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N E X U SNEW TIMES MAGAZINE

Volume 10, Number 4 JUNE – JULY 2003

UK/Europe Edition www.nexusmagazine.com

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

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

News you may have missed, including Monsanto'smonopoly upheld on GE soybeans, a victory forGulf War syndrome veterans, and motives behindthe US demand that sanctions against Iraq be lifted.

THE SCOURGE OF DEPLETED URANIUM.................11

By Dr Doug Rokke. US authorities are in denialover the serious adverse health and environmentaleffects of depleted uranium munitions and do littleto help victims or decontaminate affected land.

HAARP'S THREAT TO THE PLANET............................17

by Richard A. Miller and Iona Miller. Part of theUS military's "Joint Vision 2020" plan, the HAARPe n e rgy beam weapon poses a major threat to thesubtle electromagnetic interplay between theEarth's surface and ionosphere and all biosystems.

ROCKEFELLER INTERNATIONALISM—Part 2............27

By Will Banyan. Nelson Rockefeller, the secondson of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, used the family nameand wealth to pursue his political ambitions andvisions for global free trade in a New World Order.

MANGANESE, INFRASOUND & BSE—Part 2.............33

By Mark Purdey. Scientists, health authorities andpoliticians prefer the all-out slaughter of animals tocontrol BSE, while ignoring the evidence that thedisease does not have hyperinfectious origins.

SCIENCE NEWS..........................................................37

In his 1901 essay, "Talking with the Planets", DrNikola Tesla discusses the idea of communicatingwith beings in other worlds and using the Earth'senergy to send signals across vast distances.

IS INCANDESCENT LIGHT HEALTHIER?—Part 2.......41

By Inger Lorelei. Energy authorities and thelighting industry want to foist fluorescent lightingon consumers, when anecdotal evidence says thatpeople prefer the glow from incandescent lamps.

HOLOCAUST OF GIANTS..........................................49

By Ross Hamilton. Smithsonian Institutiondocuments attest to the existence of a race of giantsin ancient North America, but skeletal remainsfound in prehistoric earth mounds have eitherperished or been hidden from public view.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE................................................59

Graham Birdsall interviews Valery Uvarov about astrange installation in Siberia that can destroy errantcosmic bodies; and Adriano Forgione talks with Prof.Alexander Chuvyrov about the mysterious 120-million-year-old stone map he found in the Urals.

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NEXUS BOOKS, VIDEOS, ADS, SUBS...................78–88

NEXUS MAGAZINEVolume 10, Number 4

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EDITORDuncan M. Roads

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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUEDoug Rokke, PhD; Richard Alan Miller and

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Editorial

It's hard to believe that in the two months since I last stared at the computer screen, won-dering where the wise words for editorials are hidden, Iraq has been invaded and 'con-

quered', a NEXUS Conference has been held in Europe, I've manned the NEXUS stall atthe Sydney Mind Body Spirit Festival, and we've almost finished another issue.

First up: the invasion of Iraq. Where do I start? Probably the most overtly outrageousfeature of the 'war', for me, was the image of Saddam Hussein's statue being pulled down.Prior to that moment, most people may have been feeling pangs of guilt at the 'collateraldamage' caused by the coalition forces. But the statue's demise amongst cheering crowdsof Iraqis was a staged event. The 'average person' out there, bombarded with media cov-erage of that moment, was being made to feel assured that the Iraqis were happy at being'liberated' by America. This 'assurance' has translated into an increase in the popularity ofthe coalition 'leaders', according to the polls, and the spin doctors use this as further vali-dation of this new era of pre-emptive strikes that are in defiance of international law.

While I'm on the subject, many of these strikes utilised depleted uranium munitions.So, for this issue, I've found the best background paper on the subject, written by a nuclearhealth physicist who helped in the DU 'clean-up' after Gulf War I and is himself a victim.

While depleted uranium missiles recently rained down upon the citizens of Iraq, theNEXUS Conference was being held in Amsterdam. As our conferences have usually beenheld in Sydney over the years, it was gratifying to see so many readers come to a similarevent in the northern hemisphere. The conference was a tremendous success and every-one thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Herman Hegge, of Frontier Sciences Foundation, isto be congratulated for his organisational skills, and it's great news that he's scheduled thenext conference for late March 2004 in Amsterdam. We'll continue our Australian confer-ences in due course, but the next one will be held somewhere in southeast Queensland.

While I was manning our stall at the Mind Body Spirit Festival, I was asked by mostvisitors what I thought of the recent Pan Pharmaceuticals product recall here in Australia.Was it a full-scale attack on natural therapies and complementary medicines by the drug-industry-run bureaucracy? At the time I wasn't sure, but now I'd say it seems the glovesare coming off. It almost looks as if they k n e w the Pan Pharmaceuticals scandal wascoming and were prepared. Suspiciously hot on the heels of the drug recall, there havebeen media beat-ups on the dangers of vitamins, supplements and alternative medicines,government proposals to amend the Therapeutic Goods Act, and inquiries into the safetyand effectiveness of natural medicines (with little focus on the dangers of pharmaceuticaldrugs). Whether we like it or not, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and USA areto 'harmonise' health safety standards with those of the EU trading bloc. This will meanbig changes for everyone in the alternative health industry, and consumers will have farless choice in quality health products and services. If you don't make noise now, this isthe beginning of the end for genuine alternative health products in these countries.

Meanwhile, NEXUS continues to expand internationally. We will soon have editions inSwedish, Finnish, Russian, Spanish and Yugoslav languages, but we are still looking forthe elusive German publisher interested in producing NEXUS in that part of the world.

Regarding matters Russian, we have two intriguing interviews this issue that are repre-sentative of a new wave of connections coming out of the region. Of particular interest is"The Installation", which I know will get the phones and emails running hot. We hope tohave a more in-depth article on the subject for next issue, so please don't contact me yetfor any updates. While you ponder the implications of the Installation, you may also wantto read the interview with the Russian scientist who discovered the 120-million-year-oldstone map in the southern Urals (as reported in NEXUS 9/04).

Our article on the unexplained is about Giants—specifically, the mysterious skeletonsof giants found in northeastern USA within the equally mysterious earth mounds. Whowere these people and why do mainstream archaeologists deny their existence?

You must also read Tesla's "Talking to the Planets" essay of 1901; it gives a glimpse oftechnologies that are deliberately being hidden from our view, but are likely beingemployed at installations like HAARP in Alaska. We also have an article on HAARP...

Duncan

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A Captive Audience…Dear Duncan: Thank you for

standing in the gap and puttingout such a faithful instrument asNEXUS, in which these bravecontributors you call authors,researchers and scientists can putforth their work to true peerreview—us, the masses!

Your magazine's content hasbecome fuller and more usable inthe past few years, and youradvertisers less specious. Bravo!The fruits of your vision and ded-ication are evident. Thanks fornot going out of business.

I can speak for many at thebottom of the Western socio-economic pyramid, especially thetwo million of us behind bars,most for drug-related offences,here in the USA.

Your magazine gives us hope.Your contributors, though variedin academic profundity, instilideas in our imaginations ofchange, transformation andrenewal of not only our lives butthe larger world we will enteragain soon.

So keep up the good work—andif you need a leg broken, justdrop me a line. (I'm joking, ofc o u r s e ! )

Guy S., Globe Prison, AZ, USAPS: Please forgive the pen and

ink. The prison officials don'tallow us the use of word proces-sors or typewriters, even in mini-mum security.

[Hi, Guy: I'll forgive the penand ink if you'll forgive my pun inthe title of your letter! Ed.]

Dr Dan Burisch SightedDear Duncan: I understand that

you published an article afterDan Burisch's death was reportedlast year [NEXUS 10/01]. Iwanted to advise you that I havediscovered that those reportswere tainted, and I now haveproof that Dr Burisch is alive. Ihave photographs to prove it.

About two months ago I wasgiven information pointing to anoperation, possibly involvingDan, that was scheduled to takeplace at Frenchman Mountainlast month [February].

I was urged to go and make adetermination as to whether Danwas alive or if it was somebody

who simply looked much likehim who was standing in for DrBurisch. I altered my travelschedule and made arrangementswith Alan Guiditis, the regionaldirector of MUFON in LasVegas, to accompany me to themountain on the appropriate date.

Together we photographed theoperation that took place, and Iwas able to positively identify DrDan Burisch as a participant. Ialso have some tape of the radiochatter in which Dan's voice isclearly audible.

If I could help set the recordstraight, or provide documenta-tion for a follow-up article forNEXUS, please let me know. Iwill do all I can to help.

S i n c e r e l y ,BJ Wolf[Thanks, BJ: Glad to hear

some news about Dan's "disap -pearance". Hopefully one daywe'll have more to publish on hisintriguing research. Ed.]

Radiofrequency RisksDear Duncan: Thanks for

another great edition. I am writ-ing re an item in NEXUS GlobalNews 10/03, entitled "RadioFrequencies Used to KillDestructive Pests". It's goodnews that methyl bromide willpossibly be replaced by radiofre-quency waves, but is this anotherh a z a r d ?

As these waves can make mole-cules vibrate and heat up in thesame way as in microwaveovens, does this mean that, asWilliam P. Kopp tells us, themolecular structure of the foodwill be damaged and new chemi-cals created, some of themknown carcinogens? Or am Io v e r r e a c t i n g ?

I bet your readers would bereally interested in any facts youcan find on this subject.

C h e e r s ,Wilma Tait, Isle of Wight, UK

Secret Base in the Solomons?Dear Duncan: As a long-time

reader of NEXUS Magazinesince the early 1990s when I wasstill in Papua New Guinea, andthen when I moved into LA,USA, and now here in theSolomon Islands, I always see to

it that I receive your highlyprized magazine every issue.

Reading and re-reading bothbooks on underground bases byDr Richard Sauder made memore likely to believe that there'sa secret underground or underwa-ter base here in the SolomonIslands, located at the westernside of Makira Province Island.This is near the epicentre of astrong earthquake early thisyear—a nuclear testing, maybe?

Since the early 1960s therehave been a lot of stories circu-lating amongst the local residentsof a black unmarked aircraft thatsuddenly hovered above their vil-lages. White (and black) peoplein military uniforms suddenlyappeared in the villages fromnowhere, and could speak thelocal people's language. Theysometimes distributed unlabelledcanned goods and other food-stuffs to the villagers.

During the '70s and '80s therewere reports of young childrenwho went missing for a week ortwo and then suddenly reap-peared near their houses. Mostof these children were aged 3–5years old. Some of them canremember going into a big house(a cave, maybe?) at the time theywent missing, and told their par-ents stories that adults cannot andwill not believe or understand.

If you remember, I sent you aphotograph of a UFO that I tookon 29th December 1999; it washovering above the township ofNoro in the Western Province ofthe Solomon Islands. I now sus-pect that said UFO originatedfrom West Makira Island.

Are there any readers who canoffer further information to ourpeople here in the SolomonIslands about this mystery?

Sincerely yours,Sri Ramon Jun Quitales, II,

Solomon Islands, rquitales@h o t m a i l . c o m

U S Flag Signalled SOS! Dear Duncan: I have heard

from several sources that one ofthe main reasons why theIlluminati has begun this war inthe Middle East, which is to last27 years, is to bring about thedemise of the US government

and economy so that there can bea One World Government.

Did the Illuminati let the wholeworld know about this a coupleof weeks ago? I did not see it ontelevision, but I saw it in thepapers. When the American sol-diers conquered Baghdad, theyput up the American flag. Butthey made one mistake: they putit upside down! Or so I thought.Turns out that it wasn't a mistakeat all! It was done on purpose!

A week later, while I was lis-tening to Coast to Coast w i t hGeorge Noory (Art Bell's oldprogram), Richard C. Hoaglandmentioned the flag incident. Hesaid the soldier, who put the flagupside down temporarily before"righting it", was being inter-viewed on the Larry King Liveshow on television.

Larry King also was under theassumption that the soldier hadmade a mistake, and he com-mented on it. To his surprise, thesoldier answered that he hadn'tmade a mistake. His captain t o l dh i m to put the flag upside downfor a few minutes, then take itdown and put it back up the rightway. Larry King asked him whyhis captain ordered him to dothat, and the soldier said he didn'tk n o w .

Richard C. Hoagland said thatevery military and governmentofficial knows what is meantwhen the American flag is flownupside down. It means: Americais in dire distress! It is an SOS!And what amazed Richard wasthat everyone in the entire worldsaw this and not one militaryofficial or government officialsaid one word about it!

They all know what it meanswhen the flag is flown upsidedown, and not one of them said aword about it! The soldier andcaptain were not even apprehend-ed. So what does that tell you?

Brenda B., Costa Mesa, CA,USA (but for how long?)

Death by Doctoring Must EndDear Editor: I recently had a

loved cousin suffer through fouryears of "accepted" medicinalp r o c e d u r e s —e r g o, chemothera-py—for her ovarian cancer. Itried to tell her similar things that

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appear in your "Death byDoctoring" article parts 1 & 2[NEXUS 9/05, 9/06], but, as is sooften the case, her "specialist"caused so much fear in her thatshe didn't look into anything out-side "accepted" medicine. Andso goes the battle.

What really raises my ire is thatthe doctors have my wholefamily convinced that they gaveher four "good" years that shewould otherwise not have had:four years without hair, ofdoubling over retchinguncontrollably after every chemosession, of being so weak most ofthe time that all she could do waslie in bed—and on and on, a dn a u s e a m!

I would like to think that manyof the specialists who pander tothese procedures actually thinkthey are doing the best thing forthe patient. These doctors readtheir journals and take what iswritten as the gospel truth and allthat is printed therein as the latestin medical science. With this inmind, they blindly administer theprotocol as it is spelled out.

I intend to make copies of the"Death by Doctoring" article anddeliver them by hand and "snailmail" to everyone I can think of,both in the medical field and out,who would be even remotelyinterested in the material.

I feel that the only way we aregoing to bring about a change inour existing medical proceduresand break the stranglehold thatthe pharmaceutical companieshave over it all is to inform thepublic until they cause such anuproar that something has to bedone. Does this meet with youra p p r o v a l ?

I was brought face to face witha medical situation a few yearsago when our city was about toimplement a program to fluori-date our water supply. A smallgroup of us began digging intothis issue and found out that itconsisted of nothing more thanthe dumping of the toxic wasteby-products of the aluminium,steel and fertiliser industries'processes into virtually everywater supply in the country andgetting them to pay for it in theprocess.

We gave packets containing all

the data we had collected toevery member of our city counciland attended and spoke at manyof their meetings as well as heldnumerous informational meetingscity-wide. The bottom line isthat our city council voted not todo it! A victory that is almostunprecedented in this day anda g e !

I have not had the chance to"browse" your website yet, but Iwould hope to find similar arti-cles on amalgam teeth fillings,aspartame as a sweetener, moreinfo on fluoridation, how thehomogenisation process of milkchanges it into a very unhealthysubstance, and anything elsedealing with present-day medicalprocedures and food processingthat is contrary to our health andwell- being.

I would appreciate it if youwould point me in the properdirection to find this information.Thank you!

Bill Alexander, Washington,USA, [email protected]

[First up, all readers have mypermission and encouragementto share, reproduce and copy ourarticles as far and as wide asthey wish, as long as there is nocharge to the recipient. And Bill,as for a pointer to articles onthose subjects you mentioned,just visit our website. We havefree articles on all those issuesand more. Ed. ]

Sai Baba Allegations GrowDuncan: In exposing sexual

abuse of male youths by SathyaSai Baba, India's most famousguru, the N E X U S article in 1999on the accusations were tremen-dously seminal [see 7/05]. Thethree testimonies presentedalleged serial sexual molestationsof young males from differentcountries, as well as other crimes.

NEXUS tested many SaiBaba–related sourcesindependent of our own. Yourconfirmation of the integrity ofthe evidence, and publishing ofthe article, certainly assisted ourextensive and worldwideinvestigations and campaign.

Devoted to Sai Baba for 25years, I spent a few years aroundhim and taught English literature

(1978–79) at his college inWhitefield, via Bangalore—thefirst of several large boys' col-leges which Sai Baba founded. Inow assist with exposure activi-ties.

Sai Baba's devotees are legionin all the top Indian power struc-tures. Witlessly, they and mil-lions of Indians sink at his feet,declaring him a national trea-sure—the greatest divine incarna-tion ever—and believe him whenhe says that he will save theentire world, with India leadingthe rest of us. A powerful incen-tive to belief are the ostensiblemiracles.

We continue to exposefraudulence, but not all thephenomena—whether related tohim personally or to worldwidemanifestations in countlesshomes of devotees, etc.—submitto rational explanation.

A common response to thethree N E X U S article testimonieswas that they had the "ring oftruth". One of the authors wasDr Terry Gallagher, a scientistand formerly a highly respectedleader of the Australian SaiOrganisation. Long before theNEXUS article came out, hisefforts to investigate properly theallegations of sexual molestationhad been heavily suppressed byT. Ramanathan, the head of theSathya Sai Organisation ofAustralia and Papua NewGuinea. Dr Gallagher resignedon the basis of high principle—ashave many others since, theworld over.

Another highly respectedleader, Stephen Carthew, a docu-mentary filmmaker, submittedshortly after the N E X U S a r t i c l ewas published that the allegationsbe discussed by the rank and file.Summarily, Ramanathan, aretired lawyer and formerPresident of the Sri Lanka LawSociety, cast him out.

Worldwide, courageous andtruthful individuals received thesame draconian treatment.Hundreds of people have comeforward with more information.These include former devoteesfrom many countries, some ofwhom have spent over twodecades closely involved in SaiBaba's work.

Allegations against Sathya SaiBaba mainly relate to serial sexu-al abuse of minors and youngmen, but some relate to SaiBaba's complicity in police exe-cutions in his private apartmentsat Puttaparthi in 1993.

Coming from many countriesand educational backgrounds, wehave exposed Sai Baba and hisaccomplices in major venues.We have precipitated well-researched articles in the press ofcountries such as Australia,Canada, Denmark Chile,Germany, Holland, India, USA,UK and Sweden.

Early last year, the DanishBroadcasting Company aired a50-minute documentary on theSai Baba exposé, titled S e d u c e d.Promptly, the municipal authori-ties rescinded the sale to SaiBaba devotees of the famousArresødal castle in Copenhagen,which was to have been used as aSai international school.

However, the Indian powerstructure constantly obstructs ourefforts, including the media—with the honourable exceptionsof India Today and the uniqueand brave Ramana Murthy,Editor of V i j a y a v i h a a r a m.Indian Prime Minister A. B.Vajpayee and three high-profileco-signatories of a public lettersay that our contentions are"wild, reckless and concoctedallegations made by certain vest-ed interests and people againstBhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba".

After hearing of our allegationsand having them investigated, theVice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Adelaide, SouthAustralia, withdrew permissionfor the University to be used as avenue for the Sai NationalConference that was scheduledfor April 18–25, 2003.

There is a growing networkaround the planet of peoplecalling for a properly constitutedofficial enquiry and action bygovernments around the world.

More information can be foundat the following websites:

• http://www.exbaba.com • http://www.saiguru.net Barry Pittard, Qld, Australia,

b p i t t a r d @ b e a c h a c c e s s . c o m . a u

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MONSANTO'S GE SOYMONOPOLY UPHELD

In a jaw-dropping affirmationof Monsanto's monopoly con-

trol over commodity crops, oneof the world's most notoriouspatents for genetically engi-neered crops was upheld on May6 by the European Patent Office(EPO) in Munich—this despite anine-year battle by civil society(and industry) to have it revoked.

European Patent No. 301,749,granted in March 1994, is anexceptionally broad "speciespatent" which grants gene giantMonsanto an exclusivemonopoly over all forms of GEsoybean varieties and seeds,irrespective of the genes used orthe transformation techniqueemployed.

The patent, attacked as immoral andtechnically invalid by food security advo-cates worldwide, was vigorously opposedby Monsanto itself until it purchased theoriginal patent-holder (Agracetus) in 1996and switched sides to make the soybeanspecies patent a major ingredient in itsglobal recipe for crop monopoly.Monsanto now controls 100% of theworld's genetically engineered soybeans,covering 36.5 million hectares in 2002.

The ETC Group (The Action Group onErosion, Technology and Concentration,formerly RAFI) has been opposing thepatent for nearly a decade. It regards themaintenance of this patent as a dangerousprecedent for other broad claims on

emerging new technologies, in particularnanotechnology—the atomic manipulationof matter to create new molecular forms.

"We fear that the EPO decision onMonsanto's soybean patent gives comfortto those who want to establish ever widerlegal claims—including matter monopo-lies," emphasised Jim Thomas of ETCGroup's Oxford, UK, office.

"Monsanto may have won an entirespecies, but others are seeking to monopo-lise entire elements of nature. Atomic-level manufacturing provides new opportu-nities for sweeping monopoly control overboth living and non-living matter." (Source: ETC Group news release, May 7,2003, http://www.etcgroup.org)

MURDOCH COMPANYTO MIND BRITISHOFFICIAL SECRETS?

In an official British "writtenministerial statement" quietly

released late on Friday evening,March 14, while MPs and themedia were focused on theapproaching conflict with Iraq,the Junior Defence Minister, DrLewis Moonie, confirmed thatthe Ministry of Defence (MoD)had decided to privatise the stor-age of top- secret Ministry files.

The statement, published inHansard (column 29WS), alsoconfirms that the preferred bid-der is TNT Express Services,owned by the media magnateRupert Murdoch, proprietor ofthe London Times and Sun news-papers.

Within two years, TNT will relocate therecords service of the MoD and 13 othergovernment departments—including theHome Office, the Crown ProsecutionService (CPS), the Public Record Office(PRO), the Metropolitan Police Serviceand the Lord Chancellor's Department—from secure MoD warehouses at BourneAvenue, Hayes, Middlesex, to new facili-ties in the Midlands.

The site will provide secure storage for apossible 200 linear kilometres of officialpaper records, and TNT will also beresponsible for "the provision of recordsmanagement and archiving services" for a25-year period. (Source: Intelligence, no. 420, April 7, 2003)

NRO WANTS TO "KNOW EVERYTHING"

At a March 12 hearing of the US SenateArmed Services Committee, Peter B.

Teets, Director of the NationalReconnaissance Office (NRO) whichdevelops, launches and operates US spysatellites, said: "Our goal is transparency.We want the ability to see everything andknow everything, while simultaneouslydenying our adversaries both the ability todo the same, and the knowledge that suchcapabilities are being used against them."

"We have 12 national security spacelaunches scheduled for 2003, compared toonly one conducted in 2002," he added.

Mr Teets, who is also an Under-Secretary of the Air Force, provided a rarepublic description of "offensive counter-space" (OCS) programs for disabling other


countries' satellites."We currently have two OCS projects

underway. The first is the CounterCommunication System (CCS), acapability intended to disrupt satellite-based communications used by an enemyfor military C3, and scheduled for 2004.The second is the Counter SurveillanceReconnaissance System (CSRS), intendedto impair an enemy's ability to obtaintargeting, battle damage assessment andinformation by denying their use ofsatellite imagery with reversible, non-damaging effects," Mr Teets testified.

At a March 12 Air Force press briefingon "military space", the Air Force Directorof Space Preparations, Major-General JuddBlaisdell, said: "We are so dominant inspace that I pity a country that would comeup against us." (Source: Secrecy News , from the FASProject on Government Secrecy, vol. 2003,no. 23, March 18, 2003, http://www.fas.org)

SADDAM WAS A KEY CIA ASSETFROM THE LATE 1950S

While many have thought that SaddamHussein first became involved with

US intelligence agencies at the start of theSeptember 1980 Iran–Iraq War, his firstcontacts with US officials date back to1959 when he was part of a CIA-authorised six-man squad tasked withassassinating the then Iraqi Prime Minister,General Abd al-Karim Qasim.

In July 1958, Qasim overthrew the Iraqimonarchy in what one former US diplomatdescribed as "a horrible orgy of blood-shed". In the mid-1950s, Iraq had beenquick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pactwhich was to defend the region, and whosemembers included Turkey, Britain, Iranand Pakistan. But the US paid little atten-tion to Qasim's bloody regime until hissudden decision to withdraw from the pactin 1959. Washington watched in markeddismay as Qasim began to buy arms fromthe Soviet Union and put his own domesticcommunists into ministry positions of "realpower", according to a former senior USState Department official.

The assassination was set for October 7,1959, but it was completely botched.Qasim escaped death by hiding on thefloor of his car, but Saddam, whose calfhad been grazed by a fellow would-beassassin, escaped to Tikrit, thanks to CIAand Egyptian intelligence agents. Saddamthen crossed into Syria and was transferredby Egyptian agents to Beirut, where the

CIA paid for his apartment and put himthrough a brief training course. Theagency then helped him get to Cairo.

One former US government official,who knew Saddam at the time, said thateven then Saddam "was known as havingno class; he was a thug, a cut-throat".

The agency quickly moved into action.Noting that the Ba'ath Party was huntingdown Iraq's Communists, the CIA provid-ed the submachinegun-toting IraqiNational Guardsmen with lists of suspect-ed Communists who were then jailed,interrogated and summarily executed.

Agency sources told UPI that the masskillings, presided over by SaddamHussein, took place at Qasr al-Nehayat—literally, the Palace of the End. (Source: by Richard Sale, UPI, April 10,2003, http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030410-070214-6557r)

EU CHALLENGES AUSTRALIA'SQUARANTINE RULES

The European Union has decided torequest Australia to enter into WTO

formal consultations on its quarantine sys-tem for imports of agricultural products.

EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamysaid: "Australia has built a quarantinesystem which is highly efficient atblocking the import of agriculturalproducts into this country. We believe thissystem flagrantly breaches WTO rules,despite Australia's constant claims to bethe only beacon of free agricultural trade."

The rules which the EU considers theAustralian quarantine system breaches areset out in the Agreement on Sanitary and

Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), which cov-ers regimes dealing with human, animaland plant health.

Some of the market access problemsfaced by EU exporters include: an outrightban on the import of a range of agriculturalproducts such as fruit and vegetables;extremely long and complex risk assess-ment procedures; and extremely restrictiveconditions applied to imports, even whenaccess is finally granted.

Australia's quarantine system has beenchallenged in the past. In 1998, followinga complaint by Canada and the USA, theWTO ruled that the Australian quarantinesystem for salmon violated WTO rules. (Source: EU Commission release, March 31,2003, http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/miti/dispute/index_en.htm, via [email protected])

EARTH'S FIELDS SOON TO FLIP

In recent years, the Earth's magnetic fieldhas been behaving in ways not

previously seen in the admittedly shorttime it has been monitored.

The magnetic field not only shields usfrom harmful cosmic rays but also funnelscharged particles shed by the Sun towardsthe magnetic poles, where they canproduce beautiful auroral displays. But itis getting weaker.

David Kerridge, of the BritishGeological Survey, told BBC NewsOnline: "There is strong evidence that thefield is decreasing by about five per centper century."

Some researchers suggest that it couldbe the start of a geomagnetic reversal,

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when the strength of the Earth's magneticfield decreases and then returns a few thou-sand years later with the north and southmagnetic poles reversed.

Magnetic measurements made on thesurface suggest that a region of the Earth'score under South Africa is of a differentpolarity to the rest of the magnetic field inthe core. It may grow and initiate a flip, orit may die down.(Source: BBC News Online, March 27, 2003,h t t p : / / n e w s . b b c . c o . u k / g o / p r / f r / - / 1 / h i /sci/tech/2889127.stm)

EU CALLS FOR INVESTIGATIONOF ASPARTAME DANGERS

The European Parliament has called foran investigation of aspartame (aka

NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel, E951,Spoonful, Benevia, etc.) as part of a driveto make sure that foodstuffs and drinksconsumed in the European Union are safe.

A document from the EuropeanParliament says the justification is that:"…the use of aspartame increases the expo-sure to its metabolites methanol/ formalde-hyde and phenylalanine and is reported toprovoke headaches, nausea and allergicreactions, especially in the case of vulnera-ble persons. Its widespread use shouldtherefore be re-evaluated by theCommission and the relevant scientificcommittees, taking into account all avail-able data and respecting the precautionaryprinciple. An historical evaluation isrequired as there seems to be evidence thatoriginal studies did not prove the safety ofaspartame."

There is also a call for proposals toimprove the labelling of products contain-ing aspartame, and the Parliament wantsthe new directive to be implemented in themember states within a year of its entryinto force. There is concern about a lack oflabels warning of health risks to the preg-nant woman and the foetus—and rightly so,since aspartame is an abortifacient and ateratogen. It also stimulates prolactin. It isan endocrine-disrupting chemical. It alsochanges the menses, triggering infertility.A woman who goes off aspartame and getspregnant may lose her baby if she goesback onto it.

The manufacturer and the FDA havesteadfastly refused to put a warning onaspartame, even though they have fullknowledge of how it can destroy the foetusor trigger birth defects. (Source: from Betty Martini, MissionPossible International, April 12, 2003,http://www.dorway.com)

SWISS CANTON STOPSFLUORIDATION AFTER 41 YEARS

On April 9, the Great Council of theSwiss Canton Basel-Stadt, on a motion

brought forward by the Commission forHealth and Social Issues, totally repealedthe "Resolution of the Great Council con-cerning the introduction of fluoridation ofdrinking water for the control of caries".The fluoridation of drinking water, initiatedby Basel-Stadt on May 2, 1962, was thusstopped after 41 years. The reasons were:

• The preventive effect of thefluoridation of drinking water could not be

proved by any study. When specialists donot succeed in producing definite proof in40 years, the practice has to be abandoned.

• In spite of the fluoridation of drinkingwater, dental caries have been on theincrease in children.

• The danger of fluorosis is played down;indeed, there is no discussion about fluoro-sis of the bones. The fluoridation of drink-ing water is particularly problematic in thecase of young children and babies.

• Less than 1% of the fluoride in drinkingwater is actually used for "prevention ofcaries"; more than 99% of the fluoridatedwater is used for washing, cleaning, indus-trial production, etc., and thus only pollutesthe environment—a very undesirableimbalance.(Source: Forum for Responsible Applicationof Science, Basel, April 27, 2003, http://www.nux.ch, via http://npwa.freeserve.co.uk/)

PENTAGON STAGED SADDAM STATUE'S FALL

One of the "most memorable images ofthe war" in Iraq was the footage and

photographs showing a crowd of Iraqispulling down the statue of Saddam Husseinin Fardus Square in Baghdad on April 9,after US armed forces invaded the capital.

The BBC hailed the video and photos asrecording a "momentous event", with themedia being "a witness to history". Bushdeclared it "a historic moment". ForDonald Rumsfeld, these images were"breathtaking". But this image was staged.The spin-doctors of the US media and thePentagon produced a close-action video ofthe destruction of the statue that was sup-posed to be proof of a massive civilianuprising against the Iraqi government.

A Reuters photojournalist exposed thismedia event as a sham. The Marines hadcleared out the area and ringed FardusSquare (across the street from the PalestineHotel, where foreign journalists are based)with tanks. A hand-picked group ofapprox. 150 Iraqis, with some Marines, wasallowed into the sealed-off area. A US mil-itary vehicle pulled down the statue.

The Pentagon wanted journalists to sellthis occupation as "liberation" to people inthe US and around the world. In fact, theUnited States Armed Forces psychologicaloperations motto boasts: "Win the mind,win the day!"

The wrecking of the Saddam statue waspart of a psy-ops media campaign.(Source: Workers World News Service, April24, 2003, http://www.workers.org)

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BEHIND WASHINGTON'S DEMAND TO LIFT IRAQ SANCTIONS

The issue of lifting the sanctions on Iraq is shaping up as the next big confrontation in theUN Security Council, which now has control over at least US$30 billion held in its Oilfor Food accounts—funds accumulated from the sale of Iraqi oil during the sanctions

regime. The US has appointed itself the overseer of Iraq and the force that will hand-pick anew government. But the sanctions prevent the money from going to Iraq. So the US wantsan end to sanctions so that these billions of dollars can be turned over to a US-administeredgovernment in Iraq.

In addition, Iraqi money worth billions of dollars has been frozen since August 1990 inaccounts around the world. An end to sanctions could be a first step in making this moneyavailable to a US-controlled "Iraqi government", which would then turn it over to US corpo-rations that have been awarded contracts for the "reconstruction" of Iraq. The US campaignto end the sanctions and turn the billions in withheld Iraqi funds over to itself, the occupier,is piracy in its most blatant form.

France, Russia and China all have veto power over whether to end the sanctions. Variouscountries on the Security Council have reminded Washington that sanctions cannot be lifteduntil UN weapons inspectors confirm that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, whichdiplomatically throws in Washington's face the same fraudulent excuse that the US govern-ment used for 13 years to continue the sanctions.

France has further enraged the Bush administration by proposing that civilian sanctionscould be "suspended" for humanitarian reasons. By stating that it was not for "lifting" sanc-tions, it was reminding Washington that the web of sanctions the US had spun gives the UNSecurity Council control over all of Iraq's future oil revenues. This is also Russia's position.

As long as sanctions officially remain in place, the revenue from all Iraqi oil sold will con-tinue to be deposited into UN accounts. Billions of dollars are at stake in future contracts.The countries on the Security Council that had joined the US in imposing sanctions are notso anxious to turn over these accumulated funds, the bidding on all reconstruction contractsand the future oil revenues to the conquerors.

Part of the reason why Washington does not want the United Nations involved in any wayin Iraq is that the Bush administration does not want any other financial claims on its unilat-eral theft. Until it is clear who has legal title to Iraq's oil, it will be difficult for the US to sellthe oil on the world market. Before the 1991 war, Iraqi oil revenue was worth more thanUS$20 billion a year.

When the Pentagon started bombing in January 1991, it chose its targets to sharpen thedeadly impact of the sanctions. The US consciously destroyed the water, sanitation, sewageand pumping facilities, along with food-processing plants, pharmaceutical plants and med-ical facilities. At the end of the massive US 40-day bombing campaign, Iraq withdrew fromKuwait. This should have ended the reason for the UN sanctions. But as a condition of theceasefire, the US demanded that sanctions remain until the UN Security Council had con-firmed that Iraq had destroyed any unconventional weapons it may have obtained.

This became the excuse for a protracted struggle to demand the right to send thousands ofinspectors into Iraq to confirm that Iraq had no such weapons. Despite over 9,000 inspec-tions, the continuing threat of US veto has kept these starvation sanctions in place for 13years. By 1995, a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report confirmed that 567,000children under the age of five had died as a direct result of the continued UN sanctions. Agrowing global mobilisation demanding that sanctions be lifted created a radical shift inworld public opinion.

As world outrage mounted, the US shifted its public relations approach. In an attempt togive a humanitarian cover to its brutal policy, it pushed through the Oil for Food Program.This program allowed Iraq to sell a limited amount of its oil and buy food and medicine fromthe revenue. The UN Security Council, under a special committee called the 661Committee, would control all the revenue and review every contract for supplies that Iraqwould receive. Some 34 per cent of the Iraqi Oil for Food revenue went to the Kuwaitimonarchy and other "victims" of the 1991 war. ExxonMobil received $200 million in "warreparations" from the Oil For Food funds, which were supposed to feed starving Iraqichildren. Billions of dollars also went to the UN to administer this program. A multibillion-dollar bureaucracy was created that guaranteed lucrative contracts to many countries.

For the past six years, the US and UK representatives on the 661 Committee have denied,delayed or obstructed most of the contracts submitted by Iraq. Under US pressure, the com-mittee denied over 90 per cent of Iraq's contracts for the repair of water/sewage treatmentand irrigation projects.

Because of this continual obstruction, billions of dollars from oil sales were never releasedfor Iraq's desperate needs but continued to be held in UN accounts. These funds, along withfuture oil revenue, are what US corporate power wants undisputed control over.

(Source: by Sara Flounders, Workers World, May 8, 2003, http://www.workers.org)

LANDMARK WARNING ONMERCURY USE IN DENTISTRY

For the first time anywhere in the USA,dentists will be required to post a warn-

ing about the dangers of mercury in theirdental fillings. On January 7, a CaliforniaSuperior Court judge finalised the languagefor the warning and ordered the CaliforniaDental Association to send it to dentists byMarch 9. The warning reads as follows:

"Notice to Patients: Proposition 65Warning: Dental Amalgam, used in manydental fillings, causes exposure to mercury,a chemical known to the state of Californiato cause birth defects or other reproductiveharm. Root canal treatments and restora-tions, including fillings, crowns andbridges, use chemicals known to the stateof California to cause cancer. The USFood and Drug Administration has studiedthe situation and approved for use all den-tal restorative materials. Consult your den-tist to determine which materials are appro-priate for your treatment."

The warning is the result of a lawsuitfiled by the law offices of Shawn Khorramion behalf of As You Sow, a not-for-profitfoundation dedicated to advocacy andactivism in the public interest.(Source: MercuryPoisoned.com)

VICTORY FOR GULF WARSYNDROME VETERANS

Gulf War syndrome campaigners wereyesterday [May 5] claiming victory

after the UK Ministry of Defenceannounced it would not appeal against aruling by the war pensions tribunal, accept-ing a link between the condition and vacci-nations given to the armed forces.

Alex Izett, 33, a former lance-corporalwho developed brittle bone disease afterthe 1991 conflict—but never went to theGulf—said it was a "watershed" moment inthe battle to have the condition officiallyrecognised.

The decision by the MoD not to chal-lenge the ruling that Mr Izett's osteoporosiswas caused by a cocktail of drugs beforehis planned deployment could have signifi-cant implications for thousands of veteranssuffering from the syndrome. Because MrIzett did not go to the Gulf, the ruling addsweight to the veterans' argument that theirailments have been caused by the injectionsof untested and experimental vaccines theywere given, and not by anything they mayhave encountered in the field.(Source: The Guardian, May 6, 2003)

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Dr Doug Rokke presented this paper at the UNESCO Conference on "The Child: AVictim of War and A Messenger of Peace", held on May 24–25, 2001, in Athens, Greece.

ABSTRACT

Depleted uranium (DU) munitions have been used in combat because they areextremely effective. However, in winning these battles we have contaminatedair, water and soil. Consequently children, women and men have inhaled,ingested or had wounds contaminated with uranium. Uranium is a heavy metal

and radioactive poison. In this paper, Dr Rokke—the health physicist originally tasked by the United States

Army to clean up the DU mess—will discuss: What is depleted uranium? How is DUused by the military? Where and when has DU been used? What did we find immediate-ly after Operation Desert Storm (ODS) friendly-fire and combat incidents? How did theDepleted Uranium Project get started and what were its objectives? What adverse healtheffects have been observed, recognised, treated and documented? Based on all previousresearch and the Depleted Uranium Project, what were the recommendations? What hasoccurred? What should happen next?

In summary: medical care must be provided to all DU casualties; environmental reme-diation must be completed; and DU munitions must be banned.

Official denials about DU's serious health effects Medical evidence—and especially the birth defects in children born to parents in areas

with DU contamination—is an issue of growing concern. Depleted uranium (uranium-238) as well as other contaminants of war have been implicated. Today, 10 years after theGulf War, warriors and non-combatants are exhibiting serious adverse health effects fromexposure to depleted uranium munitions contamination, Iraq's chemical and biologicalweapons and released industrial chemicals. While health effects are linked to complexexposures, I would like to focus on depleted uranium or DU.

Today, United States, British, Canadian and NATO officials continue to state specifi-cally that there are no known adverse health effects in those of us in the US Department ofVeterans Affairs Depleted Uranium medical project. That is a lie, as has been proven byour own medical records based on diagnosis of medical problems completed by our per-sonal primary care physicians.

A press report from January 10, 2001, reported that "Defense Secretary William Cohenstated that DU was no more dangerous than leaded paint", and a US Army briefer assuredreporters that it was "safe enough to eat". I do not know of any physician who wouldinsinuate that either lead paint or uranium is safe to eat. The children of the world havebeen poisoned by lead and now by depleted uranium.

While government officials continue to deny any relationship between uranium expo-sures and adverse health effects, uranium miners and casualties of war who were exposedto uranium contamination are exhibiting the same adverse health effects. Although theRadiation Exposure and Compensation Act of 1990 was supposed to provide compensa-tion payments to these Americans, a report on the front page of the New York Times ofMarch 27, 2001, described how these individuals were sick and waiting for paymentsbecause of inadequate budgetary allocations.

I find it very disturbing that while one portion of the US government recognises theserious adverse health effects of uranium exposure, US Department of Defense officials

Depleted uraniummunitions causeenvironmental

contamination andadverse healtheffects, but USofficials are in

denial, refusing toimplement clean-up

protocols orprovide appropriate

medical care tovictims.

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refuse to recognise the same health effects from exposures causedby wartime use of uranium munitions.

Officials of the World Health Organization released their antici-pated report during April 2001. While this report made specificrecommendations, the authors of this report, just as with othergovernmental agencies' reports, did not consult with those of uswho actually cleaned up the DU mess following ODS and com-pleted the research as part of the Depleted Uranium Project.

I also find it astonishing that once more the authors of a reporthave ignored the facts that although medical care for all exposedindividuals has been required since the warand environmental remediation has alsobeen recommended or required, neither hasbeen completed. The authors of the WHODU report also did not contact any of us whoare confirmed DU casualties, nor did theyspeak to our physicians about observed anddiagnosed health effects of DU exposures.Once more, the Los Alamos memorandum(March 1991) directives written by LTC M.Ziehmn, USMC, are fulfilled.

What is depleted uranium? Depleted uranium, which is 99.8% by

mass U-238, is made from uraniumhexafluoride, the byproduct of the ura-nium enrichment process.

Recent documents released by theUS Department of Energy state that asmall proportion of other toxic heavymetals such as plutonium is also pre-sent. Although 60% of the ionisingradiation given off by gamma emis-sions from U-235 and U-234 is elimi-nated during the enrichment process,alpha particles at 4.2 MeV and 4.15MeV—which cause significant internalionisation with consequent cellulardamage—are proportionally increased.The continuing incomplete statement that DU is 60% less radioac-tive than natural uranium simply ignores the serious internal dam-age caused by alpha emissions. In addition, daughter productsemit beta particles and gamma rays that may cause further radio-logical damage.

While DU may not be an external hazard, it is a very seriousinternal hazard. Consequent inhalation, ingestion and woundcontamination pose significant and unacceptable risks. Also,spent penetrators or fragments emit beta particles at 300mrem/hour and thus cannot be touched or picked up withoutprotection being worn.

How is DU used by the military? DU is used to manufacture kinetic energy penetrators—giant

pencils or rods. Each kinetic penetrator consists almost entirelyof uranium-238.

The United States munitions industry produces the followingDU munitions with the corresponding mass of uranium-238:

• 7.62 mm with unspecified mass;• 50 cal. with unspecified mass;• 20 mm with a mass of approximately 180 grams;• 25 mm with a mass of approximately 200 grams;• 30 mm with a mass of approximately 280 grams;• 105 mm with a mass of approximately 3,500 grams;

• 120 mm with a mass of approximately 4,500 grams;• Submunitions/landmines such as the PDM and ADAM, whose structural body contains a small proportion of DU.Many other countries now produce or have acquired DU

munitions. DU is also used as armour, counterweights, radiationshielding and, as proposed by the US Department of Energy, as acomponent of road and structural materials. All of these uses aredesigned to reduce the huge US Department of Energy stockpilesleft over from the uranium enrichment process.

It is important to realise that DU penetrators are solid uranium-238. They are not tipped or coated! Duringan impact, at least 40% of the penetratorforms uranium oxides or fragments whichare left on the terrain, within or on impactedequipment or within impacted structures.The remainder of the penetrator retains itsinitial shape. Thus we are left with a solidpiece of uranium lying someplace, which canbe picked up by children. DU also ignites inthe air during flight and upon impact. Theresulting shower of burning DU and DUfragments causes secondary explosions,fires, injury and death.

To put it simply, who would wantthousands of solid uranium pencils ofmasses between 180 and 4,500 gramslying in your backyard? Who wouldwant any uranium contamination ofany type lying in your backyard?

Where and when has DU beenused?

Photographic evidence of destroyedequipment and reports suggest that DUwas used for the first time during the1973 Arab-Israeli War. Physiciansusing medical laboratory tests have ver-ified an internalised DU exposure inthe individual who inspected that

destroyed equipment. The Persian Gulf War saw the first significant use of DU in

combat. Pilots flying aircraft fired at least 850,950 rounds andtank gunners fired another 9,640 rounds, for a total weight of631,055 pounds or over 315 tons. Recent conversations with theindividual who managed all DU rounds suggest that this figuremay be too low and that the actual quantity should be 25% greateror about 390 tons.

Although warnings were issued to refrain from DU use, the USMarines fired DU munitions on three separate occasions during1995 and 1996 while conducting operations in Okinawa, and thendid not tell the Japanese government for over one year.

During 1995, the US military also fired at least 10,000 roundsof DU munitions in Serbia. Recently [1999–2000], US forcesfired at least 31,000 rounds of 30-millimetre DU munitions intoKosovo or Serbia.

DU munitions have been fired on ranges in Indiana, Nevada,New Mexico, Florida, Maryland, Scotland and Canada.Astonishingly, the US Navy fired DU on Vieques, Puerto Rico, toprepare for the Kosovo attacks.

Vieques is currently a national and international issue, withconfirmed environmental contamination and documented adversehealth effects similar to those observed in other DU casualties.Recently, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld decided to


"The authors of theWHO DU report also did not contact any of us who are confirmed

DU casualties, nor did they speak to our physicians

about observed and diagnosed health

effects of DU exposures."


suspend Vieques operations. However, Secretary Rumsfeld mustorder complete environmental remediation and medical care forall affected children and others on Vieques. All militaryoperations must be stopped forever.

What did we find immediately after Operation DesertStorm friendly-fire and combat incidents?

I was assigned to the ODS DU assessment team as the healthphysicist and medic by Headquarters, Department of the Army, inWashington, DC. What we found can be explained in threewords: "Oh my God!" According to official documents, eachuranium penetrator rod could lose up to 70% of its mass onimpact, creating fixed and loose contamination, with the remain-ing rod passing through the equipment or structure to land and lieon the terrain. On-site impact investigations showed that the massloss is about 40%, which forms fixed and loose contamination,leaving about 60% of the initial mass of the penetrator in the solidpencil form. We found that standardradiacs [radioactive detection, identifi-cation and computation sets] will notdetect this contamination. Equipmentcontamination included uranium frag-ments, uranium oxides, other haz-ardous materials, unstable unexplodedordnance and byproducts of explodedordnance.

US Army Materiel Command docu-ments sent to us during ODS statedthat the uranium oxide was 57% insol-uble and 43% soluble and at least 50%could be inhaled. In most cases,except for penetrator fragments, conta-mination was found inside destroyed equipment or structures, onthe destroyed equipment or within 25 metres of the equipment.However, during the 1994 and 1995 Nevada tests, we found DUcontamination out to 400 metres from a single incident.

After we returned to the United States, we wrote the TheaterClean-up Plan which reportedly was passed through the USDepartment of Defense to the Department of State and conse-quently to the Emirate of Kuwait. Today, it is obvious that noneof this information regarding clean-up of extensive DU contami-nation was ever given to the Iraqis. Consequently, although weknew there were and still are substantial hazards existing withinIraq, these have been ignored by the United States and GreatBritain for political and economic reasons.

Iraqi, Kosovar, Serbian and other representatives have askednumerous times for DU contamination management and medicalcare procedures, but this information has not been provided.Residents of Vieques, who are US citizens, also have asked formedical care and completion of environmental remediation, butDOD officials still refuse to complete these essential actions.

How did the Depleted Uranium Project get started, andwhat were its objectives?

The probable health and environmental hazards of uraniumcontamination were known before the Gulf War. A United StatesDefense Nuclear Agency memorandum, written by LTC Lyle,that was sent to our team in Saudi Arabia, stated:

"As Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), ground combatunits, and civil populations of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraqcome increasingly into contact with DU ordnance, we mustprepare to deal with potential problems. Toxic war sou-venirs, political furor, and post-conflict clean-up (host nation

agreement) are only some of the issues that must beaddressed. Alpha particles (uranium oxide dust) fromexpended rounds is a health concern, but beta particles fromfragments and intact rounds is a serious health threat, withpossible exposure rates of 200 millirads per hour on contact."

This memorandum, the reports that we prepared immediatelyafter the Gulf War as part of the DU assessment project to recoverDU-destroyed/contaminated US equipment, the previous researchand other expressed concerns led to the publication of a UnitedStates Department of Defense directive signed by General EricShinseki on August 19, 1993, to:

"1. Provide adequate training for personnel who may comein contact with depleted uranium equipment.2. Complete medical testing of personnel exposed to DUcontamination during the Persian Gulf War.3. Develop a plan for DU-contaminated equipment recovery

during future operations."

It is thus indisputable that UnitedStates Department of Defense officialswere and are still aware of the uniqueand unacceptable hazards associatedwith using depleted uraniummunitions.

Consequently, I was recalled toactive duty in the US Army as the DUProject Director and tasked with devel-oping training and environmental man-agement procedures. The projectincluded: a literature review; an exten-sive curriculum development project

involving representatives from all branches of the US Departmentof Defense and representatives from England, Canada, Germanyand Australia; and basic research at the Nevada Test Site located120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, to validate manage-ment procedures. The products of the DU Project included:

• Three training curricula: (1) Tier I: General Audience, (2)Tier II: Battle Damage and Recovery Operations, (3) Tier III:Chemical Officer/NCO;

• Three videotapes: (1) "Depleted Uranium HazardAwareness", (2) "Contaminated and Damaged EquipmentManagement", and (3) "Operation of the AN/PDR-77 RadiacSet";

• The US Army Draft Regulation, "Management of EquipmentContaminated with Depleted Uranium or RadioactiveCommodities";

• A United States Army pamphlet specifying "HandlingProcedures for Equipment Contaminated with Depleted Uraniumor Radioactive Commodities";

• A redesigned radiac capable of finding and quantifying DUcontamination.

Although these products were completed, approved and readyfor distribution by January 1996, the US Army, US Department ofDefense, British, German, Canadian and Australian officials havedisregarded repeated directives and have not implemented, orhave only implemented portions of, the training or managementprocedures. The training curriculum and management procedureshave not been given to all individuals and representatives of gov-ernments whose populations and environment have been exposedto DU contamination, as verified by US General AccountingOffice investigators in a report published in March 2000 andthrough personal conversations.

It is important to realise that DU penetrators are

solid uranium-238. They are not tipped

or coated!


What adverse health effects have been observed,recognised, treated and documented?

Deliberate denial or delay of medical screening and consequentmedical care of US friendly-fire casualties who inhaled, ingestedand had wound contamination from DU, and of all others withverified or suspected internalised uranium exposure, limits recog-nition and verification of health effects.

Although during March 1991 and many times since then werecommended immediate medical care, the United StatesDepartment of Defense, the British Ministry of Defence and con-sequently the United States Department of Veterans Affairs arestill reluctant to provide thorough medical screening and neces-sary medical care.

Dr Bernard Rostker wrote to me in a letter dated March 1,1999, that physicians and health physicists at the completion ofthe ground war decided that medical screening and care for urani-um exposures was not required. Actual documents refute this!Today, individuals (including myself) are sickand others are dead—people who were deniedmedical care, even though I requested it in aletter dated May 21, 1997, which was sent tothe Office of Surgeon, US Army MaterielCommand, and forwarded to Dr Rostker.

Verified adverse health effects from personalexperience, from physicians, and from personalreports from individuals with known DU expo-sures include: (a) reactive airway disease; (b)neurological abnormalities; (c) kidney stonesand chronic kidney pain; (d) rashes; (e) visiondegradation and night vision losses; (f) gum tis-sue problems; (g) lymphoma; (h) variousforms of skin and organ cancer; (I) neuro-psychological disorders; (j) uranium insemen; (k) sexual dysfunction; and (l)birth defects in offspring.

Today, health effects have been docu-mented in uranium processing facilityemployees and residents living near:Paducah, Kentucky; Portsmouth, Ohio;Los Alamos, New Mexico; Oak Ridge,Tennessee; and Hanford, Washington.Employees at uranium manufacturing orprocessing facilities in New York,Tennessee, Iowa, Massachusetts and thefour corners area of southwest Colorado also have repeatedlyreported health effects similar to those reported by verified GulfWar DU casualties. Iraqi and other humanitarian agency physi-cians are reporting the same health effects in exposed populations.

Scottish scientists recently verified that residents of the Balkanswere excreting uranium in their urine. This suggests that depleteduranium (U-238) is mobile and is contaminating air, water andsoil—just as specified in an October 1943 letter to General LeslieGroves.

Today, verifying the correlation between uranium exposuresand adverse health effects may not be possible, except in only afew cases, because of deliberate delays in required screening—aradio-bioassay. Screening involves the collection and analysis ofurine, faecal and throat samples within 24 hours of exposure.Today, months or years after exposure, only a small fraction ofthe sequestered uranium will be detected. That is why WHO sci-entists recommended immediate testing of exposed populations.This detectable fraction represents only the mobile or soluble por-tion. A recent autopsy in Canada has revealed that sequestering is

occurring and that the mobile fraction may not be representativeof what is actually present.

Even when verified medical evidence attributing adverse healtheffects to DU exposures is available, official recognition anddocumentation is limited. For example, during 1994 and 1995,United States Department of Defense medical personnel at a USArmy installation hospital removed, separated and hid documenteddiagnoses (including my own) from affected individuals and otherphysicians. Some medical records were retrieved during the fall of1997, but probably too late for many individuals. Today thispractice continues and, consequently, exposed individuals are notreceiving adequate and effective medical care. This includesindividuals whose required medical care has been requested andordered many times. This will continue as long as the UnitedStates, British, Canadian and other governments and NATO arepermitted to ignore the emerging evidence and deny medical careto all individuals who have been or may have been exposed to

depleted uranium (uranium-238), otherisotopes and other contaminants created as aresult of depleted uranium munitions use.

The criteria describing exposures requiringmedical screening within 24 hours of exposureand consequent medical care were specified ina message from Headquarters, Department ofthe Army, dated October 14, 1993. Theseexposures included:

"a. Being in the midst of smoke from DUfires resulting from the burning of vehi-cles uploaded with DU munitions ordepots in which DU munitions are being

stored.b. Working within environmentscontaining DU dust or residues fromDU fires. c. Being within a structure or vehiclewhile it is struck by DU munitions."

These guidelines must be applicablewith care to all exposed individuals,independent of military or civilian status.They must be implemented now!

Medical care must be planned andcompleted to identify and then alleviateactual physiological problems, rather

than the emphasis being placed on psychological manifestationsand continued testing. Children and others are sick and deservecare for the complex exposures that have resulted in healthproblems. Medical care for known uranium exposures shouldemphasise (concern in parentheses):

a. neurology (heavy metal effects);b. ophthalmology (radiation and heavy metal effects);c. urology (heavy metal effects and crystal formation);d. dermatology (heavy metal effects);e. cardiology (radiation and heavy metal effects);f. pulmonary (radiation, particulate and heavy metal effects);g. immunology (radiation and heavy metal effects);h. oncology (radiation and heavy metal effects);i. gynaecology (radiation, neurological and heavy metal

effects);j. gastrointestinal (systematic effects);k. dental (heavy metal effects);

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Even when verifiedmedical evidence

attributing adversehealth effects to DU exposures isavailable, officialrecognition anddocumentation

is limited.


Introduction: SR Frequencies and Biocommunication

Schumann's resonance (SR) may be the substrate for a radar-type extrasensory per-ception (ESP) mechanism common to all living beings. Non-specific frequenciescan be absorbed and re-radiated in unique interference patterns by all objectsencountered. These "sounding waves" can be frequency and pattern modulated by

conscious intent in order to yield specific information (interference patterns). Decoded by the brain, they return almost instantly on the "back" of the Schumann's reso-

nance and are then translated by the brain into conscious data. Also, bioinformation can beremotely imprinted intentionally on a target through a primitive, radar-type sensory interfacewith an SR carrier wave. All these and more mechanisms depend on the SR frequenciesstaying within their median range.

Electrical engineer Ben Lonetree (http://sidereal7.org) conducts extensive monitoring ofSR frequencies, which he calls the "Voice of the Planet", and Earth's electromagnetic fieldsin Sedona, Arizona. His site provides both atmospheric and geophysical real-time readingswith high reliability. Lonetree also has a strong background in MRI scan technology andbrainwave training. His speciality is low-amplitude ELF and ULF readings.

RHYTHM AND CHAOS IN THE IONOSPHEREThe rhythm of life has evolved at an even tempo for epochs. We live in a complex matrix

of oscillating fields; the tiniest fluctuations in one interlocked field carry over perturbationsinto others. Many times per second, pulses travel completely around the world between ourplanet's surface and the ionosphere, sending coordinating signals to all organisms. Thesesignals couple us to the global electrostatic field. Named for their discoverer, theSchumann's resonance (SR) provides an orchestrating pulse for life on our planet. Thisstanding wave is continually recharged, like the ringing of a bell, by lightning.

We all march to the cadence of this cosmic drummer—our planetary heartbeat, which setsthe tempo for health and well-being. Damaging this planetary pacemaker could spell doomfor life as we know it. In the name of progress and defence, this pacemaker is now threat-ened, while vast amounts of public money are spent on this atmospheric exploitation. Evenmore tax funds are allocated to implement the ill-conceived "Star Wars" missile defencesystem by the year 2020 and the already-operational energy beam project HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program), operating in Gakona, Alaska.

This environmental rhythm—the fundamental driving system for all life on our small blueplanet—is jeopardised by human manipulations of the ionosphere, such as HAARP. Somephysicists have gone so far as to identify the upper atmosphere as essentially "alive", trans-mitting a type of consciousness to all living things. It is dangerous to fool with MotherNature, as the results of ozone depletion and other ecological calamities have shown.Tampering could destroy this system, essentially leaving it—and us—dead. It might beeasy to see that such survival risks don't balance alleged benefits, but targeted research onpotential problem areas has been virtually non-existent.

What is clear is that part of the money voted to Bush's Star Wars plan would be used forresearch into space-based lasers… What the Russians are worried about…are US plans tobegin large-scale scientific experiments using the Alaska-based HAARP in 2003. NinetyRussian deputies signed the appeal against the HAARP program, charging that the experi -ments would create weapons capable of breaking radio communication lines and equipmentinstalled on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and inoil and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of people populatingentire regions. (Fitrakis, 2002)

The ionosphere shields us from deadly radiation from the Sun and deep space. Holes arenow being routinely punched in this insulating blanket by high-frequency radio waves, and

The subtleelectromagnetic

interactionsbetween the Earth'sbiosystems and the

ionosphere areunder threat fromHAARP, a weaponof mass destructionthat's part of the US

military's "JointVision 2020" plan.

by Richard Alan Miller and Iona Miller © 2003

Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge

OAK Publishing, Inc.Oregon, USA

Websites: www.nwbotanicals.org andwww.geocities.com/iona_m

may accidentally tear open the fragile cocoon of human and plane-tary evolution. Dire consequences could be as devastating as thefailure of an individual's pacemaker. The forces of chaos could belet loose, doing irreversible damage.

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) puts this technology forenvironmental modification in the hands of the militarycommand—a frightening prospect. Because of national securitymandates, we can't be sure just what they are doing with it, andconjecture is running rampant. Hopefully, it can be disclosedbefore it is too late for all of us.

PERTURBATIONS AFFECTING EARTH'S CLIMATETo comprehend just how delicately balanced our fragile planet is,

we need to consider the astrophysics converging on our region ofspace. We have to look into deep time and space. Then it becomeseasier to see how the slightest perturbations to our atmosphere cancause dramatic rifts in the course of our geophysical destiny.

Many complex forces are already impact-ing the Earth, particularly our global weatherpatterns. Looking at the broadest scale, thereis a galactic ice age threat from supernovas,whose cosmic rays create clouds when theyhit our atmosphere, cooling it. Also, the solarsystem is passing through the densest portionof the Milky Way Galaxy, a roughly 30-mil-lion-year cycle.

This dense molecular cloud and fluctuatinggalactic tidal forces of distant matter candestabilise comets in the Oort cloud and sendthem hurtling toward the planets and Sun.This rain of small comets, called "impactsurges", is influential in the pulsing andadvancing of ice sheets over millenniaand implicated in mass extinctions. Itaffects the oceanic heat pump (with arain of fresh water) that acts as a globalocean conveyor.

This salt pump moves warm waterinto northern climes, like the US easternseaboard and Europe, keeping themhabitable while cooling the tropics. Itscollapse would mean that warm, saltyGulf Stream water would no longermove north, thus facilitating another IceAge.

The motor of evolution is not naturalselection, but climate and ice. Icesheets have pulsed 30 times in the last2.5 million years since the isthmus of Panama formed, blockingtropical circulation between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Thisdiverted warm water north, where it began falling as snow andbecame built into glaciers. These glaciers ebb and flow dependingon the wobble of the Earth.

Dryness created by these glacial cycles forced the African tropi-cal rainforests to die back, creating savannahs, and our progenitorsleft the forest and modern humans, reliant on intelligence for sur-vival, emerged. Intelligence and versatility became our hallmarksbecause we had to learn to survive in volatile climates. Only about1,000 generations have passed since the Ice Age in Europe, whenhuman population was incredibly low due to climatic stress.

All research indicates Earth's climate system has sensitive thresh-olds, which when crossed will push the system from one stableoperating mode into another. Oceanic systems control weather onland, as El Niño has shown. It is also revealed in deep-sea sedi-ments, ice-core sheets and the fossil record. They all show the con-veyor has shut down in the past. It has been called the "Achillesheel" of our climatic system. The pump is in decline, according toresearchers, and could signal an abrupt and dramatic shift. A paper

in N a t u r e in 2002 showed that the deep current is freshening by asmuch as 20%; this is n o t a good sign. Melting and calving glacierscould hasten the process.

Fossil evidence demonstrates collapse can happen within adecade and persist for centuries. This new paradigm of rapid cli-mate change is now broadly accepted worldwide. Such triggers cancreate spikes of around 10°C in about a decade, followed byplateaus of about 20 years, then dramatic cooling of around 20°C inaround two decades.

In the last 8,000 to 10,000 years, these pulsations have beenmilder, but solar instability, axis tilt and current declines could pre-cipitate their return. So could human tampering with the weatherthrough energy beam technology and weaponry.

A rise in temperature of only 3–4°C could trigger a rise in sealevel of 20 metres within one decade! Further warming and ice-melt creates a cycle where temperatures could spike 8–10°C in 30years. Then ocean currents would shift and new heat/cold patterns

emerge. New shallow seas would decreaseland mass; agricultural plains would be flood-ed, diminishing food-growing areas further.Approximately 30–40% of the land would belost and mankind would be displaced frominundated valleys on all continents. Trade,commerce and industrial production would beflooded out. In 2003, the US EPA predicted arise of 3–9°F over the next hundred years.Tropical oceans have warmed 1.8–2.6°F overthe past 100 years, and glaciers are melting inmany locations worldwide.

Research has also suggested that the Sunitself has been in a heating cycle and may be asignificant component in global warming (1°F

per year since 1880). Limited resultssuggested the Sun produced 0.05%more radiation per decade since the late1970s. The Sun's alleged increasingoutput means stronger solar windssweeping across the Earth's upperatmosphere, exciting and ionising itwith charged particles.

Roughly half the global warming inthe last century can be attributed to theSun. The hotter it burns, the more cos-mic rays it deflects. Sustained overdecades, it could lead to dramatic cli-mate fluctuation—as has happened inthe historical past with events such asthe Little Ice Age between the 13th cen-

tury and the most frigid 17th century. The output of the Sun fluctuates in an 11-year cycle, which had

two peaks in 2000 and 2002. Solar minimum is about three yearsaway (the solar minimum time period doesn't necessarily equal thesolar maximum period). These changes in the solar cycle causeshort-term changes on Earth. At solar maximum, an increase incloud cover by as much as 2% over the USA was reported. Whenbombarded with maximum solar output, the temperature of the thinupper atmosphere doubles. It swells and puffs up further intospace, up to and beyond the orbit of the International Space Station.It can even increase drag on the station, necessitating frequentboosts from space shuttles to maintain momentum.

Recently it has become easier and more accurate to measure solaractivity outside of the Earth's atmosphere. We now measure totalsolar energy at all wavelengths, with the resultant measurementcalled Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). The jury is out on whethercurrent indications of increases are a long-term trend or a briefa b e r r a t i o n .

In a recent study, data was analysed from six satellites orbitingEarth at different times over the 24 years. Richard Willson, a


Many complex forces are already impacting the Earth, particularly

our global weatherpatterns...

Also, the solar system is passing through

the densest portion of the Milky Way Galaxy,

a roughly 30-million-year

cycle.

researcher from Colombia University who is affiliated with theNational Academy of Sciences and the Goddard Institute for SpaceStudies, ferreted out errors in one of the datasets that had preventedprevious studies from discovering the trend.

The new study shows that the TSI has increased by about 0.1 per -cent over 24 years. That is not enough to cause notable climatechange, Willson and his colleagues say, unless the rate of changewas maintained for a century or more. On time scales as short asseveral days, the TSI can vary by 0.2 percent due to the number andsize of sunspots crossing the face of the Sun. (Britt, 2003)

However, that shift, said to be insignificant to weather, is equal tothe total amount of energy used by humans globally for a year, theresearchers estimate.

INTERFERING WITH THE IONOSPHEREFurther perturbing, much less tearing holes in a super-heated

ionosphere, can create catastrophic weather changes. These canpotentially be triggered by the military under the Strategic DefenseInitiative (SDI) to destabilise whole areas with climatic manipula-tion without the risks of conventionalwarfare. Deploying this weaponry foreconomic and strategic purposescould collapse ecological systems anddisrupt agricultural production dra-matically. The Department ofDefense has, of course, already imple-mented the development of intelli-gence and weather monitoring sys-tems related to this program.

Latest speculation has also tried tolink appearance of mysterious "chem-trails" to the deployment of HAARPtechnology. Some think that thereflective qualities of these cloudsinfluence atmospheric heating andweather patterns. Reported analysesof the "angel-hair" taken from theatmosphere after a day of spraying claimthe presence of a variety of toxins. Viral bacteria, toxic moulds,carbon black and EDBM (ethylene di-bromide) have been identi-fied. Speculation about these sprayed grids includes increasingreflectivity in certain layers of the atmosphere. These sprayings arealso responsible for a massive decrease in the production of nega-tive ions by the forests. This is eventually deadly for all biologicall i f e .

Further, explanation of the serious and widespread drought con-ditions are directly related to the fact that the highly toxic and mois-ture-absorbing (up to seven times its own weight) barium salt hasalso been detected in high quantities in the atmosphere right after aspraying event. These sprayings may therefore be linked toHAARP and its "weather engineering" capabilities.

ARCO Petroleum owns the patents on this Tesla technology. Itappears that ARCO was directly funding HAARP, as reported anumber of years ago. Many research groups have shown that weare being constantly showered with ELFs (extremely low frequen-cies) as electronic "smog". ELFs can be deadly to any biologicallife-form as they alter the normal frequency of that life-form, caus-ing serious illness including irrational thought, inability to concen-trate, chronic fatigue and/or death.

Interfering with this delicately balanced dynamic system couldinduce a catastrophic collapse, much like an avalanche. Therefore,the potentials from so-called "ionospheric heaters" are truly fright-ening. We have no idea what possibilities can emerge from long-term meddling with the sensitive balance of the ionosphere andglobal temperature, which is also linked to the worldwide oceanicpumping system whose source lies off Greenland.

As if the weather isn't disrupted enough from other human pollu-tion, tampering with beam energy devices compounds the problem

much further. The United Nations is sponsoring continued debateson climate change, greenhouse gases, and "non-lethal weapons"which can be deployed by at least the Americans and Russians."Weather war" means triggering atmospheric disturbances withELF radar waves. Through electronic weaponry, the US wants to"own the weather" and the space platform for military superiority,tailoring natural patterns and dominating global communications.

Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully opera -tional and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts,hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARPis a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes aninstrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilising agricul -tural and ecological systems of entire regions. While there is noevidence that this deadly technology has been used, surely theUnited Nations should be addressing the issue of "environmentalwarfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts of green -house gases…

…Dr Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military scientists…areworking on weather systems as a potential weapon. The methods

include the enhancing of storms and thediverting of vapor rivers in the Earth's

atmosphere to produce targeteddroughts or floods…"

Marc Filterman, a former Frenchmilitary officer, outlines several typesof "unconventional weapons" usingradio frequencies. He refers to"weather war", indicating that the USand the Soviet Union had already"mastered the know-how needed tounleash sudden climate changes (hur -ricanes, drought) in the early 1980s".(Chossudovsky, 2000)

There are smaller systems atArecibo, Puerto Rico, at Fairbanks,Alaska, in Tromsø, Norway, and inthe cities of Moscow, NizhnyNovgorod and Apatity, Russia, as

well as in Kharkov, Ukraine, and Dushanbe, Tadzhikstan, and pos-sibly in Israel (at an unknown location).

HAARP has been presented to public opinion as a program ofscientific and academic research. US military documents seem tosuggest, however, that HAARP's main objective is to "exploit theionosphere for Department of Defense purposes". Without explicit -ly referring to the HAARP program, a US Air Force study points tothe use of "induced ionospheric modifications" as a means of alter -ing weather patterns as well as disrupting enemy communicationsand radar. (Chossudovsky, 2000)

HAARP AND "JOINT VISION 2020"International concerns over HAARP and sister projects deploying

similar energy beams have continued unabated for over a decade.The most recent developments and proposals are not encouraging.Both the foreign press and Western allies of the US havedenounced a "Joint Vision 2020" plan for missile defence andspace-based lasers as a highly dangerous move towards world dom-i n a t i o n .

Earlier this year, US Representative Dennis Kucinich toldColumbus Alive that Joint Vision 2020 is already an ongoing mili-tary program to experiment with directed energy. On November 9,2002, Carol R. Schuster, Director for Defense Capabilities andManagement at the General Accounting Office (GAO), briefed theDemocratic minority members of the House Armed ServicesCommittee on Joint Vision 2020. Schuster explained that "JointVision 2020 also emphasizes the importance of experimentation toidentify innovations in war fighting".

A task force of DoD, US Joint Forces Command, and the JointChiefs of Staff continues to investigate and implement means of


International concerns overHAARP and sister projects

deploying similar energy beamshave continued unabated for

over a decade.

deploying electronic weaponry capable of destroying any globalopposition by 2020. Schuster confirmed Kucinich's comments:

In 1998, the US Joint Forces Command began to implement ajoint experimentation program to test new war-fighting conceptsthat now support Joint Vision 2020.

HAARP is jointly administered by the US Navy and Air Forceand is a central part of the Joint Vision 2020 strategy. A February1990 HAARP Joint Service program plan drafted by the Air Force'sGeophysical Laboratory and the Navy's Office of Naval Researchdocuments the plan's military applications. The document indicatesthat, among other things, HAARP will be used for generatingextremely low frequency waves for submerged submarine commu-nication and possible weather warfare applications, and for attemptsto take advantage of natural ionospheric processes by directingenergy through the ionosphere and back to Earth.

HAARP MOON-BOUNCING EXPERIMENTSThe Russians and some European allies are worried that the US

military's experiments focusing large amounts of high-frequencyenergy for military purposes could theoretically triggerearthquakes. In April 1992, Defense News reported that the USdeployed an electromagnetic pulse weapon during OperationDesert Storm. (Fitrakis, 2002)

Researcher Guy Cramer has suggest-ed the HAARP array may be used tobounce deadly signals off the ionos-phere and Moon to target sites on Earthwith major explosions, virtually elimi-nating the need for tactical nuclearweapons. The 3,000,000,000-watt sig-nal, originating in Alaska, can be car-omed off the Moon to reach virtuallyanywhere on the planet, on the surfaceor underground, with heat radiation.Since it does not leave contamination, itcan even terminate targets covertly,being passed off as conventional orSpecial Forces results.

It may also be used to search out under-ground installations with penetrating topography or ground-pene-trating radar, as well as in its conventional deployment as over-the-horizon radar. To neutralise or penetrate a target, the upper atmos-phere is heated to make a reflective lens for the signal. Cramer sus-pects Moon-bounce experiments have been going on since 1998,using a technique ham radio people have employed since the 1950s.

A similar array proposed for installation in central Australiacould target positions unreachable by Alaska's HAARP, with bothhigh and low frequencies.

In late 1998 and early 1999 the ELFRAD Group monitored adaily frequency from .9 to .95 hertz (pulses per second); the wave -length of this frequency was approximately 319,877 km or 198,711miles. The Moon's distance is fairly close to the wavelength. Thesignal appears to be a controlled signal transmitted from anunknown source at approximately the same time daily except week -ends. The signal is strong enough to generate its third harmonic,which is 2.81235 Hz…

An Ultra Low Frequency signal in late 1998 through early 1999from an unknown source which occurs only on week days, powerfulenough to create a third harmonic wave, with a quick rise/slowdecay which tracks better with magnetometers in the North and awavelength approximately matching the distance to the Moon? Theanswer seems apparent: HAARP or a similar array in the North isbouncing signals off the Moon, back to the Earth. (Cramer, 2001)

VOICE OF THE PLANET: SR AND THE MIND/BODYSR frequencies are related mathematically but are not true har-

monics. Perhaps it is more apt to think of SR as the "Voice of the

Planet", rather than its heartbeat—which is around the 10 Hz cycle(Lonetree). There is an harmonic relationship between the Earthand our mind/body. Earth's low frequency isoelectric field, themagnetic field of the Earth and the electrostatic field that emergesfrom our bodies are closely interwoven. Our internal rhythms inter-act with external rhythms, affecting our balance, REM patterns,health and mental focus. SR waves probably help regulate ourbody's internal clock, affecting sleep/dream patterns, arousal pat-terns and hormonal secretion.

The rhythms and pulsations of the human brain mirror those ofthe resonant properties of the terrestrial cavity, which functions as awave guide. This natural frequency pulsation is not a fixed numberbut an average of global readings, much like EEG is an average ofbrain-wave readings. SR actually fluctuates like brain-waves, dueto geographical location, lightning, solar flares, atmospheric ionisa-tion and daily cycles.

Finnish physicist Matti Pitkanin believes that even interplanetaryand interstellar magnetic fields influence conscious life. He hasworked out a model correlating psi phenomena with sidereal time,which describes the two-hour interval around 1.30 am (0130 hours)as optimal. He implicates magnetic flux from the galactic core,combined with lowered noise level in the geomagnetic field. As

other research is beginning to reveal, hethinks that microwaves and radiowavesplay an influential role in biocontrol,homoeostasis and remote mental inter-actions.

Pitkanin suggests that in some waysthe mind/body functions like a quantumbiocomputer, directing the binding ofmolecular lock-and-key mechanisms.He implicates plasmons as the basis ofneural circuitry, and topologicallyquantised dipolar magnetic fields—whose knotting, linking and twistingmay entrain with geomagnetic forces—as creating changes in magnetic polari-t y .

"Kindling" is a term applied inparticular to the entrainment of neurons in the brain. These areignited in coherent global patterns, producing larger waves across agreater surface of the brain. It becomes obvious that in deepmeditation, when waves of alpha and theta rhythms cascade acrossthe entire brain, it is possible for the human being and the planet tocome into resonance.

There is a transfer of energy and information, which is e m b e d d e di n a field rather than being a field. Perhaps the planet communi-cates with us in this primal language of frequencies. This mayexplain why trancing and healing seem to occur in the primary SRfrequency associated with alpha rhythms.

Ample anthropological evidence shows that humans have intu-itively synchronised with the planetary resonance throughouthuman history and back into the mists of time. There is cross-cul-tural evidence demonstrating a variety of ritualistic practices thatenhance this harmonisation with the planetary field.

Perhaps the most obvious "drivers" of these trance states areshamanic drumming and trance dance, arguably employed for over50,000 years. Pulsing or flickering light is another driver. A fur-ther example comes from the Jewish and Islamic faiths, many ofwhose adherents bob and sway while praying or reading holybooks. This trancing phenomenon can be presumed to ingrain textsat a deeper level and create "experiences" to go along with concep-tual indoctrination. It may also be linked in some manner to hyp-notic gesturing (m u d r a) and speech, and therefore to charismatic orso-called "mana" personalities.

As part of their chronicling of personality formation, Mead andBateson reported a technique transmitted to Balinese children thatthis culture intuitively employed to harmonise their communities.


The rhythms and pulsations ofthe human brain mirror thoseof the resonant properties ofthe terrestrial cavity, whichfunctions as a wave guide.


Anyone can do the same thing and may already be doing it uncon-sciously. If you sit in a chair and move your foot so that it's restingon the ball of the foot and you get it at the right angle, your wholeleg will start to vibrate or oscillate. When that oscillation is close tothe SR frequencies, it facilitates trance.

Teachers and parents become annoyed with excitable children,constantly telling them, "Sit still!" But, constantly bouncing theirlegs and moving their arms may be a natural way to energise ourbodies. And this may even be the heart and soul of many ceremoni-al experiences, such as healing. The body begins to move andhands begin to flutter, and, where there is less constraint or inhibi-tion, the whole body can be set in resonant motion reflecting thathealing intention. For example, in the Kalahari Bushmen's healingdance, shamans infused with life energy become aroused, hot andbegin shaking. When they grab another person and hug them, thatperson also begins shaking and may turn and grab someone else.One by one, everyone begins literally to vibrate with this pulsingenergy. However (like Chinese medicine), by the time it gets to ourculture or other contemporary cultures, this phenomenon becomesvery constrained and expresses through more subtle practices, suchas "therapeutic entrainment" (the empathic rapport of physician orhealer and client).

Anyone can intentionally inducethis healing/energising frequency, andthere is no single "correct" way. It isa very natural capacity our bodies areintuitively capable of effecting:vibrating with the pulse of life itself.The purpose of this movement is toget outside the limitations and con-straints of isolated individual mindand connect with something greater.

It has any number of names, butthis "greater Mind" links us to oneanother and to Nature, embodying themetaphysical axiom, "As Above, SoBelow". This dynamic interconnect-edness links mind/body, galaxy/atomand sensation/stimulus in a mind-over-matter loop, where subject and object become one, wheregalactic and human consciousness are effectively joined.

C. M. Anderson, MD (1998) of Harvard describes a commonlyexperienced yet little understood phenomenon which he calls the"Persistent Oscillatory Sound" (POS). Many people notice thisinternally generated "sound", particularly when ill or dehydrated, asit seems to become "louder". It sounds like an insect hum.Anderson links it not just to the REM (rapid eye movement) ordream state and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but to thenormal alpha 10 Hz rhythmicity.

Anderson speaks of the disturbing effect of lights and sounds,which might result from loss of normal global habituation due toRF [reticular formation] destabilization, resulting in fear and/orrage. Again, trauma and drug abuse history is strongly associatedwith asymmetric hemispheric function. Temporal lobe structuressuch as the hippocampus and amygdala are particularly sensitiveto the effects of child abuse and trauma.

Anderson conjectures the oscillatory sound could indicate rapidshifting or cycling of attentional resources between the left andright hemispheres, downshifting the normally constant 10 Hz rhyth -micity of the olivocerebellar system. This oscillatory auditory effectmay function as an auditory driver. The downshift effect may indi -cate possible flooding of the left hemisphere by material from theuninhibited right which takes over primary conscious focus. Thissets the stage, along with phasic fluctuations of the S-Net [the net -work of serotonergic neuron cell body groups] and uninhibitedPGO [pons-geniculate-occipital], for the sudden onset of the SOCstate [self-organised critical state] and the waking dream period.

Anderson alludes to "waking dreams as a healing journey

through the fractal hyperspace of emotionally indexed childhoodmemories…"

"The recall of traumatic childhood experiences in adults, due tothe immaturity of limbic structures at the time of trauma, mayrequire electrical stimulation or intensive PGO-like activity presentduring the oneiric [dream] state. Habitual disruption of normalsleep processes by stress associated with combat, bereavement,divorce, child abuse, neglect or chronic drug abuse interferes withthe natural restorative function of phasic REM processes." ( I .Miller and G. Swinney, 2001)

EM FIELDS, CONSCIOUSNESS AND DNAFurther research on these electromagnetic relationships is essen-

tial, perhaps even to our psychophysical survival as a species. Theyaffect our minds, the cellular and genetic structure of our body, oursleep and dream cycles, our emotions, perhaps even our spirit.Monitoring and collating these effects of atmospheric tamperingand their potential influence on the ionosphere and SR—and there-fore human brain-waves and health—should be continued. We areapproaching the end of the current sunspot cycle, and should use anentire 11-year cycle to acquire accurate data results, as Hainsworthsuggested (Miller and Miller, 2002–2003).

Various researchers and physicists arepulling together some relevant dataunder the auspices of the Journal ofNon-Local and Remote MentalInteractions (J N L R M I) (see websiteh t t p : / / w w w . e m e r g e n t m i n d . o r g ), editedby physicist Lian Sidorov. A majorhypothesis of this group is that EMfields outside the body are crucial forour consciousness. Matti Pitkanen hasdeveloped a physics model, calledTopological Geometrodynamics(TGD), highlighting the closerelationship of human physiology withSR and other ELF and electromagneticp a t t e r n s .

Pitkanen believes that not only glob-al, but also interplanetary and interstellar magnetic fields are ofgreat importance for conscious life. His explanations involve mag-netic flux tubes, a dipole-like part of a field. A wide range of EMwaves, in particular microwaves and radiowaves, are likely key ele-ments in homoeostasis, remote mental interactions between cellsand other structures, and sensory representation, as well as inremote mental interactions both within and outside the body. Heexplains that the noise level of Earth's magnetic field must be lowfor anomalous cognition (also called "psi" and ESP) to occur. AlanFrey suggested similar field notions decades ago, speaking specifi-cally of microwave-range inputs.

These EM fields are only correlates of consciousness. Still, TGDallows the possibility of assigning to someone's field body a topo-logical field quanta identity. Pitkanin also suggests these fields andwaves are influential when biological systems perform quantumcomputation-like processes. His biophysics suggests that neuralcircuits and molecules are bound by lock-and-key mechanismsthrough this process of magnetic circulation (topologically quan-tised dipolar magnetic fields).

Pitkanen even sees Earth's magnetic field as a quantised dipolarmagnetic field interaction of knotting, linking and complex twist-ing. TGD views the brain and nervous system as a sensory organfor our extended electromagnetic self, which has a length scale atleast the size of the Earth's diameter. He suggests further that PSIphenomena and distant healing may involve transfer of specificelectromagnetic frequencies through Planck-length wormholes andjoin-along boundaries postulated by TGD, which would allow forthe near-instant transfer of information.

[T]he magnetic sensory canvas (MSC) hypothesis provides a

Anyone can intentionally induce this healing/energising

frequency, and there is no single "correct" way.


mechanism for "sharing qualia" associated with distant points onthe geomagnetic sphere—essentially a form of cognitiveentanglement between operator and target… [O]ne clearadvantage of TGD over other models of subtle energy transmissionis that the EM fields are not directly carried from sender to target,but are simultaneously generated at the two locations by a vacuum(geometrical) current: hence they remain coherent while bypassingthe paradox of non-attenuation with distance…

[T]he illusion of our locality is perpetuated by the data fed to usby our senses—that is, those perceptions we are habituated to payattention to. (Sidorov, 2002)

Other research suggests the fundamental interaction of internaland external fields is the right track. Joseph Jacobson (2002), atMIT, found a way to switch cells off and on with radiowaves. Histeam also "unzipped" and manipulated DNA with a radio-frequencypulse. The same approach worked on proteins as well, and proteinsorchestrate nearly all cellular chemical processes.

Further, physicist Peter Gariaev has proposed a wave-basedgenome, whose main information channel is the same for both bio-photons and radiowaves (see http://w w w . e m e r g e n t m i n d . o r g) .

In 1973, Miller and Webb described DNA as a holographicprojector (see "Embryonic Holography", 2002). In other words,genes encode and express themselvesvia light and radio waves, oracoustical holography (see Miller,Miller and Webb, "QuantumBioholography", 2002). Delocalisedinterference patterns create calibrationfields (blueprints) for our body'sspace-time organisation. The systemworks as a biocomputer—a wavebiocomputer. DNA can also functionas a gel-like liquid crystal, emitting aweak laser-like light that can beconverted into an electro-acoustics i g n a l .

B I O S Y S T E M S , S C H U M A N N ' SRESONANCE AND ESP

In conclusion, Miller & Miller postulate, along with others, that: 1 . Complex electrodynamic fields establish the organisation of

all biological systems. We are fundamentally electromagnetic,rather than chemical beings. Wave interaction is a key determinantof biological structure and optimal functioning. Biosystems aresensitive to natural and artificial electromagnetic fields.Perturbations in environmental fields can induce changes in organ-isms informed by those fields. Field frequencies and amplitudesaffect our biodynamic state.

2 . ELF frequencies of Schumann's resonance are intimatelylinked with those of human brain-waves. Natural or artificiallyinduced changes in SR could affect subtle and perhaps gross brain-wave generation. In particular, it could lead to changes in patternsand frequencies of resonance and resulting phenomena such ashomoeostasis, REM, psi and healing.

Robert Beck…for a decade researched the brain-wave activity ofhealers from all cultures and religious backgrounds (he enumeratespsychics, shamans, dowsers, Christian healers, seers, ESP readers,kahuna, Santeria, wicca practitioners and others), and who,independent of their belief systems, exhibited "nearly identical EEGsignatures" during their "healing" moments: a 7.8–8 Hz brain-wave activity, which lasted from one to several seconds and whichwas "phase and frequency synchronized with the Earth'sgeoelectric micropulsations—the Schumann resonance". ( S i d o r o v ,2 0 0 1 )

Liquid crystals (DNA, brain ventricles and cellular structures) inthe human body may operate as antennae for detecting and decod-ing such global and local ELF signals. Beal (1996) proposes thatliquid crystals (which are an intrinsic part of cell membranes) act as

a detector/amplifier/memory storage device for ELF EM patterns inthe environment. Proteins tend to orient themselves in the 10-Hzresonant EMF, and so would be extremely sensitive to ELF changesin the 10-Hz region. A coherent wave-field may emerge from thebody's own liquid crystal (LC) matrix.

The very structure and organization of living tissues is, however,itself regulated by that master molecule, the DNA. The genetic sys -tem (consisting, to be more accurate, of an equidirectional transla -tion function which may start equally well with DNA, RNA or pro -tein) reveals itself as a complex, multidimensional code with bothlocal (codon) and global (context) material (nucleotide) and field-like (EM hologram) parameters, all of which are mutually interde -pendent and at the same time subject to external, environmentali n f l u e n c e s. (Sidorov, 2002)

3 . There is a strong correlation between behavioural disturbancesin humans and periods of solar and geomagnetic field turbulence.Conversely, studies show that subjects living in isolation from geo-magnetic rhythms over long periods of time developed increasingirregularities and chaotic physiological rhythms— which were dra-matically restored after the introduction of a very weak 10-Hz elec-trical field. Early astronauts suffered until SR generators wereinstalled in their spacecrafts.

4 . Geomagnetic anomalies (tectonicstrain, earthlights, geomagnetic fieldperturbations) can induce some formsof anomalous cognition, such as audi-tory and visual hallucinations, andTLTs (temporal lobe transients, orsmall seizures). Also, one of theeffects of meditation is to "quieten themind" as a method of allowing the"free-run" (or silent thalamic periods)to become entrained by natural geo-physical rhythms. This form of tuningor "magnetoreception" is mediated bythe pineal gland (30% of its cells aremagnetically sensitive) and organicmagnetite-containing tissues.

Persinger (1989) points out thatdeep temporal lobe activity exists in equilibrium with the globalgeomagnetic condition. When there is a sudden decrease in geo -magnetic activity, there appears to be an enhancement of processesthat facilitate psi reception, especially telepathy and clairvoyance.Increases in geomagnetic activity may suppress pineal melatoninlevels and contribute to reductions of cortical seizure thresholds.Indeed, melatonin is correlated with temporal lobe–related disor -ders such as depression and seizures. (Krippner, 1996)

5 . Optimal global ELF (calm night, low sunspot activity, lowEM pollution) conditions can facilitate anomalous cognitions,including psi such as ESP, remote viewing and remote healing.

[P]si is always present in space and time, waiting to be accessedby crisis, emotion, or by optimal laboratory stimulus parameters.Geomagnetic activity may affect the detection capacity of the brainfor this information, especially the neural pathways that facilitatethe consolidation and conscious access to this information.Without this geomagnetic activity, awareness of the psi stimulusmight not be as likely and the brain's "latent reserve capacities"would not be utilized. (Krippner, 1996)

6 . Sidorov (2001) and others have suggested that human intentfunctions as a variable window of transmission/reception in theexchange of extrasensory information, possibly within the range ofELF electromagnetic frequencies. Brain synchronisation withSchumann's resonance of both sender and receiver facilitates psi, or"therapeutic entrainment", amplifying, re-radiating coherent wave-forms derived from the environment, simulating the wave pattern ofthe environment. Sidorov further hypothesises:

[B]rain waves (particularly in the alpha range) can be transmit -ted along the perineural system (or via Frohlich excitation) to any

We are fundamentallyelectromagnetic, rather than

chemical beings.


distal parts of the body, and even to adjacent organisms, via ELFEM waves. These frequencies can be amplified by closely relatedSchumann resonance waves, or by feedback mechanisms typical ofthe body's physiological pathways (akin to immunologic and neu -roendocrinologic cascades). In turn, these basic frequencies canre-activate stalled healing processes, enhance growth, accelerateimmune responses, and generally "jump-start" functions inherent tothe body's tissues, by "rebalancing its energies" (according toOriental medicine) or (in Beal's terminology) by re-configuring theliquid crystal orientation of cell membrane components and thustriggering specific intracellular responses. (Sidorov, 2001)

We are proposing, along with Pitkanin and Sidorov, that theSchumann's resonance may be the substrate for a radar-typeextrasensory perception mechanism common to all living beings.Like water bouncing off rocks and other submerged objects, thisnon-specific frequency is absorbed and re-radiated in unique inter-ference patterns by all objects it encounters.

This interference pattern is a composite of external and internalproperties, as the constituent atoms, moleculesand their global assembly all re-transmit thisenergy according to their specific configurations.Not only that, but the "sounding waves" can befrequency and pattern modulated by consciousintent in order to yield specific information(interference patterns). Decoded by the brain,they return almost instantly on the "back" of theSchumann's resonance. Once recaptured, thebrain then decodes the patterns. In this Fourier-type transformation, the information is translatedinto conscious data, much like other sensoryprocessing.

Conversely, specific effects may be imprintedas bioinformation and made to exercise a"mysterious action at a distance", once the signalwave reaches the target. That pattern inturn may, under the right ("pre-requisite")global conditions, avoid routine dissipationand instead become coupled to thedominating ("state-of-consciousness")standing wave that is picked up and carriedby the Schumann's resonance.

Mental intent may function as a variablewindow of transmission/ reception in theexchange of extrasensory information.Tuned into the Schumann's resonance, itmay carry such bio-regulating informationto distant targets and act as a primitive,radar-type sensory interface. All these andmore mechanisms depend on the SR fre-quencies staying within their medianrange, harmonising with our brain waves.

After nearly eight decades of EEG and other brain imaging stud -ies, it is sobering to realize that we still can't tell with certaintywhere EEG voltages come from (Becker, 1985, p. 88)…

It is conceivable that Becker's perineural system and/or the LCmatrix of the organism (including, but not limited to, connectivetissues, cell membranes and DNA) might act as a full-body array ofsensory receptors for Pitkanen's magnetic sensory canvas signals,with specific excitation patterns coding for different types ofi n f o r m a t i o n …

[T]he body's ubiquitous liquid crystal arrays and their almostinfinite configuration possibilities make them a top candidate forthe primary sensory receptors parapsychology has been lookingfor. It is even conceivable that DNA phase-conjugation properties(Popp and Chang, 1998) allow it to function as a multi-mode anten -na, altering its function according to surrounding signal fields andpossibly acting not just as a regulatory program, but also an ele -ment of "extrasensory" perception. (Sidorov, 2002)

HAARP: A THREAT TO HUMANITY AND THE PLANETAs human beings we have extraordinary potentials that we have

hardly begun to study, much less understand. Creative gifts, intu-itions and talents that are unpredictable or emergent may becomestabilised in generations to come. Hopefully we can learn to under-stand our emergence from an essentially electromagnetic environ-ment and facilitate our potential for healing, growth and non-localc o m m u n i c a t i o n .

A tremendous amount of money has been spent on HAARP andits allied projects (such as the proposed "Star Wars" missile defenceprogram), without a complementary sum going towards researchabout potential hazards. The costs in both dollars and ruined livescould be staggering compared to any potential benefits derivedfrom such programs. For epochs, Schumann's resonances haveprovided the orchestrating pulse for life on the planet—ourplanetary heartbeat, which sets the tempo for health and well-being.

But now, the very heart of the planet is in jeopardy, according tothe Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed

at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.The UN has banned the hostile use of tech-niques that modify the environment or inter-fere with the dynamics, composition orstructure of the Earth, including its biota,lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, orof outer space.

Why, then, did the UN, disregarding the1977 ENMOD Convention as well as itsown charter, decide to exclude from its agen-da climatic changes resulting from militaryprograms? In February 1998, the EuropeanParliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs,Security and Defense Policy, held publichearings in Brussels on HAARP. TheCommittee's "Motion for Resolution" sub-

mitted to the European Parliament(document no. A4-0005/99, 14 January1 9 9 9 ) :

Considers HAARP…by virtue of itsfar-reaching impact on the environ -ment to be a global concern and callsfor its legal, ecological and ethicalimplications to be examined by aninternational independent body…; [theCommittee] regrets the repeatedrefusal of the United StatesAdministration…to give evidence to thepublic hearing…into the environmentaland public risks [of] the HAARP pro -g r a m .

However, the Committee's request todraw up a "Green Paper" on "the environmental impacts of militaryactivities" was casually dismissed on the grounds that the EuropeanCommission lacks the required jurisdiction to delve into "the linksbetween environment and defence". Brussels was anxious to avoida showdown with Washington.

While there is no concrete evidence of HAARP having been used,scientific findings suggest that it is at present fully operational.What this means is that HAARP could potentially be applied by theUS military to selectively modify the climate of an "unfriendlynation" or "rogue state" with a view to destabilizing its nationale c o n o m y …

Amply documented, IMF and World Bank "economic medicine"imposed on the Third World and the countries of the former Sovietbloc has largely contributed to the destabilization of domestic agri -culture. In turn, the provisions of the World Trade Organization(WTO) have supported the interests of a handful of Western agri-biotech conglomerates in their quest to impose genetically modified(GM) seeds on farmers throughout the world.

We are proposing, along with Pitkanin

and Sidorov, that theSchumann's resonancemay be the substrate

for a radar-typeextrasensory perceptionmechanism common to

all living beings.


It is important to understand the linkage between the eco -nomic, strategic and military processes of the New WorldOrder. In the above context, climatic manipulations under theHAARP program (whether accidental or deliberate) wouldinevitably exacerbate these changes by weakening nationaleconomies, destroying infrastructure and potentially trigger -ing the bankruptcy of farmers over vast areas…(Chossudovsky, 2000)

Hopefully we will come to appreciate this fully before our

technology drives the planet so far from the norm that the tra-jectory of human evolution is altered forever. Thus, it is moreimportant than ever to study on the subtlest levels the relation-ship of our bodies with the electromagnetic environment andtheir interaction with potentially planet-altering technology.It seems that mankind now has the daunting task of determin-ing whether the ionosphere and the Schumann's resonanceswill remain alive or be destroyed—whether the "Voice of thePlanet" will continue to sing out or not. ∞

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About the Authors:

• Richard Alan Miller started his professional career as a physicist,biophysicist and instrumentation specialist. In late 1972 he began hisforay into paraphysics with experiments in Kirlian photography anddeveloped a field theory to explain the phenomenon. He is an expertin growing and marketing botanicals, and set up his own company,Northwest Botanicals. Visit his http://www.nwbotanicals.org for alisting of his writings on subjects as diverse as metaphysics,parapsychology and alternative agriculture. He is currently writing abook on ESP self-induction. Richard is available for lectures and asan outside consultant. He can be contacted at OAK Publishing, Inc.,122 SW 5th Street, Grants Pass, OR 97526, USA; telephone +1 (541)476 5588, fax +1 (541) 476 1823, email [email protected].

• Iona Miller is a multimedia artist, hypnotherapist, web author andresearcher who works through the Asklepia Foundation(http://www.asklepia.org), Chaosophy Journal and J N L R M I on therelationship between experiential journeys, physics, healing,creativity, dreams, consciousness and chaos theory. She has beencollaborating with Richard Alan Miller since the mid-1970s; althoughthey divorced in 1994, they continue to work together on leading-edge studies into consciousness, neurotheology, Qabalah, alchemyand the nature of reality. Email Iona at [email protected], and visither homepage at http://www.geocities.com/iona_m/.


THE PUBLICIST: NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER (1908–1979)

In the 1940s and 1950s, the American power-elite held great expectations for the fivesons of John D. Rockefeller, Junior. (Reflecting the prejudices of the time, Junior'sdaughter Abby was excluded from these deliberations.) Books such as Alex Morris'sfawning effort, Those Rockefeller Brothers: An Informal Biography of Five

Extraordinary Young Men (1953), for example, openly speculated on how Junior's progenywould advance the Rockefeller philanthropic agenda. Some of these expectations were met.John D. III and Laurance both seemed content to assume a patrician lifestyle steeped in phil-anthropy, while attempting to influence government from behind the scenes. David, ofcourse, took this to a much higher level, combining it with a banking career; while Winthroptook the opposite route, dabbling in business and serving as Governor of Arkansas—then arelatively obscure position on the US political landscape.

It was Nelson, Junior's second-eldest son, who decisively broke the mould. In contrast tohis more reserved brothers and at odds with family expectations, Nelson aggressivelypursued a career in the highest levels of the US government, first as an official and later as apolitician. That he would do so was inevitable, for he was the dominant personality in thenew generation. He was an extrovert and was seemingly immune from Junior's piousstrictures and prohibitions. Nelson also possessed a vast appetite for power, but, in adeviation from the family tradition of trying to dampen popular fears about Rockefellerpower by maintaining a low public profile, he also sought to be widely known as a powerfuli n d i v i d u a l .

Thus it was Nelson who had shunted aside the eldest son, John D. III, to take centre stagein family affairs, determined to control the philanthropic network. And then, after an erraticand unfulfilling career in government, he clumsily attempted to seize the ultimate politicalprize: the White House. And yet, for Nelson, the rewards would be mixed with frustration,and ultimately the toll would be high for him and the family name. Even David eventuallycame to see Nelson not as "the hero who could do no wrong but as a man who was willingto sacrifice almost everything in the service of his enormous ambition".2 4

From Technocrat to PoliticianHaving no reservations about trading on the family name, Nelson used the doors it opened

to pursue a wide-ranging career in the US government, in foreign policy positions in theRoosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations, although his path was hardly smooth.

Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nelson served as Coordinator of the Office ofInter-American Affairs (1940–44), Chairman of the Inter-American DevelopmentCommission (1940–47) and Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America (1944–45). Hisfortunes fell under Harry Truman, who dismissed Nelson from the State Department, appar-ently at the insistence of new Secretary of State Dean Acheson who resented Nelson's suc-cessful effort to have Axis-sympathetic Argentina included in the United Nations. A chas-tened Nelson retreated into philanthropy, pausing only to accept the token appointment asChairman of the International Development Board (1950–51).

Under Dwight Eisenhower, Nelson's star briefly rose again. He served as the President'sSpecial Assistant on Foreign Policy (1954–55) and as head of the secret "Forty Committee"charged with overseeing the CIA's covert operations. Nelson had been on the verge ofsecuring a senior position in the Department of Defense; however, concerted oppositionfrom other Cabinet members, who had convinced Eisenhower—correctly—that Nelson was

Power-hungryNelson Rockefeller,second son of JohnD. Rockefeller, Jr,had a plan for a

New World Orderthat would make

nation-statesredundant.

Part 2

by Will Banyan © 2002–2003(Revised January–April 2003)


intent on massively expanding the Defense budget, ensured that hiscareer as a public official came to an abrupt end.

These experiences were salutary for the ambitious Nelson. Hisbruising encounters with Establishment technocrats—who clearlyresented his intrusion into their realm—instilled in him a yearningfor greater political power. Nelson was not content to operatebehind the scenes like his brothers, nor willing to endure morehumiliation as a mere functionary.

According to author Stewart Alsop, Nelson eventually realisedthat "there was only one way for a very rich man like him toachieve what he had always wanted—real political power andauthority. That way was to run for office".2 5 And for Nelson, theultimate political office he desired was President of the UnitedS t a t e s .

In 1958, drawing on his vast inheritance, Nelson launched hispolitical career, defeating W. Averell Harriman in the "battle of themillionaires" to become Governor of New York, a position hewould hold until 1973. Expecting the New York governorship tobe a stepping-stone to the Presidency, Nelson campaigned for theRepublican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964 and 1968 butfailed every time, losing twice to hisnemesis, Richard Nixon.

Ironically, it was in the wake ofNixon's resignation in 1974 over theWatergate scandal that Nelson finallyentered the White House, but as anappointed Vice-President to anappointed President, Gerald Ford.Ford's survival of two blunderedassassination attempts meant thatNelson remained only a famed "heart-beat away" from the Presidency, neverachieving his goal.2 6 So near, yet sofar, it was no wonder that whenNelson was asked, close to the end ofhis life, what he wished most to havedone, his reply was curt: "BeenP r e s i d e n t " .2 7

Internationalist or Imperialist?There are two competing interpretations of Nelson's foreign poli-

cy vision during his political career. The first is of a diehard anti-Communist, dubbed by some journalists as the "Coldest Warrior ofThem All", and a militarist-imperialist who believed the US should"act aggressively whenever events abroad threatened its own inter-ests" (Chapman). Proponents of this view point to Nelson's"necrophiliac ambition" (Fitch) of providing each American familywith its own nuclear fallout shelter, his calls in 1960 for a 10 percent boost in Defense spending, his attacks on Eisenhower for let-ting the US fall behind the Soviet Union in the famed (but illusory)"missile gap", and his apparent eagerness to use tactical nuclearweapons against Communist insurgents.2 8

The second interpretation, in contrast, presents Nelson as "aleader in the campaign to submerge American sovereignty in aWorld Superstate".2 9 "I think Nelson Rockefeller is definitelycommitted to trying to make the United States part of a one worldsocialist government," declared John Birch Society founder RobertWelch in 1958.3 0 Far from being the ultimate Cold Warrior, Nelsonis portrayed as a covert supporter of the alleged plot by the super-rich to use Communism to subvert the sovereignty of the US and ofother "free nations" worldwide.

Yet these mutually inconsistent caricatures fail to capture the trueessence of Nelson's world order strategy, which in the short term

sought to assert America's full military power to defeat SovietCommunism, and in the long term envisaged the United Statesusing its superpower status to create a "new world order" based onworld federalism, regional blocs and international free trade. Theinfluences on Nelson's foreign policy thinking were numerous,ranging from his father and Fosdick through to the plethora of polit-ical and specialist foreign policy advisers he employed. But it isimportant to realise the different sources for each approach.

Starting with Nelson's stridently anti-Communist s h o r t - t e r m o u t-look, we find a surprising source. Since his uninspiring departurefrom the Eisenhower Administration in 1955, Nelson had employedas his foreign policy adviser Dr Henry Kissinger, then a leadingproponent of R e a l p o l i t i k and a rising star in the Establishment.Kissinger is widely regarded as a proponent of world government,but this assumption stems primarily from the crude analytical toolof guilt by association, in which Kissinger's CFR membership iscited as the primary evidence of this alleged tendency. There canbe no doubt that Kissinger is a particularly loathsome creature ofthe Eastern Establishment and an egotistical, deceitful and oppor-tunistic character at best,3 1 but a world government proponent he is

not. For instance, in his first CFR book,Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy,Kissinger explicitly rejected the optionof world government as "hardly realis-tic", adding that there was "no escap-ing from the responsibilities of thethermonuclear age into a supranationala u t h o r i t y " .3 2

Despite this, Kissinger was still ofvalue to Nelson, providing support tohis more belligerent anti-Communistfantasies. According to JosephPersico, Nelson's speechwriter ofsome 11 years, "Kissinger's hard-eyedvision of a world maintained bycounter-balancing powers suitedNelson perfectly".3 3 But Kissinger's

influence should not be overstated. For one, Nelson's balance-of-power thinking stemmed from his reflexive anti-Communism,which characterised the Soviet bloc as America's greatest threat.That was t h e balance of power in the world at that time, and thusKissinger's unsentimental views suited Nelson.

However, in his l o n g e r - t e r m outlook, Nelson was undeniably aWilsonian liberal internationalist—something he had alreadydemonstrated intermittently since the 1940s. For example, Nelsonwas instrumental, through the controversy generated over his pushto have Argentina included in the United Nations, with ensuringthat Article 51—which allows for groups of states to form alliancesto repel aggression—was included in the final UN Charter.3 4 But atthe same time, not content with the UN system that included theSoviets, and determined to "purify" Central and South America of"alien commercial influence", Nelson was a strong supporter ofregionalism, particularly the goal of a Western hemisphere "unitedunder US leadership".3 5 During the Eisenhower Administration,Nelson had been one of the strongest supporters of the AtlanticUnion concept, despite Secretary of State John Foster Dulles'spatronising dismissal of his views as "premature".3 6

It was also during the late 1940s and early 1950s that Nelson, insupport of his goal of encouraging Western hemispheric unity—or,more precisely, establishing US economic dominance over LatinAmerica—had established the American International Associationfor Economic and Social Development (AIA) and the InternationalBasic Economy Corporation (IBEC). The AIA was ostensibly


There can be no doubt thatKissinger is a particularlyloathsome creature of the

Eastern Establishment, but a world government

proponent he is not.

intended to promote development in Latin America and combat"poverty, disease and illiteracy", while IBEC was supposed toencourage capital investment. The founding president of both insti-tutions, Nelson naturally painted AIA and IBEC as being designedto achieve the desirable goal of development. Yet, in truth, Nelsonwas driven by a baser aim of breaking down national barriers topenetration by American companies in line with the shift inRockefeller wealth from oil to international banking and ThirdWorld investment.3 7

In describing the activities of AIA and IBEC, Nelson employedlanguage that is often employed by contemporary advocates ofglobalisation. "Today," Nelson stated in the late 1940s, "capitalmust go to where it can produce the most goods, render the greatestservice, meet the most pressing needs of the people." DiscussingIBEC operations in Latin America, Nelson noted that because ofthe "big problems" confronting "our way of life", it was essentialthat they demonstrate "that American enterprise can…help to solvethese problems that are vital to our everyday life and to our positionin world affairs". He said the US needed to "master such problemsif our system is going to survive".3 8 For all his rhetoric on helpingpeople, ultimately it was protecting and extending "our system" thatwas paramount for Nelson.

Three Sources of InspirationFor the most definitive expressions

of Nelson's liberal-internationalistvision, we must look to his politicalcareer as presidential aspirant from themid-1950s through to 1973. And wecan see that, just as Fosdick influencedJunior, at least three sources ofinspiration drove Nelson's visionduring that period.

• The first main influence on Nelsonwas the Rockefeller Brothers Fundreport of 1959, Prospect for America.Aided by David, Laurance, Winthropand the family fortune, Nelson hadmobilised nearly a hundred membersof the Eastern Establishment toparticipate in his project, which wasspecifically intended for his presidential campaigns. Theparticipants were divided into six panels: three focused on thedomestic issues of democracy, education and the performing arts,while the other three dealt with defence, US foreign policy andinternational trade and economic development. Nelson drewheavily on Prospect for America's detailed recommendations forUS leadership in establishing regional arrangements and global freetrade and strengthening international institutions.

Prospect for America ' s policy advice reinforced theEstablishment's Wilsonian liberal-internationalist consensus, rec-ommending that America's goal should be to establish "a world atpeace, based on separate political entities acting as a community",as it was now America's "opportunity…to shape a new worldorder". This would consist of "regional institutions under an inter-national body of growing authority—combined so as to be able todeal with those problems that increasingly the separate nations willnot be able to solve alone". To advance the free trade agenda, thereport argued that the US should encourage the formation of"regional trading systems" in "all areas of the free world", includinga "Western Hemisphere Common Market" incorporating North,South and Central America. The report had also lauded the UnitedNations as "proof of our conviction that problems which are of

world-wide impact must be dealt with through institutions global intheir scope".3 9

• The second, and less well known, influence on Nelson wasEmmet John Hughes (1920–1982). He was Eisenhower'sspeechwriter, a Senior Adviser on Public Affairs to the RockefellerBrothers Fund (1960–1963), and Nelson's campaign manager in1968. Although not a prominent figure, Hughes is described insome accounts as one of Nelson's more "trusted aides", serving asthe "chief ideologue" or "campaign theoretician" during his abortivecampaigns for the Presidency. 4 0 Hughes was also a liberal-internationalist. In The Ordeal of Power (1963), his memoir of histime as Eisenhower's speechwriter, Hughes boasted of havinginserted into Eisenhower's speeches expressions of US support forinternational law, the UN, disarmament and the redirection of armsspending towards alleviating world poverty—a vision revealed inEisenhower's "The Chance for Peace" speech of April 16, 1953,where he asked Americans to support a plan to join with "allnations" in devoting the savings from disarmament to "a fund forworld aid and reconstruction".4 1

• The third influence was Rockefeller's close friend and adviserAdolf Berle (1895–1971), who also provided much input intoNelson's internationalism. In the late 1940s, Berle's Cold Warvision included creating a "global Good Neighbor Policy thatorganized a community of liberal nations" to oppose the USSR. He

opposed NATO, arguing that the"whole language of military allianceis out of date", and supportedcollective security through the UnitedNations instead. Berle also believedin the virtues of internationaleconomic integration, evident in his1954 book The 20th CenturyCapitalist Revolution, which arguedthat the dynamic capitalist economywas rendering the nation-stateredundant.

He also provided input to theProspect for America p r o j e c t ,devising the guidelines for the panelsand stressing the need to develop "anaccepted political philosophy" for US

foreign policy. In addition, Berle collaborated with Kissinger inwriting the final report, and his stamp can be seen in those sectionswhich are the most forthright in arguing for supranationalinstitutions and international economic integration.4 2

Nelson's "New World Order"The culmination of these influences was effectively a slightly

updated version of the Wilson–Fosdick world order model thatcomprised free trade, regionalism, supranational institutions,American leadership and the defeat of Communism. Nelson will-ingly and repeatedly endorsed this policy package in his drive forthe White House. Central to Nelson's platform was the contentionthat global change, specifically economic interdependence, wasmaking the nation-state redundant. As far back as 1951, Nelsonhad used the word "interdependence" to describe the economic rela-tionship between the Western countries and the developing world.4 3

But it was in a 1960 essay in Foreign Affairs that Nelson assertedthat "the central fact of our time is the disintegration of the nine-teenth-century political system…[t]he great opportunity of our timeis not the idea of competition but of world cooperation". 4 4

Similarly, in his lectures on federalism at Harvard University in1962, Nelson claimed:


As far back as 1951, Nelson had used the word

"interdependence" to describe the economic relationship

between the Western countriesand the developing world.

No nation today can defend its freedom, or fulfil the needs ofits own people, from within its own borders or through its ownresources alone. ...the nation-state, standing alone, threatens,in many ways, to seem as anachronistic as the Greek city-stateeventually became in ancient times…4 5

Nelson argued that as the nation-state was becoming "less andless competent to perform its international political tasks", theprevailing structures of international order had disintegrated,leaving "an historical political vacuum".4 6 The old world orderbased on the 19th-century balance of power was no more, now that"international relations have become truly global"—a factor whichdemanded a "new concept of relations between nations" in the formof a "framework of order in which the aspirations of humanity canbe peacefully realized…"4 7

At the same time, Nelson was critical of therole of the United Nations, arguing that it"has not been able—nor can it be able—toshape a new world order as events now socompellingly command". He charged that theSoviet Union and its allies had weakened theUN. The Communist bloc, Nelson claimed,had dedicated itself to "the manipulation ofthe UN's democratic processes, so astutelyand determinedly, as largely to frustrate itspower and role". But the threat posed by theCommunist bloc extended beyond damagingthe UN, to attempting to realise its own "crueldesign…for world order". TheCommunists had "taken our words, ourforms, our very symbols of man's hopesand aspirations and…corrupted them tomislead and to deceive in their quest forworld domination".4 8

During the 1968 presidentialprimaries, however, Nelson was lesspessimistic about the UN, maintainingthat the international organisation wasnot a failure. "On balance," Rockefellerstated at a Republican Party fundraisingdinner in California, "the record showsthat the United Nations' strength hasgrown..." The question for Americans,however, was twofold: "How well can the United Nations serve theUnited States' national interest, and how effectively can it promotea more stable world order…?" Nelson's answer was that both werepossible. Although the US could not hope to control the UNcompletely, it could still act in America's "national interest"(usually a code for business interests) by maintaining world orderusing the resources of other member-states. UN peace-keepingoperations (PKOs) he said "have made a vital contribution towardthe building of a more stable world order" and had done"multilaterally what the United States might have had to do itself atmuch greater cost". Actions through the UN were "often the bestway of controlling dangerous crises", as "unilateral actions" such asVietnam "frequently tend to boomerang". It was "perfectly clear",insisted Nelson, that UN PKOs "have strengthened world orderand…also advanced United States policy objectives".4 9

It was therefore in America's interest, according to Nelson, to"take the initiative in strengthening the role of the UN as mediatorand peace-maker", as the UN "can and must be utilised as a primaryinstrument" in the quest for a "better world". In support of thisgoal, Nelson advocated that the US take the lead in "bringing

disputes to the UN before they 'go critical'" and "encourage strongleadership" by the UN Secretary-General, including greateremphasis on "preventive diplomacy…quiet diplomacy, and lessreliance on voting per se for the achievement of our nationalobjectives". Insisting that the UN's peace-keeping functions neededto be strengthened, Nelson advocated encouraging "smallcountries" to set aside troops for UN PKOs, developing newsources of revenue for PKOs, and a greater focus on "peace-m a k i n g " .5 0

If Nelson's proposals seem strangely familiar now, it is becausemany of them were endorsed in UN Secretary-General BoutrosBoutros-Ghali's 1992 report, "An Agenda for Peace". In fact,Boutros-Ghali seemed to echo Nelson with his recommendations for"preventive diplomacy" and "peacemaking" and for countries to

have personnel and equipment on "stand-by"for peace-keeping operations. Yet, in spite ofa brief flurry of activity during the 1990s, suchproposals are as far from being realised now—especially given the Bush Administration'ssuspicion of UN peace-keeping—as they werein Nelson's time.

The "better world" that Nelson had in mindto replace the existing system of nation-stateswas essentially a limited world federation thatunited all the non-Communist states. In his1968 book, Unity, Freedom & Peace ,Rockefeller argued that if the federal idea—asapplied by the "Founding Fathers…in their

historic act of political creation in theeighteenth century"—could be applied"in the larger context of the world of freenations", it would "serve to guard free-dom and promote order in the freew o r l d " .5 1

In his Harvard lecture, Nelsonrevealed that he had "long felt that theroad toward the unity of free nations laythrough regional confederations in theWestern Hemisphere and in the Atlantic,perhaps eventually in Africa, MiddleEast, and Asia".5 2

To achieve this goal, Nelson endorsedthe extension of the European Economic

Community (EEC) to embrace "the North Atlantic Community as aw h o l e " .5 3 "European political unity would be an important firststep" in forming an "Atlantic Community", he claimed.5 4

Furthermore, by encouraging similar developments in theAmericas, the US could take the lead in the formation of a "PanAmerican Economic Union", which would result in "the creation ofthe greatest free-trading area in the world".5 5

But Nelson was equally clear that regional arrangements were ameans to an end; that because of the Communist threat and globalproblems, "our advances toward unity must now extend to actionb e t w e e n regions as well as w i t h i n t h e m " .5 6

Thus, the new regional arrangements should be seen as stepstowards global integration:

Unity in the West implies an act of political creation—compa -rable to that of our Founding Fathers—and perhaps of evengreater originality, daring and devotion. In our time, the chal -lenge leads us, compels us, inspires us, toward the building ofour great North Atlantic alliance, our "regional grouping" intoa North Atlantic Confederation—looking eventually to aworldwide Union of the Free.5 7


Under the aegis of theTrilateral Commission,David had mobilised

the Establishment against the

Realpolitik of the Nixon Administrationwith profound effect.

Earlier at Harvard, he had argued that the peril of not unifying onsuch lines was more dramatic:

The historic choice fast rushing upon us then, is no less thanthis: either the free nations of the world will take the lead inadapting the federal concept to their relations, or, one by one,we may be driven into the retreat of the perilous isolationism—political, economic and intellectual—so ardently sought by theSoviet policy of divide-and-conquer.5 8

Nelson Rockefeller also advocated the long-time liberal-internationalist argument that the US should promote global freetrade to strengthen the free enterprise system and thus link togetherthe other non-Communist parts of the world. He said there shouldbe a "continuation and expansion of a liberal US trade policy" onthe grounds that it not only helped developing countries but itbenefited the US economy.5 9 And in an argument that continues tobe heard today as "open regionalism", Nelson argued that theformation of regional free trade groupings could be a means toestablish global free trade:

The regional arrangements in Europe and the Hemisphereshould be used as patterns for the economic organization ofother parts of the world. For the key fact is that no nation iscapable of realizing its aspira -tions by its own efforts. Regionalgroups pursuing ever more liber -al trade policies towards eachother could thus be a steptowards the goal of a free worldtrading system.6 0

Taking this argument further, in aspeech to the Executive Club inChicago in 1964, Nelson recommend-ed that Washington should use itspolitical influence to "establish rulesunder GATT, assuring that regionaleconomic accords will move towardprogressive trade liberalisationrather than further partitioning ofworld trade into compartments sealed off by preferences and dis -c r i m i n a t i o n" .6 1

Nelson also endorsed the formation of a "world central bank" thatwould "preclude crises and contribute to world-wide economicadvance", suggesting that the role of the International MonetaryFund be "broadened in that direction".6 2

Above all, the most consistent theme in Nelson's internationalistideology was the importance of US leadership. The United States,he argued in numerous forums, should take the lead in the buildingof a worldwide federation, as the US had come into existence "forthe sake of an idea" that "man should be free to fulfil his unique andindividual destiny—a belief based upon our dedicated faith in thebrotherhood of all mankind" .6 3 "The upheaval in the world willsubside only with the emergence of a more or less generally accept-ed international system ", he wrote in 1968. "The goal iso r d e r…though we cannot create order by ourselves, it surely can -not come about without us. "6 4

America was too interconnected with the world to escape itsobligations, Nelson argued; in fact, "the true interests of Americaare interdependent with the interests of free world nations". Theimplications were obvious:

We must assume a role of leadership worthy of the UnitedStates and commensurate with our own best interests as wellas those of the free world as a whole.6 5

Even the demise of Communism would not free the US of thisb u r d e n :

[W]e face tasks which would be essentially the same even ifCommunism had never existed. We are required to work withthe peoples of the world to develop a real world community.66

Though his hopes of reaching the White House were fading bythe 1970s, Nelson Rockefeller still sought political relevance anddid so by embracing the latest fad of environmentalism, and againinserted an internationalist bent. In his book, Our Environment CanBe Saved (1970), Nelson invoked the obvious international politicalimplications for pre-empting environmental degradation, arguingthat preventing the impending "environmental crisis" could"become an area of increased cooperation between nations". Tothat end, he recommended that the US should "help coordinateinternational planning for environmental controls".6 7

The Accidental Vice-PresidentYet, as fate would have it, the political and personal self-

destruction of his nemesis, Richard Nixon, presented Nelson withan unexpected prize, and in December 1974, after a lengthy andrevealing confirmation process by a suspicious Congress, 6 8 h e

became Vice-President in the short-lived Ford Administration. DespiteNelson being next in line for thePresidency, his foreign policypronouncements were few and farbetween in that period. With hisprotégé Henry Kissingercommanding foreign policy asSecretary of State, Nelson hadanticipated exercising control overdomestic policy. However, Nelsonfell foul of Ford's Chief of Staff,Donald Rumsfeld, who wasdetermined to keep the Vice-President powerless.6 9

Although eventually appointedVice-Chairman of the Domestic

Council, Nelson found himself largely sidelined from decision-making. When describing his actual position, Nelson would quip:"I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes."7 0 His input into US foreignand national security policy was limited to serving on theCommission on the Organization of Government for the Conduct ofForeign Policy in 1974, and more controversially as Chairman ofthe Commission on CIA Activities within the United States in1 9 7 5 .7 1

In the final analysis, though, Nelson's somewhat marginal role inthe Ford Administration is in itself of no consequence, for theWilsonian liberal-internationalist agenda was adopted by Ford andKissinger anyway, although this is more attributable to the machi-nations of David Rockefeller. Under the aegis of the TrilateralCommission, David had mobilised the Establishment against theR e a l p o l i t i k of the Nixon Administration with profound effect.Gone was Nixon's previous talk of a "safer world" through an "evenbalance" of all the great powers and disdain for the UnitedN a t i o n s .7 2 In its place was an uncharacteristic (especially forKissinger) embrace of international law, institutionalised coopera-tion among the industrial powers (rather than alliances), and notionsof a "world community" and growing global "interdependence".7 3

Indeed, as the head of the Council on Foreign Relations' "1980sProject" observed in 1976, "President Ford's fulsome statements atthe Western summits of Rambouillet and San Juan and many of


If Nelson's proposals seemstrangely familiar now,

it is because many of them were endorsed in

UN Secretary-General BoutrosBoutros-Ghali's 1992 report,

"An Agenda for Peace".


Kissinger's recent speeches could have been lifted from the pages of[the Trilateral Commission's journal] T r i a l o g u e… "7 4 R o c k e f e l l e rInternationalism had again made its mark, but, in a major irony,Nelson, despite being the Vice-President, had only a peripheralr o l e .

His marginal role was reinforced when, in November 1975, atFord's insistence, Nelson withdrew his candidacy for Vice-President in the 1976 presidential elections. It was Rumsfeld'sdoing; believing Rockefeller to be an electoral liability, the zealousChief of Staff pushed to have Nelson dumped from the Republicanpresidential ticket. Instead of the Vice-Presidency being the finalstepping-stone to the Oval Office, as Nelson undoubtedly hoped, itbecame a dead-end in his political career.

According to David Rockefeller, "Ford's decision devastatedNelson" and caused him to lose all interest in politics. Moreover,"Thwarted when the greatest political prize seemed within hisgrasp", Nelson ended his political career an "angry and deeply bitterman". He returned to the family fold where, in one last grasp atpower, he tried—and failed—to wrest control of the RBF from hisb r o t h e r s .7 5

The end for Nelson Rockefeller was sudden and suitablycontroversial, the 70-year-old ex-politician reputedly dying in themidst of a sexual tryst with one of his female staffers.Nevertheless, Nelson's passing in 1979 was the cause of muchpious reflection from the corporate-controlled US media and someof his former beneficiaries. T i m e magazine claimed that "He wasdriven by a mission to serve, improve and uplift his country", whilethe New York Times lauded Nelson's "enlightened internationalism"and "extraordinary standard of concern and effort in service of thec o u n t r y " .7 6

Less restrained was Henry Kissinger, who eulogised his departedbenefactor as the "greatest American I have ever known", a"pragmatic genius" who "would have made a great President". Infact, it was "a tragedy for the country" that Nelson had not achievedhis goal. Kissinger also claimed that Nelson's impact on American

domestic and foreign policy was greater than many peoples u p p o s e d :

…in the final accounting it was often Nelson who worked outthe agenda which others then implemented as national policy.The intellectual groundwork for many innovations wasfrequently his… Destiny willed it that he made his enduringmark on our society almost anonymously in the programs hedesigned, the values he upheld, and the men and women whoselives he changed.7 7

If we put to one side Kissinger's fawning and somewhat inaccu-rate eulogy, Nelson Rockefeller's rise and demise reveals that hiscontribution to the New World Order was marginal at best. Therecan be no doubt that had Nelson been President of the UnitedStates, even if only for a few years, he would have set in motion theglobalist plans he had endorsed throughout the 1960s.Fortunately—though some Establishment figures might disagree—it was not to be.

But Nelson's failure to get into the Oval Office effectivelyreduced him to little more than a publicist of the Rockefeller fami-ly's New World Order vision. He promoted the policies for globalgovernment, but was never able to order their implementation. AsNelson was unable to secure the high office he craved and waslargely detached from those philanthropic institutions—especiallythe RBF and Rockefeller Foundation—that gave the Rockefellerstheir real power, the bitterness of his final years should come as nos u r p r i s e .

As we shall see in the following parts, it was those Rockefellerbrothers who were the most heavily involved in philanthropic pur-suits, including the foundations, think-tanks and policy-planningorganisations supported by Rockefeller money, who have had themost impact on formulating the NWO ideology and implementingit. And the leading Rockefeller in that endeavour has been, ofcourse, David…

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E n d n o t e s2 4 . David Rockefeller, M e m o i r s, Random House, 2002, p. 191. It shouldbe noted that, somewhat improbably, the impetus for David's moment ofclarity was Nelson's divorce of his first wife, Mary Todhunter Clark, in1961—and not his ruthless drive for political power or his bullying of hissiblings for control of Rockefeller finances to fund his numerous cam-paigns. Moreover, David's explanation overlooks how politically costlyNelson's divorce was to his 1964 campaign.2 5 . Stewart Alsop, Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait, Doubleday,1960, p. 80.2 6 . As Jonathan Vankin notes, "If not for a couple of jammed pistols,Nelson Rockefeller would have fulfilled his dream of becoming President—without winning a single vote"; see Vankin, Conspiracies, Cover-Ups andCrimes: From JFK to the CIA Terrorist Connection, Dell Publishing, 1992,p. 259.2 7 . Quoted in Cary Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds toC o n q u e r, 1 9 0 8 – 1 9 5 8, Doubleday, New York, 1996, p. xvii.2 8 . Stephen Chapman, "Rocky as St Sebastian", The New Republic,February 10, 1979, pp. 12-14; Robert Fitch, "Nelson Rockefeller: An Anti-Obituary", Monthly Review, June 1979, p. 13.2 9 . Gary Allen, The Rockefeller File, '76 Press, 1976, p. 50.3 0 . Robert Welch, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, WesternIslands, 1961, p. 113.3 1 . For a scathing review of Kissinger's myriad sins, including possible warcrimes, see Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, TextPublishing, 2001.3 2. Henry A. Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, Council onForeign Relations/Harper & Brothers, 1957, pp. 219-221. 3 3 . Joseph Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A.

R o c k e f e l l e r, Simon & Schuster, 1982, pp. 82.3 4 . Alsop, Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait, pp. 88-89.3 5. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An AmericanD y n a s t y, Holt Reinhart & Winston, 1976, pp. 230, 236-238.3 6 . George E. G. Catlin, The Atlantic Commonwealth, Penguin, 1969, p.4 9 .3 7 . Blanche W. Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy ofPeace and Political Warfare, Penguin Books, 1981, pp. 295-296.3 8. Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in thePower of Money Today, Lyle Stuard Inc., 1968, pp. 593-594.3 9 . Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Prospect for America: The RockefellerPanel Reports, Doubleday, 1961, pp. 24, 26, 34, 35, 188, 228 (emphasisa d d e d ) .4 0 . Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, pp. 340, 344;Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller, p. 71.4 1 . Emmet John Hughes, The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of theEisenhower Years, Atheneum, 1963, pp. 102-113 (including speech quote),2 1 8 - 2 2 1 .4 2 . Jordan A. Schwarz, Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of anAmerican Era, The Free Press, 1987, pp. 304-305, 311-312.4 3 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, "Widening Boundaries of National Interest",Foreign Affairs, July 1951, p. 527.4 4 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", Foreign Affairs, April1960, p. 383.4 5 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism: The GodkinLectures at Harvard University 1962, Harvard University Press, 1962, pp.6 3 - 6 4 .



Is Rogue Ferrimagnetic Manganese the "Infectious" TSE Agent?

Once the crucial supply of copper is curtailed in the brain, due to straightforwardenvironmental copper deficiency or exposure to copper-chelating organophosphate(OP) insecticides, etc., the prion protein's metal bonds become vacant, rendering theprotein vulnerable to bonding up with certain alternative metals such as manganese,

strontium, silver or lithium. But these foreign substitutes may not act in the overall best interestsof the organism, particularly if the invasive metal is in "ferrimagnetic" form.

So when ferrimagnetic manganese substitutes at the vacant copper bonds on the prion protein,the field-inducing influence of its ferrimagnetically ordered atoms will progressively corrupt thecircadian-mediated pathways of electromagnetic superexchange throughout the brain, whereby astatus of permanent magnetic charge is spread via a domino-style of contagious corruption whichjumps from metal bond to metal bond, from prion to prion. This phenomenon is well illustratedby the classic college physics experiment, where a magnet is placed alongside a steel nail and theforce field of the magnet rapidly magnetises the adjoining nail.

Once an individual's brain is contaminated by this freaky form of metamorphosed manganese,any subsequent exposure to external electromagnetic fields (e.g., UV, sound waves, radar, cell-phones, etc.) will permanently charge up the ferrimagnetically ordered manganese prions. Themetals rapidly become permanently saturated with magnetic charge, generating intensive mag-netic fields which, in turn, generate self-perpetuating "cluster bombs" of free-radical-mediatedspongiform neurodegeneration. TSE ensues.

In this respect, the TSE-diseased brain can be likened to a solar-powered battery on continuouscharge, where the manganese-loaded/copper-depleted brain is no longer equipped to deal withthe incoming surges of electromagnetic energy from the external environment. Instead of utilis-ing this energy for the body's own vital requirements, it becomes perverted into a potent force forneuronal suicide.

This theory explains why the so-called "h y p e r i n f e c t i o u s" property of the prion is a misnomer.It is the toxic ferrimagnetic metal component of the prion that serves as the so- called "i n f e c t i o u s"pathogenic agent in TSEs (transmissable spongiform encephalopathies). So whenever scientistsinoculate unfortunate laboratory animals with TSE brain tissues (e.g., tissues contaminated withthis rogue manganese atom) and effectively transmit TSE, they are actually transmitting "a mag-netic field–inducing capacity" that is carried along with the ferrimagnetically ordered manganesecontaminant into the recipient animals which, in turn, develop TSE.

Furthermore, the concept of the rogue ferrimagnetic manganese atom as the "TSE agent"a l s oexplains why the "i n f e c t i o u s" pathogenic capacity of the prion can survive heating to tempera-tures in excess of 500 degrees Celsius—since ferrimagnetic metals will hold onto their magneticcharge until they are heated to temperatures beyond their respective "curie point" t e m p e r a t u r e(e.g., 550°C for manganese 3+).

A Theory that Addresses All the Missing Links in TSE S c i e n c eSome would question how the toxic manganese theory of TSE origins can account for the

well-recognised "i a t r o g e n i c"form of TSE, where growth hormone treatment of humans—whichutilises pituitary tissue as the pharmacological inoculant—can lead to a form of CJD(Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease). But intriguingly, tissues such as pituitary and retina, which transmitTSE in the lab most efficiently, are the same tissues in which manganese is recognised to concen-trate most intensively in the body. So once an individual is contaminated with a rogue source offerrimagnetic manganese, any subsequent use of their pituitary tissues in pharmaceuticals forgrowth hormone therapy could spread the so-called "i n f e c t i o u s" toxic agent and initiate CJD.

Politicians andscientists have

erred in claimingthat BSE is

hyperinfectious andcan only be

managed by thewholesale slaughterof livestock, whilethe corporations

have profited at theexpense of small

farmers.

Part 2 of 2

by Mark Purdey © 2002, 2003

High Barn FarmElworthy, Taunton, Somerset TA43PX

United KingdomEmail: [email protected]

Website: http://www.markpurdey.com


Others would question how this theory can account for the outbreakof the kuru strain of TSE that exclusively erupted in an isolated tribe inthe Fore region of the New Guinea Highlands. The conventionaldogma blames this outbreak upon the Fore tribe's traditional practice ofcannibalism. Whilst cannibalism may have played a role in the bioac-cumulation of manganese—particularly if the pituitary tissues wereingested in these cannibalistic binges —the fact that virtually everytribe across New Guinea had adhered to a cannibalistic lifestyle, yetremained free of kuru, needs to be addressed by those who promotethis theory. And furthermore, considering that cannibalism had beentraditionally practised for centuries across New Guinea, why did kurufail to erupt until a few years after World War II?

My investigations suggest that the cause of kuru stems from thesame template of eco-factors: the Fore tribe's self-sufficient lifestyle oncopper-deficient soils, coupled with their scavenging of manganese-aluminium sheet metal from the fuselages of several Japanese bomberaircraft which had crashed in their area of the Highlands during WorldWar II. The Fore folk moulded the salvaged metal to make tools,cooking pans and bowls, and these consequently contaminated theirfoods. They also accidentally exploded some of the bombs on boardthe crashed aircraft. These infamous explosions—well remembered bythe surviving Fore folk—infrasonically irradiated their locale n v i r o n m e n t .

This story goes on. At the mouth ofthe Fuji River valley in Japan is a man-ganese-aluminium alloy factory thatmanufactured these metal aircraft panelsfrom the late 1930s and still makes Mn-Al alloy products today. The man-ganese-enriched chimney emissions dis-persed downwind, permeating the entirelength of the valley. Intriguingly, acluster of CJD has blighted the residentsof the Fuji River basin for 50 years.Note that it can take up to 20 years forthe toxic effects of metal/chemicalexposure to manifest.

The role of prion protein genetics is alsoentirely compatible with the environmental facets as part of the overallmultifactorial aetiology of TSEs. For it is well established that prionprotein genetics plays a major role in dictating which individuals aremost susceptible to TSEs—where susceptibility hinges upon theexpression of a defective prion protein that can only bind two or threeatoms of copper instead of the usual five. But the sole focus of TSEsusceptibility studies to date has almost exclusively concentrated uponthe role of prion protein genotypes. Yet my own studies have revealedthat white/fair skinned or yellow/red-pigmented individuals are atmuch greater risk of developing TSE. This suggests that the geneticsof melanin expression may also perform a genetic role in the cause ofTSE.

Note that melanin is involved in cushioning the toxic side-effects oflight and sound absorption. Some support for this observation wasamassed when unfortunate laboratory mice were genetically engi-neered to express a mutant form of melanin and consequently devel-oped spongiform encephalopathy.

Animal PharmDespite publication of the hard evidence in support of this theory in

prestigious scientific journals (see bibliography), the various UKauthorities and their incestuous clique of "minder" advisers are blindlyignoring these findings. What's more, they are doing their utmost topublicly marginalise those of us who are trying to pursue thisalternative research line, and are using public money to implement their

tactics of suppression in the bargain.For 18 years, my work and personal integrity have been subjected to

a steady derisory trickle of ridicule and dirty tricks. During the 1980s,my farm and family became the victims of a raft of "once in a lifetime"type of physical disasters: arson, firearm intimidation, vandalisation ofmy research library and communications, and an insidious infiltrationby a bizarre array of bogus greens and phoney freelance journos—notto mention a seductive approach by a scantily clad pseudo student whowas supposedly doing her dissertation on my theory. I became suspi-cious, and my investigations revealed that she was not even registeredat the college where she was purportedly studying!

It invariably transpired that the true objectives of these a g e n t sp r o v o c a t e u r s was to subtly set about discrediting my social andscientific esteem whilst finding out the current state of play of myresearch investigations. Once my work gained support from the likes ofthe former Defence Minister, Tom King, and HRH the Prince of Wales,the physical aspects of this harassment abruptly ceased.

My recent demands to various UK government departments—agriculture, environment, health, etc.—for access to my personal dataunder the new Data Protection Act revealed much of what had beengoing on behind the scenes. Repeated requests by EnvironmentMinister Michael Meacher to meet personally with me had been

deliberately stymied by his own officials.When Mr Meacher eventually brokethrough his barrage of officials to makedirect arrangements with me, themeeting was postponed on five separateoccasions and then arrangementscompletely fizzled out. Otherdocuments revealed how the BritishAgrochemical Association had beenorganising a "joint initiative" with theMinistry of Agriculture's own grantfunding department to channel publicfunds into a live animal trial that hadbeen deliberately designed to refute mytheory.

Since the BSE Inquiry had rejectedthe official scrapie/BSE hypothesis and found in favour of someaspects of my own hypothesis, the UK government responded bysetting up a further mini-inquiry to re-look at the origins of BSE. Theresulting publication, known as the "Gabriel Horn Report", employed ajudicious selection of misrepresentation and outright bogusdisinformation in order to discredit the validity of my theory.

For example, the report stated that the use of OP warblecides hadceased in the UK by 1982 and that warblecides had been used routinelyon the island of Jersey. So, according to the Horn Report, if OPs werethe cause of BSE, why were all of the cows that developed BSE bornafter 1982 and why were BSE rates so low on Jersey? Ironically, thetruthful picture of the UK's compulsory twice-annual OP warblecidetreatment programme was that it was i n t r o d u c e d in 1982, and only o n ec o w on Jersey was ever subjected to the compulsory "formal" OPwarblecide treatment.

When I attempted to sue the government for defamation/loss ofincome resulting from the bogus statements in this globally circulatedpublication, it pleaded "qualified privilege" of the expert committeeand then spun out the legal communications beyond the one-year post-publication mark, thereby exempting itself from my claim.

And after broadcasting of the BBC C o r r e s p o n d e n t film, Mad Cowsand An Englishman, which charted my investigations, the governmenttried to appease the mounting public interest by inviting me to resubmitan application for funding. After sitting on my application for a yearand a half, they homed in on the most fastidious, nit-picking comments

For 18 years, my work andpersonal integrity have been

subjected to a steady derisorytrickle of ridicule and

dirty tricks.


in the peer review appraisal, trumping them up as a sound scientificbasis for rejection of the application. Immediately afterwards, theauthor of the most irrational, irrelevant critique was promoted to thegovernment's expert TSE Surveillance Steering Committee—presum-ably as a reward! The UK government's tactics have thwarted the nat-ural evolution of this promising new scientific perspective on TSEs.

A Multinational Masterplan?The epidemiological and experimental evidence amassed to date

points to the fact that TSEs are caused by a clear-cut combination ofgenetic and toxic environmental factors. So why do the authorities con-tinue to treat these diseases as if they stem solely from hyperinfectiouso r i g i n s ?

The reasons for such an irrational, Pavlovian-like stance on the partof the Establishment towards the environmental perspectives of TSEsprobably hangs upon issues that are more to do with protecting acade-mic egos, professional reputations and the vestedinterests of the TSE institutions and key advisersthan with promoting sound scientific argument.Another reason must undoubtedly stem from thefear of massive compensation claims, shouldgovernment-mandated use of OP warblecides orlicensing of manganese additives be heldaccountable at the end of the day.

But it's imperative that we delve a bit deeper.Who are the key culprits that are currentlycapitalising on the fashionable scare storieswhich maintain that "BSE prions willexterminate us all"? Who are the peoplespinning out the propaganda myths that beef,lamb, venison, game and organic food (grownfrom animal manure) are contaminatedwith prions and are therefore unfit forhuman consumption?

The key scaremongers can invariably betraced to a mere handful of sociopathicpseudo-scientists who move between theupper echelons of government and corpo-ration-controlled institutions. These inces-tuous experts are singing for their supper.They are on the payroll of the multination-al chemical consortiums—corporationsthat have invested billions of bucks inresearching and developing their genetical-ly modified arable protein crops and thecomplementary package of pesticides togo with them. They have bought up oceans of acres of dirt-cheaparable land across Eastern Europe, the Third World and North/SouthAmerica and they are clearly attempting to destroy anyone competingfor their global protein market. Prime targets are the small mixed-live-stock farming sectors of agriculture which have traditionally been themainstay of meat and milk protein production around the world.

The multinationals' preference for mono-arable cropping land use iseasily understood, since each acre of grassland that is devoted to meatand milk production requires negligible inputs of pesticide/GM seedsin relation to each acre of farmland that is devoted to agrichemical-intensive arable protein production.

Despite the scaremongering over the "hyperinfectious" nature of theprion, a basic study of the epidemiological history of TSE clearlydemonstrates that this disease does n o t originate from animal-to-animalcontact or through ingestion of feeds contaminated with TSE brainm a t e r i a l .

So why do the "experts" blatantly refuse to consult the down-to-earth

wisdom of the Icelandic farmers and vets who have been living withscrapie TSE for light years? When the first hint of scrapie symptomsemerge in their sheep, it is customary practice to slaughter the pooraffected animal instantly, before it has had time to waste away, and eatthe cooked flesh (brains and all!). And if scrapie or CWD (chronicwasting disease) can be passed on to humans via consumption, as thescientific authorities would have us believe, why have no cases of CJDerupted in these Icelandic sheep farmers? In fact, Iceland has only everwitnessed two cases of CJD in its entire medical history, and these vic-tims had both hailed from the scrapie-free district in the far south of thec o u n t r y .

Despite the repeated failure of attempts to eradicate long-establishedTSE hotspot regions in Colorado and Iceland by enacting wholesalelivestock slaughter/fallowing regimes across the cluster zones,governments are still adopting this same slaughter strategy as a first-choice means of control. But history has shown that TSEs will

invariably re-erupt as soon as fresh livestock areintroduced back into the slaughtered-outareas—supporting the idea that theenvironmental causes of TSE are still well andtruly wedded to the local food chain,irrespective of the slaughter programmes.

Such extreme "mammalageddon" measuresdo little more than remove the superficialevidence of the disease. They merely misleadthe public into the illusory notion that TSE hasbeen controlled—a good vote-catching policyfor any government.

These are simple observations yet the globalauthorities are gripped by a manic mindset, hav-ing jumped on the assumption that TSEs stem

solely from hyperinfectious origins. Forexample, the recent discovery of newclusters of CWD in US deer has invokedan official overreaction of unprecedentedproportion. A wholesale slaughter policyof indigenous deer herds has been enactedthroughout all CWD regions across theUSA, leaving many of the NativeAmerican tribes without their traditionalsource of dietary protein. Whilst studyingin Wisconsin recently, I heard the story ofa deer rancher who had retained somebody tissues from one of his CWD-affect-ed deer for independent post-mortem—only to find himself subjected to a gun-

point raid by wildlife officials . These draconian slaughter measures are invariably promoted by the

same hard-core cell of "expert" global advisers—the hysterics whodreamed up the hyperinfectious hypothesis in the first instance. Byinsisting on the burial or incineration of the evidence of their owncontrol measures—for example, the thousands of carcasses ofslaughtered animals—and then enforcing the fallowing of the land, theexperts are placing themselves in a foolproof position where thesuccess or failure of their control measures can never be properlyassessed. In this respect, they can guarantee keeping their professionalreputations afloat for the remaining lifespan of their careers.

But who is questioning the scientific reasoning for executing thisfinal farcical solution on these poor creatures? The unilateral adoptionof a policy of "totalitarian overkill" of a few million healthy animalsacross the world has been received with almost complacent acceptance.Such perverse and senseless "carry-ons" have sadly become the daily"non-stories" of our modern times.

The epidemiological and experimentalevidence amassed to date points to

the fact that TSEs arecaused by a clear-cut

combination of genetic and toxic

environmental factors.


Reports pop up with ever-increasing frequency of so-called TSE pre-cautionary control programmes being enacted after 1% or more ani-mals in a flock or herd prove positive to the TSE genotype test—anendemic phenomenon that has existed for light years without ill effect.Among these control programmes were the annihilation of a herd ofwater buffalo in Vancouver and sheep flocks in Vermont, the slaughterof 400,000 cows in Germany and the erasure of thousands of scrapie-susceptible traditional sheep flocks and goat herds from the Europeanhillsides—all healthy animals.

Along with the sad threat to the survival of some indigenous wildand domestic animal breeds, there is the threat of losing their valuableoutputs of manure—the heartbeat of humus supply which protects thesoil against the erosive forces of nature and feeds the fertility of theearth that ultimately sustains all life on the planet.

Furthermore, these slaughter measures are imposing the death knellon the survival of traditional peasant cultures—lifestyles which haveevolved to be symbiotically dependent upon their livestock enterprisesand the income they generate. We are saying farewell to one of the lastbastions of our cultural identity: an holistic charm that flavours thelandscapes which have been etched out by centuries of occupationunder peasant family farms. That delicate, ethereal relationship thatflows between the soil, crops, livestockand landscape is under threat, and alongwith it the aesthetically pleasing arrayof idiosyncrasies that go hand in handwith peasant lifestyles: the architecture,craft skills, folklore and dialects thathave set the rich rustic outbacks apartfrom the homogenised synthetica of thec i t y .

The all-out slaughter tactic betrays atotal lack of interest in the cause,prevention or cure of this grotesquedisease. The Establishment's currentglobal agenda (Agenda 2000) todepopulate livestock numbers atwhatever the cost is for reasons thathave nothing whatsoever to do with(illusory) health risks to the human race, but more to do withenvisioned profits from multinationally sourced GE/GM proteins.

I cannot help but feel that the global leaders have sold out to themultinational carrot. PR tactics used to promote "important"government policy increasingly capitalises upon some emotive scarestory as a means of manipulating public mentality into conformingwith the overall global agenda of the corporations. In much the sameway as a war for Iraqi oil has been presented under the pretext of amorally justified war to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, so thecorporations' war to rid the world of livestock protein has beenpresented under the guise of ridding the world of the "health risks"posed by hyperinfectious prions.

The Broader PictureThe BSE debacle represents the mere tip of the iceberg of

Establishment ineptitude and socio-eco-irresponsibility. It displays aclear-cut example of the far-reaching extent to which the talons ofmultinational monopolies can stretch to protect their global master-planfor the rapidly expanding "health and food-chain industry". Can weafford to allow this insidious mode of food-chain control to continueunabated and unregulated?

There is an increasing groundswell of public unease concerning ourpolluted environment and its unknown effects on our health and long-term survival. Mounting public suspicion is making transparent thearray of so-called independent scientific experts and medical spin-

doctors who are called to advise governments and address the public onall aspects of the impact of chemical, metal, radioactive andelectromagnetic pollutants upon our food chain.

This story returns us to the lessons that can be learned from the intu-itive wisdoms of the people on the ground. At the same time it alerts usto the insidious and unscientific techniques which the incestuous cliqueof official "experts" employs to marginalise and discredit those whodissent from the totalitarian line. It shows us the ill-conceived basisupon which the Establishment's positions are truly founded, as well asthe woeful degree of administrative complacency over issues which inmost cases are matters of life and death for normal people.

Dispatches from the Front LineMy most recent eco-detective adventures across vCJD cluster zones

in Japan, the USA, Sardinia and the UK involved my prospecting for abroader range of metals in TSE environments than I'd previouslysought.

The analytical results have thrown up some interesting new possibili-ties in the quest for understanding the true causes of TSEs, unearthinghigh levels of the ferrimagnetic metal strontium as well as the usualhigh levels of manganese in the TSE environments, but normal levels

in the adjoining TSE-free areas.Much like manganese, strontium is

emitted as a significant contaminantfrom volcanoes as well as from factoriesrefining metals/steel or producingg l a s s / d y e s / e x p l o s i v e s / p a i n t s / f i r e w o r k s .It is used in surgery/dentistry, and as abone/antler promoter in mineral supple-ments for humans and deer, etc.Strontium also competes with andreplaces vacant calcium, magnesium andcopper sites on proteins in the biosystem,so tests are currently in place to see ifthis metal can bind to copper-deprivedprion protein like manganese.

The strontium facet offers a promisingnew theoretical possibility that can be

considered without disturbing the basic pathogenic template of thisTSE causal theory—where the rogue ferrimagnetic strontium substi-tutes at the copper-depleted metal bonds on the prion protein, therebyimpairing the protein's ability to conduct the vital "life force" electro-magnetic energies derived from incoming light and sound.

It naturally follows that exposures to high levels of naturally occur-ring strontium could have triggered off the t r a d i t i o n a l strains of TSE,whereas exposures to the more reactive, radioactive strontium-90 couldhave caused the more aggressive, new variant strains of TSE inyounger mammals.

Perhaps the strontium-90 emissions from the April 1986 Chernobylnuclear disaster—the bulk of which at that time were deposited by thesubstantial rainstorms over northwestern Europe (e.g., UK, Ireland,Britanny)—were responsible for setting up susceptibility for mad cowdisease in any cattle, humans or cats that had been simultaneouslyexposed to the copper-chelating, organo-dithiophosphate warblefly/headlice insecticides. The first reported case of BSE erupted inOctober 1986, whereas the almighty BSE epidemic that followed waslargely contained within the key Chernobyl fallout zone.

It seems that several species of rogue ferrimagnetic metal—be itmanganese, strontium or bismuth—may individually carry the poten-tial to act as the TSE trigger in the copper-depleted brain. The resulting

This story returns us to the lessons that can be learned

from the intuitive wisdoms of the people on the ground.



The idea of communicating with the inhabitants of otherworlds is an old one. But for ages it has been regardedmerely as a poet's dream, forever unrealizable. And with the

invention and perfection of the telescope and the ever-wideningknowledge of the heavens, its hold upon our imaginations has beenincreased, and the scientific achievements during the latter part ofthe nineteenth century, together with the development of thetendency toward the nature ideal of Goethe, have intensifiedit to such a degree that it seems as if it were destined tobecome the dominating idea of the century that has justbegun. The desire to know something of our neighbors inthe immense depths of space does not spring from idlecuriosity nor from thirst for knowledge, but from a deepercause, and it is a feeling firmly rooted in the heart of everyhuman being capable of thinking at all.

Whence, then, does it come? Who knows? Who canassign limits to the subtlety of nature's influences?Perhaps, if we could clearly perceive all the intricate mech-anism of the glorious spectacle that is continually unfoldingbefore us, and could, also, trace this desire to its distant ori-gin, we might find it in the sorrowful vibrations of theEarth which began when it parted from its celestial parent.

But in this age of reason it is not astonishing to find per-sons who scoff at the very thought of effecting communica-tion with a planet. First of all, the argument is made thatthere is only a small probability of other planets beinginhabited at all. This argument has never appealed to me.In the solar system, there seem to be only two planets—

Venus and Mars—capable of sustaining lifesuch as ours: but this does not mean thatthere might not be on all of them some otherforms of life.

Chemical processes may be maintainedwithout the aid of oxygen, and it is still aquestion whether chemical processes areabsolutely necessary for the sustenance oforganized beings. My idea is that the devel-opment of life must lead to forms of exis-tence that will be possible without nourish-ment and which will not be shackled byconsequent limitations. Why should a liv-ing being not be able to obtain all the ener-gy it needs for the performance of its lifefunctions from the environment, instead ofthrough consumption of food, and trans-forming, by a complicated process, theenergy of chemical combinations into life-sustaining energy?

If there were such beings on one of theplanets, we should know next to nothingabout them. Nor is it necessary to go so farin our assumptions, for we can readily

conceive that, in the same degree as the atmosphere diminishes indensity, moisture disappears and the planet freezes up, organic lifemight also undergo corresponding modifications, leading finally toforms which, according to our present ideas of life, are impossible.I will readily admit, of course, that, if there should be a suddencatastrophe of any kind, all life processes might be arrested; but if

S C I E N C E— by Nikola Tesla —

Collier's Weekly Editor's Note: Mr Nikola Tesla has accomplished some marvellousresults in electrical discoveries. Now, with the dawn of the new century, heannounces an achievement which will amaze the entire universe, and which eclipsesthe wildest dream of the most visionary scientist. He has received communication,he asserts, from out the great void of space: a call from the inhabitants of Mars, orVenus, or some other sister planet! And, furthermore, noted scientists like SirNorman Lockyer are disposed to agree with Mr Tesla in his startling deductions.

Mr Tesla has not only discovered many important principles, but most of his inven -tions are in practical use: notably in the harnessing of the Titanic forces of NiagaraFalls, and the discovery of a new light by means of a vacuum tube. He has, hedeclares, solved the problem of telegraphing without wires or artificial conductors ofany sort, using the earth as his medium. By means of this principle he expects to beable to send messages under the ocean, and to any distance on the earth's surface.Interplanetary communication has interested him for years, and he sees no reasonwhy we should not soon be within talking distance of Mars or of all worlds in thesolar system that may be tenanted by intelligent beings.

At the request of Collier's Weekly, Mr Tesla presents herewith a frank statement ofwhat he expects to accomplish and how he hopes to establish communication withthe planets.

Collier's Weekly, February 19, 1901, pages 4–5

Mr Tesla's experiment to illustrate the capacity of his oscillator forproducing electrical explosions of great power. (Collier's Weekly)


the change, no matter how great, should be gradual and occupiedages, so that the ultimate results could be intelligently foreseen, Icannot but think that reasoning beings would still find means ofexistence. They would adapt themselves to their constantlychanging environment. So I think it quite possible that in a frozenplanet, such as our moon is supposed to be, intelligent beings maystill dwell in its interior, if not on its surface.

Signalling at 100,000 Miles! Then it is contended that it is beyond human power and ingenu-

ity to convey signals to the almost inconceivable distances of fiftymillion or one hundred million miles. This might have been avalid argument formerly. It is not so now. Most of those who areenthusiastic upon the subject of interplanetary communicationhave reposed their faith in the light-ray as the best possible medi-um of such communication. True, waves of light, owing to theirimmense rapidity of succession, can penetrate space more readilythan waves less rapid, but a simple consideration will show that bytheir means an exchange of signals between this Earth and its com-panions in the solar system is, at least now, impossible.

By way of illustration, let us suppose that a square mile of theEarth's surface—the smallest area that might possibly be withinreach of the best telescopic vision of other worlds—were coveredwith incandescent lamps, packed closely together so as to form,when illuminated, a continuous sheet of light. It would require notless than one hundred million horse-power to light this area oflamps, and this is many times the amount of motive power now inthe service of man throughout the world.

But with the novel means, proposed by myself, I can readilydemonstrate that, with an expenditure not exceeding two thousandhorse-power, signals can be transmitted to a planet such as Marswith as much exactness and certitude as we now send messages bywire from New York to Philadelphia. These means are the resultof long-continued experiment and gradual improvement.

Some ten years ago, I recognized the fact that to convey electriccurrents to a distance it was not at all necessary to employ a returnwire, but that any amount of energy might be transmitted by usinga single wire. I illustrated this principle by numerous experiments,which, at that time, excited considerable attention among scientificmen.

This being practically demonstrated, my next step was to use theEarth itself as the medium for conducting the currents, thus dis-pensing with wires and all other artificial conductors. So I was ledto the development of a system of energytransmission and of telegraphy without theuse of wires, which I described in 1893.

The difficulties I encountered at first inthe transmission of currents through theearth were very great. At that time I had athand only ordinary apparatus, which I foundto be ineffective, and I concentrated myattention immediately upon perfectingmachines for this special purpose. Thiswork consumed a number of years, but Ifinally vanquished all difficulties andsucceeded in producing a machine which, toexplain its operation in plain language,resembled a pump in its action, drawingelectricity from the earth and driving it backinto the same at an enormous rate, thus

creating ripples or disturbances which, spreading through the earthas through a wire, could be detected at great distances by carefullyattuned receiving circuits.

In this manner I was able to transmit to a distance, not only fee-ble effects for the purposes of signalling but considerable amountsof energy, and later discoveries I made convinced me that I shallultimately succeed in conveying power without wires, for industri-al purposes, with high economy and to any distance, howevergreat.

Experiments in Colorado To develop these inventions further, I went to Colorado where I

continued my investigations along these and other lines, one ofwhich in particular I now consider of even greater importance thanthe transmission of power without wires.

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak.The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains provedextremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were mostgratifying to me. I found that I could not only accomplish morework, physically and mentally, than I could in New York, but thatelectrical effects and changes were more readily and distinctly per-ceived. A few years ago it was virtually impossible to produceelectrical sparks twenty or thirty foot long; but I produced somemore than one hundred feet in length, and this without difficulty.The rates of electrical movement involved in strong inductionapparatus had measured but a few hundred horse-power, and I pro-duced electrical movements of rates of one hundred and ten thou-sand horse-power. Prior to this, only insignificant electrical pres-sures were obtained, while I have reached fifty million volts.

The accompanying illustrations, with their descriptive titles,taken from an article I wrote for the Century Magazine, may serveto convey an idea of the results I obtained in the directionsindicated.

Many persons in my own profession have wondered at them andhave asked what I am trying to do. But the time is not far awaynow when the practical results of my labors will be placed beforethe world and their influence felt everywhere. One of the immedi-ate consequences will be the transmission of messages withoutwires, over sea or land, to an immense distance. I have alreadydemonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signalling bymy system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter howremote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

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Supplying electrical energythrough a single wire

without return.

Transmitting electricalenergy through the Earth

without wire.

An electrical oscillatordelivering energy at a rate

of 75,000 horse-power.


I have every reason for congratulating myself that throughoutthese experiments, many of which were exceedingly delicate andhazardous, neither myself nor any of my assistants received anyinjury. When working with these powerful electrical oscillations,the most extraordinary phenomena take place at times. Owing tosome interference of the oscillations, veritable balls of fire are aptto leap out to a great distance, and if any one were within or neartheir paths, he would be instantly destroyed. A machine such as Ihave used could easily kill, in an instant, three hundred thousandpersons. I observed that the strain upon my assistants was telling,and some of them could not endure the extreme tension of thenerves. But these perils are now entirely overcome, and the opera-tion of such apparatus, however powerful, involves no risk what-ever.

As I was improving my machines for the production of intenseelectrical actions, I was also perfecting the means for observingfeeble effects. One of the most interesting results, and also one ofgreat practical importance, was the development of certain con-trivances for indicating at a distance of many hundred miles anapproaching storm, its direction, speed and distance travelled.These appliances are likely to be valuable in future meteorologicalobservations and surveying, and will lend themselves particularlyto many naval uses.

It was in carrying on this work that for the first time I discoveredthose mysterious effects which have elicited such unusual interest.I had perfected the apparatus referred to so far that from my labo-ratory in the Colorado mountains I could feel the pulse of theglobe, as it were, noting every electrical change that occurred with-in a radius of eleven hundred miles.

Terrified by Success I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it

dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incal-culable consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were presentat the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth.Even now, at times, I can vividly recall the incident, and see myapparatus as though it were actually before me. My first observa-tions positively terrified me, as there was present in them some-thing mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in mylaboratory at night; but at that time the idea of these disturbancesbeing intelligently controlled signals did not yet present itself tome.

The changes I noted were taking placeperiodically, and with such a clear sugges-tion of number and order that they were nottraceable to any cause then known to me. Iwas familiar, of course, with such electricaldisturbances as are produced by the Sun,Aurora Borealis and Earth currents, and Iwas as sure as I could be of any fact thatthese variations were due to none of thesecauses. The nature of my experiments pre-cluded the possibility of the changes beingproduced by atmospheric disturbances, ashas been rashly asserted by some.

It was some time afterward when thethought flashed upon my mind that thedisturbances I had observed might be due toan intelligent control. Although I could notdecipher their meaning, it was impossible

for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. Thefeeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hearthe greeting of one planet to another. A purpose was behind theseelectrical signals; and it was with this conviction that I announcedto the Red Cross Society, when it asked me to indicate one of thegreat possible achievements of the next hundred years, that itwould probably be the confirmation and interpretation of thisplanetary challenge to us.

Since my return to New York, more urgent work has consumedall my attention; but I have never ceased to think of those experi-ences and of the observations made in Colorado. I am constantlyendeavoring to improve and perfect my apparatus, and just as soonas practicable I shall again take up the thread of my investigationsat the point where I have been forced to lay it down for a time.

Communicating with the Martians At the present stage of progress, there would be no insurmount-

able obstacle in constructing a machine capable of conveying amessage to Mars, nor would there be any great difficulty in record-ing signals transmitted to us by the inhabitants of that planet, ifthey be skilled electricians. Communication once established,even in the simplest way, as by a mere interchange of numbers, theprogress toward more intelligible communication would be rapid.Absolute certitude as to the receipt and interchange of messageswould be reached as soon as we could respond with the number"four", say, in reply to the signal "one, two, three". The Martians,or the inhabitants of whatever planet had signalled to us, wouldunderstand at once that we had caught their message across thegulf of space and had sent back a response. To convey a knowl-edge of form by such means is, while very difficult, not impossi-ble, and I have already found a way of doing it.

What a tremendous stir this would make in the world! Howsoon will it come? For that it will some time be accomplishedmust be clear to every thoughtful being.

Something, at least, science has gained. But I hope that it willalso be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West Iwas not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a greatand profound truth. ∞

(Source: United States Early Radio History website,http://earlyradiohistory.us/1901talk.htm)

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Photographic view of the essential parts of the electrical oscillator used in Mr Tesla's experiments. (From Collier's Weekly, February 19, 1901)


Lighting at Home

The lighting advice given in home decorating books and magazines is usually verygood, except on two accounts: uplighting and the so-called "energy savers". When thecompact fluorescent (CFL) or "energy saver" was introduced in the late 1980s, lampmanufacturers enlisted the aid of energy authorities and producers, environmental

authorities and organisations, and large companies such as IKEA to get as many people as pos-sible to replace their top-quality incandescent bulbs with these ridiculously expensive class IICFLs—which initially cost over 30 times more (and, as with some of the top brands, still do).And so this very unfair and persistent campaign against the light bulb was launched and is stillbeing kept up by a steady stream of ads, brochures, special offers, articles and websites that cap-italise heavily on our growing concern for the environment and for our own personal economy.

Usually a few simple catch-phrases are used—often intermingled with useful lighting tipsand information about other lamp types—and are repeated over and over again by so many dif-ferent, seemingly independent, unconnected and reliable sources that one can easily get theimpression that they are actually true. For example:

1 . The first argument is that the CFL lasts 8, 10, 12 or 15 times longer than a standard 1,000-hour GLS (general lighting system) bulb. First of all, if you really need a long-life lamp athome, there are GLS lamps with thicker tungsten filaments that are also designed to last 10,000hours (although at a slight reduction in output), so long life is not unique to CFLs. Secondly, atest by the Swedish Consumer Agency (2000–2001) revealed that surprisingly few "energysavers" really did function for as long as they claimed. Of one brand that was far from inexpen-sive and which promised 8,000 hours, not a single lamp lasted longer than 663 hours! Andeven though many of the pricier top-brand CFLs burned as long as stated or longer (but verymuch weaker), not all of them did. Of the most expensive lamp type meant to last 12,000hours, half had gone out by 8,000 hours!1

2 . The CFL is also said to produce a light that "looks just like incandescent light". Althoughin recent years there really has been an improvement in some of the least efficient models, the(composite) light from most CFLs is still more of a pinkish white.

3 . The third and main claim that has been chanted from the start is that the CFL gives "fivetimes more light" and thereby "saves 80% energy" (not 80% of your total energy consumption,of course, but of the tiny part of it that light bulbs use). Since lamp manufacturers must be wellaware that most CFLs actually d o n ' t give off five times more light, an "up to" was later insertedin this mantra (some replaced it with "four times more"), but by then the catch-phrase wasalready so well established that it is now often (mis)taken for a fact.

To see for yourself that CFLs don't give five times more light, you only need to compare, forexample, a 60-watt GLS with the recommended 11- or 12-watt CFL that is meant to replace it,and it will be obvious that the latter is less bright. Even the manufacturers' own catalogues con-firm that while a good 60-watt GLS gives 730 lumens (lm), the most efficient (and ugly) naked-tube CFL only gives 600 lumens at 11 watts. In globe- or bulb-shaped models (advertised asgiving "four times more light"), the outer bulb further reduces the amount of light that getsthrough to only around 450–500 lm, according to the catalogues. And the abovementioned testrevealed that although the three top-brand lamps really did give as much light as promised (inthe beginning), most other brands did not. The worst lamps produced only 214 lumens!2

This test also confirmed that "energy savers", just like other FL (fluorescent) and HID (high-intensity discharge) lamps, lose output as they age, most of it during the first 2,000 hours.3 A f t e r8,000 hours, the light from some models was reduced by as much as 40%!4

Since incandescentlight really is a

higher-quality lightand so many peopledislike fluorescents,

why are we stillbeing persuaded touse more and more

fluorescent lightand less and lessincandescent?

Part 2 of 2

by Inger Lorelei © 2003


This of course means that to get as much light as from a GLS, youneed to buy a CFL that has a higher wattage than recommended. Thatway, if you save anything at all it is quite a bit less than what the man-ufacturers claim and, even then, this is only if you invest in one of themore expensive quality lamps—and are lucky enough to get one thatreally gives as much light as it says it will and does not lose too muchluminance too quickly or expire before it has saved energy beyondwhat it cost you to buy it!

4 . The heat from light bulbs is always pointed out as a problem.However, this is so only in countries, seasons and places that arealready more than hot enough, requiring the excess heat to be ventilat-ed away. In cooler climate zones, this can be an asset instead and helpkeep heating bills down,5 thereby making the difference between usingincandescent bulbs and CFLs even smaller.

5 . To make the CFL seem environmentally friendly despite theuncomfortable fact that it contains mercury, the incandescent bulb isvery unfairly and incorrectly made to seem like it causes more mer-cury pollution, even though it doesn't contain any in itself. This argu-ment firstly assumes that the incandescent light bulb really does use somuch more energy (which it doesn't) and, secondly, it assumes thatthat energy comes from mercury-polluting coal-fired power plantso n l y !6 Instead of trying to scapegoat the poor light bulb, would not amore logical solution be to stop using coal?

So why are so many energy authori-ties and producers so extremely eagerfor us to ruin the nice, relaxing atmos-pheres in our homes with potentiallyunhealthy CFLs that really don't savethat much at all? Why do they want todo this, when light is something soessential to life and when incandescentlight actually costs ridiculously little—usually only a measly few per cent of ahousehold's total energy cost? (Most ofa that cost goes towards heating andcooling/heating water.)

If it's energy they want us to save,why are we constantly being encour-aged to buy more and more unneces-sary gadgets with which to pamper andamuse ourselves? Why not ask us to save on some of those instead?Or why not speed up the development of those alternative energysources we've been promised for so long? Is it just manufacturerswanting to make a profit, and much ignorance on the part of everyoneelse who parrots their exaggerated claims without checking if they aretrue or not?

Or is there some other motive behind this well-coordinated and per-sistent campaign that seems to aim at having incandescent lightremoved from private use altogether—such as making it even moreeffective in creating an aura of glamour around certain products, peo-ple, places and events, the more rare it becomes?

Direction and DistributionAnders Liljefors, professor in architectural lighting at the Royal

Institute of Technology, Stockholm, was the first to actually confirmmy perception of incandescent light as being of a higher quality. Tocreate good lighting environments, he suggests that we look at naturallight for inspiration without having to copy it exactly. One of thereasons why the light on a cloudy day feels so dull and gloomy is notonly that it is lower in luminance and cooler in colour, but also that itis evenly diffused in all directions—whereas sunlight brightenseverything up and also creates shadow, movement and sharp contrastsbetween shadow and light.7

Fluorescent light often looks extra dull and uninviting when comingfrom a long tube (a very unnatural shape for a light source) thatspreads the light evenly across the room, eliminating all natural shad-ows. But isn't it possible that shadow and darkness are just as impor-tant for optimal health as enough of the right kind of light?

When planning the lighting, it is very important to choose the rightkind of light fittings (or luminaires, as they are meant to be callednow) to get the effect that you want. To create more shadow and con-trast, for instance, you need the lighting to be directional and lumi-naires that are designed for the purpose.

Instead of a linear luminaire with a plastic diffuser, or a globe lightthat scatters the light in all directions equally, directional lightingconcentrates it in one direction (like a spotlight) or sometimes two(like many wall, table and floor lamps that let most of the light outunderneath but also let some out through the top). The fewer, smallerand brighter the light sources and the narrower the beam angles, thesharper and more dramatic the effect. With more and bigger lampswhich have wider beam angles and are placed closer together (so thatthe beams meet or overlap), the effect is both softer and brighter, moreresembling the evenly lit room but still having a much more naturallook and feel.8 Concentrating the light also increases its brightness (inthat direction) without the use of more electricity—especially if thelamp or luminaire has a polished aluminium reflector that projects the

light outwards.The direction of the beam is also

important. Light falling diagonallydownwards, like the daylight coming inthrough windows, accentuatesstructures and often looks more naturalthan light coming straight down fromthe ceiling.9 Light coming from onlythe ceiling can also make a room feelquite gloomy. Try using more lightsand place them lower, adapting theirposition, direction and luminance to themain activity/activities in the room.Here are some more tips:

• For places where you lie or sitdown, such as bedrooms, bathrooms,living rooms, waiting rooms, schools,

offices, trains and buses, I suggest directional lights that are placed sothat most of the light falls just below eye level when lying or sittingand are not too bright, unless you're reading or doing some specifictask in that space.

• If you are reading or are working with your hands, make sure toget enough light right there over your reading/working space. Themore precision the task requires and the older you are, the more lightyou need in order to see well. Even if a 40- or 60-watt bulb might beenough for a child or teenager, at 60 years of age you may need seventimes as much light.1 0 Since most desk and reading lamps don't takemore than a 60- or 75-watt bulb (or a 20- or 35-watt low-voltage halo-gen), consider using several of them combined, or even one or two150-watt mains voltage halogen floodlights of the type mentioneda b o v e .

• Uplighting is usually not a very good idea, first of all because itfeels odd with light going in the "wrong" direction, so to speak, andsecondly because it has to travel all the way up to the ceiling beforesome of it comes down in a very bleak, diffused and useless form. Ifyou have a wall-mounted uplighter at home, try turning it upsidedown and see for yourself if it doesn't both look and feel better whenthe light is directed downwards instead. One of the few situations inwhich indirect lighting such as uplighting can be practical is when youwant to avoid glare and reflection in television and computer screens,


Is there some other motivebehind this well-coordinated and persistent campaign that

seems to aim at havingincandescent light removed from private use altogether?

and the light source should then be placed closer to the ceiling inluminaires designed for the purpose. A more appealing alternativecould be spotlights directed at the walls. Whether the light comesfrom desk, walls, ceiling or windows, the light source should not beseen in the screen—that's the most important thing.

• For areas that you just pass through or spend little time in, e.g.,corridors, garages, etc., I suggest replacing any ceiling tubes withwall-washers (downlights placed close to the walls) or with wallsconces. These should be placed at medium height so that most of thelight falls just below the eye level of those who are shortest. Also, thelight should not be unnecessarily bright.

• Bright lights placed higher so as to illuminate larger areas I findappropriate mainly where/when you have to be physically active andat the same time have a need to see what you're doing, such as whencleaning, redecorating or building something.

With all aspects combined, you could say that the cooler, thebrighter and more evenly distributed the light and the higher up it isplaced or directed to, the more impersonal the effect. The warmer, thedimmer and the more concentrated the light and the lower down in theroom it is placed or directed to, the more intimate and sophisticatedthe atmosphere. To see a beautiful example of the latter, check out themainly incandescent and directional lighting in the TV series The WestW i n g (and its real-world counterpart).

It seems that during the last decade orso, awareness of how light can be usedto create various moods and impressionshas increased considerably.Unfortunately, though, it seems that thisknowledge is often used to manipu-late—when, instead, it could be appliedon a larger scale to promote the well-being of everyone.

Commercial LightingWhen the lighting in shops, restau-

rants and other commercial facilities isplanned, there are certain guidelinesissued by the lighting industry, besidesthe standard regulations concerningergonomics and energy efficiency, that architects and lighting engi-neers are encouraged to follow.1 1 These guidelines can be summed upthus:

• For supermarkets, drug stores, gas stations and other stores thatyou are compelled to visit often because they sell things you reallyneed, guidelines recommend light that is mainly fluorescent, of medi-um quality, evenly distributed, cool-white and very bright (possiblysupplemented by a few high-pressure sodium discharge lamps overthe meat counter, as their extra-warm colour makes meat and salmonlook more red). Very bright FL of poor or medium quality is alsooften used in discount stores to enhance the impression that one isreally getting a bargain. And in sports, electronics and hardwarestores and departments designed mainly to attract men (as if womenmight not shop there, too), the colour of both the light and the interiordesign is usually much cooler and brighter than in those that targetwomen specifically.

• For smaller shops with personal service, medium-range fashionboutiques, department stores and shopping malls, where many thingsare displayed that you may want but don't really need, more appealinglighting solutions are recommended. These places generally havefewer, warmer, better-quality fluorescent lights that are placed higherand more inconspicuously in the ceiling, often in combination withhalogen or good-quality HID spotlights. These spots are placed lowerto accentuate areas such as the fashion, perfume and interior

decorating departments that are meant to seem glamorous butaffordable, thereby encouraging the customer to buy a bit more thanshe or he had originally planned.

• For more exclusive shops, restaurants, etc., where it is taken forgranted that you are willing and able to part with large amounts ofmoney, guidelines recommend light that is warm, dim, mainly direc-tional with high contrast and of top quality. So if you go to a jewellerystore, a designer fashion boutique, an exclusive hotel or casino, a carshowroom, a private clinic or spa, you are likely to find the lighting tobe very soft, pleasant and inspiring. You'll notice more incandescentlight, including romantic downlights and little dazzling halogen spotswhich, when placed to highlight certain products, make these appeareven more exclusive and attractive than they really are. Theatres,museums and art galleries are also often very beautifully lit.

Clearly, this indicates that there really is an awareness within thelighting and commercial community of the fact that the incandescentbulb has some unique and very desirable qualities, or they would notput so much effort into creating something as similar as possible toincandescent light, use it to sell the most expensive goods or let it flowin such profusion at Christmas-time to add to the "Christmas spirit"and, of course, to sales.

But although a majority seems to be sticking to these rules, there arethose who don't. Increasingly, supermar-

ket owners, for example, seem to haverealised that customers might wantmore pleasant lighting when buyinggroceries, too. Hopefully, more willfollow. And since many foods areknown to be affected by light—usuallyadversely once they are harvested—perhaps it might be good for the food,too, if the lights were less bright and ofa better quality, not only where thefood is sold but also where it isprocessed, packaged and stored.

Lighting at WorkEven though attractive halogen light

is becoming more widely used in work-ing environments, there, too, incandescent light often seems to bereserved for those with the highest income and status. Even in themost beautifully lit shops, restaurants and hotels, etc., the lighting instaff and storage areas still tends to be the same cool, ugly and oftenunnecessarily bright FL so as to emphasise the constructed differencesbetween customer and employee and between leisure and work.

But is this really necessary? Why are most of us not allowed towork and feel comfortable at the same time—and perhaps even get thejob done better because of it, too, with less sick-leave, better concen-tration and fewer errors due to stress? Are employers afraid we willfeel too relaxed and not work hard enough if we're not constantly keptin a keyed-up mode? Or is it that enjoyable lighting is to be granted tous only when we are willing to pay for the expensive goods and ser-vices that come with it?

Recommendations for OfficesIn studies on lighting conditions preferred in offices, Jennifer Veitch

and Guy Newsham (2000), at the Institute for Research inConstruction, National Research Council of Canada, found that mostpeople would like to have windows, preferably with blinds or curtains,but they also wanted to have electric lighting and be able to adjustboth the position and angle of the lighting and turn the lights on andoff during the day. (Very reasonable wishes, aren't they?) Since theparticipants were very satisfied when allowed to adjust the lighting to

Very bright FL of poor or medium quality is also

often used in discount stores toenhance the impression that

one is really getting a bargain.


suit their particular preference, and as most of them chose luminancelevels consistent with current recommendations or lower, Veitch andNewsham recommend lighting solutions that are as flexible as possi-ble, with dimmable lights, local switching and wiring that allows oneto move things around.12, 13

Giving each individual as much control over lighting conditions aspossible sounds like a very good idea, since lighting requirements mayvary considerably depending on a person's age and the type of activity.Too much light at the wrong time or in the wrong place can be just asirritating and uncomfortable as too little. Also, it seems there are bigdifferences as to individual preferences. Even though more than halfof those asked by Veitch and Newsham liked to work in a uniformlybright room, 17% preferred to have most of the light on the desk andthe rest of the room more dimly lit and 7.5% liked an even darkerr o o m .1 4

One study by Kellner et al. (1997) also found that agoraphobicpatients felt most comfortable with luminance levels that were muchlower than those preferred by healthy controls.1 5 Another study byVeitch and Newsham (1998) showed women to be somewhat moresensitive to bright light than men were.1 6

I would of course also like to see incandescent light included as anoption, especially since so many seem to dislike FL. Unlike whatmany seem to think, it wouldn't have to cost very much more to haveincandescent instead of fluorescentlight at work, if you used the mosteffective halogen spotlights and flood-lights and used only as much light asneeded where and when it is needed.

FL tubes are equally bright all dayand everywhere, and are not quite asefficient as is usually claimed. First ofall, if they are powered by convention-al ballasts, those ballasts use about20% of the original installed effect.Secondly, most tubes as they age losemuch of their output (which is thenturned into heat), especially if notcleaned regularly. After three years ina relatively clean environment, the lossof light may be as much as 50%, even though the tubes still use thesame amount of electricity. Plastic diffusers also steal some of thelight and tend to make it too hot for the tubes to function optimally.The same goes for fixtures with four tubes.1 7

So let's say you have a standard class III tube that is said to give 50lumens/watt. This sounds like a lot more than an incandescent bulbthat gives about 14 lumens/watt, or a halogen that may give somethinglike 22 lm/w, doesn't it? But then take away 20% right from the start,a bit more if you have a plastic diffuser, and then another 10–15%every year, and the difference is significantly smaller.

For those who might still prefer FL, warm-white HF-powered slimclass-II tubes, which give up to 100 lm/w in the beginning and do notlose so much light as they age, may both save a lot of energy1 8 a n dimprove the quality of the light to a level that can at least be accept-able to work in if you're not too sensitive or choosy, especially whenused in modern two-tube luminaires with deep parabolic reflectors.Warm-white metal halide lamps in recessed downlight fixtures isanother energy-efficient and fairly attractive alternative.

Industrial and Outdoor LightingEver since FL and high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps were

forced on the public on a massive scale in the 1950s and 1960s, therehas been this "tradition" in lighting guidelines to recommend FL orHID lights of low quality for places where as much light as possible is

needed for the lowest possible cost and where quality is deemed of lit-tle or no importance, e.g., for factories, warehouses, power plants,mines, streets and highways, tunnels, garages, etc.—as if such placesaren't usually unpleasant enough without the light adding to it! Eventhough better-quality lamps have been introduced during the lastdecade or so, these are mostly used indoors in commercial locationsand situations.

The most common types of HID lamps are:• Mercury lamps. These are high-pressure lamps (as opposed to

ordinary FL tubes which are low-pressure mercury lamps) and pro-duce a spooky blue-white light of poor quality and relatively low effi-cacy compared with other HID lamps. Why they are still used asstreetlights is a mystery. In my opinion, they really ruin the niceatmosphere of old cities and villages, and certainly don't do anythingfor the more modern ones, either.

• Metal halide lamps. These are about twice as effective as themercury lamps and contain other metallic elements besides themercury that give them a bright white or silver-white light withmoderate to "accurate" colour rendering. The best ones are often usedin shops, convention halls and stadiums. They are also used in filmand TV studios, replacing the previously used tungsten halogen lampsthat were always appreciated for the way they made colours comealive but unfortunately also produced a lot of heat.

• Low-pressure sodium (LPS) lamps.These are very bright orange, budgetlights with zero colour rendering, sincethey only reproduce a single wave-length. They used to be, and in manyplaces still are, used to illuminate tun-nels, highways, etc. If prolonged expo-sure to monochromatic light of warmcolour has the same effects on humansas on animals, 1 9 this is the light weshould avoid staying in for too long andstop subjecting the nearby wildlife to inrural areas.

The most common excuses for usingthese LPS lamps are that they give up tofour times more light per watt than the

mercury lamps, that colour rendering doesn't matter outdoors (I don'tunderstand why it shouldn't), and that the eye cannot distinguishcolours at low lighting levels. I disagree particularly with that laststatement, since those levels at which the eye can no longer distin-guish colours are so much lower than those created by LPS lights.Perhaps there may be a biological reason for these differences in opin-ion, since female eyes are usually better at distinguishing colours,whereas men instead have more rods in their eyes and see better innear darkness.2 0

My experience when driving on highways lit by LPS lamps is thatthe light is tiring on the eyes because it's so unnatural to see only a sin-gle colour for a lengthy time. There are safety implications, too, asyou really don't see things as clearly in coloured light as in a white orwarm-white light with good colour rendering capacity.

• High-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps. Standard HPS lamps haveabout the same output as metal halide lamps and produce a brightpeach-coloured light of poor to moderate quality that I find acceptablealong highways but which looks unnatural in cities, villages andsuburbs. There are now HF-powered HPS lamps with improvedcolour rendering that produce a more attractive and fairlyincandescent-like light, but since they are slightly less effective thanother HPS lamps and require specially designed luminaires, they areusually reserved for lighting picturesque tourist areas at night andplaces where the more affluent and influential work or reside.

Another study by Veitch andNewsham (1998) showed

women to be somewhat moresensitive to bright light

than men were.


Sometimes they are used in shops, but indoors the slightly peachy-white colour does not look quite as good as it does outdoors.

If quality had a higher priority and we had an energy system thatcould support it, we could of course replace all of the above with halo-gen floodlights and thereby get a bright, warm-white, crystal-clearlight that does not become weaker or change colour as it ages. Theseare now usually only used at building sites or in the odd parking lot.Some people also have them as outdoor lighting at home, which Ithink is a very good idea, especially if used with IR detectors that turnthem on only when needed. That way, you save energy without hav-ing to compromise on quality.

Another energy-saving option that is now starting to gain a footholdin the market is the use of solar-powered streetlights. Unfortunately,this technology so far only allows for the use of cool-white FL andorange LPS lamps, and, if one is willing to pay more, the better-quali-ty warm-white HPS lamps that require special ballasts.2 1 It still seemslike a huge step in the right direction, though, and hopefully the quali-ty of the light will eventually be improved, too.

Another problem with outdoor lighting is what some call "night skypollution", which prevents many of us from seeing the stars due to theexcess light from unnecessarily bright night-time illumination ofstreets, buildings, billboards, convenience stores, etc. According to anexcellent article by Alex Wilson,2 2 light pollution may also pose moreor less serious threats to certain animalsand trees, besides causing a huge wasteof electricity and money and oftenbeing counterproductive when it comesto safety and crime prevention. Whatdark-sky advocates recommend is to:control glare by requiring luminairesthat are shielded to direct light down-wards; limit the height of luminaires rel-ative to the property boundary, thus pre-venting light trespass onto adjoiningproperties; require downwards directedtop-lighting for advertising signs thatare externally illuminated; and prohibitcertain types of advertising lights, suchas searchlights and laser lights.2 3

Car HeadlightsUnfortunately, it seems that the top-quality halogen light in car

headlights is being phased out, too, with more and more of the newcars produced now coming equipped with fluorescent xenon lightfrom micro metal halide lamps. These produce a very bright and coldviolet-silver-white light that is meant to improve driver visibility andtraffic safety, but which I find very glaring and distracting when meet-ing it on the road due to the unnatural colour that keeps shifting as itapproaches.

Lighting, Hypersensitivity and HyperactivityFrom around seventh grade I was starting to become consciously

aware of feeling tense, restless, unfocused and uncomfortable underthe cool, harsh light in school classrooms, on subway trains, in streetsetc., and being able to relax, concentrate and feel comfortable only inthe much softer light at home or in other people's homes—i.e., inincandescent light, although at the time I did not know the technicaldifference. And I am not alone in reacting like that. This is howanother sensitive person describes it:

"Fluorescent lights drive me batty. In school I used to get intotrouble on purpose so I could get sent out into the hall. The lighting inthe hallways was not fluorescent. I would drag my entire school deskout into the hall. I would act up and do just about anything to get

away from those damned lights. I could actually do the work once Igot out of the classroom."2 4

So what is it, then, that causes FL to have this effect on some peo-ple? Flicker (and sometimes disturbing noise) is something manypeople seem to be aware of consciously. But apart from that and theunnatural colour and discontinuous spectrum, the radiowave, X-rayand possible mercury vapour emissions already mentioned, it mayalso be that it is too bright for that person, especially if it shines fromabove the head—because this, in my experience, tends to activate thewhole body. When sitting down in class or at work, you want yourbody to be relaxed and your mind to be alert—not the other wayaround, right? Besides using only incandescent light—which reallycan help put you into a state of relaxed concentration—it may alsohelp if most of the light is concentrated on the work area or the teacheror whatever one is meant to focus on, and if the rest of the room isdark enough and, ideally, quiet enough not to scatter your attention.That is why they light theatres, concert halls and cinemas that way.

As a naturally sensitive person myself, I also feel that FL is a deadlight that actually steals energy from the body and that it may turnone's subtle energy centres off, thereby inhibiting the flow of bio-energy (also known as c h i, p r â n a, etc.) needed for staying healthy andfunctioning optimally.

On the other hand, incandescent light—possibly because fire is aliving element just as earth, water and air

are—seems instead to assist the energyflow, facilitate the connection with one'sinner self, and even open centres thatpreviously have been turned off—espe-cially the heart centre which, at least insensitive individuals, appears to needsome form of firelight to blossom.

Perhaps this is the reason why anthro-posophical architects—who generallyseem to be more aware than usual ofwhat is healthy, beautiful and supportivefor both consciousness and life, andmainly use energy-creating things likenatural materials, flowing water andcolour-washed walls—also tend to prefer

using incandescent light (or sometimes even candlelight), especially inhealth clinics and schools.

Try for yourself and see how you feel and function under differenttypes of light. If you, too, feel more or less turned off by FL but stillhave to spend much time in it, for example at school or at work, evenadding as little as one single incandescent lamp placed fairly low andclose to the body may be enough to keep the heart centre open andgive a little energy.

And although it seems that some studies (by Mayron et al., 1974;Ott, 1976; Wolfarth and Sam, 1982) could have indicated a positiveeffect of "full-spectrum" fluorescent light (FSFL) on hyperactivity inchildren, these were not all conducted perfectly, according to thereview by McColl and Veitch. Other, better-controlled studies(Ferguson and Munson, 1987; Norris, 1979; Schulman, 1989) havenot managed to find clear, replicable effects from using FSFLcompared with other FL lights, so the matter is still subject to somec o n t r o v e r s y .2 5

Personally I find class-I (FSFL) tubes easier to bear than poorer-quality ones, if they are of a warm-white instead of a blue-whitec o l o u r . But even if "full-spectrum", I still cannot relax a n dc o n c e n t r a t e in it as I can with incandescent light and n a t u r a ldaylight. This might possibly be due to the fact that all types of FLseem to increase beta activity in the brain, according to a study byKüller and Wetterberg (1993) that compared the effect of both dim

Try for yourself and see how you feel and function

under different types of light.


and bright class-II FL and class-I FSFL. They found that beta brain-w a v e s increased during the afternoon under all lighting conditions.2 6

There are, of course, numerous reasons for restlessness, difficultiesin concentrating, etc., besides environmental factors like lighting,noise, chemicals, diet, and so on. Many adults who have been labelledwith ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) have come to theconclusion that their particular problems are due to having a gifted andspirited personality type, and/or having an atypical learning style suchas being a visual-spatial or a tactile learner, and/or being a highly sen-sitive person (HSP) whose extremely delicate and finely tuned ner-vous system easily gets overwhelmed by external impressions, therebymaking it hard for that person to concentrate. Or it may be that thematerial that one is required to focus on is just too boring, incompre-hensible, untrue or irrelevant! (Anyone wishing to learn more aboutthese alternative views on ADHD might find inspiration on the fol-lowing websites: http://borntoexplore.org/sitemap.htm,http://pages.prodigy.net/redstar01/index-1.htm, and http://www.hsper-s o n . c o m / . )

Lighting for the YoungestWhen welcoming a new life into this world, I would as my first

choice use only candlelight or, if not possible, very soft GLS. I wouldtake care not to expose the baby to fluorescent light at all, and shieldthe baby if passing an FL light source was unavoidable.

And just as one might have figured this out simply by using empa-thy and common sense, a study shown on a N o v a science programmeon TV (spring 1998, I think) found that babies born prematurely faredmuch better when kept in conditions as close to womb-like as possi-ble, with very dim light and whispering nurses who are not wearingperfume—so as not to overstimulate the babies and draw their atten-

tion outwards before they are ready. If this is not the practice in yourhospital, I strongly recommend that you make sure it will be, soon,and that the dim lights used are incandescent and not fluorescent. Thismay be more important for these babies' chances than we can imagine.

Lighting for your PetsSince most animals seem to have even more delicate senses than

humans do, is it not possible that they, too, are suffering immenselyunder FL without being able to tell us about it? Patrick Lindahl evensuggests that animals may see flicker that we don't and may perceivean FL tube as if it were a strobe lamp.

With all the stress, abuse and indignities that we are already subject-ing so many animals to, do we really need to torture them with badlighting on top of it? If you yourself own or work in a place whereanimals are kept, why not try bright incandescent light and/or real day-light in the daytime and darkness or very soft incandescent light atnight and see how the animals seem to feel?

Making an Informed ChoiceIf you didn't already know much about light and lighting, it is my

hope that you are now in a position to make a more informed choice.However, since there seems to be so much variation between individu-als as to what type of lighting solutions are optimal, my final sugges-tion is that you try various types of lamps yourself and see what worksbest for you. If you don't mind using FL light, then it's probably okayfor you. And if you belong to the minority who doesn't like electriclight at all but prefers candlelight only, then that's probably just whatyou need.

So, if you just pay attention to how your body reacts under varioustypes of lighting, I believe you each have your own best guide. ∞

E n d n o t e s1. Bergvall, O., "De flesta har slocknat"("Most have gone out"), Råd & Rön 7/01.2. ibid.3. Reis, P., "Många bra och några usla"("Many good and a few lousy"), Råd & Rön9/00.4. Bergvall, ibid. 5. Fyra frågor om lågenergilampor (Fourquestions about energy savers),Energimyndigheten, Eskilstuna, 1999.6. ibid.7. Liljefors, A., "Ljuset hemma" ("Homelighting"), Bo Bättre (issue unknown).8. ibid.9. "Belysning inomhus: riktlinjer ochrekommendationer" ("Indoor lighting:guidelines and recommendations"),Ljuskultur, 1990.10. ibid, 1984.11. Starby, L., "Ljus i butik" ("Shoplighting"), Ljuskultur 3/95 and 4/95. 12. Veitch, J.A. and Newsham, G.R. (2000),"Exercised control, lighting choices, andenergy use: an office simulationexperiment", Journal of ExperimentalPsychology 20:219-237.13. Veitch, J.A., and Newsham, G.R. (2000),"Preferred luminous conditions in open-planoffices: research and practicerecommendations", Lighting Res. Technol.32(4):199-212.14. Veitch and Newsham (2000), ibid.15. Kellner, M., Wiedemann, K. and Zihl, J.

(1997), "Illumination perception inphotophobic patients suffering from panicdisorder with agoraphobia", ActaPsychiatrica Scandinavica 96(1):72-74, in:Sandström, M. et al., Belysning och hälsa(Lighting and Health) 2002:4,Arbetslivsinstitutet, Stockholm.16. Veitch, J.A. and Newsham, G.R. (1998),"Lighting quality and energy-efficiencyeffects on task performance, mood, health,satisfaction, and comfort", Journal of theIlluminating Engineering Society 27(1):107-129, in: Sandström, M. et al., Belysning ochhälsa, ibid.17. Snåla med energin men inte med ljuset(Skimp on energy but not on luminance),Stockholm Energi, 1989.18. ibid.19. Ott, J.N. (1985), "Color and Light: TheirEffects on Plants, Animals and People",Journal of Biosocial Res. 7, pt I, in:Liberman, J., OD, PhD, Light: Medicine ofthe Future, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, NewMexico, 1991, p. 146.20. Pope, Nori and Pope, Sandra, Color byDesign: Planting the Contemporary Garden,Bay Soma Publishing, 1998.21. Solar Outdoor Lighting Inc.,http://www.solarlighting.com/merchant/about.ihtml; and email from Vice-President AlanHurst, February 2003.22.. Wilson, A., "Light Pollution: Efforts toBring Back the Night Sky", EBN, vol. 7, no.8, 1998, athttp://www.buildinggreen.com/features/night

/nightlight.html#Outdoor.23. ibid.24. Personal communication with BonnieDennedy, March 2003.25. McColl, S.L. and Veitch, J.A. (2001),"Full-spectrum fluorescent lighting: a reviewof its effect on physiology and health",Psychological Medicine 31:949-964.26. Küller, R., LicPhil, DSc, andWetterberg, L., MD, PhD (1993),"Melatonin, cortisol, EEG, ECG andsubjective comfort in healthy humans:Impact of two fluorescent lamp types at twolight intensities", Lighting Res. Technol.25(2):71-81.

About the Author:Inger Lorelei was born in 1961 inSweden, where she still lives. She hastrained and worked as a personal colourconsultant and also as an interior designcolour consultant, having studied colourand lighting at the Scandinavian ColourInstitute in Stockholm. She has createdher own Harmonious ColourCombination System and used it withmuch success. Though currently retired,she spends her time researching andwriting about her favourite topics. Ifyou have any questions, or would like toshare your own experiences withdifferent types of light, you are verywelcome to email Inger [email protected].



It's probably better that so few of the ruins and remains were tied in with theSmithsonian because they give good reason to believe the ending of the IndianaJones movie—a great warehouse where the real secrets of earth history are buried.

Vine Deloria, Jr, noted Native American author and Professor of Law Emeritus(Personal communication, May 2000)

Modern-day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on ourimaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid ofanything unusual in the way of great cultures characterised by a people ofunusual demeanour. The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the 19th-

century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal through which uncounted boneshave been spirited. This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anybut government officials. Among these bones may lie answers not even sought by theseofficials concerning the deep past.

The first hint we had about the possible existence of an actual race of tall, strong andintellectually sophisticated people was in researching old township and county records.Many of these were quoting from old diaries and letters that were combined, for posterity,in the 1800s from diaries going back to the 1700s. Says Deloria on this understanding:

"Some of these old county and regional history books contain real gems because thepeople were not subjected to a rigid indoctrination about evolution and were astonishedabout what they found and honestly reported it."

Some time before archaeology came to subscribe the general public to its view of pre-history—generations prior to Darwin's troublesome theory—the pioneers thought thatsome of the earthworks were as ancient as could be concurrent with human habitation inAmerica. Some among those early settlers exercised their pens, assured that the earth-works were not built by the direct ancestry of the native people living in the historicalperiod but, rather, were constructed in a more remote era encompassing a different socialorder. They compared the "Mound Builders" with the "Indians", clearly discerning theformer as belonging to an earlier time and possessing a different fate or destiny from thelatter.

"Evidence for the occupation of this region before the appearance of the red man andthe white race is to be found in almost every part of the county, as well as through thenorthwest generally. In removing the gravel bluffs, which are numerous and deep, forthe construction and repair of roads, and in excavating cellars, hundreds of humanskeletons, some of them of giant form, have been found. A citizen of Marion Countyestimates that there were about as many human skeletons in the knolls of MarionCounty as there are white inhabitants at present!"

The History of Marion County, Ohio(Compiled from past accounts; published in 1883.)

"Mastodonic remains are occasionally unearthed, and, from time to time, discoveries ofthe remains of Indian settlements are indicated by the appearance of gigantic skeletons,with the high cheek bones, powerful jaws and massive frames peculiar of the red man,who left these as the only record with which to form a clew to the history of past ages."

The History of Brown County, Ohio(Compiled from past accounts; published in 1883.)

Skeletal remains ofgiants buried in the

ancient earthmounds of North

America weredescribed in 19th-century

documents of theSmithsonian

Institution, but thephysical evidenceeither has perished

or been hiddenfrom public view.

by Ross Hamilton © 2001


Reprinted from his Serpent MoundMysteries website at:

http://greatserpentmound.org/articles/giants3.html

Computer Images © 2001 by Patricia Mason

"She said also that three skeletons were found at the mouth ofthe Paw Paw Creek many years later, while Nim (Nimrod)Satterfield was justice of the peace. Jim Dean and some menwere digging for a bridge foundation and found these bonesat the lower end of the old buffalo wallow. She thought itwas Dr Kidwell, of Fairmont, who examined them and saidthey were very old, perhaps thousands of years old. She saidthat when the skeletons were exposed to the weather for afew days, their bones turned black and began to crumble, thatSquire Satterfield had them buried in the Joliffe graveyard(Rivesville). All these skeletons, she said, were measured,and found to be about eight feet long."

Now and Long Ago: A History of the Marion County Area, by Glen Lough (1969)

(This citation on West Virginia is courtesy of Dave Cain.)

Another of many examples, this one, col-lected by James Mooney (1861–1921), tellsof the visit of very tall people from thewest:

"James Wafford, of the westernCherokee, who was born in Georgia in1806, says that his grandmother, whomust have been born about the middleof the last century, told him that shehad heard from the old people that longbefore her time a party of giants hadonce come to visit the Cherokee. Theywere nearly twice as tall as commonmen, and had their eyes set slanting intheir heads, so that the Cherokee called

them Tsunil' kalu', "the Slant-eyed people," becausethey looked like the giant hunter Tsul' kalu'. They saidthat these giants lived far away in the direction in whichthe sun goes down. The Cherokee received them asfriends, and they stayed some time, and then returned totheir home in the west…"

This kind of recorded tradition did not start with Mooneybut, rather, began early in American history. During theColonial and post-Colonial eras, the information-seekerswere keen on gathering as much knowledge of the forgottenpast as feasible through native sources. Some of it waswoven into romantic tales including verse, but the main partof it went into records which, like the accumulation of earthand debris over ancient village sites, became buried in themusty stacks of old libraries—considered to have no real"substance" in the emerging field of the white man's science.

"Of the very early history of the region which nowembraces Lake County, but little can be written. TheMound Builders had occupied it and passed away, leav-ing no written language and but little even as tradition...These mounds were quite numerous…Excavations…have revealed the crumbling bones of amighty race. Samuel Miller, who has resided in thecounty since 1835, is authority for the statement thatone skeleton which he assisted in unearthing was a triflemore than eight feet in length, the skull being corre-spondingly large, while many other skeletons measuredat least seven feet…"

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Lake County,edited by Newton Bateman, LLD, and Paul Selby, AM (1902)

From the outset of North American archaeology, no federallysponsored concern has researched and collected evidence specifi-cally emphasising the existence of unusually tall NativeAmericans in prehistoric and even in historic times. There arereasons for this oversight, though in hindsight it has placed limitson our overview of prehistory. Because there were only occasion-al people of large stature born among the light-skinned, Europeanraces, numbers of giants were far from anticipated in America.Scientists in Europe, in case-by-case studies, declared their giantsto have been victims of pituitary disorder. Another reason wasthat when the private citizenry in the US unearthed the bones ofvery tall and strongly constructed people, and when these disinter-ments were recorded, rarely was any comparison made with sitesof similar contents.


Title pages of the early county and pioneer history books often includedphrases like "Carefully Written and Compiled" and "Lest We Forget".

Group of mounds in Brown County, Ohio

It was still a sortof wilderness inmany rural areasright until the mid-dle 1800s. In this,each discovery was"unique"—only toend up in the stacksof old townshiplibraries to be com-piled later ascuriosities—if theysurvived at all. Thefollowing accountoriginated aroundthe year 1800:

"There weremounds situated in the eastern part of the village of Conneautand an extensive burying-ground near the Presbyterianchurch, which appear to have had no connection with theburying-places of the Indians. Among the human bonesfound in the mounds were some belonging to men of giganticstructure. Some of the skulls were ofsufficient capacity to admit the head ofan ordinary man, and jaw bones thatmight have been fitted on over the facewith equal facility; the other bones wereproportionately large. The burying-ground referred to contained about fouracres and, with the exception of a slightangle in conformity with the naturalcontour of the ground, was in the formof an oblong square. It appeared to havebeen accurately surveyed into lotsrunning from north to south, andexhibited all the order and propriety ofarrangement deemed necessary toconstitute Christian burial..."Historical Collections of Ohio in Two

Volumes, by Henry Howe, LLD (1888)

Although not regarded by the govern-ment as reliable, the oral traditions ofthe native people in the eastern US averthe existence of possibly two races ofgiants, one supplanting the other byviolent means. Here we have the firstinkling of some very remote prehistory,preserved through the tradition of theChippewa, Sandusky and Tawa tribes(members of the Algonquin languagegroup), of the existence of giant, bearded men.

"In this connection I would say that Mr Jonathan Brooks,now living in town, stated to me that his father, BenjaminBrooks, who lived with the Indians fourteen years and waswell-acquainted with their language and traditions, told himand others that it was a tradition of the Indians that the firsttribe occupying this whole country was a black-bearded race,very large in size, and subsequently a red bearded race ortribe came and killed or drove off all the black beards, as theycalled them."

"Memoirs of Townships", by Wm H. Crane, in The Firelands Pioneer, Vermilion, Ohio (November 1858)

Offsetting the carefully recorded diaries of the rural folk, therewere popular writers who creatively developed the more contem-porary histories and folk legends, leaving to cursory treatment thedeeper accounts of North American antiquities. These authors,while having captured the essence of the public perception of thenoble native tradition, were not reconciled to the antique body oflegend. The pens of James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) andHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) relate virtually noth-ing of the tall ones. Native Americans, as we know, were dis-couraged from writing, although some, such as David Cusick, cir-cumvented the bias using Christian names. Fortunately, earlymissionaries gathered oral traditions from the tribal elders con-cerning men of giant stature.

But even the most informative or entertaining accounts couldnot instill enough respect for the native people to put an end to thefurther destruction of the sacred sites. The attitude of the whiterace in general towards the red race was an abomination, totallylacking in mercy and compassion. Many of the Native Americanskulls were compared with European skulls, but selectively so asto depict the current native populace as being of inferior intelli-gence. Almost without resistance, the black seeds of racial biaswere forming in the uncorrupted soil of prehistoric interpretation.

Take, for example, the words of an impor-tant government official and popular writer,Henry Schoolcraft (1793–1864):

"The Indian has a low, bushy brow,beneath which a dull, sleepy, half-closed eye seems to mark the ferociouspassions that are dormant within. Theacute angles of the eyes seldom presentthe obliquity so common in the Malaysand the Mongolians. The color of theeye is almost uniformly a tint betweenblack and grey; but even in young per-sons it seldom has the brightness, orexpresses the vivacity, so common in

the more civilized races."Bureau of Indian Affairs (1852)

Schoolcraft, who himself married ahalf-Indian woman, was apparentlypredisposed to labelling the native peo-ple in general as inferior. This kind ofridiculous prejudice underscored thetone for the unbridled continuation ofthe earthwork debacle. The result ofthis is accurately reflected in howarchaeology was organised more thanone hundred years ago, and may besummed up in the policy of JosephHenry, first secretary of the

Smithsonian Institution. Said Henry in 1846: "The collection ofdata should precede theorising..."

Unfortunately, the collection of data seemed to have no end,and any subsequent theorising was (and is) in a state of transience.The Smithsonian, playing a sort of leading role in the massiveundertaking attempting to cast light on the inscrutable prehistoryof the United States, inadvertently collected far too many relicsthan it could ever analyse in a comprehensive sense.

Estimates of the number of moundworks in Ohio alone, at theend of the Colonial period, topped ten thousand. Today, less thanone-twentieth of these exist, and, moreover, they exist in areconstructed form.


Some of the skulls were of sufficient

capacity to admit thehead of an ordinary man, and jaw bones that might have beenfitted on over the face

with equal facility; the other bones wereproportionately large.

Dancing figures found on a copper plate inUnion County, Illinois.

No quarter of special status was given to any earthwork, nomatter how sacred or strategic to tribal lands. It was a holocaustof an unprecedented nature, for it undermined the very morale ofthe native people who understood the peace of their ancestors tobe ruined.

Differing only in the professionalism somewhat absent from theprevious 70 years of ghoulish quests, Henry's mandate dictatedemphasis on the creation of an inclusive system of excavation,recording and description. Any analysis that followed had to bebased upon this criterion. But competent analysis of anomaliesrarely (if ever) came from the Smithsonian and other institutionsformally engaged in the practice of exhumation. Given thisunderstanding, it is no wonder that the Smithsonian is believed byknowledgeable people tobe actively stymieingresearch that would pro-duce a more enlightenedview of American pre-history.

There is, however,some compensation forthis oversight in that theSmithsonian—like thePeabody, and theCarnegie shortly there-after—faithfully upheldHenry's mandate todetail, as was feasible,their mound "explo-rations". However, thepresent-day inaccessibil-ity of the bones andobjects these peopleremoved for future studyis a reflection and symp-tom of the proposed"oversight".

One thing that pleasedus in this research effortwas the fact that therewere many skeletons ofgigantic frame discov-ered and reported by theSmithsonian, boostingthe validity and value ofthe old township diariesas well as the native leg-ends. Some of these arepresented below.

A Brief History ofthe Museum

The Smithsonian Institution, easily the world's largest museumcomplex, began from the generous gift of James Smithson, anEnglish scientist, in 1829. Believed born illegitimate (especiallyin the eyes of his later detractors), Smithson was a "diligent youngstudent", receiving a Master of Arts from Pembroke College,Oxford, in 1786. He became a distinguished scientist.

The gentle man passed away in 1829, bequeathing his fortuneto nephew James Henry Hungerford with the stipulation that ifthis man died without an heir, the remainder of the fortune wouldgo to the United States. It seems he felt that the United States wasthe future of Britain. Perhaps Smithson saw the "New World" as

fertile, worthy, intellectual territory. Hungerford died in 1835.Although there was some controversy in the interim, the findingof the Smithsonian, based upon the more than half-a-million-dol-lar gift, took place officially in 1846. His legacy to the Americanpeople was, in his own words, "for the increase and diffusion ofknowledge".

Since that time, the museum's collections have increased con-siderably, with problems in the cataloguing and location of storedfinds developing due to changing standards of administrationsover the last 150 years. By analogy, the Vatican's antique cacheof confiscated, problematic treasures may pale in comparison tothe Smithsonian's boatload of diffuse evidence. The pity of it isthat Smithson's request has taken on a different mode of interpre-

tation. Instead of diffus-ing knowledge, it hasunwittingly become con-fused with the problemof sprawling storage.

Powell and Thomas"Grave a , a stonesepulcher, 2 1⁄2 f e e twide, 8 feet long,and 2 feet deep, wasformed by placingsteatite slabs onedge at the sidesand ends, and othersacross the top. Thebottom consistedsimply of earthhardened by fire. Itcontained theremains of a singleskeleton, lying onits back, with thehead east. Theframe was heavyand about seven feetlong. The headrested on a thin cop-per plate ornament-ed with impressedfigures…"12th Annual Report of

the Bureau of Ethnologyto the Secretary of the

Smithsonian Institution,1890–1891 (published in

1894) (Cyrus Thomas'sinvestigations of

Etowah)

In 1882, after some 36 years of growth and sound management,Smithsonian executive John Wesley Powell (of Grand Canyonexploration fame, 1869–1872), hired Cyrus Thomas. Powellwanted this man to head up the fieldwork for the Smithsonian'snewly created Bureau of Ethnology, specifically the EasternMound Division.

Thomas was a minister and an entomologist, whose broadenedinterests included archaeology. He was, in other words, a bible-advocating, insect-adept archaeologist who believed in the mys-tery of a lost race at the time of his being recruited.


Plat of the Etowah Group, Bartow County, Georgia. Grave A (found in the largest mound of the group) contained a seven-foot skeleton of a heavy frame.

Powell, who was much in sympathy with the plight of NativeAmericans, having lived among them for a length of time,believed that there was no lost or mysterious race of moundbuilders. He desired to credit the downtrodden native people withthe worthy and gentle arts associated with the ancient moundbuilding societies. Subsequently, and in light of other politicalconsiderations marking the era, Powell sought to enact these per-sonal convictions through the instrumentality of Thomas.

In spite of his personal beliefs, Thomas was not outspokenlyresistant to accepting the position. Besides, Congress was allocat-ing solid funding for this proposed ramble through the ancientlandscape.

There was apparently an important decision made at this timeconcerning the facilitation of an enveloping theory—so necessaryto create order where chaosloomed. Before discharging abook, one logically creates anoutline to guide one's thoughts.This was to become a hierar-chical arrangement that woulddecide the angle of vision forthe categorising of the findsthat would be made.

On one hand, the belief thatothers had discovered NorthAmerica before Columbus(such as Phoenician, Egyptian,Hebraic, Greek, Roman, Celt,Scandinavian or even Asianmariners) was explored. Onthe other hand, the idea of thecontinent having been isolatedfrom outside influences wasput on the table. It was per-haps because of Powell's def-erence to the native kinshipthat the latter idea—i.e.,screening out any extra-conti-nental visitors—was adopted.Needless to say, this was anextraordinary assumption, andone that has affected decision-making right until the presentday. On the positive side, itviably linked the living fac-tions of the Native Americanpeople with the more ancientmound-building folk, andshortly thereafter it wasresponsible for the faintly suc-cessful preservation of whatremained of the MoundBuilders' legacy. From this itmay be understood howaspects of Powell's work, suchas analysis of the social order of the Mound Builders, was not apriority.

Powell's decision regarding isolation was in reality a two-edgedsword. While it was a meaningful step that fostered a meagrethough important harmonic between the federal government andthe native people, it was regrettably based upon a false notion.An example of its contradiction is found right in the 12th AnnualReport itself. Again and again, Thomas and his operatives came

up with anomalous evidence directly questioning Powell'ssweeping suppositions.

"Cave burials occur in this district in the following counties:In Grayson, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, Warren, and Fayettecounties; Kentucky; Smith, White, Warren, Giles, Marion,and Fentress counties, Tennessee; and Bartow county,Georgia. These localities lie mostly in a belt extending in anorth and south direction through the center of the district.

"In most of these caves, both in Kentucky and Tennessee,the bodies appear to have been laid on the floor of the cave,sometimes in beds of ashes, sometimes on a pavement of flatstones. There are, however, some instances in which thebodies have been found incased in stone slabs, and afterwardsimbedded in clay or ashes. In Smith and Warren counties,

Tennessee, and inWarren and Fayettecounties, Kentucky, theflesh of the bodies waspreserved and the hairwas yellow and of finetexture. In some casesthe bodies wereenveloped in severalthicknesses of coarsecloth with an outer wrap-ping of deer skin. Someof the bodies werewrapped in a kind ofcloth made of bark fiber,into which feathers werewoven in such a manneras to form a smooth sur-face. In two cases thebodies, placed in a sit-ting or squatting posture,were incased in baskets.In one of the caves inSmith county the bodyof a female is said tohave been found, havingabout the waist a silvergirdle, with marksresembling letters."

12th Annual Report of theBureau of Ethnology to the

Secretary of the SmithsonianInstitution, 1890–1891

(1894) (Explorations in theTennessee district)

Armed with a self-createddoctrine powered by amplefunding, and with a little helplater from the one-way doorto the Smithsonian's inacces-

sible catacombs, Powell and his underling in the years that fol-lowed nearly succeeded in the obliteration of the last notions ofthe legendary, mysterious and antique class of mound-buildingpeople and, for that matter, any people that didn't fit into themould of his theory. Did Powell intentionally overlook some ofthe archaeology so as to focus on his own special agenda?

Powell and his associates at the Bureau were quite certain thatpeople had arrived in the Americas only sometime after the first


Mound Group, Dunleith, Illinois. "Near the original surface, 10 or 12feet from the center, on the lower side, lying at full length on its back,was one of the largest skeletons discovered by the Bureau agents, thelength as proved by actual measurement being between 7 and 8 feet."

Egyptian dynasty—less than 4,500 years ago! They also believedthat the Mississippi Valley was sufficiently isolated from the OhioValley to warrant the simultaneous flourishing of quite distinctcultures over a long period.

Since carbon-dating had not yet been discovered, Thomas usedstratigraphic analysis (after Lyell) and, following the rest of themandate, included detailed record-keeping and documentationwhenever appropriate. His findings were broadly accepted andare still referenced.

"Underneath the layer of shells the earth was very dark andappeared to be mixedwith vegetable mold tothe depth of 1 foot. Atthe bottom of this, rest-ing on the original sur-face of the ground, was avery large skeleton lyinghorizontally at fulllength. Although verysoft, the bones were suf-ficiently distinct to allowof careful measurementbefore attempting toremove them. Thelength from the base ofthe skull to the bones ofthe toes was found to be7 feet 3 inches. It isprobable, therefore, thatthis individual when liv-ing was fully 7 1⁄2 f e e thigh. At the head laysome small pieces ofmica and a green sub-stance, probably theoxide of copper, thoughno ornament or article ofcopper was discovered."

12th Annual Report of theBureau of Ethnology to the

Secretary of the SmithsonianInstitution, 1890–1891

(1894) (Explorations inRoane County, Tennessee)

But Thomas's time waslimited because of the largeterritory he was to explore.Under such working condi-tions, anomalies were putaside for future research—tobe forgotten, as it has turnedout. Thomas was forced torely on the accounts of opera-tives in many cases.Evidently, some of these peo-ple discerned between"Indian" burials and the burials of the Mound Builders, perhapschallenging the patience of Powell.

"No. 5, the largest of the group, was carefully examined.Two feet below the surface, near the apex, was a skeleton,doubtless an intrusive Indian burial… Near the original sur-face, 10 or 12 feet from the center, on the lower side, lying at

full length on its back, was one of the largest skeletons dis-covered by the Bureau agents, the length as proved by actualmeasurement being between 7 and 8 feet. It was clearlytraceable, but crumbled to pieces immediately after removalfrom the hard earth in which it was encased…"12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary

of the Smithsonian Institution, 1890–1891 (1894)

Regarding the problem of "intrusive" Indian burials, what kindof a time gap were these men looking at between the original

burials and the later ones?As his agents uncovered thephysical evidence forpowerful men of toweringstature, Thomas held theposition that any and allskeletal remains representedthe direct ancestry of thepresent-day people. Was itnot plausible to consider anextended "family" orhierarchical group of verytall folk who served with thepeople? Were they selectiveenough in their sexualassociations to appear,overall, as a race with itsown peculiarities and evenphysical characteristics? Thefindings that didn't fit intothe guideline established byhis superior were summarilyrecorded and forgotten byThomas—a legacy we haveinherited today.

"An old Indian moundhas been opened on thefarm of HarrisonRobinson, four milesEast of Jackson, Ohio,and two skeletons ofextraordinary size and agreat quantity of trinketshave been removed.Some years ago a partyof relic hunters,supposed to have beensent out in the interest ofthe ArcheologicalSociety, visited theRobinson farm, and aftera few days' searchremoved a greatcollection of stonehatchets, beads andbracelets, which werepacked and shipped to

an Eastern institute, and until this recent accidental discoveryit was supposed that everything had been removed by therelic hunters. It is thought by many that more relics are to befound, and preparations are being made for a thoroughinvestigation."

The Adair County News, Kentucky (January 5, 1897)


Spring Hill enclosure, Kanawha County, West Virginia. In the bottom ofMound 11 (upper left) was found a skeleton "fully seven feet long".

What has become of all the evidence? Again and again, only asingle long skeleton or two was found among those of normalsize. The understanding of tall, ruling chiefs and their wives wasnot developed at all, as is evident in these examples.

"The other, situated on the point of a commanding bluff, wasalso conical in form, 50 feet in diameter and about 8 feethigh. The outer layer consisted in sandy soil, 2 feet thick,filled with slightly decayed skeletons, probably Indians ofintrusive burials. The earth of the main portion of this moundwas a very fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes andwas everywhere, to a depth of 2 to 4 feet, as full of humanskeletons as could be stowed away in it, even to two andthree tiers. Among these were a number of bones not togeth-er as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably fromscaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rathermore than 7 feet long, these skeletons appeared to be ofmedium size and many of them much decayed…"12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary

of the Smithsonian Institution, 1890–1891(1894) (Pike County, Illinois)

"No. 11 is now 35 by 40 feet at the base and 4 feet high. Inthe center, 3 feet below the surface, was a vault 8 feet longand 3 feet wide. In the bottom of this, among the decayedfragments of bark wrappings, lay a skeleton fully seven feetlong, extendedat full length onthe back, headwest. Lying ina circle abovethe hips werefifty-two perfo-rated shell disksabout an inch indiameter andone-eighth of aninch thick."

12th AnnualReport of the Bureau

of Ethnology to theSecretary of the

SmithsonianInstitution,1890–1891

(1894) (Kanawha County, West Virginia)

Largest in the collective series of mounds, the Great SmithMound yielded at least two large skeletons, but at different levelsof its deconstruction by Thomas's agents. It was 35 feet in heightand 175 feet in diameter, and was constructed in at least twostages, according to the report. The larger of the two skeletonsrepresented a man conceivably approaching eight feet in heightwhen living.

"At a depth of 14 feet, a rather large human skeleton wasfound, which was in a partially upright position with the backagainst a hard clay wall… All the bones were badly decayed,except those of the left wrist, which had been preserved bytwo heavy copper bracelets…

"Nineteen feet from the top the bottom of this debris wasreached, where, in the remains of a bark coffin, a skeletonmeasuring 71⁄2 feet in length and 19 inches across the shoul-ders was discovered. It lay on the bottom of the vaultstretched horizontally on the back, head east, arms by the

sides… Each wrist was encircled by six heavy copperbracelets… Upon the breast was a copper gorget…length, 3 1⁄2inches; greatest width 31⁄2 inches…"

12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to theSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890–1891 (1894)

(Kanawha County, West Virginia)

The pressure of the time schedule doubtless made it inconve-nient to consider seriously the possibility of an ancient lineage ofleaders taking the form of very tall people. The fact of giganticstature never settled in as a clue to a greater mystery, and the evi-dences of very tall, ruggedly built men vanished—and oftenenough into the Smithsonian's temporary charnel house of pre-Columbian miscellany.

"Three feet above…the skeleton of a large, strongly built manlay extended at full length with the face up, the head towardthe east... The skull was obtained almost entire. Under it werethirteen water-worn quartz pebbles. The femur measured 181⁄2inches…"

12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to theSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1890-1891

(1894) (Union County, Mississippi)

A femur (thigh bone) exceeding 18 inches would indicate aman of very great height—easily over seven feet. Femurs

exceeding 20 incheshave been found,however.

Though hindsightis said to be 20/20,Thomas's methodol-ogy was little betterthan a government-sanctioned dissolu-tion of the sacredburial places. Hedismantled the sanc-tuaries and charnelhouses with the fer-vour of a man whosefirst priority was toimpress his employ-er. From Florida toNebraska, including

23 states and Canada's Manitoba region, over the next seven yearshe and his agents worked like men possessed of a deadline.

"Several years ago an Indian mound was opened nearCartersville, Ga., by a committee of scientists from theSmithsonian. After removing the dirt for some distance, alayer of flagstones was found, which had evidently beendressed by hand, showing that the men who quarried the rockunderstood the business. These stones were removed, and ina vault beneath them was found a skeleton of a giant,measuring seven feet and two inches. His hair was coarseand jet-black, and hung to the waist, the brow beingornamented with a copper crown. The skeleton wasremarkably well preserved and taken from the vault intact.Nearby were found the bodies of several children of varioussizes. The remains of the latter were covered with beadsmade of bone of some kind. Upon removing these, thebodies were found to be enclosed in a network of straw orreeds, and underneath these was a covering of the skin ofsome animal. In fact, the bodies had been prepared


A Section of the Great Smith Mound, Kanawha County, West Virginia. This cone-shaped mound rose 35 feet high and measured 175 feet in diameter at its base. The interior of the mound contained a vault made of timber measuring

12 feet by 13 feet. It was positioned within the mound 20 feet above surface level.


somewhat after the manner of mummies, and will doubtlessthrow new light upon the history of the people who rearedthese mounds. On the stones which covered the vault werecarved inscriptions, and if deciphered will probably lift theveil which has enshrouded the history of the race of giantswhich undoubtedly at one time inhabited the continent."

Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends, by LucianLamar Knight (1868–1933) (Byrd Printing, Atlanta, 1913–14)

Could this special burial have been another kingly individual?In these increasingly hasty intrusions into the native burialgrounds' inherent sanctity, the holocaust delivered its zenith underthe officialdom action of formerUnion Major Powell. This man,who in his youth had livedamong the "Indians", somehowwas insensitive to the sanctuaryof their graveyards. But otherscame later to do a fair share ofdamage as well, all in the nameof information gathering. Theprehistory of eastern NorthAmerica is not what we havebeen asked to accept from theefforts of Cyrus Thomas, norfrom the subsequent authoritieswho based so much of theirwork upon his, and the reason isworth repeating: many or mostof the oldest mounds and sub-terranean burial acreages werepromptly destroyed, long beforeany focused "scientific" effortcame on the scene.

Apart from the disregard ofthe settlers' records, the otherpart of the problem is thelabyrinthine mausoleum that isthe Smithsonian bone and arti-fact collection. In sum, wetoday are deprived of the realknowledge of the more ancientlineage. The early settlersobserved that the giants of oldmay have passed on their grandstature to the later native people,for there were individualsamong their later progressionwho were of a size and build thatgoes beyond our current notions of Native American physicality.

The Telling of the BonesIt is difficult not to understand the probability of an elite lineage

of tall men and women who propagated their own genetic inheri-tance. These people lived, worked and bred together. Were theirmarriages arranged to ensure the continuance of the grand staturein roles of leadership and protection? In his classic Red Earth,White Lies, Vine Deloria says:

"From talking with elders of several tribes, my understandingis that the Indians were and are describing people of morethan average height. In fact, some elders as a routine matterhave reported that the Indians themselves were much largerand taller."

The question has been raised, asking whether there was giantstature among the Native American people in earlier historic times.From Hardesty's History of Monroe County, Ohio, we discoveredthis:

"He further told me of the killing of a big Indian atBuckchitawa, about the time of the settlement at Marietta.The Indians had a white prisoner whom they forced to decoyboats to the shore. A small boat was descending the river,containing white people, when this prisoner was placed underthe bank to tell those in the boat that he had escaped captivi-ty, and to come to the shore and take him in. The Indianswere concealed, but the big Indian stuck his head out from

behind a large tree, whenit was pierced by a bulletfrom the gun of thesteersman of the boat.The Indians cried out'Wetzel, Wetzel' andfled. This was the lastever seen of the prisoner.The Indians returnednext day and buried thebig Indian, who, he said,was twenty inches tallerthan he was, and he wasa tall man.

"When Chester Bishopwas digging a cellar forAsahel Booth, atClarington, many yearsago, he came across askeleton, the bones ofwhich were removedcarefully by Dr RichardKirkpatrick, and from hismeasurement the heightof the man when livingwould have been 8 feetand 5 inches. It is proba-ble that these were thebones of the big Indianof whom the Indian atJackson's told me."

And again this:"A large quantity ofhuman bones was dis-covered in a fissure inthe limestone near the

United States Coast Guard lighthouse. A crude tomb ofblack stone slabs, of a formation not known on the island,was found many years ago beneath the roots of a huge stump.Eight skeletons were found, one measuring over seven feet inheight."

Sketches and Stories of the Lake Erie Islandsby Theresa Thorndale, Sandusky (1898)

Some of the settlers and their descendants may have seenclearly, but the representatives of the Smithsonian and othersanctioned institutions, in spite of good intentions, lacked the kindof thoroughness in their analyses that included a broadened fieldof vision. We have felt heartily from the beginning of thisresearch that the Smithsonian is the recipient of mandates put into

Group of mounds in Union County, Mississippi

place well over 100 years ago. It is virtually exempt fromNAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection andRepatriation Act), for the reason (say they) of there being toomuch data to finish analysing to prepare for repatriation.

"Concealing evidence that conflicts with accepted theory iscommon scientific skullduggery. For years the SmithsonianInstitution has been accused of hiding in storage vaults thingsit doesn't like. In 1968 two Neanderthal-like skulls with lowforeheads and large brows were found in Minnesota. As fordating, University of Minnesota scientists said they werereluctant to destroy any of the material, although carbon-14testing only requires the burning of one gram of bone. Theywere sent to the Smithsonian. Later, Dr Lawrence Angel,curator of physical anthropology at the institution, said hehad no record of the skulls there, although he was sure theywere not lost.We have a rightto wonderwhether somep r o f e s s i o n a ls c i e n t i s t smightn't find areally early datefor the bonesdistressing."

American IndianMyths andMysteries,

by Vincent H.Gaddis (1977)

Why distressing?Because no trueNeanderthal remainshave ever beenrecognised by anyFederal authoritiesas originating on theNorth American continent, what to say of the Americas in gener-al. Is there yet today a conflict between established theory andwhat has been physically discovered? Is the "ghost" of Powell yethaunting the halls of the Museum?

So what is the policy of the Smithsonian? Does the institutionintentionally withhold information? Is the fact of a race of giantwarriors and chieftains threatening to the closed, internal doctrineof American archaeology? That there was a race of men andwomen possessing an unusually tall and strong physicality livingover an extensive area f North America has become a forgottenfact.

There are other examples, and names like the GungywampSociety of Connecticut, Ed Conrad and others have bizarre storiesto relate about the ineptitude or simple prejudice of theSmithsonian when dealing with their materials. In these exam-ples, there is growing appreciation for an actual cover-up.

Another grotesque twist is the Army Medical Museum's collec-tion. According to the ABC TV News special Skeletons in theC l o s e t, the United States government acquired a real interest inIndian corpses. The Surgeon-General, in post–Civil War 1868,requested that the Army collect the skulls, utensils and weaponryof Native Americans "as far as you are able to procure them".According to the report, these were to be sent to Washington, DC,as part of a program that studied the effects of modern bullets andother weaponry on human bodies. The collection of such

remains, estimated at 4,000, was taken mostly from grave and bat-tle sites. What was left over became part of the Smithsonian col-lection, estimated at 18,000 individuals, and this by way of theArmy Medical Museum.

"The objects here collected which have not been given, oracquired by exchange, have been purchased for the use of themuseum by order of the surgeon-general… There is a skele-ton of a giant, who, in life, measured seven feet, prepared byAuzoux and mounted by Blanchêne's method, which, if I mayuse that term, is really a beauty. It is as white and clean asnew fallen snow, and the brass joints and screws which keepit together are bright, and of the latest style and finish…"

"The Army Medical Museum in Washington", by LouisBagger, in Appletons' Journal: A Magazine Of General

Literature, vol. 9, issue 206 (1873)

Today, however,bones are no longeras good a source ofinformation as theyonce were thought tobe, and for severalgood reasons. Boneis composed domi-nantly of the metalliccalcium, yet is madeup of organic mole-cules. Depending onmoisture and temper-ature, it will decay,break down withtime and return to thecondition of the soilafter a certain num-ber of centuries.

Bone evidence hascreated over-empha-sis on certain periods

of prehistory, in this region the so-called "Hopewell" and "FortAncient" (Mississippian) people. Thus, a great proportion of theArchaic and early Adena bones discovered were decomposedbeyond preservation. Due to a lack of skeletons, other moreantique periods have not received the same kind of recognition—save from the better scholars affecting the interested public's viewof the ancient world.

Ironically, the holocaust of giants, while deadening our sense ofthe past, may well serve as a lesson for the future. ∞

Recommended Reading• Vine Deloria, Jr, Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans andthe Myth of Scientific Fact, Fulcrum Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-55591388-1

About the Author:Ross Hamilton is a writer and investigator of ancient sites,and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is an initiate philosopherwith a background in general science as well as spiritual sci-ence. He is the author of The Mystery of the Serpent Mound(North Atlantic Books, 2001), and is currently working onseveral projects including an upcoming book entitled ATradition of Giants. Ross may be contacted by email throughhis website, http://www.Greatserpentmound.org, or directlyat [email protected].


The mound at Marietta, drawn by Henry Howe in 1846. Howe stated this moundwas "of a magnitude and height which strike the beholder with astonishment".

Its base had a diameter of 115 feet; its height reached up 30 feet. It was surrounded by a ditch four feet deep and 15 feet wide.

THE INSTALLATIONAn Interview with Valery Uvarov by Graham W. Birdsall © 2003

The following extracts were tran-scribed from a filmed interviewwith Valery Uvarov, of Russia's

National Security Academy, conductedby Graham W. Birdsall, Editor of t h eUK-based U F O M a g a z i n e. The inter-view took place at the 12th InternationalUFO Congress Convention and FilmFestival, held February 2–8, 2003, inLaughlin, Nevada, USA.

Graham Birdsall (GB): What is yourofficial title?

Valery Uvarov (VU): I am head of theDepartment of UFO Research, Science andTechnical, National Security Academy,based in St Petersburg, Russia.

G B : This, then, is an official Russiangovernment agency?

V U : Absolutely. I am answerable totwo people above me. They are answer-able to the next person above them, who isour President [Putin].

GB: What exactly is your remit?V U : Our research efforts are divided

into two parts. Firstly, we are constantlyanalysing data coming in from all over theworld. We then extract what we considerto be the most interesting information

through our database—which is yellow,which is red. This, then, is released to vari-ous departments throughout Russia.

The other aspect of our researchstemmed from asking the question: doUFOs exist or not? For sure, we know theyexist, but what is behind their activity, theirinterest? This is the most important issuefor us, and what we mostly focus ourinvestigations on.

G B : There is active co-operationbetween NASA and Russian aerospaceofficials at a technical, scientific andmaybe even military level. Do you liaiseor have ties with organisations similar toyour own overseas?

VU: I can tell you, truthfully, that just acouple of days before I flew to the UnitedStates I had a meeting with my…let's say,my bosses. And they said they are veryinterested in co-operating with other organ-isations…let's say, our friends in the West.So, I can tell you that this particular mis-sion is at the starting point. I am chargedwith finding the right people. When this isdone, and the next stage is activated, wecan make some concrete steps.

GB: Earlier, off camera, you alluded tosome important developments concerningthe Tunguska explosion of 1908. For therecord, can you tell us why you nowbelieve you know the cause?

VU: It is not so much a case of belief;we know what caused it. It was a meteor,but a meteor that was destroyed by…let'ssay, a missile.

The missile was generated by a materialinstallation. We don't know whoconstructed it, but it was built long, longago and is situated in Siberia, severalhundred kilometres north of Tunguska.

I can tell you that our investigation has


Valery Uvarov(Photo courtesy of UFO Magazine, UK)

revealed more than one explosion atTunguska. Let me share something withyou. The last time that this installation shotdown a meteor was on 24/25 Septemberlast year. The Americans…they have threebases…they, too, noticed this explosion.

GB: Forgive me, but some will say thissounds like science fiction.

V U : Graham, you know that when wetalk about the truths that lie behind thissubject, we only do so with those who havean understanding of the responsibility thatgoes with it. And you know that we aredealing with a technology much furtherahead of our own—one capable of doingthings that we cannot.

GB: Can you be more specific about thelocation of this installation?

VU: Look for the site of the Tunguskaexplosion. To the southeast is the verylarge and famous Lake Baikal. Beyondthat, to the north, is a huge and barrenterritory covering 100,000 kilometres.Hardly anyone lives there. There are notowns or cities. Here is where we locatedthe installation…

GB: Are you aware of strange stories orrumours concerning the so-called "PlanetX"? If some new and heavenly body hadentered our solar system, astronomerswould surely detect it and declare itspresence.

V U : I cannot speak for astronomers inthe West, but astronomers within ourAcademy tell us we have nothing to fear. Ihave heard people talk about a rotation fig-ure of 3,600 years for this planet, which isin a similar orbit to that of the Earth butbehind the Sun. We know that this planetand the installation in Siberia are closely

connected. Let me say that we believe thatthis installation is keeping that planet in astable orbit. If that planet were to move, toshift orbit, the entire solar system wouldbecome unstable. Those of us in theAcademy are sure that this planet is inhab-ited, and that this installation is designed toprotect them and us. We are sure that noth-ing dangerous will happen. Everything isunder control.

Our investigations have shown that theEarth has a pulse—a finely tunedfrequency that affects everything, everyliving thing. Some 12,500 years ago, thispulse corresponded to 360 days of theyear—study the old Egyptian calendar—but then an asteroid struck the Earth. Webelieve the orbit of the Earth was altered,artificially, to compensate for this. Ourplanet moved further away from the Sun, toa frequency pulse of 365.

This has taught us to believe that wehave friends—friends who watch over us,silently. They did not allow then, nor willthey allow now, any planet, comet or aster-oid to strike and destroy the Earth. This,for us, is now absolutely clear.

Those who wish to weaponise space…totell you the truth, all of us involved in thisproject feel a pain in our hearts. Here weall are, investigating this installation andsome other stuff, material stuff, none ofwhich was constructed by Russians orAmericans but by someone else, someonefrom outer space. It saddens us when wethink what could happen if weapons are putinto space.

Let me speak frankly. This installationhas a power system, an energy source. Wehave located this. It was during the conflict

in the formerYugoslavia thatwe first noticedan increase in theoutput of thatenergy. For us, itwas incredible,but we now knowthat this installa-tion reacts tosocial upheavaland conflict.

Part of ouri n v e s t i g a t i o ninvolved search-ing throughancient recordsand archives, andthen we came

across the Echutin Apposs Alanhor [s i c]texts. We call them the Alanhor, and theyare at least 4,000 years old. They describethe installation, in scientific terms, as towhat was taking place there. It's amazing.

I have visited the area twice. The firsttime our equipment detected strong levelsof radiation. I have to tell you, it waspretty dangerous; we couldn't hide from it.The few local inhabitants of the area knewof the installation, of course, and theydescribed it to us. They describe metal-likestructures and drew them for us. Weplotted everything on a map. But thesepeople, their families, the animals, theywere suffering from radiation sickness.

The radiation levels have been continu-ously monitored for the past six years, andnow everyone—including the animals—has left the forest.

Let me tell you something about theTunguska explosion—something that hasnever been spoken of before. Two monthsbefore the explosion, every living animalfled the region. It was as if the installationhad powered up to deal with the asteroid.With that came an increase in radiation.The same thing is happening now, today.

G B : Are there any plans to mountanother expedition to the area and to visitthe installation?

V U : The radiation is a factor but, yes,another expedition is planned for later thisyear. Look, we want to be open and honestabout this. We welcome international par-ticipation, but the people we invite must beresponsible in the eyes of the world. Wewant people who are honest, open-mindedand transparent, who are eager and willingto co-operate and exchange and then dis-seminate the scientific data.

I invite you, Graham, to come to Russiaand visit the installation as an observer.

GB: I would be honoured. Thank you.V U : You can tell people that we,

Russia, have decided that it is time thatother people should know about this, andnot just a few. ∞

Editor's Note:This interview first appeared in the April2003 edition of UFO Magazine, pub-l ished by Quest Publ icationsInternational Limited, Valley Farm Way,Wakefield Road, Stourton, Leeds, LS101SE, England, United Kingdom, tel +44(0)113 270 2066, fax +44 (0)113 2709672, email [email protected], web-site http://www.ufomag.co.uk

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THE MYSTERY OF THE 120-MILLION-YEAR-OLD MAP

An Interview with Professor Alexander Chuvyrov by Adriano Forgione © 2002

In late April 2002, P r a v d a released thenews that a 3-D map going back to 120million years ago had been discovered

in Chandar, a vil lage in Russia [seeNEXUS vol. 9, no. 4]. The discoverer,Alexander Nikolaevich Chuvyrov,Professor of Physics at the University ofBashkiria in Ufa, Russia, shocked journal-ists and scientists around the world byproposing that incredible dating. The mapshould therefore confirm the existence ofan advanced civilisation during an era inwhich giant reptiles dominated the world.In fact, the first hominid, the P r o c o n s u l,dates back to 20 million years ago. Such adating, if confirmed, could rewrite the his-tory of mankind and give credit to the sup-porters of the great antiquity of our species.

I was surprised by the fact that Chuvyrovis an academic, an esteemed scholar—something that gives a certain value towhat was written in the press releases.There was only one way to look into thematter and answer all the doubts that arosefrom this news: invite Professor Chuvyrovto Italy for a conference. That's what I did.What follows is the transcript of my inter-view with him.

Adriano Forgione (AF): ProfessorChuvyrov, how did you get involved inthis research?

Alexander Chuvyrov (AC): The find-ing was fortuitous, like most of the findingsin the scientific world. I was studying withmy research team the cultural identity ofthe peoples of the Urals. We were trying towork out the historical frame of these peo-ples, who left visible tracks all over Russia,from the 15th century backwards sincethere is no systematic study of the subject.Unfortunately, I couldn't find a s u p e r -p a r t e s director for the project because allthe experts I contacted were too muchinfluenced by their own ideas or those oftheir colleagues. So I decided to take theleadership of my project for myself.

AF: In which circumstances did youfind the stone?

AC: The aim of the project was thefinding of written records belonging topeoples of the southern Urals. We wereexploring the possibility that one of theseethnic groups kept an archive or chancellery

system like that of China. Between 1998and 1999 we made a screening of all thestorage rooms of the museums of the area.We found a certain number of seals andinscriptions on ornaments and pottery thatwere, in the majority of cases, written in theoldest Chinese language that uses Jiaguwencharacters. It was a great discovery. TheJiaguwen inscriptions suggest that theChinese arrived in western Russia in ancienttimes, and that was hitherto unknown.

During the summer of 1998, we wrote asystematic catalogue of all the findings andwe were amazed to find out that local peo-ple spoke the Chinese language up to the20th century. At the moment we know thatthere are more than 600,000 such inscrip-tions in the archives, and it will take a mas-sive effort from the philologists to examinethem all. During the two years of our pro-ject, we were looking for a stone librarylike those found in Mongolia, Japan andSingapore. We tried to figure out what weshould have lookedfor, and then wedecided to follow aline: we noticed thatarchaeologists andhistorians believedthat what we saw asChinese characterswere in fact orna-ments or drawings.So I decided to lookfor all the etchings,ornaments or draw-ings on megaliths.

At the end of 1999,in the archives wefound a list of themonuments of thesouthern Urals com-piled between 1920and 1921. The textswere notes by the sci-entists who werestudying the matter atthat time. In thosenotes we foundimportant clues as tothe existence of sixcarved stones of theUfinca or KaradeleRiver area—the"Black River" in thelocal language.Those stones weredescribed as havingsuch intricate decora-

tions and etchings that it was impossible toreproduce them on paper. Furthermore, thenotes spoke of two stelae located 12 kilo-metres from the first location. We calledthe area of those documents Pisanicy—aRussian name that indicates a place withpetroglyphs. At that point, we had enoughmaterial to go on with our investigation, so,at the end of 1999, we started looking forthe six slabs.

AF: How did you find the first slabwithout further clues?

AC: In the beginning, we started outwith telephoto lenses and helicopters, butwe didn't find anything. I guided six fruit-less expeditions, then I thought to contactthe elder of Chandar, a nearby village. Imet him where Schmitt made his expedi-tion in the 1920s. He showed me someobjects that Schmitt and other archaeolo-gists had left at his place. When I askedhim if he knew anything about the stoneslabs we were looking for, he replied that

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The stone slab map, photographed in a room at the Ufa Museum. (Photo courtesy of Professor Alexander Chuvyrov and HERA Magazine)

one of them was under the floor of hishouse. It was being used as the base for thestairs, but its weight was making it sinkinto the ground, causing seepage. For thatreason, he wanted to destroy it and makeconcrete grit out of it. So we traded atruckload of grit for the slab, and wepromised we would build all the roads heneeded.

Eventually, I went back there with a lotof students and some archaeologists andphysicists. It took us two days to get it out.The stone is 148 centimetres high, 103 cmwide and 16 cm deep. To lift it, we usedthe Egyptian method, making the slab rollon wooden cylinders. We took it to thelaboratories, washed it and immediatelyrealised that it was the map of a large area.

I couldn't believe what I saw. I knew itwas a map from the start—a 3-Dmap. Something like that simplycouldn't exist, because the placewhere it was found was a smallvalley where the first roads werebuilt just 10 years ago. Beforethat, it was only possible to getthere in small boats because thevillage is surrounded by marshes.The village is still made of a fewwooden houses, belonging tothose who were monitoring thebehaviour of the river, so it'simpossible that 100 years ago,when the map was found,somebody could take it there.

AF: What was the nextstep? Has it been possible tomake a scientific analysis ofthe stone?

AC: In the first place, right after the dis-covery of that stone, it was stolen and somefragments were lost for good. The slab fellinto a river and the lost parts have neverbeen found. Looking at photos of the map,it's evident that a part is missing. When wefound it, it was intact. Anyway, with thehelp of local police we found the stoneagain and took it to the laboratories toexamine it. I started to work on it with ateam of mathematicians, archaeologists,philologists and physicists. We found outthat the slab has three layers: the lowestone is dolomite, the central one is diopsideand the uppermost one is porcelain.

When we faced problems during theanalysis, we asked other institutions to helpus. With the map being of a vast area, thefirst great problem was the palaeohydrolog-ical analysis, because there are no special-

ists who can process the data on the south-ern Urals. Part of the analysis was carriedout in China, on the ideograms carved inthe stone, the cartography principles andthe porcelain on the surface. The goal wasto understand the process the stone hasgone through, given the Chinese connec-tions we spoke of before.

AF: Can you explain the study of themap's layered materials in more detail?It could be a key to understanding thewhole map…

AC: As I said before, the map has threelayers. The first is a dolomite layer. Thesecond is a diopside layer, on which thecanals, the rivers and all that the map repre-sents are carved. To avoid reflections, thediopside was covered with a layer of porce-lain only two millimetres thick. It's the

result of advanced technology. Why porce-lain? The answer came from theCartography Department of the Universityof Moscow.

To make a 3-D map, you need the sur-face to be white in colour and flawlesslymodelled so that when you read it you can'tbe deceived by shadows and gleam. It's theexact way they do this kind of map today.It's surprising that this technology wasalready in use that far in the past. Thedolomitisation process ended 250 millionyears ago. The fossilised shells are 180million years old, and there is no way theycould have been incorporated in the diop-side layer later. Moreover, that kind ofshell didn't exist in that area of the Urals.

We made chemical and X-ray analysesof the structure. We took dolomite samplesfrom different parts of the map. Dolomite

is an extremely homogeneous material, but,in the map, dolomite layer quartz—whichis normally present—was missing, and alsomagnesium silicate wasn't there.

We excavated in the Chandar area andtook almost 10,000 samples of localdolomite, the analysis of which showed itwasn't the same dolomite as in the map. Insuch conditions it can't be fortuitous, so wecan say that the dolomite layer is nothomogeneous compared to the localdolomite and is 180 million years old.Even if it's so old, I think this is artificialdolomite—again, the result of advancedtechnology—for those who made it wereable to prompt an artificial dolomitisationprocess, or at least they could bringdolomite clay from Western Europe to theUrals and process it.

The diopside layer is also notcommon, and shows a kind ofnanostructure. The size of itscrystals is 15 nanometres. It'sastonishing, because I can'tunderstand how they could doit. The diopside structure lookslike a pudding with verticalinsertions. Moreover, itsmicrohardness is equal to thatof corundum. Thanks to thatfact , the relief map is st i l lperfectly preserved, while theunderneath dolomite layer isalready breaking up.

To blend the dolomite layerwith the upper diopside layer,the "creators" used the tech-nique of replacing the siliconatoms of the diopside with the

carbon atoms of the dolomite [fromCaMg(SiO3)2 to CaMg(CO3)2], so that thetwo layers looked like they were welded.It's a nanotechnology that implies atomic-level accuracy. I'm a physicist and I knowwhat I'm talking about. These people knewexactly what they were doing. I wouldn'tknow how to do it. The problems linked tothe layers are mainly two: (a) how to makeartificial dolomite; and (b) how to makenanostructures from diopside, because itsmelting temperature is 2,650°C. Only car-bon has a higher melting point. We canspeculate that they knew how to makethese materials with a chemical method.Either way, the technology used isextremely advanced.

AF: Is this possible today?AC: I don't think so! I'd like to remind

you that dolomite is an accumulation

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Close-up of a section of the map, which is made up of three layers. The thin surface is porcelain. The method of manufacture is unknown, but

Professor Chuvyrov is convinced that nanotechnologies were involved.(Photo courtesy of Professor A. Chuvyrov and HERA Magazine)


material, while diopside belongs to thepyroxenes, which are volcanic materials.

AF: Then the materials analysed showwithout any doubt a civilisation thatknew how to use nanotechnologies?

AC: Yes, for sure.AF: So you say the stone is a map.

What makes you think it is?AC: At the beginning we thought that

the surface of the stone was simply crackeddue to the old age or its natural structure.But when we started to look closer at thosesigns we now recognise as rivers, I foundout that the right banks of the rivers wereclear cut, while the left banks were morepolished. That is what happens with "real"rivers because of the effect of Earth rota-tion and of Coriolis forces. So I looked atthe edges of the canals to deter-mine the direction of the rivers'flows. The fact is that Coriolisand Beer's laws have been dis-covered only in the last century.It has been a shock to realise thatthe map has been drawn accord-ing to those principles. Anyway,those two clues weren't enoughto determine that what we had infront of us was a map.

A map is a mathematical sys-tem, so when I calculated theratio between the height and thewidth of the stone, I found outthat the tangent angle was 54degrees, the same angle as Ufa'slatitude. At that point the mean-ing of a certain sign on the map was clear.It represented a circle crossed by two tan-gents, and the angle between them wasexactly 54 degrees. This gave me the keyto calculate the exact latitude of the loca-tion drawn in the map, and from there tofind out the mathematical system uponwhich the map was founded. And it match-es perfectly to any of the recent maps of thearea. The system used is neither Mercator'snor Gauss–Kluger's.

But to draw a map, you need not onlycartography principles but also convention-al signs, and we deduced them from theinscriptions. We understood that on themap were drawn 32 dams within a hydro-graphic system. This shows that the mapwas created by a civilisation that needed tocontrol waters with dams—something liketoday's Holland.

AF: Let's talk about the dating. Ifthat was a technological civilisation, towhich time window shall we ascribe it?

AC: The dating of the map is extremelyimportant. I would like to remind you thatthe dolomitisation of the Urals ended 250million years ago and that the shellsinvolved in the process were from theGyroideae family, Narcopsina celote s u b -family. Those shells appeared on Earth180 million years ago and eventually diedout some 60 million years ago. Here wehave a time window within which theshells were put—beware: I say "put", not"fossilised"—in the map.

Then we have the archaeomagneticmeasurements that show what follows: theedge of the map is oriented towards themagnetic pole, while the direction of thegeographic pole drawn on the map is at anangle of 22 degrees from the magnetic

pole. We can find out the age of the slabthrough Hiebert's curve, which determinesthe position of the magnetic pole at a giventime. If the calculations are right, themagnetic pole at the time of the map was inthe Yamal Peninsula in Russia. And thathappened 120 million years ago. Thedating fits perfectly with the time windowwe spoke of before. If this is the case, theC-14 dating is pointless, because that test isnot able to point out a date older than46,000 years ago. In fact, the fossilisedentrails of the shells have been carbondated, but, because of their old age, theresponse was fruitless. Even the argon anduranium dating have proved unreliable.

The archaeohydrological analysisshowed that 60 million years ago the watersystem was already as it is in the map.

Maybe one hundred years ago (when thestone first showed up) there existed a verysmart geologist who could understand andapply the Coriolis law, knew how to operate

satellite imaging and dominatednanotechnologies and material chemistry.But if this were the case, he would have leftnotes and records for posterity, consideringthe enormous amount of work necessary tomake it. We know about Plato, Leonardoda Vinci and other great minds of the past,but we know nothing about the creator ofthis wonder.

AF: Where was the analysis of themap carried out?

AC: Mainly in Ufa. It has been studiedalso by science history experts fromMoscow, but the greatest help I had wasfrom the Aerial Imaging Division of theCartography and Geodesy Department ofthe University of Moscow. They particu-larly helped me understand the mathemati-

cal principles upon which the mapwas based.

AF: Your colleagues are allagainst you. How would you liketo answer back?

AC: I know that happens, but Ithink this is something extremelypositive. I'm happy to have raisedthis argument, but I would likealso to warn my colleagues thatthey can't study this object onlyfrom the pictures, no matter howgood and accurate they are.

If somebody criticises me I replythat I am a physicist, a well-knownscientist from the University ofBashkiria, and I know how to thinkscientifically. I know how to carry

out scientific research. I know how to doall this as well as those who criticise me. Iknow that this is an unclassifiable object inthe human cultural landscape as we knowit, but, no matter what, we owe it respect. Idon't want to offend my colleagues,because only colleagues of mine couldmake this thing. Therefore, I ask forrespect for the creator of this map. ∞

About the Interviewer:Adriano Forgione is the editor of H E R A, anItalian magazine which features ancientmyths and legends, lost civilisations andarchaeological mysteries. He is the author ofScience, Mystique and Alchemy of the CropCircles (HERA Edizione, February 2003).

This interview first appeared in HERA, no.34, October 2002, published by EdizioniHERA SrL, Via Brennero no. 58 00010, TorFonte Nuova (Roma), tel +39 (0)774 308028,email [email protected],website http://www.heramagazine.net.

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HERA Editor Adriano Forgione (left) with Professor Alexander Chuvyrovduring his visit to Rome for the interview. (Photo © HERA Magazine)

THE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: TheSecret Codes of the Emperor’s Armyby Maurice CotterellHeadline Book Publishing, UK, 2003ISBN 0-7472-7132-1 (298pp hc) Availability: Headline, websitehttp://www.headline.co.uk,http://www.hodderheadline.com

The world was awestruck at the discoveryof a life-sized terracotta army of sol-

diers, horses and chariots unearthed nearXiyang village in Lintong province, China,in the mid-1970s. They were buried a fewkilometres from the huge pyramid-shapedearthen mound—the legendary burial placeof Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of aunified China who initiated the prosperousyet short-lived Ch'in Dynasty, ruling from221 to his death in 210 BC. But why were8,099 life-sized terracotta warriors, eachweighing over half a tonne, buried there atall? To guard the emperor in the afterlife?

Engineer/scientist Maurice Cotterell, hav-ing decoded secrets embodied in Mayan,Egyptian and Peruvian artefacts, wonderedwhether esoteric secrets had been encoded inthese terracotta artefacts—and sure enough,the more he looked the more he found.While archaeologists had already deter-mined that the shape of the warriors' heads,faces and hairstyles corresponded to 10shapes of the 10,516-character Chinesealphabet, Cotterell took the research furtherby analysing what the characters stood forand decoding a hidden message. In theplacements of the warriors and the design ofthe pits housing them, he discovered numer-

ical keys to knowledge of solar physics andcycles as well as of God, time and the after-life. Intriguingly, he found similarities withastronomical and numerical keys decodedfrom the ancient Mayan, Egyptian andPeruvian artefacts—ones relating to PacalVotan, Tutankhamun and Viracocha andthus begging the question of whetherEmperor Qin Shi Huangdi was an equalamong these ancient culture-heroes.

Cotterell has written extensively on these"supergods" in his previous four books, andgives a summary of those analyses in theappendices of The Terracotta Warriors. Hepresents his latest findings in the context ofChinese history, philosophy and mythology,making this a richly rewarding read.

YOU ARE G8, WE ARE 6 BILLION:The Truth Behind the Genoa Protestsby Jonathan NealeVision Paperbacks, UK, 2002ISBN 1-904132-13-8 (274pp tpb) Availability: Vision Paperbacks, websitehttp://www.visionpaperbacks.co.uk

All too often the corporate media portrayanti-globalisation protests and protesters

in a savage light, without providing muchanalysis as to why the protests are takingplace. Since the watershed Seattle protestsagainst the World Trade Organization in1999, there have been many more massdemonstrations aimed at this and other elitiststructures including the World EconomicForum and the G8 industrial nations.

Seasoned UK socialist activist, unionorganiser, protester and writer JonathanNeale was involved in organising the ralliesand marches in Genoa, Italy, against the G8meeting in July 2001, and this is his take onwhat went down, considering he couldn't be

in every hotspot at once. It's the story of amass protest movement (300,000 peopleturned out for the July 21 march) against theforces that favour so-called "free" trade over"fair" trade at all cost—and the police whodo their bidding (though the truth has sincecome out, damning police overkill againstprotesters). But it's also Neale's personalstory with hands-on, in-your-face involve-ment, real people and political commentary.

To put the protests into context, Nealeintersperses his narrative with chaptersfocusing on: poverty and aid (he lived inIndia as a teenager); AIDS in Africa; "StarWars" and global warming; Middle East oil,dictatorship and war; and the new corporateorder that's strangling workers and farmersthe world over. He also reflects on the fail-ures of communism and the weaknesses andstrengths of today's anti-war movement,while encouraging more people to make astand for a better, more equitable future.Challenging, yet with a hopeful vision.

Reviewed by Ruth Parnell


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SPIN WAVE TECHNOLOGYby George J. BughVasant Corporation, USA, 2002ISBN 0-9716616-1-8 (262pp tpb) Availability: Vasant Corporation, websitehttp://www.vasantcorporation.com

If you've ever had the perception thateverything is in motion but is still at the

same time, then you'll have a feel for stand-ing waves and George Bugh's thesis on spinwave technology. This is the text version ofthe multimedia CD that introduced Bugh'stheory, and is the result of his seven yearsspent investigating various devices exhibit-ing anomalous electromagnetic and electro-gravitic effects or claimed to have over-unity capabilities. Bugh is a Texan-bornaerospace electronics engineer with over 20years' experience in the field. His book is acollection of papers he's written on suchchoice subjects as classical versus quantumparticle spin, the angular momentum of anelectron, the thermodynamics of a magnetichurricane, magnetic waves as the cause ofgravity, and the nature of time and relativity.

At the basis of Bugh's theory is the ideathat we live in a sea of electromagneticstanding waves; in fact, the universe of mat-ter is full of them. Bugh maintains that theclassical electrodynamics notion that allelectromagnetically charged particles, likequarks and electrons, radiate energy awayfrom gyroscopic precessional motions andorbital motions is essentially correct. But hegoes further by suggesting that all particlesare also absorbing just as much energy fromall other radiating particles. The continu-ously absorbed energy equals the radiatedenergy and applies forces that move similar-type particles into harmonious precessionalmotions with each other. Sounds cosmic,

doesn't it? Well, Bugh maintains it's com-mon sense, and that these particle spin inter-actions are possible even among compensat-ing spins. What he's saying should be rele-vant to anyone who's wondering where theirquantum physics grappling is leading themor who's trying to deglitch their latest free-energy or antigravity device.

Bugh explains that all sorts of technologiescan be created based on these particle spininteractions, which is every encouragementfor further research and development.

THE GOSPEL OF THE TOLTECS: TheLife and Teachings of Quetzalcoatlby Frank DíazBear & Company, USA, 2002ISBN 1-879181-86-X (230pp tpb) Availability: Bear & Company, websitehttp://www.InnerTraditions.com;Adventures Unlimited, websitehttp://www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com

Cuban-born anthropologist Frank Díaz,who teaches out of Cuernavaca

University in Mexico, specialises inshamanic studies, the Nahuatl language andMesoamerican traditions including those ofthe Maya and particularly the Toltec.

The heyday of the Toltecs was between the8th and 12th centuries AD, but, despite theirdecline 300 years before the Spanish arrivedin Mexico in 1521, their spiritual legacy isbeing kept alive today by their descendants.As Victor Sanchez (who has written severalbooks about the Toltecs) highlights in theforeword to Díaz's book, Gospel of theToltecs, the Toltecs and Maya had a spiritualleader in common: Ce Acatl Topiltzin, orQuetzalcoatl—symbolised by the featheredserpent that represents the essence of dualityand the potential for unity. The Toltec

leader, according to this version, was born inAD 947 and was a key figure in the develop-ment of Toltec culture.

Díaz doesn't introduce his study (though hedoes reference it), so it's up to the reader todive in regardless and become immersed inthis rendition of the life and teachings ofQuetzalcoatl—a story that has remarkablecorrespondences with the accounts of Jesus,Buddha and Krishna. The gospel's chapterheadings, such as "Prophecy of Hueman theElder", "The Soothsayer Fish", "TheEnigmas of the Serpent", "The Crossroads"and "The Priests of the God of Death" givean inkling of what's in store ancient wisdom-wise. Each chaper is headed by a Toltecglyph that illustrates something of the mes-sage. Díaz's sources include the oral tradi-tion of descendants, extant Nahua and Mayacodices and Spanish chronicles. These arewise, ancient words with a hint of familiaritywith other great world religions.


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WITHOUT CONSENT: Extraterrestrial Contact and AlienAbduction in the UKby Carl Nagaitis and Philip MantleBeyond Publications, UK, 2002ISBN 1-903782-02-3 (261pp tpb) Availability: Beyond Publications, websitehttp://www.beyondpublications.com

The alien abduction phenomenon is by nomeans confined to the United States but

is reported worldwide. UFO researcher/author Philip Mantle and freelance journalistCarl Nagaitis first put out this book in 1994,in the days before the TV series The X-Filestook the mystery into the wider world andgrabbed the public imagination. However,their intention was to show that the phenom-enon happens in the UK as much as any-where else, and that a range of sane if notordinary people have had extraordinaryexperiences involving alien beings.

Not having seen the original book, I can'treally judge how much of the content isnew, but there seem to be two fascinatingand thoughtful additions circa mid-1990s aswell as a new introduction from Nagaitisthat tempts with the story of the airline exec-utive with a mysterious metal implant.There's also a foreword from Nick Pope, theformer British MoD bureaucrat who staffedthe Secretariat (Air Staff) desk in 1991–94.

Pope confides that it was enough for himto persuade sceptical MoD elements to takeUFO sighting reports seriously, let alone tryto convince them that members of the publicwere reporting they'd had close encounterswith ETs, often in situations involvingstrange surgical and even sexual procedures.He didn't want the entire field of ufology tobe perceived as a joke by the MoD, the mili-tary and the scientific community. Pope

says that in his official and private work he'shad dealings with around a hundredabductees, so he's in a special position to beopen minded. He goes so far as to suggestthat, because these abductees claim to havebeen taken against their will, their abductorsmay be guilty of crimes against humanity.

The abductees featured in Without Consentmay have learned to cope with, if not gainedrewarding insights from, their experiences,but most of them just want answers to whathappened to them. Their remarkable stories,going back to the 1950s, are presented sym-pathetically and compellingly.

THE GENESIS AND GEOMETRY OFTHE LABYRINTH: Architecture, Hidden Language, Myths and Ritualsby Patrick ContyInner Traditions, USA, 2002ISBN 0-89281-922-7 (298pp l/f tpb) Availability: Inner Traditions, websitehttp://www.InnerTraditions.com

Make no mistake, there's meaning inthem thar myths. And one with a cer-

tain mystique is the Cretan myth involvingthe labyrinth, with its hero and minotaur.But what's the meaning behind this sacredsymbolic interplay and territory? Whatactually does the labyrinth dilineate? Couldit be that it's a map that can liberate themind? Suddenly it twigs that the action ofmoving meditatively around the twists andturns of a selectively sited sacred labyrinthcan produce harmonious brain-waves. Suchpatterns can be found in the artefacts of somany ancient cultures, but there had to be areason why, and this is the question thatauthor Patrick Conty ably explores in The

Genesis and Geometry of the Labyrinth. It's uncanny how many times labyrinths

have cropped up in my purview of recenttimes, which of course has to be a sign! I'veheard about portable labyrinths being takeninto prisons to serve as walking contempla-tion templates—configurations for whole-ness—for the prisoners. So I have no hesita-tion in recommending Conty's book for any-one keen on investigating the enigmas,geometries and gestalts of the labyrinth.

Connecting with the labyrinth links youinto an ancient cultural memory via a quan-tum crossing that can also propel you intoanother dimensional reality. Not surprising-ly, knot theory is a modern mathematicaltool for decoding the hidden language of thelabyrinth as much as the ancient Celtic knotdesigns, and Conty provides rich illustrativeexamples of these amazing forms.

The more I discover about the labyrinth'stransformative powers, the more I thinkevery town should have one. The message:revelation through circumambulation!

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SAVE ISRAEL!by Barry ChamishModiin House, Israel, 2002ISBN pending (387pp tpb) Availability: Modiin House, Nakhal ZoharSt 40/2, Modiin, Israel 71700, tel/fax +972 8 972 0804, email [email protected]

Barry Chamish is a controversial Israeli"conspiracy" researcher and commenta-

tor who seems to have more popularity onthe Internet than at home, though he assuresus this is changing. In recent years he's beendoggedly trying to convince people therewas an alternative plot behind the assassina-tion of Yitzhak Rabin, and he's been devel-oping a case for a new investigation.

This is risky business, as Chamish makesdamning assertions that no one power groupwould want broadcast—not the Israeli estab-lishment, nor certain Palestinian officials,nor the Vatican, nor European and Americanelites, especially key members of theBilderbergs and the Council on ForeignRelations whom he regards as "corrupters ofthe Jewish nation". And certainly not theCIA, as here he expands on his findings thatthe US agency, in collusion with the IsraeliShabak, trained PLO snipers whose targetsweren't only to be Hamas and Islamic Jihadterrorists but Israeli politicians and citizens.

Chamish makes many shocking revela-tions, and in a tone that's often brash andcaustic, reflecting his take on some of theugly scenarios he describes. He has littlesympathy for the Palestinian Arabs or theircause, and certainly none for the PLO,which he maintains is excavating under theTemple Mount, looking for ways to black-mail the Vatican and make gains in worlddiplomacy. But they're not the only ones, as

it looks like the Knights Templar are alsotrying to reclaim their stake in this sacredsite! Chamish has only horrors to speak of"the cabal of hidden American andEuropean rulers out to get Israel". Fromwhat he's saying, there are more routes onthe Middle East "road map" than are gener-ally presumed, and peace is not part of theitinerary. Chamish's book is bound to dis-turb people on all sides of the debate.

THE SECRET LAND 2: JOURNEYS INTO THE MYSTERYby Gary CookStonePrint Press, New Zealand, 2002ISBN 0-9582040-8-X (200pp tpb) Availability: StonePrint Press, websitehttp://www.stoneprint.co.nz

This second book in New Zealander GaryCook's Secret Land series is a captivat-

ing collection of writings first published inthe magazine Rainbow News betweenAugust 1997 and November 2001. TitledJourneys into the Mystery, they explore histravels to and experiences in sacred places inNew Zealand's North and South Islands, aswell as a couple of forays into key ancientsites in England and Canada.

Cook, a researcher, health professional,businessman, explorer and author who alsoheads up a group called the United CulturalConvention, has a passion for getting to thecore of New Zealand's hidden history. Hislinks with various tribal elders, including thepeople of Waitaha—who trace their whaka-papa or genealogy back through 67 genera-tions—helped facilitate his visits to a num-ber of sacred places. His main mission is toreconnect with the spirit of tangata whenua,the first people of the land who may in facthave comprised a collection of races, even

preceding the arrival of the first Maoritribes. Indeed, his every move seems to beheralded by sacred natural omens.

He writes of his expeditions to theKaimanawa Wall, an hour's drive fromTaupo in the central North Island, to the starmaps of Maunganui Bluff in Northland, aswell as to the sea gardens at Punakaiki andthe greenstone trail in the South Island. Heuncovers maps written in stone, charts pow-erful standing stones marking out ley lines,and senses the cosmic sonic properties of theimposing limestone tor, Castle Hill—anancient gathering-place of learning and wis-dom. Gary Cook is part of a new wave ofresearchers, historians and anthropologistswho are rewriting the mainstream version ofNZ "prehistory". He imparts a specialatmosphere in his travelogues, supportingeach chapter with at least one stunningcolour photograph (if only there weremore!). I can hardly wait for the video!

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REVIEWSDREAMING WAR: Blood for Oil andthe Cheney–Bush Juntaby Gore VidalThunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books,USA, 2002; Clairview Books, UK, 2003ISBN 1-56025-502-1 (197pp tpb, USA),ISBN 1-902636-41-4 (197pp tpb, UK) Availability: Thunder's Mouth Press, web-site http://www.thundersmouth.com;Clairview Books, w w w . c l a i r v i e w b o o k s . c o m

This latest collection of essays from "dis-sident patriot" American author Gore

Vidal follows hot on the heels of PerpetualWar for Perpetual Peace (see review,10/02). In Dreaming War, he continuesthose themes with 11 essays spanning thelast decade. In the most recent, a lengthyessay dated November 2002, he focuses onthe unanswered questions before, during andafter the September 11, 2001, terroristattacks on the World Trade Center and thePentagon. Not that he can answer all thosequestions, but he does some stern finger-pointing at the Cheney–Bush junta and itspush to control Caspian gas and Iraqi oil.

Since the publication of this collection, theUnited States, with backing from its alliesthe UK, Australia and Poland, has alreadywaged war to "liberate" Iraq—an inevitableaction according to Vidal's reading betweenthe lines of recent history. His first essay,from January 2001, is on the theft of the USPresidency in Florida and it sets a prophetictone for Vidal's takes on the theft of democ-racy, truth and human rights through thedomestic and foreign policy landscapes ofthe US in the last century.

To Vidal, the Cheney–Bush cabal is thelatest and most cynical group of strategistshell-bent on US empire-building—as we'veseen in Afghanistan and now in Iraq—and

the corporate media have done its bidding indistorting truth and slanting public opinion.Vidal has his own horror stories to tell abouthostile journalistic treatment.

Vidal (and a few other writers andresearchers he quotes, such as NafeezMosaddeq Ahmed, whose book we featuredin 9/05) suggests an alternative perspectiveon US motivation for the "War on Terror"and is brave enough to declare that theemperor is wearing no clothes. In the finalpiece, a recent interview conducted by MarcCooper, Vidal lashes out at the evil deedsand deceptions of a succession of US gov-ernments and chides the US public for beingfooled by this latest massive con. Rivetting!

THE PARTY'S OVER: Oil, War and theFate of Industrial Societiesby Richard HeinbergNew Society Publishers, Canada, 2003ISBN 0-86571-482-7 (279pp tpb) Availability: New Society Publishers,website http://www.newsociety.com

Richard Heinberg's book provides amuch-needed reality check on where our

fossil-fuel-consuming industrialised societyis headed—and it's not towards prosperitybut collapse. (Readers may recall Richard'sarticle, "A History of Corporate Rule andPopular Protest" in NEXUS 9/06.)

Rather than relying on the data from econ-omists, environmentalists and politicians,Heinberg places much more credence onanalyses from petroleum geologists includ-ing Colin Campbell (see NEXUS 10/01).The fact is that the peak of global oil extrac-tion will probably be reached between 2006and 2015, and with it the peak in gross ener-gy production from all sources, heralding anenergy-led collapse of the global economy

and the electricity grids. The party is justabout over. The industrialised world and allthat we've become so accustomed to—pri-mary production, manufacturing, serviceprovision—will go through major upheaval.

Heinberg (a biodiesel enthusiast) arguesthat even if a switch to alternative energysources were implemented today, industrialsocieties will not have sufficient energyavailable to satisfy existing or growingdemand. We're about to enter a new era—one that must be less energy-consuming,less fast-paced and more sustainable. Weshould have started managing this transitionin the early 1970s, so now it's urgent that weimplement ways to cope with the imminentdecline of oil resources and develop strate-gies to survive the crisis. In this regard,Heinberg makes many positive suggestions.

Unfortunately, the American way—con-sidering the US has consumed so much of itsown natural resources—is to secure accessby force to the second-best supply of theworld's most dwindling resource…in Iraq.



HEALTH BETRAYAL: Staying Awayfrom the Sickness Industryby Eve HillarySynergy Books, Australia, 2003 ISBN 0-9750594-0-8 (243pp tpb) Availability: Synergy Books Pty Ltd, tel+61 (0)2 4388 9533, [email protected]

Australian nurse and natural healthcareprofessional Eve Hillary outlined her

experiences with multiple chemical sensitiv-ity in her 1997 book, Children of the ToxicHarvest, and 2000 video, Healing the ToxicDomain (reviewed in NEXUS 4/04 and8/06). With the help of a rare doctor whodid not see her health problems as psycho-logical, she managed to treat her condition,which was caused by exposure to OP pesti-cides on the family farm in the 1980s. Eversince, she has been a staunch advocate ofhealthy living and an opponent of the so-called "sickness industry".

In Health Betrayal, Eve expands on herearlier themes with details of her battleswith the Australian health and chemicalauthorities, media apologists and "experts",and on the industries that profit at theexpense of human and animal health. Shehighlights the plight of doctors and thera-pists who are promoting wellness but aresubjected to unjustified harassment becauseof their practices. She despairs at how glob-alised farming, genetically engineered foodand mass vaccinations are being foistedupon the public to the detriment of personal,social and environmental health, and backsup her stance with some frightening facts.

Eve gives the UN Codex Alimentarius aserve, explaining how its rulings are puttingour health freedoms under siege and pander-ing to the hidden agendas of transnational

food and drug corporations. She also railsagainst the health horrors of depleted urani-um weapons used in the Gulf War, in theBalkans, in Afghanistan and now Iraq.

But Eve Hillary also delivers a positivemessage with suggestions for how we canbring on a "wellness revolution" by makinga difference in small ways—from choosingto eat organic food and lobbying our super-markets not to stock GE food, to throwingout toxic household products and doing ourown research. She urges us to empowerourselves by becoming better informed.

SOLOMON – FALCON OF SHEBA: The Tombs of King Solomon and theQueen of Sheba Discoveredby Ralph EllisEdfu Books, UK, 2002, AUP, USA, 2002ISBN 0-9531913-4-6 (384pp tpb, UK), 1-931882-12-6 (384pp tpb, USA) Availability: Edfu Books, websitehttp://www.edfu-books.com; Adventures Unlimited Press, websitehttp://www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com

Taking up where he left off with Jesus,Last of the Pharaohs and Tempest &

Exodus (NEXUS 6/04, 9/02), Ralph Ellisasks why the biblical archaeological recordcan't account for the true history of theQueen of Sheba, supposedly of Ethiopia,and the apparently Israelite King David andKing Solomon. Wondering why the burialplaces of these ancient monarchs have notbeen confirmed, Ellis went in search of theirtombs and sarcophagi and concludes thatthese key figures had Egyptian origins.

According to Ellis, King David of Israelwas actually the 21st dynasty (c. 990–970BC) Egyptian Pharaoh Psusennes II, and

when crowned he presided over a unitedEgypto-Judaean-Israelite empire—which issomewhat at odds with the officially sanc-tioned version of history. Having analysedthe correlations between the biblical and his-torical records, Ellis proposes one theorythat the Queen of Sheba was a princess fromLower Egypt whose hand was given in mar-riage to David's son, the Judaeo-IsraeliteKing Solomon—an arrangement that sug-gested Solomon had a close relationshipwith her pharaonic family line.

Ellis delves into the meanings behind vari-ous Egyptian and Hebrew terms in his questfor the truth. He concludes that the Queenof Sheba was actually the Queen of theSabbath day and had a role as Queen of theGreat Pyramid (Mt Sinai); thus, as theHyksos-Israelite god was considered to liveinside the Pyramid, she was regarded as hav-ing the position of the Wife of God. Ellis'sthesis requires much focus and isn't easilyexplained in a short review. Nor is his finalassertion that the whole of Judaic, Christianand Islamic belief systems and iconographywere based upon Egyptian antecedents.

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WHY AMERICA'S CHILDREN CAN'TTHINK: Creating Independent Mindsfor the 21st Century by Peter KlineInner Ocean Publishing, USA, 2002ISBN 1-930722-10-9 (385pp tpb) Availability: Inner Ocean Publishing,website http://www.innerocean.com

Peter Kline deserves praise for makingseveral points just in his introduction.

Firstly, he laments that teachers are restrict-ed from using their wisdom as their life

experience tells them it should be used—andif you know any talented teachers restrictedby the system, you'd know what he means.Secondly, he stresses the importance of hav-ing a sense of history—in science, mathe-matics, the arts—yet points out that becausehistory changes as new discoveries andinterpretations are made, we must be waryabout making false assumptions.

Our postmodern society is changing to thepoint where anything you learn will be outof date by the time you learn it. Your bestbet, according to Kline, is to chart your ownunique path through the information junglewhile being able to develop a meaningfulrelationship with it—to be free to explore itin a subjective manner. This attitude is fun-damental to Peter Kline's philosophy aboutthe education of children today—and weadults can find inspiration in this, too. Ifyou ever entertained a really big idea as alittle kid and yet strangely have never for-gotten it, indeed have striven to achieve itover the years, then that idea/feeling/passionshould be nurtured. Likewise, such creativespark needs to be kindled in children.

Kline, who has over 30 years' experienceas a teacher and learning skills specialist,argues that reading not just for comprehen-sion but in the light of personal interpreta-tion is one of the keys to encouraging chil-dren to have the creative, independent mindsthat will be demanded of them in tomorrow'sinformation age. And if we're going to over-

come the seeming growing literacy chal-lenges, we need to understand how the brainlearns to read text and decode the "mysteryand miracle of language".

Why America's Children Can't Think is aneducational excursion into exciting new pos-sibilities for teachers, parents and children.

MOTHERS: PREVENT YOURDAUGHTERS FROM GETTINGBREAST CANCERby Sherrill SellmanGetWell International, USA, 2002ISBN 0-9750487-0-8 (359pp tpb) Availability: GetWell International, web-site http://www.ssellman.com

In her new book, women's health advocate,educator and author Sherrill Sellman

(Hormone Heresy) explains that breast can-cer is a preventable disease. One of herfocuses here is to address the growing rateof breast cancer in young women in their20s and 30s and explore what could beresponsible for this rise. The real-life storiesshe presents are extremely poignant.

Sherrill writes at length about theendocrine disrupters and oestrogen mimicsthat have found their way into the environ-ment and living creatures (including us) andtheir carcinogenic and genetic effects. Sheexamines the risk factors associated withsynthetic hormones including oestrogen andprogestin—now regarded by the US EPA ascarcinogens—and laments that youngteenage girls are being prescribed the Pilljust to treat acne. Her list of vitamin/miner-al imbalances the Pill causes—let alone itsenvironmental effects—is an eye-opener.This chemical sea that has flooded our dailylives is implicated in the growing rates ofbirth defects in boys and "precocious puber-ty" in girls as young as seven—and, again,more heartfelt case studies strike home thatwe really have major problems on our handsthat require urgent remedial action.

While the book's title is aimed at mothersand their daughters, the information is stillrelevant for fathers and sons. We can domuch to make our bodies and our environ-ments healthy enough so as to reduce cancersusceptibility, and Sherrill gives great adviceon removing toxins from the home, sugarfrom the diet and synthetic hormones fromthe medicine chest—and replacing thesetoxic substances with safe alternatives.

Sherrill encourages mothers to keep acheck on their own and their daughters' hor-monal and breast health. Intrinsic to thismotivation, though, is that women and girlsappreciate the female body as a vessel ofwisdom and menstruation as a powerful con-nection with the body's natural rhythms.

Sherrill herself is a font of knowledge andwisdom, and her book is a must-read.

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FLOOD YOUR BODY WITHOXYGEN: Therapy for Our PollutedWorldby Ed McCabeEnergy Publications, USA, 2003 (5th ed.)ISBN 0-9620527-2-8 (593pp tpb) Availability: From websitewww.floodyourbodywithoxygen.com orProgressive Promotions Pty Ltd., 9Tradeway, Kilsyth Vic 3137 Australia.Tel: 03 9720 6619; Fax: 03 9720 6095

One of our pet topics over the years hasbeen Oxygen Therapies, and one of the

great popularisers out of the USA has beenjournalist Ed McCabe, aka "Mr Oxygen".His first book, Oxygen Therapies: A NewWay of Approaching Disease, was an inter-national bestseller by word of mouth, andvideotapes of Ed's lectures have been verywell received (see reviews in NEXUS 2/02,2/09, 2/12). Now he's released Flood YourBody with Oxygen (the fifth edition thereof,though we haven't sighted the first four). It'sa major update on his first book and a must-have for anyone looking for ways toimprove their own health and that of theirfamily and even their pets and their plants.

At the basis of this therapy is the observa-tion that disease micro-organisms are anaer-obic, i.e., they thrive in an oxygen-depletedenvironment, yet they can be annihilated inoxygen-rich conditions. Of course, oxygencan't be patented, so the proliferation of oxy-gen therapies is indeed a threat to the med-ical/pharmaceutical industry. Matters cameto a head in McCabe's life in 1998 when hewas suddenly imprisoned for 18 months ontrumped-up tax violation charges. But he'snot the only person to promote oxygen ther-apies and incur the wrath of the medicalauthorities and corporate media.

In this massive book, Ed looks at oxygentherapy science, history, medical evidence,protocols, uses, practitioners and politics,and reviews a wide range of relatedresources. Highly recommended.

GRIDPOINT™ 3.0 – The World GridMapping ProgramQuark Enterprises Ltd, New Zealand, andHarmonitech, USA © 1993–2003 (5-disc set; minimum system requirements:IBM-compatible PC with Intel Pentiumprocessor, MS Windows 95 or higher,32MB RAM, 20MB hard drive space; monitor resolution 800 x 600 or higher) Availability: New Zealand—Bruce L.Cathie, Quark Enterprises Ltd, tel +64 (0)9818 4291, email [email protected],Gridpoint website, http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~brucelc; USA—Rod Maupin,Harmonitech, tel +1 (360) 446 1050,email [email protected]

Gridpoint™ (formerly Gridworks) allowsusers to calculate relationships and posi-

tions of points on the Earth's surface. Itsmost popular use is for the calculation ofsites on the planet's energy grid.

All the top-secret bases that matter are onthis grid system, as are most ancient mysterysites. If you want to know more about thissubject, read Bruce Cathie's excellent books.

This latest CD-ROM version is a majorupdate on the old floppy disk days. It hasfive CDs which give precise data for plottingwhatever part of the world grid you want.

It would help enormously if you've readBruce Cathie's books, but the program has aQuick Start Guide just for beginners.

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If you've been looking for a device that canprotect you from electromagnetic fields

and radiofrequency waves when you useyour mobile phone, then look no further.

The Safe-T-Fone comprises an earpieceattached to the phone via a plastic tube. Ithas no wires, speakers or antennae that youneed to be shielded from, and there are notransmitters or receivers involved, making ita safe option. The earpiece and cord/tubecan easily be disconnected from the phone.The product is inexpensive, fits all brands ofmobile phone and comes in four colours(red, blue, yellow and clear/white).

We think it's so good, we've decided weshould sell it through the magazine!

Reviewed by Ruth Parnell Reviewed by Duncan Roads

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YOL BOLSIN by Sevara NazarkhanRealWorld Music, USA, 2003 (57mins)Distributors: Aust—MRA Entertainment,tel (07) 3849 6020; UK—Real WorldRecords, tel 0208 964 6000; USA—Narada, tel (414) 961 8350, websitehttp://www.realworldrecords.com

This is the first CD of Uzbekistan musicwe've reviewed and it's a significant treat

of evocative, timeless songs from the Uzbekculture with its tradition of putting poetry tomusic. There are love poems, songs prais-ing the young bride, sacred verses, songs ofspring and children's growing songs. All arebacked by Central Asian instruments, bothtraditional and modern. Severa Nazarkhan,whose instrument is the doutar, a 15th-cen-tury two-stringed lute, has created a fasci-nating musical portrait of her homeland.Definitely a collector's album.

EMBRACE by Deva PremalPrabhu Music, USA, 2002 (56mins)Distributors: Australia—New WorldMusic, tel (02) 9565 4522, USA—Prabhu Music, website http://www.MitenDevaPremal.com

Deva Premal, in cooperation with herpartner Miten, has taken the chanting

world by storm with her devoted, lyrical,heartfelt renderings of traditional sacredchant music from India and Tibet. Thereciting of sung or spoken mantra isundergoing an experiential revival in theWest, and Deva Premal is one of the keyexponents. This beautiful, engaging mantricsinging, backed up by musicians ontraditional and modern instruments, thrillsyour inner light. A transcendental album.

MOROCCAN GYPSIES by Sidi Mimoun and Ben SoudaARC Music Prodns, UK, 2002 (74mins)Distributor: UK—ARC Music, tel +44(0)1342 328 567, website http://www.arcmusic.co.uk

The Gypsies originated in northern India,making their way into the Mediterranean

region and throughout Europe. In Morocco,gypsies call themselves Dom (from domari,meaning "man"). Many live a musicallifestyle, performing or entertaining for theirliving. These two groups, Sidi Mimoun andBen Souda, have made their name in Europesince the 1970s at international music festi-vals. On this CD, they play music fromstreet festivals, weddings and celebrations as

well as spiritual exaltation pieces. ExcitingGypsy/Muslim Moroccan music.

RUMBA FLAMENCO by various artistsPutumayo, USA, 2002 (47mins) Distributors: Aust—MRA, tel (07) 38496020; UK—Pinnacle Imports, tel 01689870622; USA—Putumayo, tel 18887888 8629, http://www.putumayo.com

Asoulful collection Spanish flamencowith influences of salsa, gypsy rumba,

rhythm and pop that integrates the modernupbeat influence of groups like The GypsyKings. The rumba style originated in north-eastern Spain and southern France and fusesthe passion of traditional flamenco withCuban son and salsa rhythms. Featured onthis Putumayo album are Ziroq, GitanoFamily, Eric Fernández, Chico and theGypsies, De Madera, Wafir, Javier Ruibaland more. Passionate, Latin gypsy sounds.

REZOS by Bobi CéspedesSix Degrees, USA, 2002 (47mins) Distributors: Aust—MRA , tel (07) 38496020; UK/USA—Six Degrees Records,http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com

Iwas taken by the divine Earth-motherlyface of Bobi Céspedes on the Rezos cover,

and her music certainly did not disappointme. Bobi is a priestess in the sacred Yorubareligious tradition that Cubans call Lucumi;it preserves original African elements thatmake up all of their music. As a girl, Bobiled the singing to the Orisha deities (theforces of nature), and continued her sacredsinging after she left for the USA in 1959.In the 1990s she sang with Mickey Hart'sPlanet Drum (see review in NEXUS 6/03),which brought her to international promi-nence. This is a very beautiful mix of oldCuban/African sounds with modern, funky,organic, laid-back rhythms.

Reviewed by Richard Giles

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l. psychology (heavy metal effects).Many individuals with known exposures

still have not received requested care. Asstated on March 10, 2001, by Dr MichaelKilpatrick, US Department of Defense,only 60 individuals (including myself) arereceiving minimal medical care fromphysicians assigned to the Baltimore,Maryland, Department of Veterans AffairsDepleted Uranium Project. That includesonly a fraction of over 350 individuals withverified exposures.

Today, I and others must take antibioticsand steroids to control medical problems.It is impossible to get proper care and treat-ment. If the authorities do not providemedical assessment for those with verifiedexposures and health problems, then theycan say DU did not cause any adversehealth problems because they never sawany health effects. So much for medicalscience when a cover-up is directed bypoliticians to limit liability.

The cover-up started with the infamousLos Alamos memorandum sent to our teamin Saudi Arabia during March 1991. Thismemo told us to be sure that we should

only report our findings so that DU muni-tions could always be used. In otherwords, lie!

The letter sent to General Leslie Grovesduring 1943 is even more disturbing. Inthat memorandum, dated October 30, 1943,senior scientists assigned to the ManhattanProject suggested that uranium could beused as an air, water and terrain contami-nant. According to the letter, sent by theSubcommittee of the S-1 ExecutiveCommittee on the "Use of RadioactiveMaterials as a Military Weapon", inhala-tion of uranium would result in "bronchialirritation coming on in a few hours to a fewdays". This is exactly what happened tothose of us who inhaled DU dust duringOperation Desert Storm and to US soldiersin the Balkans.

The subcommittee went on further tostate that:

"Beta-emitting products could get intothe gastrointestinal tract from pollutedwater, or food, or air. From the air,they would get on the mucus of thenose, throat, bronchi, etc. and beswallowed. The effects would be localirritation, just as in the bronchi, andexposures of the same amount would

be required. The stomach, caecum andrectum, where contents remain forlonger periods than elsewhere, wouldbe most likely affected. It isconceivable that ulcers andperforations of the gut followed bydeath could be produced, even withoutany general effects from radiation."

Today, medical problems continue todevelop. Medical care is still being deniedor delayed for all uranium-exposed casual-ties, while United States Department ofDefense and British Ministry of Defenceofficials continue to deny any correlationbetween uranium exposure and adversehealth and environmental effects. Theycontend that they can spread radioactivewaste (uranium-238) in anyone's backyardwithout cleaning it up and providing med-ical care. Their arrogance is astonishing!

Based on all previous research andthe DU Project, what were therecommendations?

The DU Project and review of previousresearch reinforced our original 1991 con-clusions and recommendations that:

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1. All DU contamination must be physi-cally removed and properly disposed of toprevent future exposures.

2. Specialised radiation detectiondevices that detect and measure emissionsof alpha-particles, beta-particles, X-raysand gamma-rays at appropriate levels from20 dpm up to 100,000 dpm and from 0.1mrem/hour to 75 mrem/hour must beacquired and distributed to all individualsor organisations responsible for medicalcare and environmental remediation activi-ties involving depleted uranium/uranium-238 and other low-level radioactive iso-topes that may be present. Standard equip-ment will not detect contamination.

3. Medical care must be provided to allindividuals who have (or may have)inhaled, ingested or had woundcontamination, to detect mobile andsequestered internalised uraniumcontamination.

4. All individuals who enter, climb on orwork within 25 metres of any contaminatedequipment or terrain must wear respiratoryand skin protection gear.

5. Contaminated and damaged equip-ment or materials should not be recycled tomanufacture new materials or equipment.

What has occurred? Visual evidence, personal experience and

published reports verify that:1. Medical care has not been provided to

all DU casualties.2. Environmental remediation has not

been completed.3. Contaminated and damaged equip-

ment and materials have been recycled tomanufacture new products.

4. Training and education has only beenpartially implemented.

6. Contamination managementprocedures have not been distributed andimplemented.

What should happen next? All citizens of the world must raise a uni-

fied voice to ban the future use of depleteduranium munitions and force those nationsthat have used depleted uranium munitionsto recognise the immoral consequences oftheir actions and assume responsibility formedical care and thorough environmentalremediation.

There is a famous quotation, "And achild shall lead them". But if the childrenare sick or dead and the citizens of theworld permit this to continue, then therewill not be a child who can fulfill theprophecy and lead us to peace. I imploreyou to act! ∞

About the Author:Dr Doug Rokke is a Doctor ofPhilosophy (University of Illinois, 1992),a Master o f Science (Universi ty o fIllinois, 1986) and holds a Bachelor ofScience degree (Western I l l inoisUniversi ty, 1975). He is anenvironmental sciences and nuclearmedical sciences specialist, educatorand consultant with extensiveexperience in academic and militaryfields. During Operation Desert Storm,Dr Rokke served as a health physicistwith the 3rd Medical Command, USArmy, in assessing and cleaning up theDU contamination.

To see more of Dr Rokke's writings onGulf War casualties and depleted urani-um, visit the Traprock Peace Centerwebsite, http://www.traprockpeace.org.

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4 6 . ibid., pp. 67, 64.4 7 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, "Policy and thePeople", Foreign Affairs, January 1968, pp. 237-2 3 8 .4 8 . Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism, pp.6 4 - 6 6 .4 9 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, "The United Nations:A Balance Sheet", Vital Speeches of the Day,October 15, 1968, pp. 18, 21, 20.5 0 . ibid., pp. 19, 21.5 1 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, Unity, Freedom &Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow, Vintage, 1968,p. 133.5 2 . Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism, p p .7 5 - 7 6 .5 3 . Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", p. 383.5 4 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, "Our Foreign Policy:What Is It?", Vital Speeches of the Day, April 15,1964, p. 405 (emphasis added).5 5 . Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", pp. 383,3 8 6 .5 6 . Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism, p. 76(emphasis in original).5 7 . Rockefeller, Unity, Freedom & Peace, p. 146(emphasis added).5 8 . Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism, p p .6 8 - 6 9 .5 9 . Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", p. 384.6 0 . ibid., p. 386.6 1 . Nelson A. Rockefeller, "World Trade: TheGATT Conference", Vital Speeches of the Day,

June 1, 1964, p. 495 (emphasis in original).6 2 . Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", pp. 386-3 8 7 .6 3 . Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism, p. 82(emphasis added).6 4 . Rockefeller, "Policy and the People", p. 240(emphasis added).6 5 . Rockefeller, "World Trade", p. 497 (emphasisa d d e d ) .6 6 . Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", p. 390(emphasis added).6 7 . Nelson Rockefeller, Our Environment Can BeS a v e d, Doubleday, 1970, pp. 152-153.6 8 . The confirmation process revealed thatNelson's personal fortune then stood at $US179million (an IRS audit later raised it to $218 mil-lion), which was considerably higher than thesums he had hinted at; but Nelson was no billion-aire, unlike the real super-rich of the 1970s, JohnGetty and Aristotle Onassis. See Collier andHorowitz, The Rockefellers, pp. 485-486.6 9 . Michael Turner, The Vice President As PolicyMaker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House,Greenwood Press, 1982, pp. xv, 158-163.7 0 . Quoted in Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller,pp. 261-262.7 1 . Turner, The Vice President As Policy Maker,pp. 146-149.7 2 . "An Interview with the President: 'The Jury IsOut'", T i m e, January 3, 1972, p. 9 (emphasisa d d e d ) .7 3 . See, for example, Secretary of State HenryKissinger, "International Law, World Order, and

Human Progress", Department of State Bulletin,September 8, 1975; Secretary Kissinger, "BuildingInternational Order", Department of State Bulletin,October 13, 1975; and Secretary Kissinger, "TheIndustrial Democracies and the Future",Department of State Bulletin, December 1, 1975.It should be noted that Kissinger quickly droppedthis rhetoric once he was out of power.7 4 . Richard Ullman, "Trilateralism: 'Partnership'For What?", Foreign Affairs, October 1976, p. 11.7 5 . David Rockefeller, M e m o i r s, p. 337.7 6 . T i m e and New York Times quoted inChapman, "Rocky as St Sebastian", p. 12.7 7 . Henry Kissinger, "Nelson Rockefeller: I nM e m o r i a m", in Henry Kissinger, For The Record:Selected Statements, 1977–1980, Weidenfeld &Nicolson & Michael Joseph, 1981, p. 171.

About the Author:Will Banyan, BA (Hons), Grad. Dip.(Information Science), is a writer spe-cialising in the political economy ofglobalisation. He has worked for bothlocal and national governments as wellas some international organisations, andwas recently consulting on global issuesfor a private corporation. He is current-ly working on a revisionist history of theNew World Order.

Will can be contacted by email [email protected].

Rockefeller Internationalism



mineral imbalance compromises the brain'sability to deal with low-frequency infrasonicshocks.

In part one, we saw how pockets of inten-sive infrasound can be geographically correlat-ed with the TSE cluster locations. Recentresearch conducted by Mariana Alves-Pereira(Department of Environmental Science, NewUniversity of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal) hasidentified the symptoms and biochemistry oflow-frequency noise damage, where the symp-tom profile—involving hypersensitivity tosound, reclusive behaviour, aggression, para-noia, cardiac complications, etc.—is near iden-tical to some of the clinical features of TSEs.Furthermore, the well-known metabolic asso-ciation between the healthy prion protein andthe actin and melanin proteins, plus the factthat actin and melanin play a crucial role in theabsorption of incoming vibro-acoustic waves,may offer support for the suggestion that TSEsresult from a metal-deformed prion protein andthe subsequent breakdown in the brain's abilityto deal with low-frequency noise.

Governments and corporations have deliber-ately conspired to manipulate what the publicget to hear surrounding the causes of TSE—

not to mention the causes of so many othermodern ailments. Their concealment of thewhole truth is betrayed by the fact that theUK's BSE Inquiry team was debarred fromaccessing 30% of the government's data onBSE—because it was "classified" under theOfficial Secrets Act.

Never before in the history of human medi-cine has the populace on a global scale been sosuccessfully indoctrinated by the healthcarepropaganda of the multinational and govern-mental lobbyists. A mere handful of ministersand corporate-controlled advisers have servedas traitors to their own people and planet.Their deviant behaviour should be treated ascriminal negligence. ∞

Bibliography NB: For additional references, refer to the "CattlePractice" article on Mark Purdey's website,http://www.markpurdey.com.• Purdey M. Ecosystems supporting clusters ofsporadic TSEs demonstrate excesses of the radical-generating divalent cation manganese and deficien-cies of antioxidant co-factors Cu, Se, Fe, Zn. Doesa foreign cation substitution at Prp's Cu domaininitiate TSE? Medical Hypotheses 200054(2):278-306.• Purdey M. Does an ultraviolet photo-oxidisationof the manganese-loaded/copper-depleted prionprotein in the retina initiate the pathogenesis ofTSE? Medical Hypotheses 2001 57(1):29-45.

• Purdey M. The Mn-loaded/Cu-depleted bovinebrain fails to neutralise incoming shock-bursts oflow-frequency infrasound. The origins of BSE?Cattle Practice 2002 (Oct) 10(4):311-325.• Brown D, Hafiz F, Glassmith L, et al.Consequences of manganese replacement of cop-per for prion protein function and proteinase resis-tance. EMBO J 2000 19(6):1180-1186.• Wong BS, Chen SG, Colucci M, Xie Z, Pan T,Liu T, Sy MS, Gambetti P, Brown DR. Aberrantmetal binding by prion protein in human prion dis-ease. J Neurochem 2001 78:1400-1408.• Gordon I, Abdulla EM, Campbell IC, WhatleySA. Phosmet induces up-regulation of surface lev-els of cellular prion protein. Neuroreport 19989(7):1391-1395.

About the Author:Mark Purdey is a traditional mixed family farmer inthe UK who successfully defeated the UK govern-ment's compulsory insecticide treatment order inthe High Court of London in 1984. He writes, lec-tures and broadcasts on environmental healthissues, whilst pioneering global ecodetective investi-gations into the causes of brain disorders, such asBSE. Mark's analytical studies have identified some"common toxic denominators" involved in thecause of BSE, and his published hypothesis is cur-rently gaining support from studies conducted atUS, Japanese and European universities.

The full text of Mark's article can be found on hiswebsite, http://www.markpurdey.com. It wasoriginally published as "Educating Rida"—"Rida"being the Icelandic term for transmissible spongiformdisease (TSE).

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