabsenteeism were unabated. 5 9 A n dafter a year, students in the full-spectrum classrooms had one-third

less tooth decay than those taught under standard lighting.Laboratory mice, which had been exposed all their waking hoursto FS light, had zero tooth decay.60 Similar findings were reportedfrom California, Washington state and Alberta, Canada. 6 1 Aclassroom comparison in Vermont found that full-spectrumlighting strengthened immunity.62, 63

Why was there so much less tooth decay after exposure to full-spectrum light, including trace UV? And why did immunityimprove under FS lights? According to Dr Ott: "Every nutrition-al substance and medicine has a specific wavelength absorption.If those wavelengths are missing in the artificial light source aperson is exposed to, then the nutritional or other hoped-for bene-fits of the substance will not be utilised."6 3 a UV functions as anutrient and as a co-factor (a substance required for a bodilyprocess to occur) in the utilisation of other nutrients.

So the full-spectrum lights corrected the children's deficiency ofvitamin D3 (not the same as the toxic form of vitamin D added tomilk), now considered a pro-hormone. This enabled more com-plete calcium absorption—and lowers the risk of osteoporosis andhip fractures in later life. Recent research has found that nearlyhalf the people of all age groups taking RDA-strength supple-ments have too little vitamin D. When the body doesn't have

Dr Ott also found that the light from fluorescent tubes,

as well as TV sets and computerterminals, causes red blood cells

to clump together afterprolonged exposure.


enough of it to absorb adequate calcium from food, it extracts cal-cium from bone.64

FS light also strengthens immunity in other ways. It helps pro-tect against multiple sclerosis, heart attacks and conversion ofHIV to AIDS, among other things. These are elaborated and fullyreferenced in the remainder of the paper [see NEXUS website]."Protect ourselves from ultraviolet whenever we can see our shad-ow," as the EPA frighteningly warns? Won't doing that then con-stitute a full-employment plan for dentists, orthopaedic surgeonsand oncologists as well as pharmaceutical drug companies?

• FS Light vs Cancers Cancers hate full-spectrum light. A tumour-susceptible strain of

mice lived more than twice as long under full-spectrum as understandard lighting, and rats exposed to full-spectrum light hadsignificantly lessened tumour development. 65 The tunnel-visionedNational Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society ignorethese findings, which six major medical centres have confirmed.66

Terminal cancer patients, who Dr Ott knew of personally, gotwell in a rocking chair in the sunshine . Dr Jane Wright, directingcancer research at Bellevue MemorialMedical Center in New York City in1959, was fascinated by Ott's ideas.So she instructed progressive-tumourpatients to avoid artificial lights andstay outdoors as much as possible thatsummer. They were not to wear sun-glasses or prescription lenses, whichblock UV light. By that fall, thetumours in 14 of 15 had not grown,and some patients had got better; theone whose condition deteriorated satoutdoors but wore prescription lenses.Ott has been criticised for making noscientifically controlled human stud-ies. Well, funding for continuation of that study was with-drawn—that was his experience over and over.67

One woman with cancer ventured out with Norwegian fisher-men, ate a lot of their catch and recovered; friends ate fish butstayed inside—and their cancers killed them.68 Had she "protect-ed" herself from UV when she could see her shadow, as the EPAadvises, would her cancer have ended? And if sun-lovingArizonans threw away their sunscreens and sunglasses and limitedtheir sun exposure to about 30 minutes a day, 69, 70 wouldn't theircancers largely disappear?

A Chicago-area elementary school suddenly reported five timesthe national average incidence of leukaemia, a kind of cancer ofthe blood. All of the afflicted children but one were being taughtin rooms where teachers kept the blinds drawn, and the childrenwere exposed all day only to melanoma-promoting fluorescentlight. When even the amount of UV that can get through windowglass was let in, the leukaemia cluster disappeared.71 (RaymondPeat, PhD, thinks FS sunlight is best received through glass.72)

• FS Light vs Arthritis and Blindness Early in his research career, Dr Ott fell and broke his glasses;

soon, his arthritis disappeared. And in 1996, Marion PatriciaConnolly, executive director of Price–Pottenger NutritionFoundation (PPNF), had much the same experience. Full-spec-trum eyeglasses, i.e., lenses that transmit all ultraviolet light, aredifficult to find. I take off my glasses outdoors whenever I can.

Exposed to full-spectrum light, a father rat is docile and evenhelpful after his babies are born. But when the same rat pair is

moved under standard light, before the birth of the next litter themale must be removed to prevent aggressiveness and cannibalism.Moved back to natural light for still another litter, he is gentleagain.73 Although human fathers aren't likely to eat their babies,do we really want more domestic aggressiveness?

Alternating full-spectrum light and total dark cured childrenborn blind as a result of brain injury. The technique was advocat-ed by W. H. Bates about 1904 and endorsed by Aldous Huxley in1930. Efficacy was confirmed in the recent Annual Report fromthe British Institute for Brain Injured Children.74

How can all this be explained? Full-spectrum light, enteringthe eyes during waking hours, promotes night-time pineal glandsecretion of melatonin. This sleep-promoting antioxidant destroyscarcinogenic hydroxyl radicals—and also slows ageing. 75, 76

Melatonin can suppress growth of human breast cancer cells i nv i t r o (in a test tube), and can cross all barriers to enter everyc e l l .77, 78 So enough sleep—best achieved in total darkness 7 9—becomes anti-ageing, antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-heart attacktherapy!

Except in short-term emergencies, people younger than about50 should use supplements of melatonin

cautiously, if at all.80 For people over40 to 45, one to three milligramsbefore bedtime safely promotes bothprompt falling asleep and a goodnight's rest, in addition to its other ben-efits.81

In a laboratory, viruses are weakenedby exposure to full-spectrum light thatincludes traces of UV. Infectiousorganisms such as E. coli K 1 2AB2480, which can cause food poison-ing, dislike ultraviolet too. 8 2 T h eMorris Center in Winnipeg, Canada,promotes "amazing" healing by shining

full-spectrum light onto wounds.83

• FS Light vs Seasonal Affective DisorderThe power of full-spectrum light against SAD (seasonal depres-

sion)—again, by entering the eyes—has been amply demonstrat-ed. FS light benefits nonseasonal depression, too, 8 4 but not asm u c h .8 5 Such light energises and regulates the body's entirechemistry. Won't "protecting" millions of people from UV, as theEPA advocates, then worsen the growing epidemic of depression?

Dietary sufficiency of vitamin D also needs consideration here."Seasonal affective disorder has been treated successfully withvitamin D. In a recent study covering 30 days of treatment com-paring vitamin D supplementation with two-hour daily use oflight boxes, depression completely resolved in the D group butnot in the light-box group."87

The cells in the retinas of your eyes will not divide andregenerate without a small amount of ultraviolet light. And so full-spectrum light reduces the risk of retinal degeneration, the leadingcause of blindness among the elderly.88 Retinal haemorrhage, themost severe phase of the condition, can also result from long-termuse of aspirin.89 (A prominent ophthalmologist declared theoutcome "unlikely"; however, an exhaustive computer literaturesearch by Kirk Hamilton, PA-C, publisher of Clinical PearlsNews, found no refutation of the finding.) White willow barkprovides the same benefits as aspirin without stomach irritation orblindness, as do three glasses daily of purple grape juice. And

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THE TOTH INCIDENT

In Moscow on 11 June 1977, Los Angeles Times correspondent Robert C. Toth wasarrested and detained on a charge of illegally obtaining papers which disclosed "statesecrets". The papers had been given to Toth by a Soviet scientist, Valery G.Petukhov. Toth had first met the Russian biophysicist earlier in the year. While

Petukhov seemed eager to show his scientific findings to Toth, the correspondent felt thathis work was "only theory and far too complicated" for a newspaper story.

Toth reported that, as best as he could recall, Petukhov asserted that certain particles ofliving cells "are emitted" when such cells divide, that they can be "detected and measuredand that these radiating particles can carry information". Their function could "explainthe basis for telepathy" and related phenomena.

To Toth, Valery Petukhov seemed "like a serious scientist". According to a card hehanded the reporter, he was Chief of the Laboratory of Bio-Physics at the State ControlInstitute of Medical and Biological Research. He had been recommended to Toth by adissident Soviet scientist who later emigrated. At their first meeting, the Los AngelesTimes man told Petukhov that once the scientists had proved this theory he would be inter-ested in writing about it.

Months passed. In mid-June 1977, Petukhov phoned Toth. The biophysicist told Toththat his experiments had succeeded. He planned to describe them in a formal scientificpaper; but, as Soviet authorities would certainly refuse to publish his work, he wanted totranslate the paper into English and give it to Toth for publication in the West. At the ren-dezvous, Petukhov took a manuscript from his briefcase. It contained over 20 typewrittensheets, complete with charts and photos of charts. It looked like a complex, comprehen-sive scientific paper, well-documented, appropriately technical.

Toth never managed to get a real look at the paper; for it was at that moment that amelodrama began, when a Soviet-made Fiat braked sharply at the kerb. The car was filledwith five plainclothesmen who jumped out and quite unceremoniously pulled Toth inside.

Robert Toth's account stated: "Our car drove through red lights and down one-waystreets the wrong way to a militia [police] station. My captors were firm and polite, offer-ing me cigarettes. I was ushered into a room with an inspector who declined my requeststo phone the US Embassy but said a Soviet Foreign Ministry official would be called."

In addition to the Foreign Ministry official and a KGB agent, a man named Sparkin, thepolice inspector summoned a senior researcher of the USSR Academy of Sciences,Professor I. M. Mikhailov. Mikhailov was asked to provide expert testimony on the paperPetukhov had given to Toth, which the police were now treating as "evidence".

Specifically, Professor Mikhailov stated: "The article beginning Petukhov, Valery G.,from the words 'micro-organism self-radiation' to the words 'by means of vacuum particlesin space', states that within the content of living cells are particles...and these particles aregrounds for discussing the fundamental problems of biology in the context of biology andparapsychology. There is also information about the uses of such particles. This materialis secret and shows the kind of work done in some scientific institutes of our state."

This last sentence raised eyebrows among observers of Soviet parapsychological studiesthroughout the world. Earlier, Moscow authorities on various levels had denied several

Soviet advances inbiophysics and

biocommunicationsresearch forced theAmericans to set up

their own "crashprogram" in

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times that parapsychology was being researched in the SovietUnion.

A year before, Leningrad writer Vladimir Lvov had publishedan article in the leading French daily Le Monde, in which heasserted categorically: "The truth is simple: parapsychology isnot accepted as a legitimate and official branch within Soviet sci-ence. No institute or centre or research in the Soviet Union isdevoted to telepathy, psychokinesis, etc."

Yet the Mikhailov testimony in the Toth incident directly con-tradicted the Lvov statement.

Professor Mikhailov's testimony on the Petukhov paper andToth's police interrogation at the Pushkin Street Station lastedabout two-and-a-half hours. At last, a representative of the USEmbassy, Vice Consul Lawrence C. Napper, was permitted tocome to the station. The reporter's account of his meeting withPetukhov was read aloud and translated intoRussian. But Toth refused to sign a hand-written Russian version of it. The KGB manSparkin then told him he was "free to go".

Toth's Moscow difficulties were not at anend. The following Tuesday, Toth had atelephone call from another US Embassyofficial, Theodore McNamara, who askedhim to come to the Embassy immediately.He added that the matter was "serious".

At McNamara's office, Napper and twoother officials were waiting. They handedToth a Soviet note that had been deliveredhalf an hour earlier. It contained the follow-ing passages:

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs isauthorised to state the following to theAmerican Embassy:

'On 11th June of this year, RobertCharles Toth was apprehended at themoment of meeting a Soviet citizen—Petukhov, Valery Georgiyevich—which took place under suspicious cir-cumstances. When apprehended, theAmerican journalist was found to havematerials given to him by Petukhov,containing secret data.'

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairsinforms the American Embassy that, inconformity with established procedure, Toth will be summonedfor interrogation by the investigatory organs, in connection withwhich his departure from Moscow until the end of the investiga-tion is not desired."

Within the hour, a polite KGB agent, wearing a flowered shirtand grey suit, arrived, asked Toth to identify himself and told himto come to the State Security's Lefortovo Centre for interrogation.Toth was advised of Articles 108 and 109 of the Criminal Codeand that he did not have diplomatic immunity.

After two days of confusing interrogation, Toth was told:"Parapsychology as a whole may not be secret information. Butthere could be fields of science within parapsychology which aresecret. It is not for me, as it's a matter for experts to say what issecret, and the scientist has stated that the materials you receivedare a secret. And you received them under circumstances whereyour behaviour and the information seem to be a breach of ourlaw."

After the second interrogation, Toth was told he was no longerneeded. The US Embassy received confirmation from the Soviet

Foreign Ministry. Toth and his family quickly arranged for aflight to the United States.

The Toth incident was reported worldwide, and the WashingtonP o s t and the New York Times ran accounts of it. The incidentthen passed into oblivion, and most were none the wiser. Butintelligence analysts understood that Toth had got into his hand, ifonly for a few moments, one of the tips of the enormous icebergof top-secret Soviet research into psychic powers of the humanmind.

FEAR AND IDEOLOGY ON BOTH SIDESBy 1968, some years before the Toth incident, American intelli-

gence analysts had begun noticing a Soviet Secret Police (KGB)trend indicating serious interest in the West in what is called"parapsychology". This trend began when the KGB's far-flung

operations came under the direction of YuriAndropov (named General Secretary of theSoviet Communist Party in late 1982).

But even the KGB, for all of its experi-ence, large staff, skills and high-priority sta-tus, had not developed a clear-cut policytowards psychic experiments; conflictingattitudes within its leadership appear to havecaused erratic actions. This was well illus-trated when agents arrested Toth and therebyrevealed that secret research was in fact tak-ing place at government institutes.

US Government officials were jittery thatresearch in parapsychology might cause

them to be accused of spending publicfunds on science fiction projects.When columnist Jack Anderson report-ed early in 1981 that a laboratory in thebasement of the Pentagon was devotedto parapsychological experiments, hiscomments were heavy with ridicule andsarcasm.

Anderson's assistant, Ron McRae,alleged in an article, "Psychic Warfare"(The Investigator, October 1981), that"the Pentagon is spending millions onparapsychology in a crash program toend Russia's psycho-superiority".McRae, who was doing research for a

book on US Government projects in psychic studies, said the USSecret Service had "commissioned studies on ways to protect thePresident from the Kremlin's mind control". He wrote that itsagents as well as CIA staffers had been "required to take coursesin mind control" at universities in the Washington area, to "pre-vent them", as he put it, "from falling under the spell of Sovietpsychics". Although such claims at the time bore earmarks ofexaggeration, they were nonetheless indicative of intenseAmerican interest in psi warfare possibilities.

But American media accounts of psi warfare spread alarm andamusement, and an ideological battlefield erupted not only in theUnited States but in the Soviet Union also. On the ideologicalbattlefield of international Marxism, the controversy about para-psychology, by whatever name, had gone on for two decades; itshowed no signs of abating.

Typical of those who regarded psychic studies as ideologicalheresy was Soviet mathematician-physicist Dr AlexanderKitaygorodsky, who had categorised clairvoyance, precognitionand psychokinesis as "supernatural" and thus outside "the domain

But intelligence analystsunderstood that Toth had got into his hand,

if only for a fewmoments, one of the tips of the enormousiceberg of top-secretSoviet research into

psychic powers of thehuman mind.


of the natural sciences". Writing in the Moscow periodical Naukai Religia (Science and Religion ), an atheistic magazine, DrKitaygorodsky stated as long ago as March 1966: "To me, thereis no doubt whatever that those who relate such fairy tales arefrauds, mystificators or, at best, grossly deceived. Men havebelieved in miracles for centuries, and for centuries there haveexisted charlatans and impostors, conscious or unconscious. Andthe struggle against such deception of the human mind has goneon for centuries, and in each century it has to begin anew."

But in the same magazine, science writer Leonid Fillipov tookthe opposite view and cited Marxist gospel to prove his point. Heasked: "Does Professor Kitaygorodsky seriously believe that thefrontiers of physics have been reached?" He cited scientificbreakthroughs in radioactivity, quantum theory and lasers, andwrote: "What if telepathic phenomena conform to some new, asyet undiscovered laws which do not contradict already knownrules governing electrons?" Fillipov added: "Rejecting a priorithe possibilities of telepathy and otherprocesses still unfamiliar to science amountsto rejecting Lenin's idea that, on any givenlevel of scientific development, our knowl-edge of the work remains incomplete."

But beyond viewing with exaggeratedalarm, ridicule-cum-hyperbole and the credi-bility gap lie the realities of psychic func-tions, for good or ill. To obtain the correctperspective, let us keep in mind that para-psychology can play only a supporting rolein the Soviet Union's or any other military-scientific complex. It must therefore be seenas one element within a large and diffusedefensive-offensive research apparatus.Psychic elements might well be inte-grated into, rather than be operatedseparately from, other scientific or mil-itary projects.

A major attraction for planners is thepromise of financial and organisationalshortcuts. Why engage in high-costarmaments, for example, if one or sev-eral psychics might influence person-nel in the enemy's missile silos, as aDIA report suggested? The costs ofmilitary hardware are a heavy burdenon national economies in the East aswell as in the West—and ESP is cheap.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOVIET PSYCHICRESEARCH MACHINE

The origins of the Soviet psychic research machine remain amystery at best, mostly due to gaps in accessible documentation.In any case, it would be clear that the research and attempteddevelopment of specific, useful, psi powers of mind proceeded atthe start under severe ideological difficulties. Thus it is not easilyunderstandable how, and especially why, the Soviet researchmachine grew to the monumental extent it did by about 1977.

Soviet efforts to harness telepathy (mind-to-mind communica-tion), telekinesis (better known as psychokinesis, the influence ofthe human mind on matter), or any other psychic ability needed toovercome strong ideological objections from Marxist theoreti-cians. Pragmatists, even those highly placed in scientific or gov-ernment circles, needed to justify their hopes for psychic experi-ments in acceptable ideological terms.

Historically, Western parapsychology was rooted in the 19th-century efforts to find scientific proof for such traditional reli-gious beliefs as life after death.

And as psychic phenomena retain the mysterious air of theunknown or unexplored, many Marxists accused Western para-psychologists of propagandising religio-folkloric "superstition"and of advocating soft-headed "idealistic" concepts, in contrast tothe strictly "materialistic" approach promulgated by Karl Marxand V. I. Lenin. Such criticisms had been voiced on and off forsome 20 years in the Soviet Union.

During the life of Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist ideologueseven accused the Soviet Union and the United States of usingparapsychology to foster "religion without the Cross" in order todistract their citizenry from economic difficulties.

As we examine analyses of Soviet research, this continuing ide-ological conflict must be kept in mind. But there can be littledoubt that the extent of the Soviet effort did become enormous.

In 1978, a US intelligence report was declas-sified and released, although it had originallybeen scheduled for declassification inDecember 1990. The report was entitled"Controlled Offensive Intelligence Agency(DIA), Task Number T72-01-14". In part, itread:

"The Soviet Union is well aware of thebenefits and applications of parapsychologyresearch. The term parapsychology denotes[in the Soviet Union] a multi-disciplinaryfield consisting of the sciences of bionics,biophysics, psychophysics, psychology,physiology and neuropsychology.

"Many scientists, US and Soviet, feel thatparapsychology can be harnessed tocreate conditions where one can alter ormanipulate the minds of others. Themajor impetus behind the Soviet driveto harness the possible capabilities oftelepathic communication, telekineticsand bionics is said to come from theSoviet military and the KGB[Committee of State Security, SecretPolice]."

In continuing, the DefenseIntelligence Agency report asserted thatthe Soviet Union enjoyed a "head start"in the field and had provided substantialfinancial backing. The report conclud-

ed that "Soviet knowledge in this field is superior to that of theUS". It noted that Soviet researchers had explored "detrimentaleffects of subliminal perception techniques" that might even be"targeted against the US or allied personnel in nuclear missilesilos" by "telepathic means". The report also stated:

"The potential applications of focusing mental influences on anenemy through hypnotic telepathy have surely occurred to theSoviets... Control and manipulation of the human consciousnessmust be considered a primary goal."

At this point, the reader should again be cautioned that the ideo-logical controversy about the study and use of psychic potentialsin the USSR had created gaps in public knowledge that inevitablyled to rumours and unverifiable claims. "Hypnotic telepathy", ofwhich the DIA report spoke, may well have been one of the targetareas of Soviet research, but little current information on its statuswas available.

"The major impetusbehind the Soviet drive to harness the possible

capabilities of telepathiccommunication,

telekinetic and bionics is said to come from the Soviet military

and the KGB [Committee of State

Security, Secret Police]."


However, Russia had a long history of hypnosis studies in med-icine, education and psychiatry. Soviet literature reflected ongo-ing and contemporary scientific interest in the stimulation oftelepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis, either by drugs or elec-tronic means. In the past, Russian researchers had experimentedwith telepathy at a distance—a technique of intriguing potential.

SOVIET PSYCHIC RESEARCH ORIGINSIt is quite likely that the Soviet research machine may have

originated with the work of Bernard Bernardovich Kazhinsky, astudent in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) in the state of Georgia, bordering onthe Black Sea. His interests apparently were triggered by a tele-pathic experience of his own.

In February 1922, Kazhinsky was invited to address the All-Russian Congress of the Association of Naturalists, a top scientif-ic organisation perhaps equivalent to the American Institutes ofMental Health today. The topic of his lecture was "HumanThought-Electricity", and he quickly published a book under thesame title.

It would be clear, with Kazhinsky havingbeen invited to address the All-RussianCongress, that the Congress supported andfunded Kazhinsky's research work, whichthereafter apparently became classified. By1923, he had published his early findings in abook entitled Thought Transference. Thisbook attracted favourable attention amongimportant brain researchers at the time.

More visible and easier to document wasthe work of Professor Leonid L. Vasiliev,later to become Chief of the Department ofPhysiology at the University of Leningrad.Born in 1891, Vasiliev had been a stu-dent of Leningrad physiologistVladimir M. Bekhterev, who had estab-lished the Leningrad Brain ResearchInstitute. His granddaughter, Natalia P.Bekhtereva, joined the Institute in 1921and ultimately became its director.

Vasiliev became a member of theCommittee for the Study of MentalSuggestion the following year. "Mentalsuggestion", or hypnosis, became cen-tral to his interest. In 1928, he visitedParis as well as other WesternEuropean cities. Vasiliev spoke andwrote French fluently, and the ParisInstitut Métapsychique International (IMI) remained his majorcontact with Western psychical research throughout his life.

Vasiliev established an ideological basis for the Soviet researchin several books, lectures and articles. His basic thesis was thatthe experimental facts of telepathy, for example, should be exam-ined from a physiological (or material) viewpoint, so that theycould not be exploited by advocates of "religious superstition" (oran idealistic viewpoint). He was criticised as providing a pseudo-scientific framework for a return to idealism under the mantle ofMarxist dialectical materialism.

His major and influential book, Biological RadioC o m m u n i c a t i o n , was published in Kiev by the UkrainianAcademy of Science in 1962. Kazhinsky concluded that he had"experimental confirmation of the fact that communicationbetween two people, separated by long distances, can be carriedout through water, over air and across a metal barrier by means of

cerebral radiation in the course of thinking, and without conven-tional communication facilities."

He added: "One important feature of the above-mentionedexperiment is worthy of attention. The electromagnetic wavesaccompanying the thought-formation process (visual perceptions)in the inductor's brain reached the cells of the inductee's cortexafter having travelled a long distance, not only in the air andthrough water but also through the hull of a submarine. Thiswould justify the following conclusions: 1) these electromagneticwaves were propagated spheroidally, not in a narrow directedbeam; 2) these waves penetrated though the submarine hull,which did not block them; that is, it did not act as a 'Faradaycage'."

Kazhinsky noted that a radio receiver in the marine laboratoryof the Soviet scientific research vessel Vityaz had been unsuccess-ful in intercepting electric waves emitted in the water by the tor-pedo fish. He added: "...the radio receivers in the submarine didnot intercept these waves. This prompts the conclusion that some

electromagnetic waves of a biological originpossess yet another, still unknown, charac-teristic which distinguishes them from con-ventional radio waves. It is possible that ourignorance of that particular characteristicimpedes further development of researchwork in that field."

Vasiliev noted in another book,Experiments in Distant Influence ( w h i c hfirst appeared in Moscow in 1962), thatwhile official denials of the shore-to-subma-rine experiment suggested "a certain cau-tion", nevertheless: "This experimentshowed—and herein resides its principal

value—that telepathic information canbe transmitted without loss through athickness of water and through thesealed metal covering of a submarine;that is, through substances whichgreatly interfere with radio communi-cation. Such materials completelyabsorb short waves and partly absorbmedium waves, the latter being consid-erably attenuated, whereas the factor(still unknown to us) which transmitssuggestion penetrates them withoutdifficulties."

EXPERIMENTS BY USCORPORATIONS & MILITARY

Many have claimed that the infamous USS N a u t i l u s story of1959 in the United States served as the major prod for Soviet bio-communications research. However, by 1959, some four decadesafter the Soviet research had already begun, presumably theirmachine would not have needed such a prod.

The Nautilus was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine,launched in 1954 and christened by First Lady MamieEisenhower, wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. TheN a u t i l u s made its first voyage under the North Pole in 1958.Soon afterwards, French accounts claimed that while the subma-rine was cruising deep in Arctic waters it received telepathic mes-sages from a research centre maintained by the WestinghouseCorporation at Friendship, Maryland. The US Navy denied thatsuch a test had ever taken place or that it was otherwise engagedin telepathy experiments.

"This prompts theconclusion that some

electromagnetic waves of a biological originpossess yet another,

still unknown,characteristic which

distinguishes them fromconventional radio

waves."


However, several sources in France appeared which claimedotherwise. My own efforts to obtain confirmation of the Frenchreports were unsuccessful. The reports held that such major UScorporations as Westinghouse, General Electric in Schenectady,New York, and Bell Telephone in Boston had begun telepathyresearch in 1958. The aim was to develop thought transmissionby telepathy, to record and produce telepathic signals, and todetermine the amplitude and frequencies on which telepathy oper-ated.

According to the French sources, President Eisenhower hadreceived a study prepared by the Rand Corporation of LosAngeles, a "think tank" under contract to the armed forces andother US Government agencies. The report was said to recom-mend studying the use of telepathy to establish communicationwith submarines—particularly those cruising in waters under thepolar ice-cap, where radio communication channels are particular-ly difficult.

Westinghouse's Friendship Laboratoryallegedly undertook just such an experimentwith the USS N a u t i l u s, linking one personon land (the sender or inductor) with anotherperson in the submarine (the receiver orinductee) while the vessel was submerged.Representatives of the US Navy and AirForce were present during the experiment,according to the reports.

The original French reports fixed the start-ing date as 25 July 1959. The tests contin-ued daily for a total of 16 days. The personin charge was identified as Colonel WilliamH. Bowers, director of the BiologicalDepartment of the Air Force researchinstitute and the man who directed theexperiments at Friendship. Lateraccounts identified the sender or induc-tor as "Smith", a student at DukeUniversity, who was confined to one ofthe Westinghouse Laboratory's build-ings during the experimental period.

The procedure was designed to haveSmith transmit "visual impressions"twice daily at specified times. Usingmethods developed by J. B. Rhine at theParapsychology Laboratory, DukeUniversity, Durham, North Carolina, acontrolled timing device shuffled 1,000ESP cards in a revolving drum in such a manner as to drop fivecards on a table, one at a time, at one-minute intervals. Smithpicked up each card as it came out of the drum, looked at it andsought to memorise the image. At the same time, he drew a pictureof the symbol (square, cross, star, wavy lines or circle) on a pieceof paper before him. Each test thus produced a sheet of papercovered with five symbols. Smith sealed each paper into anenvelope, which Colonel Bowers locked into a cage.

At the same time, a Navy lieutenant, identified as "Jones", satisolated in a stateroom on the Nautilus, functioning as the recipi-ent of the images Smith sought to convey by telepathy. Twicedaily, Jones drew five symbols on a sheet of paper, choosing fromamong the same symbols used by Smith. He placed the sheetinside an envelope, sealed it and turned it over to his superior,Captain William R. Andersen. The captain wrote the time anddate of the experiment on the envelope and put it into a safe in hisown cabin. During the 16-day experiment period, Jones saw no

one else except for one sailor who brought him meals and per-formed other routine services.

The final segment of these events, as reported in France, beganwith the arrival of the N a u t i l u s at Groton, its cruise completed.The envelopes were removed from the commander's safe, sent bycar under escort to the nearest military airfield, flown toFriendship Airport near Baltimore, and then taken to ColonelBowers's laboratory. There the two sets of sheets were taken fromtheir envelopes, dates and times matched with each other and theresults tabulated. In over 70 per cent of the cases, the figures tal-lied: Jones had correctly "guessed" three-fourths of the imagesseen by Smith.

I was put off by these reports, particularly by the high scoreascribed to these experimental subjects and by their all-too-typicalAmerican names.

On the other hand, the New York Herald Tribune had reportedon 8 November 1958 that the Westinghouse Electric Corporation

had begun to study ESP using speciallydesigned apparatus. Dr Peter A. Castruccio,director of the company's newly organisedAstronautic Institute, had spoken of the ESPstudies as "very promising", with the cautionthat "a lot more work must be done beforewe can come up with anything practical".

I questioned W. D. Crawford, StaffSection, Air Arm Division, Westinghouse,on the project and he said that "while thesestudies have scientific value, any conclusionat this time would be premature and incon-clusive". These statements were publishedin the Newsletter of the Parapsychology

F o u n d a t i o n (Jan–Feb 1959), as was areport that Bell Telephone Laboratorieshad considered an ESP research projectbut had abandoned it.

The N a u t i l u s story is often referredto as a hoax, since the French and othersources remain unconfirmed.However, the telepathic part of thestory might have added interest to theSoviet effort, already four decades oldby 1958.

In any event, Raphel Kherumain, aprominent member of the Paris InstitutMétapsychique International, collectedarticles on the N a u t i l u s story and

mailed them to his long-time professional friend, Leonid Vasiliev. The implications that the Americans might be conducting ESP

experiments did enter into the Soviet Union's ongoing monolithicresearch machine, which influenced the lives of countless menand women and caused expenditures that by 1983 were supposedto amount to US$500 million annually.

EXPERIMENTS WITH PSI PARTICLESAcross the Ob River from Novosibirsk, a pioneer town in west-

ern Siberia, lies Academgorodok, or Science City. For some fouryears, its Institute of Automation and Electrometry maintained aresearch unit with the nondescript name of "Special DepartmentNo. 8". The building which housed the department could only beentered if one knew the code, changed each week, for opening themain door's lock. The "No. 8" operation was devoted to experi-ments in information transmission by bioenergetic means. As partof its program, physicists sought to discover the nature of "psi

The aim was to developthought transmission bytelepathy, to record and

produce telepathicsignals, and to determine

the amplitude andfrequencies on whichtelepathy operated.

particles"—the elusive elements that some Soviet scientistsregarded as essential to the function of such psychic techniques asbiocommunication and bioenergetics.

Novosibirsk was a logical place for such advanced studies.After World War II, its Science City was developed with such sin-gle-mindedness that even the names of the streets and city squaresreflect its nature. For example, one could take a bus downThermophysics Street, get off at the corner of Calculators Streetand walk across Institute of Hydrodynamics Square. The citycontained some 40 research centres and housed tens of thousandsof scientists and their families.

When the No. 8 project was established in 1966, some 60researchers were brought to Science City from other parts of theUSSR. One of the researchers, Dr August Stern, provided anaccount of the department's operation after he migrated to Francein 1977. He told the New York Times that the project's director, aSoviet officer, Vitaly Perov, had shown special "deference to twovisitors", presumably KGB officers, "whocame in the early days" of the project "tocheck on the installations".

Theory and application of psi principleswere part of the experiments. Stern dealtwith aspects of theoretical physics, designedto solve the enigma of psychic energiesflowing between living things. He said thatthe centre's elaborate equipment had "costmany millions". In line with other Sovietexperiments, the Novosibirsk centre didsuch things as apply electric shocks to kit-tens to see whether their mother, three floorsabove, would react to their experience in atelepathic way. This type of experi-ment was similar to a rumoured test inwhich baby rabbits were taken downbelow sea level in a Russian submarineand then killed while the mother rabbitremained ashore, her reactions moni-tored by measuring brain and heartfunctions.

Project No. 8 included telepathy-type distance experiments among peo-ple. Inductors, or senders, were stimu-lated in one group of rooms whilerecipients were placed elsewhere, theirresponses monitored on closed-circuittelevision. The centre also undertookthe study of electromagnetic forces in person-to-person and mind-over-matter experiments. Among the laboratory animals used inthe project were monkeys.

Stern recalled further details: "There were also experimentswith photon waves, in which frogs' eyes were used as a more sen-sitive measuring instrument than a machine. Another experimentinvolved putting bacteria on two sides of a glass plate to seewhether a fatal disease could be transmitted through the glass. Itwas reasoned that if this could be done, it would show that pho-tons—light particles—accounted for some inexplicable forms ofcommunication."

Stern did not succeed in the project he had been assigned, andwhich he regarded as a legitimate scientific challenge. In fact, thewhole No. 8 department was dissolved in 1969, much too early tohave achieved definitive results. Stern concluded that the shut-down reflected "a change in attitude or power balance in theKremlin". Presumably, Moscow authorities had decided on

different administrative or research tactics in dealing with psychicstudies.

Stern's recollections concerning photon waves have since beenconfirmed. Three researchers at Novosibirsk's Institute ofClinical and Experimental Medicine and at the Institute ofAutomation and Electrometry (Siberian Section, USSR Academyof Sciences) are credited with undertaking the key experiment onthe problem. They were Vlail Kanachevy, Simon Shchurin andLudmilla Mikhailova. Their experiment, designed to establishphoton communication between cells of living organisms, hasbeen listed in the State Register of Discoveries by the Committeefor Invention and Discoveries, which functioned under the USSRCouncil of Ministers. An English translation of their paperappeared in the Journal of Paraphysics (vol. 7, no. 2, 1973) as"Report from Novosibirsk: Communication between Cells".

Their experiment indicated that cells could communicate ill-ness, such as a virus infection, despite the fact that the cells were

physically separated. The tests showed thatwhen one group of cells was contaminatedwith a virus, the adjacent group—althoughseparated by quartz glass—"caught the dis-ease". When regular glass was used to sepa-rate the two cell groups, the non-contaminat-ed cells remained healthy.

The experimenters linked their idea to theconcept prominent in Soviet bioenergeticsresearch: the existence of unknown commu-nication channels in living cells for the trans-fer of information—"a language of wavesand radiation", as Shchurin called it. Themedical researcher added these comments:

"Why should information on all theprocesses of life be necessarily trans-mitted by chemical means, which arecertainly not the most economicalmethods? After all, any chemicalchange is primarily an interaction ofelectrons, complicated formations thatcarry a reserve of energy. In collidingwith a substance, they would eithertransfer this energy to it or radiate it inthe form of photons, or light particles.

"Today there are no methods forstudying the specific character of pho-ton radiations, the constant normal radi-ation or normal cells. We decided to

evade the ban imposed by physics by creating an artificial situa-tion. We subjected cells taken from an organism to extremeeffects to observe the character of radiations emitted by them.That the cell radiated photons was known. But perhaps the cellwas able to perceive them, too? Our experiments provided theanswers to this question."

The barrier of quartz glass permitted neither viruses nor chemi-cal substances to travel between the two vessels inhabited by thecells. Yet, as Shchurin picturesquely put it, "the affected cells vir-tually cried out loud about the danger" when they were attackedby the virus, and "their cry freely penetrated the barrier of quartzglass which permitted ultraviolet waves to pass".

"Something highly improbable happened," noted Shchurin."These waves were not only perceived by the neighbouring cells,they also conveyed the sickness to the neighbouring cells."



Their experimentindicated that cells could communicate

illness, such as a virusinfection, despite

the fact that the cells were physically

separated.




"SOMETHING FROM NOTHING"REVISITED

by Jerry W. Decker, KeelyNet, 2001

Most mainstreamers have the erro-neous conception that alternativescience fans, experimenters and

researchers are looking to "create some-thing from nothing" in order to providepower necessary to run their perpetualmotion machines or free energy devices.

The majority of people I know and com-municate with are seeking one thing: aworking free energy or gravity controldevice—something we all can see, test,build (or buy) and use to make all of ourlives easier.

It gets ever more tedious having toexplain and correct people who write orcall in, calling me and others who thinkalong similar lines "flakes", "fools","idiots" or other choice insults. Theyhaven't bothered to study the very subjectsthey are ranting against. They haven'tbothered to ask questions, follow any dis-cussions or read any documents relating tothe subject. Yet they have no problemwriting rude or insulting letters, full of a dh o m i n e m attacks, believing themselves tobe the possessor of all that is right and true.Where does the error lie?

I've often thought of writing up a webpage, explaining it in terms and analogiesthe "critics" can understand, so that is whatthis page is attempting to do.

This paper is intended to address fourkey points which I consider as the basis forall energy production:

1) the concept of aether/ZPE; 2) creation of energy from nothing; 3) thermodynamics; 4) conversion.

The "Lost Aether" (now called ZeroPoint Energy or ZPE)

Purists prefer the term "aether", but Ithink the term should be used interchange-ably with the newer "ZPE", also called "thespacetime metric" or "vacuum energy". Itis spelled with an "a" to avoid confusionwith the chemical ether.

(Much like the popular "Brown's gas",which was essentially stolen from DrRhodes who patented it in 1966 and hascontinued with additional research, I thinkthe cleanest, most rational thing to do atthis late stage is to call it "hydroxy gas", asused during World War II and earlier.)

Because of such confusions, I choose touse the term "aether" in combination toform "aether/ZPE", and so include the oldand the new.

In a nutshell, aether/ZPE is the energetic"quantum foam" of space. It permeates andsustains the universe. It pops in and out ofexistence in a ceaseless "jitter", and in itswake produces the effect of gravity, otherenergies and the localisations (precipita-tions of energy) that produce matter. Justas E = mc2, where matter can be explodedto produce immense forces, so too canenergy be coalesced and precipitated toproduce matter.

It has been detected by Casimir as animmense pressure by the forces exerted on

two dielectric plates, and erroneouslydescribed as an "attraction"—as extractedfrom my Rectifying Chaos file:

"The Casimir force is a short-rangeattraction between any two objects, causedby...electromagnetic fluctuations in thevacuum. ...any two plates, whether con-ductor or dielectrics, would experience afourth power force law...also proportionalto the dielectric constant of the plates.

"The equations are only valid down to aseparation distance proportional to the min-imum wavelength at which the plates arestill a good conductor, or the dielectric con-stant is not unity. For distances closer thanthat...attractive force will...increase...at arate proportional to the third power of theseparation distance...

"The closest separation distance... [thathas been attained is 14 angstroms] (aboutfive atoms) with two crossed cylinders ofmica...

"...the measured force between the twomica cylinders was over ten tons per squaremetre!"

S C I E N C E

"Heavier-than-air flyingmachines are impossible."

— Lord KelvinPresident, Royal Society, 1895

"I think there is a worldmarket for maybe fivecomputers."

— Thomas WatsonChairman, IBM, 1943

"There is no reason for any individual to have acomputer in their home."

— Ken OlsenPresident, Chairman & FounderDigital Equipment Corp., 1977

"The [flying] machine willeventually be fast; they willbe used in sport, but theyare not to be thought of ascommercial carriers."

— Octave Chanuteaviation pioneer, 1904


I won't belabour the explanation ofaether/ZPE with all the information avail-able on the Net, but I do want to make oneother point. Nature seeks equilibrium.When equilibrium is disturbed, it producespolarisation, a separation into two distinctforces: a positive-pressure wave and a neg-ative-vacuum wave, both of which seek torejoin in order to achieve an equilibriumthat matches the ambient environment.

Whenever you have polarities, you havea gradient for each polarity. This gradientcan be thought of as having the greatestintensity on the outside of the wave whereit is furthest from the ambient zeroreference.

Gravity decreases as you ascend from theEarth. In this case, it means it is strongestnearest the Earth. Therefore, you have agradient that can be tapped to use the gravi-ty increase over distance (height) to pro-duce work.

Aether/ZPE, being omnipresent, also hasdensities that are gradients. The Casimirplates do not push together when even aninch apart, but, placed within 14 angstroms,the pushing of the ambient ZPE forcesthem together with a pressure of 10 tonsper square metre, as earlier quoted.

Do not tons convert to pressure? Can wenot take advantage of this pressure, asMaclay is attempting under the auspices ofhis US$300,000 NASA grant?

There is a new science coming whichwill revolutionise the world in ways wecannot now imagine.

The Creation of Energy ErrorThis first issue deals with the commonly

held consensus that we seek "somethingfrom nothing" and are attempting to createenergy. The standard erroneous statementmade by orthodox science goes back as faras Sir Isaac Newton, who once observed:"The seekers after perpetual motion are try-ing to get something from nothing."

To my view and in my communicationswith many others, nothing could be furtherfrom the truth. No one with whom I havecommunicated has ever suggested thatenergy was being created. Instead, manyof us believe it is possible to extract energyfrom the repulsion/attraction of magnetism,from gravity and from the omnipresentaether/ZPE.

But let us not limit our seeking to justthree sources, but expand it to include anyenergy or force gradient, knowing that thepolarities, when placed in the properarrangement, must combine to create thenatural condition of equilibrium.

As the polarities move to recombine, weintend to guide them through the wheel-work of our machinery to do practicalwork. It also might be possible to tap intothe force that causes the equilibrium dis-ruption in the first place, since there is anexpansion and a collapse cycle to any equi-librium disturbance.

Irreversible Entropy and ClosedSystems

The two major errors made by modernscience is sticking to the belief in the firstand second "laws" of thermodynamics.

The first law states that the total energy,including heat, in a (closed) system is con-served. By "closed", we mean a systemthat is completely cut off or insulated fromits surroundings, so that no material orenergy enters or leaves.

The second law states that for a sponta-neous process, there is a net increase inentropy. The second law is possibly themost misunderstood scientific principle.The two most obvious misuses are:

1. Perpetual motion machines;2. The statement, "Evolution is impossi-

ble since entropy can't decrease".With regard to point 1, there is no closed

system possible with materials and forcescurrently available (at least publicly) that

can prevent the passage of aether/ZPE andg r a v i t y into the so-called "closed" system;e r g o, additional forces from outside thebox, and which pass into and through thebox, are necessarily injecting extra energyi n s i d e the box, which can be interceptedand converted to add energy to the closedsystem.

Can anyone deny that gravity permeatesthe box? If it did not, the box would floatoff into space with nothing to hold it down.Would it not follow that an aether/ZPEwould also permeate the closed system?

We must learn to c o n v e r t or t r a n s l a t ethat additional energy (aether/ZPE, gravity,whatever) into a form that we can use, i.e.,

mechanical, electrical, etc. This is whatmany so-called perpetual motion and freeenergy machines do, and many of us atKeelyNet are trying to replicate these forpractical use worldwide.

With regard to point 2, under the secondlaw, the claim states that there is always anet i n c r e a s e in entropy, which drags thesystem down into chaos and causes it even-tually to stop; meaning that entropy is irre-versible and there can be no restorative,rejuvenating force.

Under currently undefined conditions, itshould be possible to adjust the perfor-mance characteristics of a system so thatthe operation involves the least possible

N E W S C I E N C E N E W S C I E N C E N E W S C I E N C E

"Computers in the futuremay weigh no more than1.5 tons."

— Popular Mechanics, 1949

"The telephone has toomany shortcomings to beseriously considered as ameans of communication.The device is inherently ofno value to us."

— Western Union memo, 1876

"Airplanes are interestingtoys but of no militaryvalue."

— Marshal Ferdinand FochFrench Commander of Allied

Forces during the closing monthsof World War I, 1918

"The wireless music box hasno imaginable commercialvalue. Who would pay fora message sent to nobody inparticular?"

— David Sarnoff's associates,responding to his urgings for

investment in radio in the 1920s


resistance as well as takes advantage of theintroduction (and conversion to otherforms) of outside energy (as per "law" no.1) in the form of gravity, aether/ZPE, etc.

To my view, it appears that everythingkeys into a wave or motion, where one halfof that wave or motion is positive, under"pressure" and adds power, and the otherside is negative, has "vacuum" and extractspower.

If the energy is already separated fromthe natural state of equilibrium, then mostof our work is done. Why? Because it isthe recombining of these polarities back toa state of equilibrium that will provide the

"work" we can use to carry out practicalapplications.

In the case of gravity, it already has agradient and so is immensely available fortapping under the right configuration. Inthe case of aether/ZPE, which pops intoand out of existence, we need to learn todetect its appearance and capture it. Itmight be possible to capture as the originalunknown force that separates the vacuumin the first place, and with the collapse ofthe wave back to its state of equilibrium.

When you think about an expansionwave versus a collapsing wave, there mightbe properties quite opposite each other, andwhich deal with the claims of a "cold cur-rent"—where sparking wires produce frost,and circuits tapping this form of energy

produce cold in the local area. However,that is beyond the scope of this paper.

With aether/ZPE, it is a matter of rectifi-cation of the energy as it appears andbegins to collapse. This can be tapped toproduce mechanical or electrical forces,where the separated, polarised energies canbe guided into a single form of either purepositive or pure negative. This is dealtwith in my paper on Rectifying Chaos.

Conversion versus CreationNow for the crux of all this verbiage: the

contention that free energy enthusiastsclaim to create something from nothing.That is an error. We are trying to convertgravity and other ambient forces intomechanical and/or electrical energy thatcan do work. It's not such a brain-stretcher.In fact, we depend on conversion from oneform of energy to another in our everydaylives; for example:

1) we convert the motion of a magneticfield past a copper coil into electricalcurrent;

2) we convert wind energy to electricalenergy or mechanical force;

3) we convert water energy to electricalenergy or mechanical force;

4) we convert geothermal energy to elec-trical energy or mechanical force;

5) we convert gasoline and other com-bustibles to explosive force or to heat or tolight;

6) nature converts sunlight and heat intolife itself with the right mix of nutrients.

None of these produces "something fromnothing"; it is the conversion of somethingto something else, from one form of energyto another form of energy.

Is it so hard to comprehend the c o n v e r -sion of gravity, aether/ZPE or other gradi-ents into other useful forces?

One bugaboo we face is proving theexistence of aether/ZPE in a practical,reproducible and simple experiment that

anyone can do and will undeniably showthe presence of aether/ZPE.

That does not apply to gravity, whichone day we will learn to tap when we dis-cover how to overbalance a wheel, asJohannes Bessler did, or when we learn toreduce the intensity of gravity under onehalf of a wheel so it will be continuallyoverbalanced and "fall into itself".

There is no question that gravity is aforce, and we do in fact tap it through theflow of water over a dam to producemechanical power converted to electricalcurrent in hydroelectric installations. Theoverbalancing principle used by Besslerand probably others is the key to the wholething.

It is important to bear in mind that withan influx of energy, such as gravity, fromspace, there must be a gradient as itincreases with proximity to the Earth.Where there is a gradient, there is a differ-ence of potential. When there is a differ-ence of potential, you have the natural flowof the two potentials trying to rejoin to re-establish equilibrium. In this case, it is theattraction of gravity towards the Earth. It isthe force exerted by nature, in her attemptat regaining equilibrium, that we must learnto tap.

Since there is a natural overbalance dueto the gradient, if we can lower the resis-tance of the recovery side of the circuit ordesign to a level less than the additionalenergy imparted from the pressurised sideof the gradient, then we first achieve unityand then over-unity.

We have the Casimir effect to show thepressure of aether/ZPE to the tune of 10tons per square metre—a tremendous

amount of energy that forces the dielectricplates together. This should be capable of"conversion" to produce work as practicalapplications.

Lambertson's WIN cell (at least the sam-ples I saw) uses a rubbery insulator lookingsomething like silicone caulk so that theplates slap together from the pressurised


"The bomb will never gooff, and I speak as an expertin explosives."

— Admiral William LeahyUS Atomic Energy Project, 1945

" We don't like their sound,and guitar music is on theway out."

— Decca Recording Co. rejecting The Beatles, 1962

"Who the hell wants to hearactors talk?"

— Harry M. WarnerWarner Brothers, 1927

"Everything that can beinvented has beeninvented."

— Charles H. DuellCommissioner, US Office of

Patents, 1899


high side of the wave; then, when the vacu-um-release side of the wave comes intoplay, the rubber pushes the plates apart to"recock" or "reload" it for the next pressurewave that again collapses it.

The machines that will present a problemrequiring very-long-term monitoring andmeasurement are those like Bedini's andthe Gray motor, which use very little elec-trical energy to get a large mechanicalforce, thus extending the life of the batteryfar longer than is normal.

John Bedini says he has machines in hisbasement that have been running for yearson a single battery. He says that Beardenvisited once and accidentally bumped intoa battery which had been running amachine for years; the battery fell apart andwas dried out inside, but the machine keptrunning. Ask him; he'll tell you that him-self.

The bottom line is that the device mustproduce sufficient energy to recharge thedriving circuit; otherwise, over a very longperiod of time, it will run down as it provesout to be an extended pendulum effect,

where a clockspring, once wound, willeventually run down unless it can somehowrewind itself—something that every branchof physics says cannot happen due to thefirst and second laws.

In Bedini's case, as I understand it, thebattery is recharged in a negentropic, nega-tive resistance effect peculiar to hismachines.

Research done by Prigogine and othersin the fields of chaos theory, criticality, dis-sipative structures and self-organisingfields is shedding light on how suchprocesses work—research that I think willprovide key design components when thefirst reproducible, self-running free energycircuit is publicly released and duplicatedworldwide.

One final comment. Some think thatsimple experiments are wasted time, effort,money and resources. They take theapproach that "it's all been done before"and so is well understood, therefore "don'tbother doing experiments, don't tinker,don't try anything that hasn't been proved".

Other frequent comments... What goodare "anomalies", tiny effects that have nopossible use? What good is running a mag-net past a wire, because it only produces atiny current? Has that not been scaled upwith bigger magnets and more coils to pro-

duce massive electrical power? What goodis burning a few drops of gasoline or oil,only useful for lighting? Has that kind ofthinking not been disproved by explodingthe expanded gas or oil in a closed cylinderto transport our nation?

There are, of course, many more obvious"anomalies" that have changed the world,conceived by perceptive people willing to

experiment, share and expand on what hasbeen found.

Many of our most useful processesresulted from these simple, useless anom-alies. For that reason, KeelyNet has alwaysurged people to experiment wherever pos-sible, even repeating supposedly "known"

experiments with the possibility that youmight experience something that no oneelse has noticed; or you might build yourown version of a "known" experiment thatcould well produce an interesting anomaly,which could be scaled up for the next bigdiscovery. If nothing else, you are buildingup your equipment, skills and understand-ing that will help you with future projectsand experiments.

So before you write an email criticisingfree energy seekers, you might also write tothe providers and users of windpower, solarpower, hydroelectric and geothermal poweras well as anyone who drives a car, mows alawn or runs a magnet past a coil to pro-duce electrical current, since they are pro-ducing energy from nothing and need to becorrected with your "laws". ∞

About the Author:Jerry Decker is an avid alternative sci-

ence networker and the founder andowner of KeelyNet. He has a 22-yearbackground in professional electronics,specialising in technical support andmachine maintenance.

A firm believer that information mustbe freely shared, particularly about freeenergy and gravity control technologies,Jerry has kept KeelyNet focused since itsinception as a bulletin board in 1988.

The goal of KeelyNet was, is andremains quite simple: to assist, inspireand catalyse working alternative sciencetechnologies that everyone can dupli-cate, verify and put into practical use tobenefit our world.

Jerry Decker can be contacted at: KeelyNet

PO Box 570309Dallas, TX 75357-0309, USA Tel/fax: +1 (214) 324 3501

Email: [email protected] Website: www.keelynet.com


"The ordinary 'horselesscarriage' is at present aluxury for the wealthy; andalthough its price willprobably fall in the future, itwill never come into ascommon use as the bicycle."

— The Literary Digest, 1889

"[It] is, of course, altogethervalueless... Ours has beenthe first, and will doubtlessbe the last, party of whites tovisit this profitless locality."

— Lt Joseph D. Ives, Corps ofTopographical Engineers, 1861,

on the Grand Canyon

"Landing and moving aroundon the Moon offer so manyserious problems for humanbeings that it may takescience another 200 years tolick them."

— Science Digest, August 1948

"X rays are a hoax." "Aircraft flight isimpossible." "Radio has no future."

— Lord Kelvinphysicist and mathematician

(1824–1907)


In the late 1880s, trade journals in the electrical sciences were predicting "free elec-tricity" in the near future. Incredible discoveries about the nature of electricity werebecoming commonplace. Nikola Tesla was demonstrating "wireless lighting" andother wonders associated with high-frequency currents. There was an excitement

about the future like never before. Within 20 years there would be automobiles, airplanes, movies, recorded music, tele-

phones, radio and practical cameras. The Victorian age was giving way to somethingtotally new. For the first time in history, common people were encouraged to envision autopian future filled with abundant modern transportation and communication as well asjobs, housing and food for everyone. Disease would be conquered and so would poverty.Life was getting better, and this time everyone was going to get "a piece of the pie".

So what happened? In the midst of this technological explosion, where did the energybreakthroughs go? Was all of this excitement about "free electricity", which happened justbefore the beginning of the last century, just wishful thinking that "real science" eventuallydisproved?

CURRENT STATE OF TECHNOLOGYActually, the answer to that question is "No". In fact, the opposite is true. Spectacular

energy technologies were developed right along with the other breakthroughs. Since thattime, multiple methods for producing vast amounts of energy at extremely low cost havebeen developed. None of these technologies has made it to the "open" consumer marketas an article of commerce, however. Exactly why this is true will be discussed shortly.

But first, I would like to describe to you a short list of "free energy" technologies that Iam currently aware and that are proven beyond all reasonable doubt. The common featureconnecting all of these discoveries is that they use a small amount of one form of energyto control or release a large amount of a different kind of energy. Many of them in someway tap the underlying aether field—a source of energy conveniently ignored by "modern"science.

1. Radiant Energy Nikola Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter, T. Henry Moray's Radiant Energy Device,

Edwin Gray's EMA Motor and Paul Baumann's Testatika Machine all run on "radiantenergy". This natural energy form (mistakenly called "static" electricity) can be gathereddirectly from the environment or extracted from ordinary electricity by the method called"fractionation". Radiant energy can perform the same wonders as ordinary electricity, atless than 1% of the cost. It does not behave exactly like electricity, however, and this hascontributed to the scientific community's misunderstanding of it.

The Methernitha Community in Switzerland currently has five or six working modelsof fuelless, self-running devices that tap this energy.

2. Permanent-Magnet-Powered Motors Dr Robert Adams (New Zealand) has developed astounding designs of electric motors,

generators and heaters that run on permanent magnets. One such device draws 100 wattsof electricity from the source, generates 100 watts to recharge the source and producesover 140 BTUs of heat in two minutes!

Dr Tom Bearden (USA) has two working models of a permanent-magnet-powered

The spread ofworking free-energy

technologies hasbeen prevented by

wealthy elites,governments,

deluded inventorsand con men, aswell as a non-

demanding public.

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Clear Tech, Inc.

PO Box 37

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electrical transformer. It uses a 6-watt electrical input to controlthe path of a magnetic field coming out of a permanent magnet. Bychannelling the magnetic field, first to one output coil and then toa second output coil, and by doing this repeatedly and rapidly in a"ping-pong" fashion, the device can produce a 96-watt electricaloutput with no moving parts. Bearden calls his device aMotionless Electromagnetic Generator, or MEG. Jean-LouisNaudin has duplicated Bearden's device in France. The principlesfor this type of device were first disclosed by Frank Richardson(USA) in 1978.

Troy Reed (USA) has working models of a special magnetisedfan that heats up as it spins. It takes exactly the same amount ofenergy to spin the fan, whether it is generating heat or not.

Beyond these developments, multiple inventors have identifiedworking mechanisms that produce motor torque from permanentmagnets alone.

3. Mechanical Heaters There are two classes of

machines that transform a smallamount of mechanical energy intoa large amount of heat.

The best of these purelymechanical designs are the rotat-ing cylinder systems designed byFrenette (USA) and Perkins(USA). In these machines, onecylinder is rotated within anothercylinder with about an eighth ofan inch of clearance betweenthem. The space between thecylinders is filled with a liquidsuch as water or oil, and it is this"working fluid" that heats up asthe inner cylinder spins.

Another method uses magnetsmounted on a wheel to producelarge eddy currents in a plate ofaluminium, causing the alumini-um to heat up rapidly. Thesemagnetic heaters have beendemonstrated by Muller (Canada),Adams (NZ) and Reed (USA).

All of these systems can pro-duce 10 times more heat thanstandard methods using the sameenergy input.

4. Super-EfficientElectrolysis

Water can be broken into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity.Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires moreenergy than can be recovered when the gases are recombined. Thisis true only under the worst-case scenario.

When water is hit with its own molecular resonant frequency,using a system developed by Stan Meyer (USA) and again recent-ly by Xogen Power, Inc., it collapses into hydrogen and oxygengas with very little electrical input. Also, using different elec-trolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better)changes the efficiency of the process dramatically. It is alsoknown that certain geometric structures and surface textures workbetter than others do. The implication is that unlimited amountsof hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car)

for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact that a special metal alloy was

patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957, which spontaneouslybreaks water into hydrogen and oxygen with no outside electricalinput and without causing any chemical changes in the metalitself. This means that this special metal alloy can make hydrogenfrom water, for free, forever.

5. Implosion/Vortex Engines All major industrial engines use the release of heat to cause

expansion and pressure to produce work, like in your car engine.Nature uses the opposite process of cooling to cause suction andvacuum to produce work, like in a tornado.

Viktor Schauberger (Austria) was the first to build workingmodels of Implosion Engines in the 1930s and 1940s. Since thattime, Callum Coats has written extensively on Schauberger's work

in his book Living Energies, andsubsequently a number ofresearchers have built workingmodels of Implosion TurbineEngines. These are fuellessengines that produce mechanicalwork from energy accessed froma vacuum. There are also muchsimpler designs that use vortexmotions to tap a combination ofgravity and centrifugal force toproduce a continuous motion influids.

6. Cold Fusion TechnologyIn March 1989, two chemists,

Martin Fleischmann and StanleyPons, from Brigham YoungUniversity, Utah (USA),announced that they had producedatomic fusion reactions in a sim-ple tabletop device. The claimswere "debunked" within sixmonths and the public lost inter-est.

Nevertheless, cold fusion isvery real. Not only has excessheat production been repeatedlydocumented, but also low-energyatomic element transmutation hasbeen catalogued, involvingdozens of different reactions!This technology definitely canproduce low-cost energy and

scores of other important industrial processes.

7. Solar-Assisted Heat PumpsThe refrigerator in your kitchen is the only "free energy

machine" you currently own. It's an electrically operated heatpump. It uses one amount of energy (electricity) to move threeamounts of energy (heat). This gives it a "co-efficient of perfor-mance" (COP) of about three. Your refrigerator uses one amountof electricity to pump three amounts of heat from the inside of therefrigerator to the outside of the refrigerator. This is its typicaluse, but it is the worst possible way to use the technology. Here'swhy.

A heat pump pumps heat from the "source" of heat to the "sink"


Dr Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)

or place that absorbs the heat. The "source" of heat should obvi-ously be hot and the "sink" for heat should obviously be cold forthis process to work the best. In your refrigerator, it's exactly theopposite. The "source" of heat is inside the box, which is cold,and the "sink" for heat is the room temperature air of yourkitchen, which is warmer than the source. This is why the COPremains low for your kitchen refrigerator. But this is not true forall heat pumps.

COPs of 8 to 10 are easily attained with solar-assisted heatpumps. In such a device, a heat pump draws heat from a solarcollector and dumps the heat into a large underground absorber,which remains at 55°F (12.78°C); mechanical energy is extractedin the transfer. This process is equivalent to that of a steamengine that extracts mechanical energy between the boiler and thecondenser, except that it uses a fluid which "boils" at a muchlower temperature than water.

One such system, tested in the 1970s, produced 350 hp, mea-sured on a dynamometer, in a speciallydesigned engine from just 100 square feet ofsolar collector. (This is not the system pro-moted by Dennis Lee.) The amount of ener-gy it took to run the compressor (input) wasless than 20 hp, so this system producedmore than 17 times more energy than it tookto keep it going! It could power a smallneighbourhood from the roof of a hot-tubgazebo, using exactly the same technologythat keeps the food cold in your kitchen.

Currently there is an industrial-scale heatpump system set up just north of Kona,Hawaii, which generates electricity fromtemperature differences in ocean water.

There are dozens of other systemsthat I have not mentioned, and many ofthem are as viable and well tested as theones I have just recounted.

But this short list is sufficient tomake my point: free energy technologyis here, now. It offers the world pollu-tion-free, energy abundance for every-one, everywhere.

It is now possible to stop the produc-tion of "greenhouse gases" and shutdown all of the nuclear power plants.We can now desalinate unlimited amounts of seawater at anaffordable price and bring adequate fresh water to even the mostremote habitats. Transportation and production costs for justabout everything can drop dramatically. Food can even be grownin heated greenhouses in the winter, anywhere.

All of these wonderful benefits that can make life on this planetso much easier and better for everyone have been postponed fordecades. Why? Whose purposes are served by thispostponement?

UNSEEN ENEMIES OF FREE ENERGY TECHNOLOGYThere are four gigantic forces that have worked together to cre-

ate this situation. To say that there is and has been a "conspiracy"to suppress this technology only leads to a superficial understand-ing of the world and it places the blame for this completely out-side of ourselves. Our willingness to remain ignorant and action-less in the face of this situation has always been interpreted bytwo of these forces as "implied consent".

So, besides "a non-demanding public", what are the other threeforces impeding the availability of free energy technology?

1. The Money MonopolyIn standard economic theory, there are three classes of industry:

capital, goods and services. Within the first class, capital, thereare also three sub-classes: natural capital, currency and credit.Natural capital relates to raw materials (such as a gold mine) andsources of energy (such as an oil well or hydroelectric dam).Currency relates to the printing of paper "money" and the mintingof coins; these functions are usually the job of government.Credit relates to the lending of money for interest and its exten-sion of economic value through deposit loan accounts. From this,it is easy to see that energy functions in the economy in the sameway as gold, the printing of money by the government or the issu-ing of credit by a bank.

In the United States, and in most other countries around theworld, there is a "money monopoly" inplace. I am "free" to earn as much "money"as I want, but I will only be paid in FederalReserve notes. There is nothing I can do tobe paid in gold certificates or some otherform of "money". This money monopoly issolely in the hands of a small number of pri-vate stock banks, and these banks are ownedby the wealthiest families in the world.Their plan is eventually to control 100 percent of all the capital resources of the worldand thereby control everyone's life throughthe availability (or non-availability) of allgoods and services. An independent source

of wealth (a free energy device) in thehands of each and every person in theworld would ruin their plans for worlddomination, permanently. Why this istrue is easy to see.

Currently, a nation's economy can beeither slowed down or sped up by theraising or lowering of interest rates.But if an independent source of capital(energy) were present in the economy,and any business or person could raisemore capital without borrowing it froma bank, this centralised throttling actionon interest rates would simply not have

the same effect. Free energy technology changes the value ofmoney. The wealthiest families and the issuers of credit do notwant any competition. It's that simple. They want to maintaintheir current monopoly control of the money supply. For them,free energy technology is not just something to suppress, it mustbe permanently forbidden!

So, the wealthiest families and their central banking institutionsare the first force operating to postpone the public availability offree energy technology. Their motivations are the imagined"divine right to rule", greed and their insatiable need to controleverything except themselves. The weapons they have used toenforce this postponement include intimidation, "expert"debunkers, buying and shelving of technology, murder andattempted murder of the inventors, character assassination, arsonand a wide variety of financial incentives and disincentives tomanipulate possible supporters. They have also promoted thegeneral acceptance of a scientific theory that states that freeenergy is impossible (the laws of thermodynamics).


Free energy technologychanges the value of

money.

The wealthiest familiesand the issuers of credit

do not want anycompetition.

It's that simple.

2. National Governments The second force operating to postpone the public availability

of free energy technology is national governments. The problemhere is not so much related to competition in the printing of cur-rency but the maintenance of "national security".

The fact is, the world out there is a jungle and humans can becounted upon to be very cruel, dishonest and sneaky. It is govern-ment's job to "provide for the common defence". For this, "policepowers" are delegated by the executive branch of government toenforce "the rule of law". Most of us who consent to the rule oflaw do so because we believe it is the right thing to do, for ourown benefit. However, there are always a few individuals whobelieve that their own benefit is best served by behaviour thatdoes not voluntarily conform to the generally agreed upon socialorder. These people choose to operate outside of "the rule of law"and are considered outlaws, criminals, subversives, traitors, revo-lutionaries or terrorists.

Most national governments have discovered by trial and errorthat the only foreign policy that really works over time is a policycalled "tit for tat". What this means to you and me is that govern-ments treat each other the way they are being treated. There is aconstant "jockeying" for position andinfluence in world affairs, and the"strongest" party wins! In economicsit's called "the Golden Rule", whichstates that "the one with the goldmakes the rules". So it is with poli-tics, also, but its appearance is moreDarwinian. It's simply "survival ofthe fittest".

In politics, however, the "fittest"has come to mean the strongest partythat is also willing to fight the dirti-est. Absolutely every means avail-able is used to maintain an advantageover the "adversary", and everyoneelse is the "adversary" regardless ofwhether they are considered friend orfoe. This includes outrageous psycho-logical posturing, lying, cheating, spying, stealing, assassinationof world leaders, proxy wars, alliances and shifting alliances,treaties, foreign aid and the presence of military forces whereverpossible.

Like it or not, this i s the psychological and actual arena inwhich national governments operate. No national governmentwill ever do anything that gives an adversary an advantage simplyfor free. Never! It's national suicide. Any activity by any indi-vidual, inside or outside the country, which is interpreted as giv-ing an adversary an edge or advantage in any way, will be deemeda threat to "national security". Always!

Free energy technology is a national government's worst night-mare! Openly acknowledged, free energy technology sparks anunlimited arms race by all governments in a final attempt to gainabsolute advantage and domination. Think about it. Do you thinkJapan will not feel intimidated if China gets free energy? Do youthink Israel will sit by quietly as Iraq acquires free energy? Doyou think India will allow Pakistan to develop free energy? Doyou think the USA would not try to stop Osama bin Laden fromgetting free energy?

Unlimited energy available in the current state of affairs on thisplanet will lead to an inevitable reshuffling of the "balance ofpower". This could become an all-out war to prevent "the other"from having the advantage of unlimited wealth and power.

Everybody will want it, and at the same time will want to preventeveryone else from getting it.

So, national governments are the second force operating topostpone the public availability of free energy technology. Theirmotivation is "self-preservation". This self-preservation operateson three levels: first, by not giving undue advantage to an exter-nal enemy; second, by preventing individualised action (anarchy)capable of effectively challenging official police powers withinthe country; and third, by preserving income streams derived fromtaxing energy sources currently in use.

Their weapons include preventing the issuance of patents onnational security grounds, and the legal and illegal harassment ofinventors with criminal charges, tax audits, threats, phone taps,arrest, arson, theft of property during shipment, and a host ofother intimidations which make the business of building and mar-keting a free energy machine impossible.

4. Delusion and Dishonesty in the FE MovementThe third force operating to postpone the public availability of

free energy technology consists of the group of deluded inventorsand outright charlatans and con men. On the periphery of the

extraordinary scientific breakthroughsthat constitute the r e a l free energytechnologies lies a shadow world ofunexplained anomalies, marginalinventions and unscrupulous promot-ers. The first two forces have con-stantly used the media to promote theworst examples of this group, to dis-tract the public's attention and to dis-credit the real breakthroughs by asso-ciating them with the obvious frauds.

Over the last 100 years, dozens ofstories have surfaced about unusualinventions. Some of these ideas haveso captivated the public's imaginationthat a mythology about these systemscontinues to this day. Names likeKeely, Hubbard, Coler and

Hendershot immediately come to mind. There may be real tech-nologies behind these names, but there simply isn't enough techni-cal data available in the public domain to make a determination.These names remain associated with a free energy mythology,however, and are cited by debunkers as examples of fraud. Butthe idea of free energy taps very deeply into the human subcon-scious mind.

However, a few inventors with marginal technologies thatdemonstrate useful anomalies have mistakenly exaggerated theimportance of their invention. Some of these inventors also havemistakenly exaggerated the importance of t h e m s e l v e s for havinginvented it. A combination of "gold fever" and/or a "Messiahcomplex" appears, wholly distorting any future contribution theymay make. While the research thread they are following mayhold great promise, they begin to trade enthusiasm for facts, andthe value of the scientific work from that point on suffers greatly.There is a powerful yet subtle seduction that can warp a personali-ty if they believe that "the world rests on their shoulders" or thatthey are the world's "saviour".

Strange things also happen to people when they think they areabout to become extremely rich. It takes a tremendous spiritualdiscipline to remain objective and humble in the presence of aworking free energy machine. Many inventors' psyches becomeunstable by the inventors' just believing they have a free energy

Strange things also happen topeople when they think they areabout to become extremely rich.It takes a tremendous spiritualdiscipline to remain objective

and humble in the presence of aworking free energy machine.


machine. As the quality of the science deteriorates, some inven-tors also develop a "persecution complex" that makes them verydefensive and unapproachable. This process precludes them fromever really developing a free energy machine, and fuels the fraudmythologies tremendously.

Then there are the outright con men. In the last 15 years, thereis one person in the USA who has raised the free energy con to aprofessional art. He has raised more than US$100,000,000, hasbeen barred from doing business in the state of Washington, hasbeen jailed in California, and he's still at it. He always talks abouta variation of one of the real free energy systems, sells people onthe idea that they will get one of these systems soon, but ultimate-ly sells them only promotional information that gives no real dataabout the energy system itself. He has mercilessly preyed uponthe Christian and Patriot communities in the USA and is stillgoing strong.

This person's current scam involves sign-ing up hundreds of thousands of people forlocations where he will install a free energymachine. In exchange for letting him put theFE generator in their home, they will get freeelectricity for life and his company will sellthe excess energy back to the local utilitycompany. After becoming convinced thatthey will receive free electricity for life, withno out-front expenses, they gladly buy avideo—which helps draw their friends intothe scam as well. Once you understand thepower and motivations of the first two forcesI have discussed, it is obvious that this per-son's current "business plan" cannot beimplemented. This one person hasprobably done more harm to the freeenergy movement in the USA than anyother force, by destroying people's trustin the technology.

So, the third force postponing thepublic availability of free energy tech-nology is delusion and dishonesty with-in the movement itself. The motiva-tions are self-aggrandisement, greed,want of power over others and a falsesense of self-importance. The weaponsused are lying, cheating, the "bait andswitch" con, self-delusion and arrogance, combined with lousyscience.

4. A Non-Demanding PublicThe fourth force operating to postpone the public availability of

free energy technology is all of the rest of us. It may be easy tosee how narrow and despicable the motivations of the other forcesare, but actually these motivations are still very much alive ineach of us as well.

Like the wealthiest families, don't we each secretly harbour illu-sions of false superiority and the want to control others instead ofourselves? Also, wouldn't we "sell out" if the price were highenough—say, take $1 million dollars in cash, today? Or, like thegovernments, don't we each want to ensure our own survival? Ifcaught in the middle of a full, burning theatre, do we panic andpush all the weaker people out of the way in a mad scramble forthe door? Or, like the deluded inventor, don't we trade a comfort-able illusion once in a while for an uncomfortable fact? And don'twe like to think more of ourselves than others give us credit for?

Or don't we still fear the unknown, even if it promises a greatreward?

You see, really, all four forces are just different aspects of thesame process, operating at different levels in the society. There isreally only o n e force preventing the public availability of freeenergy technology, and that is the unspiritually motivated behav-iour of the human animal. In the last analysis, free energy tech-nology is an outward manifestation of Divine Abundance. It isthe engine of the economy of an enlightened society—where peo-ple voluntarily behave in a respectful and civil manner towardseach other; where each member of the society has everything theyneed and does not covet what their neighbour has; where war andphysical violence are socially unacceptable behaviours; and wherepeople's differences are at least tolerated, if not enjoyed.

The appearance of free energy technology in the public domainis the dawning of a truly civilised age. It is an epochal event in

human history. Nobody can "take credit"for it. Nobody can "get rich" on it. Nobodycan "rule the world" with it. It is, simply, agift from God. It forces us all to takeresponsibility for our own actions and forour own self-disciplined self-restraint whenneeded. The world as it is currently orderedcannot have free energy technology withoutbeing totally transformed by it into some-thing else. This "civilisation" has reachedthe pinnacle of its development because ithas birthed the seeds of its own transforma-tion. The unspiritualised human animalscannot be trusted with free energy. They

will only do what they have alwaysdone, which is take merciless advan-tage of each other or kill each otherand themselves in the process.

If you go back and read Ayn Rand'sAtlas Shrugged (1957) or the Club ofRome's report, The Limits To Growth(1972), it becomes obvious that thewealthiest families have understoodthis for decades. Their plan is to livein "the world of free energy" but per-manently freeze the rest of us out. Butthis is not new. Royalty has usuallyalways considered the general popula-

tion (us) to be their subjects. What is new is that you and I cannow communicate with each other better than at any time in thepast. The Internet offers us, the fourth force, an opportunity toovercome the combined efforts of the other forces that are pre-venting the spread of free energy technology.

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A JUST SOCIETYWhat is starting to happen is that inventors are publishing their

work instead of patenting it and keeping it secret. More andmore, people are "giving away" information on these technologiesin books, videos and websites. While there is still a great deal ofuseless information about free energy on the Internet, the avail-ability of good information is rising rapidly. Check out the list ofwebsites and other resources at the end of this article.

It is imperative that you begin to gather all the information youcan on r e a l free energy systems. The reason for this is simple.The first two forces will never allow an inventor or a company tobuild and sell a free energy machine to you! The only way youwill ever get one is if you build it yourself (or get a friend to build

What is starting tohappen is that inventors

are publishing theirwork instead ofpatenting it and keeping it secret.

More and more, peopleare "giving away"

information on thesetechnologies in books,videos and websites.


it). This is exactly what thousands of people are already quietlystarting to do. You may feel wholly inadequate to the task, butstart gathering information now. You may be just a link in thechain of events for the benefit of others. Focus on what you cando now, not on how much is still to be done. Small privateresearch groups are working out the details as you read this.Many are committed to publishing their results on the Internet.

All of us constitute the fourth force. If we stand up and refuseto remain ignorant and actionless, we can change the course ofhistory. It is the aggregate of our combined action that can makea difference. Only the mass action that represents our consensuscan create the world we want. The other three forces will not helpus put a fuelless power plant in our basement. They will not helpus be free from their manipulations.

Nevertheless, free energy technol-ogy is here. It is real, and it willchange everything about the way welive, work and relate to each other.In the last analysis, free energy tech-nology makes greed and the fear forsurvival obsolete. But like all exer-cises of spiritual faith, we must firstmanifest the generosity and trust inour own lives.

The source of free energy is insideof us. It is that excitement ofexpressing ourselves freely. It is ourspiritually guided intuition express-ing itself without distraction, intimi-dation or manipulation. It is ouropen-heartedness. Ideally, the freeenergy technologies underpin a just society where everyone hasenough food, clothing, shelter, self-worth and the leisure time tocontemplate the higher spiritual meanings of life. Do we not oweit to each other to face down our fears and take action to createthis future for our children's children? Perhaps I am not the onlyone waiting to act on a greater Truth.

Free energy technology is here. It has been here for decades.Communications technology and the Internet have torn the veil ofsecrecy off this remarkable fact. People all over the world arestarting to build free energy devices for their own use. Thebankers and the governments do not want this to happen but can-not stop it. Tremendous economic instabilities and wars will beused in the near future to distract people from joining the free

energy movement. There will essentially be no major media cov-erage of this aspect of what is going on. It will simply be reportedas wars and civil wars erupting everywhere, leading to UN"peacekeeper" occupation in more and more countries.

Western society is spiralling down towards self-destruction dueto the accumulated effects of long-term greed and corruption.The general availability of free energy technology cannot stop thistrend. It can only reinforce it. However, if you have a free energydevice, you may be better positioned to survive thepolitical/social/economic transition that is underway. No nationalgovernment will survive this process. The question is, who willultimately control the emerging World Government: the firstforce or the fourth force?

The last Great War is almost uponus. The seeds are planted. After thiswill come the beginning of a realcivilisation. Some of us who refuseto fight will survive to see the dawnof the world of free energy. I chal-lenge you to be among the ones whotry. ∞

About the Author: Peter Lindemann, DSc, became inter-ested in Free Energy in 1973 when hewas introduced to the work of EdwinGray. By 1981 he had developed hisown free energy systems based onvariable reluctance generators andpulsed motor designs. During the1980s he worked off and on withboth Bruce DePalma and Er ic

Dollard. In 1988 he joined the board of Borderland SciencesResearch Foundation and served until 1999. During this period heauthored more than 20 articles for The Journal of BorderlandResearch.

Dr Lindemann is a leading authority on the practical applica-tions of aether technology and cold electricity. Currently he is aResearch Associate of Dr Robert Adams in New Zealand, as wellas a close collaborator with Trevor James Constable in the USA.He is also Director of Research for Clear Tech, Inc. in the USA.

Dr Lindemann's book, The Free Energy Secrets of ColdE l e c t r i c i t y, is reviewed in this issue; the companion video wasreviewed last issue (8/03). Both are available from Clear Tech,Inc., www.free-energy.cc, and Adventures Unlimited,www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com, in the USA.


Resources: Books • Adams, Robert, DSc, Applied Modern20th Century Aether Science, AethmogenTechnologies, Whakatane, New Zealand,special update 2001, 2nd edition. • Aspden, Harold, Dr, Modern AetherScience, Sabberton, UK, 1972.• Coats, Callum, Living Energies,Gateway Books, UK, 1996. • Lindemann, Peter, DSc, The FreeEnergy Secrets of Cold Electricity, ClearTech, Inc., USA, 2001. • Manning, Jeane, The Coming EnergyRevolution: The Search for Free Energy,Avery Publishing Group, USA, 1996.• Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged, RandomHouse, 1957.• Vassilatos, Gerry, Secrets of Cold War

Technology: Project HAARP and Beyond,Adventures Unlimited Press, USA, 1999.

Resources: Websites

• http://energy21.terrashare.com/Developed by Geoff Egel in Australia.Best site on the Net!• www.free-energy.cc/Developed by Clear Tech, Inc. and DrPeter Lindemann.• http://jnaudin.free.fr/Developed by JLN Labs in France.• www.1dove.com/fe/index.htmlJim's Free Energy Page in the USA.• www.keelynet.com/Developed by Jerry Decker in the USA.• www.xogen.comSite for super electrolysis technology.

• www.rumormillnews.comExcellent site for all kinds of alternativenews, with many links.

Resources: Patents Most of these patents can be viewed atwww.delphion.com/. This is a sample ofinventions that produce free energy: • Tesla: USP #685,957 (1901)• Freedman: USP #2,796,345 (1957)• Richardson: USP #4,077,001 (1978)• Frenette: USP #4,143,639 (1979)• Perkins: USP #4,424,797 (1984)• Gray: USP #4,595,975 (1986)• Meyer: USP #4,936,961 (1990)• Chambers (Xogen): USP #6,126,794(1998).

The source of free energy isinside of us.

It is that excitement ofexpressing ourselves freely.




RE-INVENTION, PARANOIA AND DECEPTION2. THE MASKS MAY CHANGE, BUT THE PLAY'S THE SAME

The final three decades of the 20th century have been filled with rumours: con-spiracy theories about alien abductions, plots for world domination sharedbetween aliens and secret government, Illuminati cabals and the like. Severalinteresting variations on age-old theories have permeated the field of ufology and

conspiracy literature alike, and in many places the two have overlapped and in fact havecompletely blurred into one. These latter areas are of particular interest and significanceto the study at hand.

One of the most commonly reported manifestations of "alien invaders" are the EBE(extraterrestrial biological entities) type, commonly called "greys". These beings are thevariety most often reported in abduction accounts, and they are highly ectomorphic withscrawny, underdeveloped limbs and bodies, oversized heads and extraordinarily largeblack eyes (some abductees have reported these to be actually "reptilian" or "birdlike"eyes with slit pupils, the "blackness" only a protective artificial film, like sunglasses).They are from three to five feet in height, averaging around four feet tall.

Again, their very physiology gives away their origins, for large protruding eyes withlarge slit pupils and needing an artificial protective covering would be hard to equate witha race that has mastered, and perhaps been genetically prepared for, interplanetary orinterstellar travel. Outer space is an extremely bright, radiation-filled environment. Thetype of eyes described are those of a creature that spends most of its time in the darkness,as they are designed for optimum light reception. The shaded coverings, for venturing outinto the surface world, are really self-explanatory.

Similarly, their bodies, small and easily manoeuvrable through tight spaces, with smallsurface area and a minimum of body-weight, are ideal for an underground environment.Their method of locomotion, generally described as "shuffling", with "hips movingstrangely" or "sideways", is another indication that they have developed in a relativelycramped place or even one where tunnels are commonplace. They are often described assmelling "musty", "like a snake" or "like rotten eggs".

This type of entity allegedly abducts unfortunate human beings and conducts medical orgenetic testing on them, sometimes removing sperm and ova for use in "hybridisationexperiments" or for purposes unknown. The abductions almost always take place undercover of darkness (doubly helpful to the molesters, since the "harmful" sun has set andpeople are drowsy or asleep).

The victim is taken into a UFO (usually disc-shaped or shaped like a child's spinning-top) for experimentation and also for a form of indoctrination consisting of intense three-dimensional audiovisual presentations. The primary message of these presentations seemsto deal with a concern over human destruction of the Earth's biosphere and biodiversity(recall the recurrent "faerie" interest in the same thing—a steady supply of genetic materi-als). This becomes even more telling when it is recalled that the first underground atomictests were concurrent with the resurgence of "witnessed activity" of UFOs on a previouslyunprecedented scale. Those tests may have rattled more than a few windows in thedesert!

During the medical aspect of the abduction, local anaesthetics are seldom if ever used,and the victim is left with a type of post-traumatic stress syndrome which at first is markedby amnesia and mental distress or unease, sometimes followed by nightmares, self-imposed social isolation and eventually a total recall of the experience, either through

Age-old stories ofunderworld beings

interacting withhumanity haveparallels with

modern-day reportsof abducting aliens

and mysterious Menin Black.

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natural recovery of memory or through hypnotic regressiontherapy.

Other common themes emerge as well. The entities aredescribed by their victims as "drone-like", "robotic", "clinical"and so forth, and are also described as "reptilian", "lizard-like" oras having reptilian, birdlike or amphibian-like skin texture.

In many instances, the abduction experience moves to a "caverncity", "cavern world" or "underground base". It is in these lattersubterranean places that "hybrid beings"—having "alien", humanor other animal characteristics—have been reported as being seenin development, along with cannibalism and the torture of humanbeings. One such site has been alleged by several researchers and"abductees" as being beneath Archuleta Mesa near Dulce, NewMexico. In these prolonged episodes, other beings enter thescene—such as "hybrid" children who are frail, pale and ectomor-phic but generally human in appearance. Some abductees haveeven said that these children look "like fairies"!

Other entities are not so harmless, such as a tall "human" typewith an aristocratic "Aryan" look; these aregenerally referred to as "Nordics" in theUFO literature, and bear more than a slightresemblance to the "light elves" and Tuathade Danaan of old. Are these the "fairy chil-dren", hybrids and "changelings", all grownup and hard at work?

Another type of entity is more sinister inboth appearance and attitude, described as a"reptilian humanoid", "lizard man" or "rep-toid" and ranging from five to eight or ninefeet in height. These "reptoids" are usuallycharacterised as being "in charge" of theother types, but upon occasion are said toreport to taller, even stranger entitiesthat resemble skeletally thin, giant"greys" or even giant "mantids".Normal surface humans, paramilitaryin nature or appearance, are also seenin these underground areas.

Another interesting factor is that allof the entities described go to greatlengths to convince their captives thatthey have come from "far away", fromdistant stars, planets and "vibrationalfrequencies" or dimensions. They havecome all this distance because they are"worried about humanity", but they putout their heartfelt propaganda as theystick a huge needle in a woman's abdomen or up someone's nosewithout even a local anaesthetic.

Yet the biology of all the different types or castes of abductors,as horrific as it might appear to superstitious human eyes, isessentially that of animal forms which are natural to the Earth:mammalian and reptilian. Obviously, it is very important to thesebeings that such a logical connection not be made. If there is evena shred of truth to UFO abduction accounts, then it is more thanapparent that the abductors want their victims and humanity atlarge to believe that they are from "somewhere else". Whilehumanity looks continually upward at enigmas in the sky, what istranspiring beneath our very feet?

Additional folklore and literature parallels are apparent in theaccounts described. The "greys" are identical to the order-follow-ing, human-abducting, drone-like Galatur and Ushabtiu of theSumerian and Egyptian underworld mythologies. In Shetland

Island folklore, "little men" who abducted people were sometimesreferred to as "grey neighbours", and the "greys" also bear astrong resemblance in head and torso structure to the cryptid E lChupacabras. The methodical imps and Djinn that served Satanand Shaitan come to mind as well, and of course Richard Shaver's"dero" are similar, especially in their use of high technology. TheNordics, sometimes seemingly the "enemies" of the grey and rep-toid types, are often reported as working side by side with them inthe underground facilities or labs, which recalls the fact that theNagas were said to look "almost human" and reminds us of themercurial dispositions of the aristocratic or Aryan faeries, thelight elves/Tuatha de Danaan.

Additionally, the apocryphal hybrid offspring of the Nephilimand humans were described in the Book of Lamech and theSlavonic Book of Enoch as having an extremely Nordic or Aryanappearance, and were also said to have a reptilian patch of skin("badge of priesthood") on their chests or elsewhere.

In Celtic Welsh myth, the lord of the underworld of Annwn hada "magical cauldron" that produced an end-less supply of warriors for him. Was this an"Earth mother", "primal womb" archetype,or was it instead synonymous with produc-ing offspring through gene-splicing, the"cauldron" actually a test tube?

The reptoids or lizard men are familiar asNagas, Utukku, Ammut, "dragon kings",goblins, trolls and so on. They are also oftendescribed as smelling like rotten eggs or likesulphur.

Both the reptilians and the greys have inrecent years passed from the UFO researchrealm into "conspiracy" literature, where

they are said to be involved in "control-ling the Earth" or are in the process of"taking over".

Several authors have published thetheory that the reptilians are masters ofillusion and holographic projection orare physical shape-shifters who arereplacing world leaders, governmentofficials and public figures as an insidi-ous "fifth column". Here again are thechangelings of European folklore, thehologram-utilising dero and the "ser-pent men", precisely as described bythe fiction writer Robert E. Howard inhis pulp-fiction tales of King Kull.

This is by no means a "new idea", revelation or suspicion, but isas ancient as the concept of an underworld itself.

3. MEN IN BLACK This treatise would not be complete without an examination of

another mysterious player from the depths: "Men in Black", or"MIB". These cool cats figure prominently in both UFO and con-spiracy literature. Thanks to the excellent work of researchers andwriters John Keel and the late Jim Keith as well as the work of ahost of others, many small and seemingly inconsequential factshave been obtained from witnesses and preserved.

Men in Black seem to fall into two categories: the standardmen in black, who may be actual agents of secret government ormilitary investigation/disinformation groups; and the MIB, whoKeel indicates are somehow in league with or originating from theunseen forces behind the various cryptid or creature sightings as


Several authors havepublished the theory that the reptilians aremasters of illusion andholographic projectionor are physical shape-

shifters who arereplacing world leaders,

government officials and public figures as

an insidious "fifthcolumn".

well as the UFO phenomenon. It is the latter category, the MIB,that has bearing here.

These "mystery men" are usually described as of varying heightand build, but more often than not they are on the thin side. Theygenerally wear dark or black businesslike clothing, dark hats andsunglasses (again, the eye protection from the sun!). They areeither olive-skinned and vaguely Oriental or Asiatic, or they areNordic or Scandinavian in complex-ion, hair colour and physique. Fromthe basic template of these two forms,strange variations have been reported:total hairlessness (not even havingeyebrows or eyelashes); overly large,protruding eyes (a non-mammaliantrait, for the most part, or perhaps dueto an unaccustomed lack of atmos-pheric pressure); wheezing and othertrouble breathing, as if unused toearthly (or surface?) air pressure(aeroembolism); unnatural jointmovement and locomotion; "reptil-ian" or "froglike" cast of skin textureand facial features; webbed fingers;sulphurous or "metallic" odour; and ahost of additional oddities of physical configuration.

Add to all of this the fact that these MIBs are often ignorant orin amazement of the most ordinary surface-world activities—try-ing to drink gelatin, refusing food and taking a pill instead, steal-ing or asking for small common objects (like writing pens) asapparently prized souvenirs—and they become even less humanthrough their behaviour.

They often exhibit a strong interest in the sexuality or sexualhabits of those they confront; and the longer they remain on the

surface, the more erratic, disoriented, lethargic or "drunk" theyseem to become (a side effect of rapid depressurisation, oraeroembolism).

They have sometimes identified themselves to their unwillingvisitants with cryptic statements, e.g., claiming to be citizens ofthe "Nation of the Third Eye"—an occult or secret society refer-ence still widely utilised in symbology and ritual today by some

"brotherhoods" of "enlightened"human beings, but which harks backto the "third eye" of the Nagas or the"skull pearl" of the Chinese dragons.Any relationship that this Nation ofthe Third Eye might have to modern-day secret societies is debatable, butthe parallel exists.

Another clue lies in the fact thatthey arrive at their victims' doorstepsin shiny black cars that are in pristinecondition, i.e., "like new". The puz-zling thing is that these vehicles arealmost always decades out of dateand sometimes seem to be compos-ites of several different makes of cars(still out of date). To remain unrav-

aged by the passage of time—oxidation, dry rot of tyres and soforth—they would have to be warehoused and maintained in anenvironment of constant temperature and low humidity, awayfrom weather, sun and extreme changes in temperature. Add tothis the manner in which both the cars and the men suddenly andinexplicably vanish, as if swallowed up by the Earth...but by nowthe premise is obvious. Some caverns are damp, but many othersare exceedingly dry and remain constant in temperature, yearround, after a certain depth.


About the Author:Wm Michael Mott is the Creative Directorfor a high-performance US software com-pany. He is also a freelance artist andwriter of both fiction and non-fiction. Hehas worked as an artist/designer for Fortune5 0 0 companies and for a variety of bookand magazine publishers. His artwork hasappeared in publications such as ComputerGraphics World Magazine, C o m p u t e rA r t i s t, IEEE Computer Graphics andA p p l i c a t i o n s , Dragon Magazine, U F OMagazine and others. He's created award-winning artwork and graphic design formass-market book covers, posters,brochures, packaging, CD-ROM coversand ar t col lections as well as fordigital/web-based media. Mott's artworkhas been featured in the exhibition I nDreams Awake: Art of Fantasy at theOlympia and York Gallery in 1988, at the1987 World Fantasy Con and in otherexhibits.

Mott's satirical fantasy novels, Pulsifer: AFable and Land of Ice, A Velvet Knife, areavailable from the author in a deluxe ver-sion as The Pulsifer Saga, featuring full-colour illustrations. The Pulsifer Saga i snow available in HTML format on CD-ROM from Mottimorphic Publishing Co.,

email [email protected]. The firstof a series of illust rated short storiesappeared in September 2000 as a chap-book from Undaunted Press(www.undauntedpress.com) and can befound at the website www.blindside.net.s m a l l p r e s s / r e a d / E x c l u s i v e s / T e m p l e O fTheSalamander/. Also see the Associationof Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists web-site, www.asfa-art.org/Members/MikeMott/index.html.

Mott has been researching Fortean andparanormal topics for over 20 years andhas only recently written the graphicallyr ich book and CD-ROM, C a v e r n s ,Cauldrons, and Concealed Creatures, avail-able from www.hiddenmysteries.com/redir/index111.html. Wm Michael Mott can becontacted by email at [email protected], or you can visit his website athttp://mpi.mpi-softtech.com/~mott, wheremuch of his original artwork is featured.

Bibliography of Non-Fiction Sources1. New Larousse Encyclopaedia ofMythology, Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd,1968. Sections referenced: Assyro-Babylonian, Egyptian, Celtic, Indian, Chinese,Japanese.2. Myth and Mankind: Epics of EarlyCivilization – Myths of the Ancient Near East,

Time-Life Books, 1998. 3. Myth and Mankind: Epics of EarlyCivilization – Land of the Dragon, Time-LifeBooks, 1999. 4. The Controllers, by Commander X,Abelard Productions, Inc. 5. Flying Serpents and Dragons, by R. A.Boulay, The Book Tree, 1997, 1998. 6. The Forgotten Books of Eden: Lost Booksof the Old Testament, edited by Rutherford H.Platt, Jr, and J. Alden Brett, Gramercy Books,Random House, 1980. 7. The Ramayana by Valmiki, translated byWilliam Buck, New American Library, 1978. 8. Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, TheBhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972, abridgededition. 9. Japanese Tales, edited by Royall Tyler,Pantheon Books, 1987. 10. The Samurai: A Military History, byStephen R. Turnbull, Macmillan PublishingCo., 1977. 11. The Story of Sigurd (Volsunga Saga),translated from Icelandic by Eirikr Magnussonand William Morris; in A Treasury of Fantasy,Avenel Books, 1981. 12. American Elves: An Encyclopedia ofLittle People from the Lore of 380 EthnicGroups of the Western Hemisphere, by JohnE. Roth, MacFarland Books, 1997.

These "mystery men" are usuallydescribed as of varying height and build, but more often than not they are on the thin side.They generally wear dark or black businesslike clothing, dark hats and sunglasses...

History and folklore both have parallels. Folklore is filled with"dark men", "men dressed in black" and "grim reapers", oftenidentified in previous centuries as sorcerers, demons, warlocks orother "servants of the Devil"—and, of course, the odour of sul-phur and brimstone was a trademark of his from way back.

During the plague years of the Middle Ages, entities resemblingboth MIB and the now-standard grey aliens were often seen inareas that would shortly thereafter be stricken with an outbreak ofthe dreaded disease. On the eve ofmajor events throughout history, peoplehave repeatedly seen or been harassedby such beings.

As Keel points out in Disneyland ofthe Gods and his other excellent books,Julius Caesar, Napoleon and evenMalcolm X all reported encounters withthis variety of terrifying being. Hitleralso was alleged to have had his shareof midnight visits from a mysterious"Tibetan", and through him to have met"the New Man"—a sort of super-Aryanwho he believed came from the interiorof the Earth, and of whom he was mostafraid.

How much fear, confusion and human suffering can be tracedto uncanny visits from these "robotic yet human" agents provoca -teurs? Where are they from, who do they work for, and what istheir long-term agenda? Could it be that their goal is to generateconfusion and divisions, to keep humanity "looking upwards" foran invasion that will never come? The "invaders" may already behere, and may have been here all along. The evidence is in thefolklore, religions, myths, literature and archetypes of humankind.Perhaps they're not "extraterrestrial" but "intraterrestrial", and per-haps there's a vast, unknown world beneath our feet, stretching

down through secret, twisting tunnels and deep caverns to theMohorovicic layer, which itself is an anomalous cavern regiondeep beneath the upper crust.

What if there is an unknown world beneath our feet—a worldthat is dependent upon the biodiversity and genetic wealth on theEarth's surface; a world that has been exploiting that wealth forthousands or millions of years, victimising the ignorant savageswho roam the face of the sunlit world? Or could all of the evi-

dence be circumstantial and withoutmerit, simply a misinterpreted conglom-eration of coincidence and misidentifiedanimals, natural phenomena and arche-types from the human collective uncon-sciousness? The critic could toss in anendless supply of overactive imagina-tions down through the millennia, butthe evidence—dating back as it does forthousands of years of human traditionsand continuing right up through the pre-sent day—says otherwise.

The reptilian, vampiric, robotic anddemonic are all characteristics whichhave been attributed to underworld

beings down through the ages. They have haunted mankind'simagination and nightmares since our most remote time. These"archetypal" images speak to us of supernatural terrors and mys-teries; but what if, instead, these beings are natural and technolog-ically advanced to a degree that only until recently has beenbeyond our comprehension and therefore considered "magical" orimpossible in their level of sophistication? If the latter is the case,then we would do well as a species to become more aware notonly of our own planet but also of our mythic and folkloric her-itage, for it speaks not of a symbiosis but of a nearly invisible"parasite" dwelling in the depths. ∞


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Richard S. Shaver), Amherst Press, 1975. 37. Architects of the Underworld, by BruceRux, Frog Ltd, 1996. 38. Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFOCoverup, by Timothy Good, William Morrow,1988. 39. Alien Contact: Top Secret UFO FilesRevealed, by Timothy Good, WilliamMorrow, 1993. 40. The Bell Witch of Tennessee, by CharlesBailey Bell, 1934; facsimile edition byCharles Elder, Publisher, 1972. 41. The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee, byCharles Edwin Price, The OvermountainPress, 1994. 42. Disneyland of the Gods, by John A. Keel,Illuminet Press, USA, 1995. 43. Our Haunted Planet, by John A. Keel,Galde Press, 1999. 44. The Mothman Prophecies, by John A.Keel, Illuminet Press, 1991. 45. Operation Trojan Horse, by John A.Keel, G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1970. 46. Casebook on the Men in Black, by JimKeith, Illuminet Press, 1997. 47. Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel,New American Library, Mentor Books, 1963.

Bibliography of Fiction Sources All fiction sources are referenced within thebody of the treatise.

What if there is an unknownworld beneath our feet—a world that is dependent upon the biodiversity and

genetic wealth on the Earth's surface...?



PROPHETIC MESSAGES FROMTHE HOPI ELDERS

from John Hogue, April 2001

The Hopi Native Americans of the USSouthwest have an ancient prophecythat has long foreseen the destruction

of our present world through a purificationby fire. You will know that the times forthis purification are at hand with the fulfil-ment of a series of prophecies, known asthe "final warnings".

The first set of warnings was meant toalert the Hopi elders of a future time whenthe purification of the world was at hand,after which they were expected to breaktheir silence and warn the world of a sec-ond set of predictions hastening the onsetof the purification of the world by fire.

Here is the first set of warnings:

W a r n i n g : An iron horse will come tothe land of the red man.

Fulfilment: This is the train; it appearedin the 19th century.

W a r n i n g : The white man will raisemetal wires into the skies.

Fulfilment: These are telegraph lines ofthe 19th century and, later, the power linesof the 20th century.

W a r n i n g : Cobwebs will crisscross theskies.

F u l f i l m e n t : These are the contrails ofplanes and jets.

W a r n i n g : The powers of the red, theswastika and the Sun will threaten TurtleIsland.

F u l f i l m e n t : North America seen fromspace looks like the outline of a turtle. (Donot ask me how pre-Columbian seers knewthat.) In World War II and in the Cold Warthat followed, these three "powers" didthreaten North America. The swastika ofthe Nazis and, later, the "red" forces of theCommunists of Russia and China besetTurtle Island. The powers of the Sun diddirectly scorch the earth of native landswhen the white man tested his atomicbombs in Nevada and New Mexico nearthe Hopi sacred lands in Arizona.

Warning: The white man will create agourd of ashes that will lay waste to theland and keep it infertile for generations.

F u l f i l m e n t : These are atomic bombs.Radiation is the sterilising plague.

Warning: The fulfilment of this first setof signs will warrant the Hopi elders to endtheir long silence and spread their prophetic

message that the great purification is athand. They will share their message andtheir wisdom with the people of the worldso that everyone may prepare or soften itsblow upon the Earth.

Fulfilment: Indeed, over 50 years ago,the Hopi elders agreed that the first waveof signs had all been fulfilled. They there-fore began warning the world about theprophecies of a coming purification. Someof the elders, such as Thomas Banyaca,have explained the prophecies on nationaltelevision and have spoken before the fullassembly of the United Nations.

Now comes the second set of finalwarnings:

Warning: A tribe of red-hatted and red-cloaked people will come in great numbersfrom the East, travelling through the air.They will colonise the Western Americanlands and then scatter and disappear.

F u l f i l m e n t : The Tibetans came callingon the Hopi elders when the first three pre-cursory signs in their own 1,200-year-oldprophecy concerning the transplantation oftheir religion to America were fulfilled.

This prophecy, which came fromPadmasambhava, the founder of TibetanBuddhism, says: "When the iron bird flies

[a reference to airplanes] and the horse runson wheels [cars], the Tibetan people will bescattered like ants across the face of theEarth, and the Dharma will come to theland of the red men."

Since the 1970s, the Dalai Lama and anumber of maroon-robed priests fulfilledHopi prophecy by regularly paying a visitto the Hopi elders and moving on.

Many Hopis also believe that a later visi-tation in the 1980s of red-cloaked/cappedfollowers of Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh, com-ing in their thousands to eastern Oregon,completes the prophecy. Even a handful ofRajneeshees, aware of the prophecy, paid avisit to the Hopi elder-in-chief, GrandfatherDavid Monongye, in 1985, before they andtheir fellow red-clothed travellers soonvanished from sight. I report on this meet-ing in detail in my book, Messiahs: TheVisions and Prophecies for the SecondComing.

W a r n i n g : The white man will stealrocks from the Moon. This is a dangersign, that we are in the final days before thepurification.

Fulfilment: The Apollo Moon landingsunearthed (or should I say "unmooned"?)hundreds of pounds of Moon rocks, takingthem back to Earth. Indeed, I saw one sit-ting under glass at the United Nations, justoutside the main theatre where the Hopielders shared their prophecies with the UNassembly just a few years before.

W a r n i n g : The white man will build apermanent house in the sky. This is thefinal warning before the purification.

F u l f i l m e n t : MIR may have blazed itsway down to the sea in fragments, but thefar more permanent International SpaceStation traverses our skies today. It will befully operational in a few more years. Onecould argue that it is already operationaland therefore the times of the purificationhave come.

There are hundreds of prophecies fromother apocalyptic traditions that support

the idea of some death and rebirth of theworld shortly after the turn of the millenni-um. Those who have read my books knowthat I interpret the coming Hopi purifica-tion by fire in two ways.

If fear and robotic adherence to fossilisedtraditions remain the motivating forces ofour destiny, then the "fires" of war, globalwarming, collective anger and stress will

burn our civilisation down before the next50 years are out.

However, if in the same period of 50years the message of personal transforma-tion and meditation is heeded by enoughindividuals around the world and they startchanging themselves, then the "fires" com-ing to purify the world will be those oflove, awareness, genius and compassion.

I believe we will see the blazing of bothinner and outer fires in the coming years.The question then remains: which firewould you like to be purified by?

With that said, I would like to share withyou a message I received off the Internet.It is purportedly an open letter of advice onhow to get through the year 2001, comingfrom a spokesperson for the Hopi elders. Ihave not yet confirmed whether this mes-sage is indeed from the Hopi elders, but myown understanding of their propheciesmakes me presume that it is authentic.Here it is:

To my fellow swimmers: There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there arethose who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore;they are being torn apart and willsuffer greatly. Know that the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of theshore, push off into the middle of theriver, keep our heads above water. And I say, see who is there with youand celebrate. At this time in history, we are to takenothing personally, least of all our -selves, for the moment that we do, ourspiritual growth and journey come to ahalt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves. Banish the word "struggle" from yourattitude and vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in asacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waitingfor.

The river is a metaphor for the fast whitewater currents of our present times in thisnew millennium. The call to abandon "theshore" we know and flow down the currentof an unknown destiny is a common themein the Hopi purification prophecy. I haveheard the elders put it in another metaphor-ical way: people will "drop dead from theirown fear of change" if they do not embracethe coming changes. Those people whocan not only embrace change but celebratetheir journey into an unknown and newmillennium will greatly benefit from thecoming purification of the world.

Certainly, the call to celebrate life—andmake every one of life's simple actionssacred—is a common message the Hopishare with those modern mystics andprophets like Adi Da, Gurdjieff and Osho.All of them promote a vision of a comingnew humanity that transcends its pastattachments through meditation and cele-bration of life. Happy floating down theunknown river, to you all! ∞

(Source: John Hogue, 16 April 2001, from his

HogueProphecy Archives at website www.hogue-

prophecy.com. A self-styled "rogue scholar",

Hogue is the author of Messiahs: The Visions andProphecies for the Second Coming, N o s t r a d a m u s :The Complete Prophecies and The Last Pope: TheDecline and Fall of the Church of Rome.)

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SOVIET MILITARY ENCOUNTERSWITH UNDERWATER ALIENS

AND UFOsby George Filer, Filer's Files © 2001

Researcher Paul Stonehill writes thatthere are numerous Soviet accountsof strange objects beneath the sur-

face of the sea. In the summer of 1982, Mark Shteynberg

along with Lt Colonel Gennady Zverevwere conducting periodic training of thereconnaissance divers ("frogmen") of theTurkestan and Central Asian militaryregions. The training exercises had beentaking place at Lake Issyk-Kul, a deep-water lake in the Transiliysk Alatau area.

Quite unexpectedly, the officers werepaid a visit by Major-General V.Demyanko, Commander of the MilitaryDiver Service of the Engineer Forces of theMinistry of Defence. He arrived to informthe local officers of an extraordinary eventthat had occurred during exercises inSiberia.

Frogmen had encountered mysteriousunderwater swimmers, very human-like,but huge in size (almost three metres inheight)! The swimmers were clad in tight-fitting silvery suits, despite icy-cold watertemperatures. At a depth of 50 metres,these "swimmers" were not wearingaqualungs but sphere-like helmets conceal-ing their heads.

Alarmed by these encounters, the localmilitary commander decided to capture oneof the creatures. With that purpose inmind, a special group of seven frogmen

chased one of the strange swimmers. Asthey tried to cover the creature with a net,the entire group was thrown out of the deepwaters to the surface by a powerful force.

The frogmen were in danger of dyingbecause they needed decompression stopsto equalise the pressure in their bodies. Allof the members of the ill-fated expeditionwere stricken by decompression sickness,known as caisson disease. The only reme-dial treatment available was to place themin a decompression pressure chamber.Unfortunately, the closest one could handleonly two persons. Four frogmen were putin the chamber, three perished and the restbecame invalids.

The Major-General rushed to Issyk-Kulto warn against similar "devil may care"actions. Although Lake Issyk-Kul is moreshallow than Lake Baikal, both containedsimilar mysterious creatures.

A short time later, the Turkmenistan mil-itary received an order from theCommander-in-Chief of the Land Forces.The order consisted of detailed analysis ofthe Lake Baikal events. The documentscontained bulletins from Engineer Forces,listing appearances of underwater creaturesin numerous lakes, giant discs and spherescoming in and out of the lakes, powerfullights emanating from the deep, etc. Thedocuments were highly classified and wereused "to prevent unnecessary encounters".

Mark Shteynberg served near Lake Sarezin the Pamir Mountains. This lake isroughly a kilometre-and-a-half deep.Sophisticated radar "tracking" of US SDIsatellites was conducted in this area. The

radar repeatedly tracked disc-like objectsdiving and submerging into Lake Sarez,then later surfacing and lifting off.

The Russian Ufology Research Centre'sfiles contain similar statements by navalofficers and intelligence operatives. Themost interesting information will be pub-lished in a new book co-authored by PaulStonehill and Philip Mantle. The secretfiles of the Soviet Navy contain much valu-able information on UFO sightings; Sovietmilitary researchers were quite thorough.

Mr Krapiva attended lectures by Sovietsubmariners who reported contact withhigh-speed underwater objects picked upon Soviet sonar. Hydroacoustics techni-cians were "hearing" strange "targets" atgreat depths. Their submarines were actu-ally being chased by other "submarines".The pursuers changed their speed at will—speeds that were much faster than any othersimilar vessel in the world was capable of.

Lieutenant-Commander Oleg Sokolovinformed his students that in the 1960s,while he was on duty with his submarine'snavigation, he had observed through theperiscope a strange object ascend throughthe water and "take off".

Professor Korsakov of Odessa Universityreported that Soviet officers fromSevastopol Naval Base had observed andphotographed a UFO ascend from behind abattle cruiser in the Black Sea in the 1950s.

In August 1965, the crew of thesteamship Raduga, while navigating in theRed Sea, saw a fiery sphere dash out fromunder the water. As the sphere emergedfrom the sea, it created a gigantic pillar ofwater as it ascended upwards; the pillarcollapsed some moments later. The spherewas 60 metres in diameter and hovered 150meters above the ship, illuminating the sea.

In December 1977, not far from SouthGeorgia Island, the crew of the fishingtrawler Vasily Kiselev observed a dough-nut-shaped object rising out of the sea. Itsdiameter was between 300 and 500 metresand caused the trawler's radar to stop oper-ating. The object hovered over the area forthree hours and then suddenly disappeared.

In June 1984, seaman Alexander G.Globa, from the Soviet tanker Gori, was inthe Mediterranean, 20 miles from theStraight of Gibraltar. At 1600 hours, Globawas on duty; with him was second in com-mand S. Bolotov. They were standingwatch when both men observed a strange,polychromatic object. When the objectwas astern, it stopped suddenly. S. Bolotov

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was agog, shaking his binoculars andshouting: "It is a flying saucer, a realsaucer, my God, hurry, hurry, look!"

Globa looked through his own binocularsand saw at a distance, over the stern, a flat-tened-out object that looked like an upside-down frying pan. The UFO was gleamingwith a greyish metallic shine. The lowerportion of the craft had a precise roundshape, about 20 metres in diameter.Around the lower portion of it, Globa alsoobserved "waves" of protuberances on theoutside plating. The base of the object'sbody consisted of two semi-discs, thesmaller being on top; they slowly revolvedin opposing directions.

At the circumference of the lower disc,Globa saw numerous shining, bright, bead-like lights. The bottom portion of the UFOappeared completely even and smooth, itscolour that of a yolk, and in the middle of itGloba discerned a round nucleus-like stain.At the edge of the UFO's bottom, whichwas easily visible, was something thatlooked like a pipe; it glowed with an unnat-urally bright, rosy colour, like a neon lamp.The top of the middle disc was crowned bya triangular-shaped "something". It seemedthat it moved in the same direction as thelower disc, but at a much slower pace.

Suddenly, the UFO jumped up severaltimes, as if moved by an invisible wave.Many lights illuminated its bottom portion.The Gori's crew tried to attract the object'sattention using a signal projector.

By that time, Captain Sokolovky was onthe deck with his men. He and his secondin command were watching the objectintensely.

However, the UFO's attention was dis-tracted by another ship approaching at theport side. It was an Arab dry cargo ship onits way to Greece. The Arabs confirmedthat the object was hovering over theirship.

A minute and a half later, the objectchanged its flight trajectory, listed to theright, gained speed and ascended rapidly.

The Soviet seamen observed that when itrose through the clouds, appearing and dis-appearing again, it would occasional shinein the Sun's rays. The craft then flared up,like a spark, and was gone instantly. ∞(Sources: Reports from the Odessa mag-azine Zagadki Sfinksa, 3/1992. GeorgeFiler's article first appeared in F i l e r ' sF i l e s #16, 17 April 2001, www.filers-files.com, with thanks to Paul Stonehill.)

ANCIENT PERUVIAN CITY ASOLD AS EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS

An advanced civilisation was thrivingon the coast of Peru at the sametime as the pyramids were built in

Egypt—more than 1,000 years earlier thanwas previously thought, Americanresearchers have discovered. New radio-carbon dating of reed fibres found at Caral,in the Supe River valley, 120 miles north ofLima, has revealed that the ancient city wasbuilt as early as 2600 BC, making it by farthe oldest urban settlement yet identified inthe Americas. The fibres were from wovenbags that workers had used to haul stonesfor the buildings and left inside the struc-tures. As the reeds live for only a year, thedates are very specific: 2627 BC.

The findings, published in the journalS c i e n c e (April 27;292:723-726), suggestthat the significance of the Caral civilisa-tion has been badly underestimated byarchaeologists and anthropologists.

The inhabitants of the city had developedtechnology on a par with much of thatfound in Ancient Egypt at about the sametime. They had the know-how to irrigatefields and build monumental pyramids, yetnever learnt to make ceramic pottery.

Dr Jonathan Haas, curator of anthropolo-gy at the Field Museum in Chicago, wholed the study, said Caral had previously

been dated to c.1600 BC. "Our findingsshow that a very large, complex societyhad arisen on the coast of Peru centuriesearlier than anyone thought," he said.

Caral is dominated by a central zonecontaining six large platform moundsarranged around a huge public plaza, 1,800feet (540 metres) in diameter. The largestof these mounds, known as P i r a m i d eMayor, stands 60 feet (18 metres) high andmeasures 450 by 500 ft (120 by 150 m) atits base. All six central mounds were builtin only one or two phases, providing strongevidence of complex planning, centraliseddecision-making and mobilisation of alarge labour force. Stairs, rooms, court-yards and other structures were constructedon top of the pyramids as well as on theside terraces.

Excavations are now planned to deter-mine whether there were rooms or tombsinside the mounds. Other architecture atthe site also indicates a high level of cultur-al complexity. In particular, three sunkencircular plazas testify to the emergence of awell-organised religion with open, publicceremonies. Other villages in Peru occu-pied before 2600 BC had much smaller-scale public platforms or stone rings. ∞(Sources: The Times, April 27, 2001,www.thetimes.co.uk; S c i e n c e, April 27,2001, www.science.org)

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MEDICAL PIONEER OF THE 20THCENTURY: An Autobiographyby Dr Archie KalokerinosBiological Therapies Publ., Australia, 2000ISBN 0-646-40852-6 (464pp tpb) Price: A$24.95 + A$6 p&h in Aust, A$10to NZ, A$13 to Asia/ Pacific, A$18.50 toUK/Europe, A$16 to USA/CanadaAvailable: Australia—BiologicalTherapies, POB 702, Braeside, Vic 3195,tel +61 (0)3 9587 3948, [email protected]

This is the long-awaited autobiography byDr Archie Kalokerinos, the much-loved

Greek-born Australian physician, now in his70s and "retired", who has pioneered newmedical treatments, fought injustices andincurred the wrath of some sections of themedical establishment over the years.

Dr Kalokerinos's story is not in completechronological order; some chapters focusmore on specific discoveries and clinicalexperience. He tells of his upbringing, hismedical school training and disillusionment,his overseas travels, his life as an opal minerand his return to medical practice.

From the late 1950s he turned his attentionto reversing the extremely high infant mor-tality rate in Australian Aboriginal commu-nities. His observations of diseases causedby vitamin deficiencies led him to under-stand the critical importance of vitamin C innot only preventing diseases like scurvy butin counteracting the life-threatening symp-toms of acute scurvy. (Vitamin C pioneerDr Linus Pauling he counted as a personalfriend.) Dr Kalokerinos also found that chil-

dren brought up on nutrient-depleted dietsand who eventually refused to eat were defi-cient in zinc, and he reversed their condi-tions with zinc supplementation.

The path has not been an easy one for thededicated Dr Kalokerinos, despite the suc-cesses over the decades. His key contribu-tions to understanding cancer, otitis, scurvy,SIDS, shaken baby syndrome, vaccine dam-age and other problems are still being"processed" by the medical and judicialestablishments. His work does not cease,even in retirement; nor does his influence.

THE BIG BREACH by Richard TomlinsonHarperCollins, Australia, 2001 (first pub-lished by Cutting Edge Press, UK, 2001)ISBN 0-7322-7094-4 (319pp tpb, Aust); 1-9038-1301-8 (UK)Price: A$29.95; NZ$34.95; £9.99Available: Aust/NZ— HarperCollins;UK—The Book Service, tel 01206 256000,USA—Trafalgar Square Publishing, tel(802) 457 1911

If you've read the article entitled "On HerMajesty's Secret Service" in NEXUS 7/06

and the affidavit in 8/01, you'll have had asneak peak of former MI6 agent RichardTomlinson's story. The Big Breach is thebook he had published first as a Russian lan-guage edition in Russia in January, so as toput it on the public record and circumventany suppression by the British Governmentthrough the courts. Understandably, it'sbecome a bestseller in the UK since theEnglish version was published in February.

If you followed the mainstream press cov-erage, you'd be none the wiser about this"renegade" British spy threatening to spillthe beans on the British Secret Intelligence

Service (SIS or MI6) and popping up inFrance, Australia and New Zealand, only tobe arrested, searched and deported by policeagencies on orders from MI6. But there'salways another side. Tomlinson describesfor the public record his recruitment to MI6while at Cambridge, the training he under-went and the secrecy technology/practiceshe was privy to, and the details of hisinvolvement in MI6 operations in Moscow,Sarajevo and elsewhere. His original gripewith MI6 was a personnel issue, but theagency didn't see things his way and hashounded him in the five years since he left.

Sure, Tomlinson reveals sensitive informa-tion about foreign operations that the SISwould prefer were not revealed, but he alsopaints a damning picture of the behind-the-scenes workings of an agency that considersitself above the law and unaccountable tothe public. His book is both a real-life spythriller and a call to action to change Britishsecrecy laws in the public interest.

Reviewed by Ruth Parnell


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THE ARCADIAN CIPHER The Quest to Crack the Code ofChristianity's Greatest Secret by Peter Blake & Paul S. BlezardSidgwick & Jackson, UK, 2000ISBN 0-283-07288 (286pp tpb)Price: A$30.70; NZ$n/a (pb available Dec2001); £9.99Available: Aust/NZ/UK— Macmillan,website www.macmillan.com

Speculation on the Rennes-le-Châteaumystery has been rife since the 1982

release of Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln's TheHoly Blood and The Holy Grail, and it isgiven a new twist in The Arcadian Cipher.

Art restorer/historian Peter Blake hadalready become aware of a hidden penta-gram geometry underpinning Signorelli'spainting, The Education of Pan. Later herealised that Lincoln had uncovered a simi-lar geometry in Poussin's The Shepherds ofArcadia. (These aren't perfect pentagrams,mind you, and any five coordinates can beturned into a pentagram.) So, when Blakesuperimposed the pentagrams of relatedpaintings onto a map of the Rennes-le-Château region, he saw more precise clues.

His location search took him to the veryplace Poussin depicted in The Shepherds ofArcadia—below which, in the cliff face, hediscovered two small cavern-tombs contain-ing relevant clues, but any sarcophagi there-in had long since been removed. Couldthese have been the secret burial places ofJesus and Mary Magdalene that were soughtby the Merovingian king Dagobert I, theKnights Templars and even the Nazis? Anddid Dagobert find and raid these tombs?

In 1998, Peter Blake began collaboratingwith writer Paul Blezard, who augmented

Blake's nearly 20 years of notes. Their "bigpicture" story takes in the esoteric archaeol-ogy of Babylon and Egypt, the mysticalKabbalah and the Gnostics, the "myth" ofthe Crucifixion and the political imperativebehind Jesus and Mary Magdalene's reputedescape to France. Blake's thesis cannot beproved absolutely—as he admits—but it'suncanny that his trail culminated in his find-ing such significant evidence where he did.

THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENTMURDER: Parallel Universes and thePhysics of Insanity by Alexandra BruceSky Books, USA, 2001ISBN 0-09631889-5-X (244pp tpb) Price: £n/a; NLGƒ55,90; US$19.95Available: UK—Enquire NEXUS Office,tel 01342 322854; Europe—NEXUSOffice, tel +31 (0)321 380558; USA—SkyBooks, www.time-travel.com/skybooks;Adventures Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6390

To get the most out of this book, you needto have some familiarity with the "leg-

ends" of the Philadelphia Experiment andthe Montauk Project. The central characterof The Philadelphia Experiment Murder isPhil Schneider, a geologist who claims tohave been a subcontractor on US black-budget military projects. Flaunting retribu-tion under the National Security Act, he wasa regular on the UFO lecture circuit from the1980s, speaking out about secret govern-ment/alien liaisons—until he died under sus-picious circumstances in 1996.

It turns out that Phil Schneider was the sonof Oscar Otto Schneider, a former GermanU-boat captain who was secretly recruitedinto the US Navy during World War II—and

purportedly was involved as a medical offi-cer during the infamous 1943 PhiladelphiaExperiment in radar invisibility or teleporta-tion (depending on the story).

Author Alexandra Bruce provides morefascinating tangents to the unfathomablelayers of these stories; and in studying andinterviewing individuals whose sanity, or atleast their versions of the facts, is open toquestion, she herself risks crossing theboundaries of credibility—but all is forgivenin her "Reality Check" chapter (losingfriends when you're in this line of research issad, but often inevitable). So many eventsdiscussed cannot be proved, but the context,which takes in quantum physics, paralleluniverses and Earth realities, time travel andaltered states of consciousness, cannot bedismissed lightly. And who says the USNavy stopped researching teleportation in1943? Bruce drags up an eyewitness whosuggests that it's already a reality.


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CANCER – CAUSE & CUREA 20th Century Perspective by Percy WestonBook Bin Publishing, Australia, 2000ISBN 0-646-40313-3 (161pp tpb) Price: A$24.95 + p&hAvailable: Australia—Book BinPublishing, 5 Percy Court, Adelaide, SA5000, tel (08) 410 5888, [email protected]

Born in 1903 in rural Victoria, Australia,Percy Weston is a farmer/horticulturalist

with a flair for chemistry and a penchant forstudying the processes of nature.

Through trial and error and by observingthe effects on the health of his livestock—and himself—of adding superphosphate tothe soil, he was led to conclude that too higha level of phosphorus causes an imbalanceof minerals and triggers uncontrolled cellgrowth, which then leads to cancer and otherdiseases like arthritis.

Over the years, Percy suffered a number ofhealth crises, one as a result of spray driftfrom a cocktail of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, whichhad endocrine-disrupting effects. But hemanaged to reverse his problematic healthconditions by reverting to a diet with a rela-tively high calcium-to-phosphorus ratio andsignificant sodium, magnesium and potassi-um—helped along by the intake of a specialpowder of alkaline mineral salts he devel-oped back in the 1930s and has since patent-ed (Australian Patent No. 518,393).

The appendix to Cancer: Cause & Curecontains testimonies from a number of indi-viduals who have tried Percy Weston's for-mula with great success against a number ofdiseases including cancer and gout.

Weston summarises some significant highsand lows in his remarkable life history and

discusses a selection of treatments, such asGerson therapy and Hulda Clark herbs, thatcomplement his unique perspective.

Percy Weston's story is a cautionary talethat tempers the madness of agrichemicalagriculture with the sanity of sustainability.

POLITICS IN HEALINGSuppression and Manipulation inAmerican Medicine by Daniel HaleyPotomac Valley Press, USA, 2000ISBN 0-9701150-0-8 (465pp tpb) Price: US$19.95 + US$4 s&h in USA +s/tax in CA; foreign p&h, contact publisherAvailable: USA—Potomac Valley Press,PO Box 536342, Grand Prairie, TX 75050-6342, tel 1800 898 0639 (toll-free inUSA), www.politicsinhealing.com

There's something seriously wrong withthe US healthcare system when one

American dies of cancer every minute andan average of 106,000 die every year fromthe effects of FDA-approved pharmaceuticaldrugs (the fourth leading cause of death).

Behind this terrible state of affairs is "offi-cial medicine", comprising groups like theFDA, AMA, NIH, NCI and other institu-tions and drug companies that have beenactively suppressing alternative, non-toxicmedical therapies—and information aboutthem—since early in the 20th century.

Daniel Haley is a staunch advocate ofhealth freedom and non-toxic therapies. Inthe 1970s he was a New York State legisla-tor, during which time he encountered manyexamples of nefarious political dealingsrelated to alternative medical treatments.This ultimately launched him on a 10-yearresearch program, which resulted in this

hefty book, Politics in Healing. In it, hereports on 10 cases (mostly involving cancercures) that speak volumes about politicalinterference in medicine and healing throughthe last century: the Hoxsey formula; DrWilliam Koch's glyoxylide; Dr Royal Rife'stumour-busting frequency device; DrAndrew Ivy's krebiozen; Dr Stanley Jacob'sDMSO; Drs Petersen and Campbell'smicrobe-targeting colostrum; GastonNaessens' 714-X; Dr Robert Becker's and DrDaniel Kirsch's biolectrics research; DrJoseph Gold's hydrazine sulphate; and DrStanislaw Burzynski's antineoplastons.Each case involves persecutions and trialsby the authorities and the cures being madeillegal and then lost or sent underground.

Freedom from the medical bureaucracy isthe answer, and Haley sets out a plan forhow the system can be changed and legislat-ed to work for the people, not against.


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THE LAND OF NO HORIZON The Inner Earth Holds the Secret tothe Origins of Humanityby Kevin Taylor and Matthew Taylortlonh.com, Australia, 2001ISBN 0-646-41057-1 (283pp tpb) Price: A$32.00; foreign p&h, visit publisher's websiteAvailable: Australia—tlonh.com, PO Box210, Ramsgate, NSW 2217, [email protected], website www.thelandofnohorizon.com

The human race is a misfit species and ourunique biological makeup indicates we

partly evolved from an environment differ-ent from the Earth's surface, argue Kevinand Matthew Taylor in The Land of NoHorizon. What sort of environment? Oneof constant light and warmth, of low ultravi-olet radiation and lesser gravity, and a 28-day lunar-based time cycle.

So, short of going off-planet, what are weleft with as the place of our origin? Theinterior of planet Earth, the authors suggest.But rather than be too focussed on otherintelligent life forms that may have tam-pered with our evolution (as they have, theauthors contend), they build up their thesissupporting a hollow Earth theory.

Central to their argument is the action ofEarth expansion, which they say created thecontinents and the oceans as well as suchanomalies as an inner ocean deep within thecrust (the Moho discontinuity?). They theo-rise that quantities of its waters can bereleased into the outer ocean in great vortex-driven upwellings during an atmosphericpressure equalisation event that the planetperiodically undergoes. Such upwellingshave been witnessed at sea and from the air,

say the authors. Indeed, a huge upwellingmay have caused the Great Flood of biblicaltimes (and the authors don't discount theBook of Genesis as a source of information).

Looking at studies of the Sun and otherplanets in our solar system, such as Jupiterand Mars, the authors also consider the pos-sibility of Earth having an inner sun.

The text is generously interspersed withdiagrams that highlight the authors' theories.While more a stream-of-consciousness dis-cussion than a referenced scientific treatise,the book opens the imagination and criticalfaculties to alternative explanations of ter-restrial history and our origins as a species.

THE FREE ENERGY SECRETS OF COLDELECTRICITYby Peter A. Lindemann, DScClear Tech, USA, 2001ISBN n/a (130pp l/f tpb) Price: US$29.95 + US$7.95 s&h in USA,US$15 to Canada, US$21 elsewhere Available: USA—Clear Tech, Inc., POBox 37, Metaline Falls, WA 99153, tel(509) 446 2353, 1-888 260 2770 (toll freein North America), fax (509) 446 2354,website www.free-energy.cc; AdventuresUnlimited, tel (815) 253 6390

In 1973, US engineer Edwin Gray's inven-tion of an "engine that consumes no fuel"

received press publicity and got author PeterLindemann, DSc, on the "free energy" case.However, Gray was very private and manyof his secrets died with him in 1989,although he did manage to patent several ofhis inventions (see Science News, 7/03).

Lindemann, following further groundworklaid by Gerry Vassilatos, has discovered thekey that connects Gray's findings with

research conducted by Dr Nikola Tesla into"radiant energy" or "cold electricity" (seearticle this issue). He has tracked down anumber of Gray's patents for this compila-tion, The Free Energy Secrets of ColdElectricity. These include a PulsedCapacitor Discharge Electric Engine, anEfficient Power Supply Suitable forInductive Loads, and an Efficient ElectricalConversion Switching Tube Suitable forInductive Loads (reprinted in the appen-dices). He also reproduces Vassilatos's"Rosetta Stone" chapter from Secrets ofCold War Technology; Tesla's patents for aMethod of Utilizing Radiant Energy and onThe Art of Transmitting Electrical EnergyThrough the Natural Mediums; plus a coupleof his own papers published in Borderlands.

Lindemann's book is a must-read for free-energy researchers, particularly those inter-ested in exploring electro-radiant events—the same "gain mechanism" Tesla identifiedas the basis for his Magnifying Transmitter.


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BEYOND AMALGAMThe Hidden Health Hazard Posed byJawbone Cavitationsby Susan StocktonPower of One, USA, 2000 (revised edition)ISBN 0-9628770-2-6 (121pp tpb)Price: US$12.95 + US$3.50 s&h in USA;foreign orders, contact publisherAvailable: USA—Power of OnePublishing, 10691 E. Bethany #900,Aurora, CO 80014, tel (303) 755 2605,website www.healthcarealternatives.net

The public has been waking up to the dan-gers of mercury amalgam and root canal

fillings for some years, but they are muchless informed about another major problem:jawbone cavitations.

The author of Beyond Amalgam, SusanStockton, a teacher and writer in the alterna-tive health field in the US, has personalexperience with the severe systemic effectsof cavitations—alveolar cavitationalosteopathosis, or osteitis, in her case—andspent years finding a dentist who could sur-gically treat her problem.

For the most part, cavitations—lesions inthe jawbone, characterised by infected deadbone—are the result of dentists' failure toclean up a tooth extraction site, resulting inthe invasion and proliferation of bacteria andadverse impacts on related organs. Stocktondiscusses the research of naturopathic bio-physicist Dr Hulda Clark, who discoveredthat "teeth have the same tissue frequency assome distant organs"—lending weight to theevidence that each tooth is related to a dif-ferent organ or system in the body.

According to Stockton, cavitations (differ-ent from cavities or caries) are often missedby X-ray imaging, but can be detected using

a recently developed 3D dental sonographytechnology called Cavitat (she now worksfor the manufacturer). They can be removedin a simple oral surgical procedure (if youcan find a dental surgeon proficient in thetechnique), and patients have reportedrecovery from diverse conditions includingheadache, blindness, autoimmune disease,fibromyalgia, tinnitus and neck pain.

In Stockton's book we have a stern warn-ing about a major hidden health hazard thataffects millions of people around the world.

STONE AGE FARMING Eco-Agriculture for the 21st Century by Alanna MoorePython Press, Australia, 2001ISBN 0-646-41188-8 (208pp tpb)Price: A$30.00 + A$3 p&h in Australia;foreign orders A$40 (or US$20.00 cash/travellers cheque or equivalent) Available: Australia—Python Press, POBox 929, Castlemaine, Vic. 3450, tel/fax +61 (0)3 5476 2418, email [email protected]

This is a journey into the world of esotericagriculture, connecting ancient wisdom

and environmental practices with the latestknowledge in magnetism and agriculturalscience. Author Alanna Moore specialisesin geomancy and dowsing as applied to eco-agriculture, and she is passionate about per-maculture and biodynamics.

For Stone Age Farming, Moore has spentthe best part of eight years researching in thefield and applying and expanding on princi-ples elucidated by Dr Phil Callahan and oth-ers. She has studied the ancient Irish RoundTowers at first hand and compared themwith modern reproductions in SouthAustralia. The towers—"silicone-rich semi-

conductors of cosmic energies", accordingto Callahan—were built with paramagneticmaterial. Ideally they were sited on down-ward vortexes, and their purpose may havebeen to enhance the environmental energyand improve crop yields, or to stimulateheightened spiritual awareness in the localmonks. Moore looks at a number of sim-pler, scaled-down "Tower of Power" designsthat can be easily built, and discusses thevarious problems that may be encounteredwith inappropriate materials and siting, geo-logical and fence-line interference and soon. She also tackles ethical concerns.

Moore takes an holistic, practical approachto farm and ecosystem management—anapproach that identifies and harmonises withsubtle energies, utilises eco-sound methodsand applies ingenious technologies such asenergy-conducting coils for improving soillife and plant growth. Her call for "the eco-farming imperative" is one that we mustheed if we're to have a sustainable future.


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WAKE UP DOWN THERE! The Excluded Middle Collectionedited by Gregory BishopAdventures Unlimited Press, USA, 2000 ISBN 0-932-813-82-8 (435pp l/f tpb)Price: A$55.00; NZ$69.00; £n/a;NLG70,90; US$25.00 + US$2.50 s&h inUSA, US$3.00 to CanadaAvailable: Australia—NEXUS Magazine,tel (07) 5442 9280; NZ—NEXUS Office,tel (09) 405 1963; UK—Enquire NEXUSOffice, tel 01342 322854; Europe—NEXUS Office, tel +31 (0)321 380558;USA—Adventures Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6390, website www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com

The title for this anthology comes from aline from John Keel's The Mothman

Prophecies. It's about two women who arehaving a telephone conversation, only to beinterrupted on the line by a strange man'svoice snapping "Wake Up Down There!".

This is a collection of material from theUS conspiracy zine, The Excluded Middle,and includes "the best from the acclaimedunderground magazine of UFOs, the para-normal, spirit, psychedelia and conspiracy",as the cover suggests. One of the foundingeditors, Greg Bishop, puts it this way in hisforeword: "Since we are emotional, spiritu-al and analytic animals, there is no reasonwhy one trait should rule the others." Thisjournal through the 1990s has been a beaconof enlightened, philosophical, forward think-ing, albeit with a slightly paranoid and cyni-cal bent—a path carved "in the wildernessof doubt, fear and ambiguity", but with asense of humour thrown in.

The material in this compendium coversthe first nine issues (up until 1999) plus a"virtual issue", and includes perspectivesfrom founders Bishop, Peter Stenshoel andRobert Larson as well as contributors RobertAnton Wilson, Scott Corrales, Paul Rydeen,Robert Sterling, Joan d'Arc, Jim Keith,

Kenn Thomas, Acharya S and many others.The territory covers higher physics, LSD,Reich, Roswell, abducting aliens, Philip K.Dick's VALIS, the Ashtar Command, ElChupacabras, remote viewing, parapsychol-ogy, the cabbala and even "Commander"Jim Moseley of Saucer Smear fame, to men-tion but a few. All in all, a mind-expanding,eyebrow-raising collection for these latter-day conspiracy-riddled times.

THE ELITE SERIAL KILLERS OF LINCOLN, JFK, RFK & MLKby Robert Gaylon Ross, SrRoss International Enterprises, USA, 2001 ISBN 0-9649888-6-0 (348pp hc) Price: US$34.95 + US$5 s&h in USA,US$7 to Canada, US$9 to Aust/NZ/Pacific/UK/Europe Available: USA—RIE, 24505 Old FerryRoad, Spicewood, TX 78669, tel (512) 2641938, website www.4rie.com

The assassinations of Abraham Lincoln,John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy

and Martin Luther King all have somethingin common: they were carried out on theorders of "the Elite", says R. Gaylon Ross,author of Who's Who of the Elite (1995).This "Elite" comprises inner-circle membersof the banking families—especially theRockefellers and Rothschilds, "who are at,or certainly next to, the very top"—theBilderbergs, the Council on ForeignRelations, the Trilateral Commission andother exclusive groups with particular incli-nations towards power and money andmaintaining influence.

So this Elite had its bidding done in 1865when Lincoln was murdered, and in the1960s when the three "Ks" were killed.Author Ross points his finger at the conspir-ators, perpetrators, hit men and patsies ineach assassination. He has interviewedmany eyewitnesses (at least regarding the1960s murders) and drawn evidence fromother researchers and official inquiries.

Though evidence is circumstantial as towho would have given the orders, there wasa cast of conspirators in the case of these1960s murders that included Lyndon BainesJohnson (and peripherally Richard Nixonand Gerald Ford), FBI head J. Edgar Hooverand Texas oilman Howard L. Hunt, with acohort of Mafiosi, CIA operatives and law-enforcement officers on the sidelines.There's some explosive new information inthis book, as well as some analysis of themotivations behind the assassinations and adash of rhetoric thrown in for good measure.

The author is passionate about exposingthe evils perpetrated the world over by theElite, especially as their plans for a "OneWorld Government" are almost in placewith its latest globalisation push.


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SWEET POISON How the World's Most PopularArtificial Sweetener is Harming Us by Janet Starr HullVision Paperbacks, UK, 2001ISBN 1-901250-45-8 (227pp tpb) Price: A$33.95; NZ$39.95; £9.99Available: Aust—NEXUS Office, tel (07)5442 9280; Wakefield Press, tel (08) 83628800; NZ—NEXUS Office, tel (09) 4051963; UK—Vision Paperbacks/SatinPublications, tel +44 (0)20 7928 5599,website www.visionpaperbacks.demon.co.uk; TBS Ltd, tel 01206 255637

It's hard to believe that an environmentalscientist with some knowledge of chemi-

cals and their effects could take a year torealise the cause of her piercing migraines,dizzy spells, hair loss and erratic periods,but at least Janet Starr Hull eventually did.After a bout in hospital and being diagnosedwith Graves' disease, she decided to checkthe labels of the "sugar-free" and "diet"processed foods and drinks at home and thenrealised the cause of her woes: her intakeover the previous year of copious quantitiesof the artificial sweetener NutraSweet, theactive ingredient known as aspartame.

Janet discovered a growing body of knowl-edge on the health dangers of aspartame andwas amazed to learn that she was not alonein her life-threatening symptoms. She radi-cally changed her dietary intake, eliminatingall "diet" drinks and processed foods infavour of pure, whole foods. Sure enough,her symptoms went away and her healthreturned. Then she presented her findings toher dumbfounded doctor who had wanted toirradiate and destroy her thyroid to treat herincurable "Graves' disease".

In her studies, Janet discovered that theFDA acknowledges 92 side effects of aspar-tame and that this toxic substance, whichshould never have been allowed into thefood supply, can be found in 5,000-oddfoods on the grocery shelves. (See articles

in NEXUS 2/28–3/01 and website.) Shecame across the damning evidence that theFDA knew of aspartame's health dangersback in the mid-1970s, yet approved it foruse as a "table-top sweetener" in 1981.

Sweet Poison is both a personal account ofa journey to hell and back, and a stern warn-ing about the severe risks associated withconsuming aspartame-laced food and drink.

UNDERWATER AND UNDERGROUND BASES by Richard Sauder, PhDAdventures Unlimited Press, USA, 2000 ISBN 0-932-813-88-7 (257pp tpb)Price: AUD$35.00; NZD$49.00; £15.50;NLGƒ47,90; US$16.95 + US$2.50 s&h inUSA, US$3.00 to CanadaAvailable: Australia/NZ/UK/Europe—NEXUS offices; USA—AdventuresUnlimited, tel (815) 253 6390, [email protected], websitewww.adventuresunlimitedpress.com

This new book from Richard Sauder,PhD, is a sequel to Underground Bases

and Tunnels: What is the government tryingto hide? (AUP, 1995; see 2/26) Here,Sauder considers the technical feasibility ofconstructing secret, massive, offshore under-water bases as well as vast undergroundinstallations, thousands of feet deep, con-nected by tunnels. The technology has beenaround for decades—as have many of thesesecret bases, supposedly—and has onlybecome more sophisticated. The tunnels arerumoured to criss-cross continental USA,the underground facilities connected byvery-high-speed MagLev trains.

Dr Sauder draws on data obtained underFoI and includes anecdotal accounts with agood sprinkling of his own speculationbased on circumstantial evidence. Some ofit is particularly compelling, e.g., notes fromUS Army engineering tenders and manuals,an appendix of tunnels built by the Bureauof Reclamation in the western states, and alist of private companies involved in tunnel-boring projects. Much of this kind of under-ground work, if not conducted by the mili-tary (army, navy and air force) and federalagencies like the CIA, NSA and FEMA, isundertaken by contractors who are bound bynational security restrictions. The existenceof undersea/underground projects and instal-lations is thus enormously difficult to verifyand document, considering their highly clas-sified nature and the likelihood that the bulkof the funding comes from "black budgets"that are not disclosed through the usual con-gressional processes.

Dr Sauder would never have written thisbook if he'd waited around for all the detailsto be declassified. We just have to be con-tent with the peripherals for now.


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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ONTHE WAY TO THE MOON written & produced by Bart SibrelAFTH, LLC, USA, 2001 (47mins, NTSC/VHS)Available: USA—AFTH, LLC, 242 LouiseAvenue, Nashville, TN 37203, tel (615)850 8329, fax (615) 242 2658, websitewww.moonmovie.com

Agrowing number of scientists are loudlyproclaiming that NASA faked the Moon

missions, at least in terms of the video andphotographic records available as evidenceof their visits.

Now, an investigative reporter, Bart Sibrel,has added new information to the debate.While working for NBC affiliate stationWSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, Sibreluncovered a 31-year-old, mislabelled,unedited reel of NASA footage that providesevidence that the Apollo Moon walk was ahoax and that Apollo 11 never made itbeyond the Earth's orbit.

The video contends that lethal bands ofradiation (the Van Allen belt) surround theEarth, beginning at an altitude of 1,000 milesand extending an additional 25,000 miles,making it impossible for manned missions togo further.

The video producers suggest that themotive of the Apollo missions was to fool theSoviet Union about US strategic capabilityduring the height of the Cold War.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way tothe Moon is an excellent documentary pro-duction with very detailed and well-high-lighted footage, including great shots of theflag flapping in the non-existent atmosphereof the Moon, and much more.


Reviewed by Duncan Roads

REVIEWSWINGMAKERS First Source: Volume 1 (includes over 60 minutes of musicfrom Chambers 1–9)Wingmakers LLC, USA1998–2000 system requirements:Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME orMacOS8.1+, Internet browser 4.0+Available: USA—Wingmakers LLC, web-site www.wingmakers.com

The elusive mystery of the WingMakers isnow firmly entrenched with the release

of this CD-ROM. There is certainly a wealth of interesting

material to explore. Apart from the art, themusic, the poetry, the philosophy, the inter-views, etc., there is also some spectacularinteractive material.

For example, I found several "hidden pas-sages" or "discrete hyperlinks" embedded intiny parts of different illustrations. Some ofthese led me to pages full of obscure formu-las or artwork, or pages demanding a pass-word. I found that if you dig deep enoughand long enough, the passwords apparentlycan be accessed, opening up yet more pagesof info for you. The bottom line is that ifyou are intrigued by the WingMakers mater-ial, this CD-ROM alone should keep youbusy for hours, if not days.

I am also informed that the "real secret" ofthe WingMakers' material is hidden some-where on this CD-ROM. If any of you findit, please let me know.

GRIDWORKS 2.0 Produced by Rod Maupin, USA, 2001Price: US$104.00 + US$2.00 p&h in USA,US$7.50 outside USA (US$54.00 + p&hfor upgrades from DOS version)Format: CD-ROM, 3.5" floppy discs (4)Windows 95 and onwards onlyAvailable: USA—Rod Maupin, PO Box976, Rainier, WA 98576; New Zealand—Bruce L. Cathie, Quark Enterprises Limited,158 Shaw Road, Oratia, Auckland, tel +64(0)9 818 4291, email [email protected],website http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~brucelc/products/gridwork/gridwork.htm

Gridworks is designed for researchers intothe harmonic mathematics of the Earth,

who wish to investigate specific planetarygridpoints according to the system devel-oped by Bruce Cathie (author of TheHarmonic Conquest of Space).

I strongly suggest that you visit BruceCathie's website for additional details of thisawesome CD-ROM.

Reviewed by Duncan Roads

DEJA-BLUES by Steve HalpernHalpern/Inner Peace Music, USA, 2000(60mins)Distributors: Australia—Wild EagleTrading, tel (03) 9568 4004; USA—InnerPeace Music, tel 1800 909 0707 (toll-free, USA/Canada), website www.stevehalpern.com

Steve Halpern has had a long career com-posing, playing and using music for its

power in healing and meditation. Thisrelease is a reworked combination of tracksfrom a number of his great albums, includ-ing Spectrum Suite, each capturing momentsof sheer musical transformation and tran-scendence. Try Melissa Phillippe's vocalson "Déjà-Blues" and "Moroccan Roll", andPaul Horn's silver flute on "Trippin'". Thisis an album of high moments in musicalexperimentation and sound discovery.

BREATHING RHYTHMS by Glen VelezSounds True, USA, 2000 (55mins)Distributors: Aust—Banyan Tree, tel(08) 8363 4244; USA—Sounds True, tel1800 333 9185 (toll-free in NorthAmerica), website www.soundstrue.com

The tradition of vocalising rhythmic mate-rial is well established in many cultures

on the planet, such as in India and theMiddle East. Glen Velez has created sixcompositions to help listeners attune to therhythmic energy flows of the body. Eachcomposition activates a specific zone: voiceactivates the upper body; melody, the centreand heart of the body; and drumming, thelower and physical body. And each pieceuses a numerical relationship to reflect anelemental structure in the music. Enticingsounds that produce an euphoric feeling andhelp harmonise body and mind.

BUDDHA AND BONSAI – Vol. 3 by Oliver Shanti, Family & FriendsSattva Music, Germany, 2000 (58mins)Distributors: Aust/UK/USA— NewWorld, www.newworldmusic.com;Germany—Sattva Music, tel +49 802890680, fax +49 8208 906810

Oliver Shanti has produced a stream ofbeautiful musical albums, all with an

Eastern theme. This one is from a three-part series titled Buddha and Bonsai . Themusic is quiet and atmospheric, with aChinese harmony threading throughout it.The use of the guzheng (long zither) anderhu (Chinese violin) adds depth to the

sounds. The mountains, passes and teahouses of China and Japan emerge beforeyour mind's eye as you become immersed inthe melody. Gorgeous, calming sounds ofpeace. An album of exceptional music.

SPACE LULLABIES AND OTHER FANTASMAGORE by EkovaSix Degrees Records, 2000 (60mins)Distributors: Aust—MRA Entertainment,tel (07) 3849 6020; USA—Six DegreesRecords, tel (415) 626 6334, websitewww.sixdegreesrecords.com; Europe—Sony Music

She's back—that extraordinary improvisa-tional vocalist, Dierdre DuBois-Haddab.

This second release from Ekova, with itsuniquely strange conceptualisations of musi-cal style, is no less exciting than its prede-cessor, Heaven's Dust (NEXUS, 7/05). Themusic is a cross between Persian, Easternand North African, combined with Dierdre'samazing vocalisations. Very strange, dri-ving, impelling music. Ekova is one groupstretching the boundaries of contemporaryworld music towards very new perimeters.

GARDENS OF EDEN by various artistsPutumayo World Music, 2001 (48mins)Distributors: Aust—MRA Entertainment,tel (07) 3849 6020; USA—PutumayoWorld Music, tel 1888 788 8629 (toll-free, USA/Can), www.putumayo.com

Another great collection from Putumayo,each group representing an area of the

world where the environment is under stressfrom economic pressure, cultural assimila-tion or environmental exploitation. Eachreminds us of what we must preserve, andcaptures the life of a culture from one of theworld's natural paradises. Artists includeAna Rita Simonka (Brazil), GuadalupeUrbina (Costa Rica), Telek (Papua NewGuinea) and Eric Manana (Madagascar).


Reviewed by Richard Giles

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unlike aspirin,90 the flavonoids in purplegrape juice remain effective whenadrenaline levels rise.91 Two 400-milligramcapsules of white willow bark areequivalent to one baby aspirin.92 Eating alot of dark-green leafy vegetables such asspinach,93 kale and Brussels sprouts alsohelps avoid this condition. 94, 95

Many dermatologists advise olderpatients to stay out of the sun to avoid skincancer. The thousands of elderly patientsrotting in nursing homes come to mind.That advice may unintentionally help tomake patients sicker and older beyond theiryears. Staying indoors will cause problemsa lot worse than skin cancer. Older peo-ple's bones will crumble and break (osteo-porosis); these elderly patients will hateliving (depression). Articles in the journalsC a n c e r, Cancer Research and P r e v e n t i v eM e d i c i n e suggest that avoiding sunlightcould promote the development of cancersother than those of the skin.96, 97, 98

• FS Light vs Neurological DiseasesResearch by Reuven Sandyk, MD, who

practises medicine in Connecticut, shows

that long-term deprivation from sunlightexposure increases the risk of multiplesclerosis and Parkinson's disease throughdepressed secretion of the hormone mela-tonin by the brain's pineal gland. Thisappears to explain the south-north gradientin the incidence of MS: the farther fromthe equator, the more common it is.9 9 A l lthe MS patients he tested had extremelylow melatonin levels and their pinealglands were calcified, or hardened.

Reduction in melatonin secretion, hefound, may be associated with zinc defi-ciency in ADHD (attention deficit hyperac-tivity disorder).100 "Since melatonin stimu-lates serotonin synthesis,[ 1 0 1 ] and serotonindeficiency has been linked to aggressiveb e h a v i o u r , [ 1 0 2 ] it is possible that a highprevalence of conduct disorder and aggres-sive behaviour in ADHD patients could berelated to reduced melatonin and serotoninassociated with (but not caused by) zincdeficiency.[103]"

Dr Sandyk applies extremely weakalternating-current fields to the brain; thisstimulates melatonin secretion, bringingabout remarkable subjective and objectiveimprovement of MS and Parkinson'spatients within one to two minutes. The

magnetic field he uses is at 2 to 7 hertz(vibrations per second), a physiologicalfrequency, i.e., near the rate used by brainneurotransmitters.

Melatonin destroys carcinogenichydroxyl radicals by neutralising theirprecursor molecules, and so it should helpagainst Parkinson's and Alzheimer'sd i s e a s e s . 1 0 4 Melatonin interferes withoestrogen receptor sites on cells; excessiveoestrogen from the Pill and from HRTcauses breast cells to hyperproliferate(become cancerous), and melatonin blocksthis action.1 0 5 It also slows senescence.1 0 6

The decline in its levels in everyone'sbodies owing to longer daily exposure tolight has been suggested as one possiblefactor explaining the continual spread ofcancer in the 20th century. 107, 108 Some ofDr Sandyk's patients with Alzheimer'sdisease, migraine and pain syndromes alsobenefit from exposure to such magneticfields—suggesting that sunlight deprivationmay contribute to the aetiology of thosedistressing illnesses.109

• FS Light vs CHD and Infections

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Staying completely out of the sun mayalso increase the risk of heart attacks andmuch more by another route. DavidGrimes, MD, at Blackburn Royal Infirmaryin Blackburn, UK, notes that heart attacksare commonest in the parts of the world—such as northwest United Kingdom—thathave the least sunshine. And Asian popu-lations in the British Isles have a particular-ly high risk of death from heart attack thatcannot be explained on dietary grounds.Having come from countries in which thesun is so strong that exposure must be min-imised, they have a cultural tendency toavoid the sun.

Dr Grimes traces causation of manycases of CHD (coronary heart disease) tothe microbe Chlamydia pneumoniae a n dlow immunocompetence from too low alevel of vitamin D among those avoidingsunshine. Sunlight could determinewhether squalene, the precursor to both vit-amin D and cholesterol, converts into vita-min D (in the presence of enough sunshine)or into excessive cholesterol (if sunlight isd e f i c i e n t . )1 1 0 A deficiency of vitamin B6promotes infection, e.g. by H. pylori a n d

C h l a m y d i a, as one of its mechanisms ofincreasing risk of heart attack.111, 112

Dr Grimes links respiratory infectionsand chronic bronchitis, called "the EnglishDisease", to poor immunocompetence dueto sunlight deficiency, worsened by ciga-rette smoking. (In southern Europe, smok-ing rates are much higher, but recurrent res-piratory tract infections are scarce.)Glasgow, Scotland, has high rates of osteo-malacia and rickets, which he says are defi-nitely the result of sunlight deficiency. DrF. A. Spencer has noted a higher incidenceof heart attacks in winter; he has relatedthis to low levels of vitamin D and todepression from the winter months.113

Also, Crohn's disease (regional enteritisor intestinal irritation) is much more com-mon in cloudy northwest England than insunny southern Europe—that is, if weaccept that Crohn's is a microbial disease,as current research confirms, probably dueto Mycobacterium paratuberculosis . Onceagain, sunlight in the Mediterranean areacould be protective through immuno-enhancement.114

There are other risks. An Alabamaresearcher found that lack of enough sun-shine exposure may increase the risk of

hypertension in blacks and other dark-skinned people. Those with greateramounts of pigment in the skin require sixtimes the amount of ultraviolet B (UVB)light to produce the same amount of vita-min D3 found in lighter-skinned people.1 1 5

And Dr Esther John of Northern CaliforniaCancer Center reported that daily exposureto sunshine, without sunscreen, appears tolessen the risk of breast cancer.116 ∞

About the Author:Joseph G. Hattersley in 1953 completed every-thing then required for a PhD degree in econom-ics, except a dissertation, at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. In 1976, at age 54, a seem-ing nutritional miracle launched his career of writ-ing on a wide range of health topics. Joe seeks tointegrate differing views on a subject from com-peting research teams. Several of his proposalshave been confirmed three to five years later inmainstream medical and scientific journals. H i sspecial interests are prevention of heart diseaseand cot death. His article, "Soybean Products: ARecipe for Disaster", was published in NEXUS4/03, April–May 1997 issue.

Editor's Note:The complete text of this article, together withendnotes, is posted at the NEXUS website ,www.nexusmagazine.com.

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STUDIES IN ANIMAL TELEPATHYAlthough the No. 8 project was shut

down and sections of it transferred to othercities, animal research in information trans-mission continued in Science City.

A Novosibirsk toxicologist, Dr S. V.Speransky, discovered a form of telepathybetween starving and normally nourishedmice. He observed that impulses fromhungry mice were transmitted in such amanner that the non-starving mice acted asif they, themselves, were famished. Themost complete account of the Speranskyexperiment appeared in "Parapsychology inthe USSR" (Part III), translated by LarissaVilenskaya from the researcher's originalmanuscript.

As a toxicologist, Speransky's primaryinterest was the impact of poisons on livingorganisms; the mind-to-mind reactionamong the mice was encountered acciden-tally. Speransky's "upper mice" lived on inthe fourth-floor laboratory, while the"lower mice" were kept in the basement.In some experiments, the upper mice werestarved; in others, they were nourished.Out of the 30 experiments, results in 27

were positive: non-starving mice respond-ed to the suffering of their "friends" whowere several storeys removed; in only threecases were the results negative.

Refining his methodology, Speranskyengaged in additional series of experi-ments, altering sex, weight and other vari-ables. He found that the "biological signif-icance of the rapid increase in weight ofmice which received signals about starva-tion from their 'friends' is clear: a dangerof starvation has to give them an additionalstimulus to be sated". In other words,telepathy-like signals warned the non-starving mice that food was short, so theyincreased food consumption and storagewithin their bodies.

Speransky drew this conclusion:"Undoubtedly, mentioning that thetransmission of information occurredbeyond ordinary channels of perceptionwill remind the reader of such notions astelepathy, extrasensory perception and'biological radio-communication'. Is itpossible to suppose that the transmission ofinformation about starvation pertains to thistype of phenomenon? We think so, butcannot strictly affirm it at present. It isonly clear that the transmission ofinformation about starvation in conditions

of our experiments goes beyond ordinaryforms of interaction of animals. Therefore,we propose to call it 'extraordinarytransmission of information'."

Actually, related phenomena had beenrecorded by Western researchers. SirAlister Hardy, Professor Emeritus ofZoology and Comparative Anatomy atOxford University, had considered the pos-sibility that telepathic communicationamong animals might even affect evolutionand adaptation. In an essay, "Biology andESP" (1949), Professor Hardy suggestedthat animal habits might be spread by "tele-pathic-like means" and that a "psychic poolof existence" might function among mem-bers of a species by some method "akin" totelepathy.

Speransky linked his findings aboutcommunication between mice to work doneby Gulyaev with his auragram on humans,by Sergeyev on human brain activity, andby Presman on the influence ofelectromagnetic fields upon livingorganisms. A. S. Presman's work, notablyhis book Electromagnetic Fields and Life(New York, 1970), is internationallyknown.

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One rare positive reference toparapsychology-related work to appear in(what was) an East German publicationwas printed on 15 May 1982 in N e u eD e u t s c h l a n d , the East Berlin dailypublished by the Socialist Unity Party. Inan article, "Man, Animals and Magnetism",Professor Hans Weiss and Dr JurgenHellebrand discussed the question ofwhether a correlation betweenelectromagnetic fields and life processesdoes in fact exist. They found that theviews of physicists, chemists and biologistsvary greatly. They cited Presman's work,notably his references to the apparentability of snails and birds to orientthemselves through the Earth's magneticfield. The two authors denounced popularclaims for magnetic healing devices as"clearly humbug", but stated that in suchfields as food production further basicresearch "may permit developmentsleading to practical applications".

As a leading research centre,Novosibirsk was a natural contact point forlong-distance experiments in telepathy.The top Soviet scientist, Professor IppoliteKogan, arranged a long-distance test from

his Bio-Communication Laboratory inMoscow to the Novosibirsk laboratory.Kogan reported on this experiment i na b s e n t i a to a meeting at the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles in 1969. The testconcentrated on the telepathic transmissionof the identity of various objects, with YuriKamensky in Moscow trying to communi-cate the images to Karl Nikolayev inNovosibirsk. The methods used corre-sponded to other long-distance tests.

However, Kogan noted that the recipientin the Siberian city "did not have an assort-ment of items before him", as was arrangedlater during the Moscow–Kersh tests, so he"could not give specific names for theobjects he saw telepathically".

Kogan said that the Novosibirsk recipi-ent was limited to listing "the characteris-tics" of each item, which restricted statisti-cal analysis of the experimental results to"an approximation". In one such test, thetransmitting telepath in the Soviet capitalwas asked by supervising scientists "to sug-gest an object they had chosen randomly".Six segments of test were used to transmitimages of six different objects; half ofthese tests gave positive results.

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About the Author:Following service with the US Office ofWar Information in World War II, MartinEbon worked on the staff of the ForeignPolicy Association and with the USInformation Agency during the KoreanWar. From 1953 to 1965 he was admin-istrative assistant of the ParapsychologyAssociation in New York and travelledextensively on behalf of the Association'sresearch endeavours. He has becomewell-known in parapsychology circles.His lectures, reviews, research reports,magazine articles and books (over 60 ofthem) reflect serious treatment of the field.He is a lifelong researcher/writer/analyston political and scientific developmentsof Eastern European countries, the formerSoviet Union and post-Communist Russiaas well as Asia and the People's Republicof China.

In addition to his many books on para-psychological matters, Ebon is the authorof: World Communism Today;Malenkov: Stalin's Successor; a biogra-phy of Ernesto "Che" Guevara; P s y c h i cW a r f a r e (1983); The Andropov File, abiography of the former head of the KGB;The Soviet Propaganda Machine ( 1 9 8 7 ) ;and KGB: Death and Rebirth (1994).

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