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N E X U SNEW TIMES MAGAZINE

Volume 14, Number 5 AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2007

UK/Europe edition Website: http://www.nexusmagazine.com

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

Readers' comments on topics from the Sun'sharmonic intervals to a hoaxed "second coming".

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

We report on electromagnetic pulse technology,the corporate takeover of US intelligence work, andthe testimony of an Iraqi US collaborator exposingthe existence of US death squads operating in Iraq.

INTERVIEW WITH AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN...........1 1

John Perkins interviewed by Amy Goodman.Making amends for the economic, social andenvironmental devastation he caused as an "EHM",John Perkins now wakes people up to the motivesand methods of the corporatocracy.

BILDERBERG 2007: A ONE WORLD EMPIRE?..........19

By Daniel Estulin. This year's Bilderberg Groupmeeting covered World Bank reforms, globalwarming, Russia's muscle-flexing on energy issues,Middle East geopolitics, the future of democracyand other subjects in the news, or soon to be.

IS THE CAUSE OF CANCER A FUNGUS?...................27

By Dr Tullio Simoncini. The cause of cancer, saysthis Italian oncologist, is a common fungus,Candida albicans, and it can be treated with apowerful antifungal agent that can't be patented.

EMR, HORMONE DISRUPTION AND CANCER.........35

By Sherrill Sellman, ND. Electromagnetic radiationis increasingly pervasive in our wired and wirelessworld, but it plays havoc with our hormones andcan lead to a range of diseases including cancers.

EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY: THE AETHER—Part 1.........43

By Dr Bjørn J. Øverbye. Albert Einstein has beenhailed for his relativity theories and his humanity,but has always had his critics. Now the consensusview is changing as the nature of the aether andtheories of classical physics are re-examined.

SCIENCE NEWS..........................................................48We highlight W. David Barclay's Field FrequencyModulator, a revolutionary fuel-free energy system,plus Robert Stanley's update on FireStorm sparkplugs and fuel vaporisation/ignition technologies.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRENCH WARFARE...................51By Philip Coppens. In Glozel, France, in the mid-1920s, discoveries of artefacts believed to date toGallo-Roman and even Neolithic times led to abitter battle between archaeologists and amateurs.

UNDERSTANDING UFO SECRECY.............................57By Dr Steven M. Greer. The reason for no officialdisclosure on UFOs is that the military-industrialcomplex wants to keep secret technologies to itself.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE................................................62We feature Project Camelot's updated report onphysicist "Henry Deacon", with his revelations aboutalternative timelines, a possible eco-catastrophe toaffect the planet and 9/11 as an inside job.

R E V I E W S — B o o k s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7"National Insecurity" by L. Weiss, E. Thurbon and J. Mathews"Blackwater" by Jeremy Scahill"The Secret History of the American Empire" by John Perkins"Genetic Roulette" by Jeffrey M. Smith"Secrets of the Mysterious Valley" by Christopher O'Brien"The Starchild Skull" by Lloyd Pye"Against Religion" by Tamas Pataki"God Is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens"Death of Religion and Rebirth of the Spirit" by J. C. Pearce"There Is No Time" by John R. S. Peck"What Really Causes Multiple Sclerosis" by Harold D. Foster"Colloidal Silver: The Hidden Truths" by Keith F. Courtenay"The Divine Matrix" by Gregg Braden"How We Were Made" by William Neil"Ringing Cedars Series" books 4, 5, 6 by Vladimir Megre

R E V I E W S — M u s i c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5"Putumayo World Party" by various artists"Gypsy Moon" by Priyo"Heritage" by Mamadou Diabaté"La Juderia" by Yasmin Levy"Alevanta!" by Benjamín Escoriza

NEXUS BOOKS, VIDEOS, ADS, SUBS...................82–88

NEXUS MAGAZINEVolume 14, Number 5

AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2007PUBLISHED BY

NEXUS Magazine UK

EDITORDuncan M. Roads

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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUEAmy Goodman and John Perkins; Daniel Estulin;

Dr Tullio Simoncini; Sherrill Sellman, ND; Dr Bjørn Øverbye; Robert Stanley;

Philip Coppens; Steven M. Greer, MD; Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy/Project Camelot

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E d i t o r i a l

Hello again, and welcome to another information-packed, mind-boggling edition ofNEXUS. When we were putting this edition together, it struck us how multinational,

in the best sense of the word, our magazine really is. Our contributors this time comefrom the USA, Spain, Italy, Norway and the UK, while Australia is represented in ourbook reviews.

To get down to content and the down side of multinationalism, the interview with JohnPerkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, reveals the motives and methodsof the power elites as they seek to seize the assets of entire nations using benevolent-sounding bodies such as the IMF and the World Bank. And it is not just the oil, mineralsand rare earth elements that they seek, but cheap labour, real estate for military bases, andthe stifling of national independence from the global economic system. The world isbeing shaped by these hidden forces into accepting international interdependence in termsof food, energy, capital and labour. What better way to bring about global governance?

Speaking of global governance, take a look at the attendance list of the latest BilderbergGroup meeting in Turkey in May–June. At least one attendee is leaking information topeople like Daniel Estulin, author of our article on the subject this edition. But are theleaks "accurate"? Is information being leaked that they want us to know? Well, some ofthe leaked scenarios have already come to pass on the global stage, as you will realisewhen you read the article.

Guess what? We have another article about the cause and cure of cancer! This articleprovides, to my mind, the best-ever explanation for what cancer actually is. You haveread about how the most successful approaches to curing cancer have usually been basedon the assumption that cancer is a life-form resulting from toxic blood (n o t g e n e t i c a l l yinduced madness manifesting at a cellular level). We have run so many stories detailingthe things that make blood toxic, e.g., emotional shock/grief, solvents, cosmetics, soyproducts, electromagnetic radiation, etc., plus articles describing how to kill the life-forms/parasites/micro-organisms that take up residence in the now toxic blood (e.g.,zappers, urine therapy, oxygenation, supplementation with selenium, B12, minerals, etc.).But now, finally, I believe the real culprit has been identified: cancer is a fungus! Andobviously it can only take up "residence" if the body's conditions are right for it. DrSimoncini, the Italian oncologist who wrote this article, uses sodium bicarbonate to treatcancer in many of his patients, and with great results. This is a most important article andI urge you to bring it to the attention of health professionals and researchers.

Equally important in this day and age is to understand what is happening to ourbiological functions and processes while we are being bathed in a sea of electromagneticradiation, particularly frequency ranges to which humans have not been accustomed untilrecently. I'm talking about the new-generation mobile phones, WiFi networks, etc. Ourexposure to these fields and frequencies does affect us, and in this edition Sherrill Sellmanpresents information on what is happening especially on a hormonal level. Sherrill willalso be speaking at the NEXUS Conference this year on the same subject.

Changing topics slightly, Dr Steven Greer's latest book, Hidden Truth, ForbiddenKnowledge, is really having an impact on NEXUS readers, from what I hear. But I amstill regularly asked by media and readers why the cover-up exists after all this time. Mymish-mash of the usual answers is encapsulated in a more coherent and organised mannerin Dr Greer's article on this very subject in this edition.

The NEXUS Conference plans are shaping up nicely. This time we decided to movethe venue out of the city centre to a more scenic location nearby, and guess what? It ischeaper for people to stay at the beach resort than in the city centre! So, apart from arange of fascinating topics from equally fascinating speakers, this year we have anexpanded area for exhibits and stalls of interest for the first two days—and it is all takingplace at the Novotel Twin Waters resort on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of Queensland on20–21–22 October. There are still plenty of tickets and spaces for stalls—so if you areinterested, please contact me. I'm sure this is going to be the best conference we've everhad, and I look forward to seeing you there.

Duncan

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Curing Type 2 Diabetes

Dear Duncan: A year ago I wasfaced with the same diagnosis oftype 2 diabetes as yourcorrespondent from Japan in thelatest issue of NEXUS [vol. 14,no. 4].

I was threatened by my doctorthat if I didn't follow his adviceexactly, I could expect to lose mysight and/or my limbs—if I didn'tdie of a stroke or heart attack first.He wanted me to take Metforminand possibly insulin, bloodpressure tablets and cholesterol-lowering drugs for diabetes that,according to his nurse, was"raging out of control". But if Ifollowed his advice, I could eatwhatever I wanted and lead anormal life.

My elderly diabetic neighbourhad just died under this doctor'sidea of diabetic care and another"star patient" across the road wasblind and had part of her footamputated. I came home, ditchedthe tablets and switched on thec o m p u t e r .

On the NEXUS website I founda half-remembered article called"The Diabetes Deception" and putits advice into immediate action.Researching those tablets I hadthrown away, I discovered thatthey had been aggravating thediabetes. But this alone was notenough to bring complete sugarcontrol, although it did bring asignificant improvement and Iknew it might be months beforemy pancreas healed properly.Further research led me to theAtkins approach to diabetes thatseverely restricts the carbohydrateportion of the diet to about 40grams a day. This combinationapproach was little short ofmiraculous.

In just days, my fasting sugardropped from 22 mmol/L to 6mmol/L and my already blurredvision returned to normal. Theawful and very painful peripheralneuritis in my feet disappearedover the next few weeks with theaddition of vitamin C and vitaminB complex to help heal thedamaged nerves.

I lost five stone [31.8 kg] inexcess weight without effort over

the next six months and my bloodpressure also returned to normal.I took none of the doctor'srecognised medication and finallythrew it down the loo where itb e l o n g e d .

My 40 grams of carbohydrate aday I choose to take in the form ofmilk and fresh fruit. I can nowhave the occasional treat, fromwhich my pancreas recoverswithout being overwhelmed bythe experience. I nominate threedays a year when I ignore all therules and eat exactly what Iwant—including a whoppinggreat portion of double chocolateice cream! The next day my sugarlevels are normal. I have given uprice, wheat, corn and potatoes andno longer miss them. I am neverh u n g r y .

What I have learned from this isthat type 2 diabetes is anunhelpful and inaccuratediagnosis. Much more helpful isthe notion of pancreaticexhaustion following years on adiet of processed carbohydrates.Carbohydrate intolerance is agrowing problem because themajor food retailers devote mostof their shelf space to cheaplymanufactured and heavilyprocessed carbohydrates thatdeliver huge profits and anindefinite shelf life. That,together with the denatured oilsand fats they also sell, accountsfor the explosion in type 2diabetes in countries following atypical Western diet.

So thank you, NEXUS! Ibelieve that learning to thinkoutside the box and giving mevaluable information from whichto start has not only cured thediabetes but probably saved myl i f e .

Beth B., Scotland, UK

Government Uses the Media Greetings! I have been buying

NEXUS (and a few other similarjournals) since approximately1987.

Having served in the military,some of that time on exchange tothe US Air Force (within thesatellite and communicationsarena), suffice it to say that most

of what you have published is to ahigh degree or extent accurate.

The US government,specifically, finances moviestudios to make movies that arepart truth and part fiction, thusconfounding the viewer so theymistake one thing for another.Then if they either read or hearsomething mentioned that fallsoutside the sphere of perceivednormality, they will argue that it isonly a story from a movie andtherefore cannot be held true, as itis just some scriptwriter'simagination. So the governmentand its security agencies use themedia as a checkpoint. Thus onethird will believe it, another thirdwill refuse to believe it and thefinal third will sit on the fence,and between the three of thesegroups they will waste theirenergy arguing with each other.

And as one wise man once said,"You can only educate intelligentpeople" who are willing to learneverything they can and open theireyes and ears to what is happeningbackstage in this theatrical showwe are witnessing. It's backstagewhere the real action is.

Looking forward to more issuesin the future.

[Name withheld on request.]

Gravity, Tesla and CensorshipDear Duncan: When physicists

around the world decided to seekfunds for the construction ofgravity wave detectors, I wasamazed how such an idea couldhave been accepted withoutanyone questioning the logic ofthe exercise.

It is obvious that gravity is anacquired phenomenon. Gravity isnot something drifting aroundaimlessly through the Universe.

Gravity around a body in spaceis a compulsory acquisition whichcomes about as a result of thatbody in space having mass(density) and size (capture area).Should that body in spaceexplode, then all the reasons forgravity being there in the firstplace no longer exist. Therefore,any energies streaming away fromthat disaster area will not includegravity. Certainly there will be

other energies generated as aconsequence of the detonation,and information gathered fromour research at the Observatorywould indicate that this is indeedthe case.

These new energies, on passingthrough our ionosphere, couldcause a small anomaly in the levelof gravity that exists around theEarth, and therefore these pulsescould then be detected andmeasured.

So far, no gravity waves havebeen detected by thoseinstruments, despite thepossibility that there must bethousands of explosions occurringat every moment in the Universe.

And on another matter...recently, the ABC radio stationsin Australia broadcast a news itemabout an American scientistclaiming to have discovered ameans of transmitting electricalpower to a small globe, withenough power to run a laptopcomputer—and without wires!Furthermore, he maintains thatothers before him succeeded, onlywith lower powers.

Because of the censorship ofscientific discoveries during thelast 70 years in the USA, educatedacademics have learned little ornothing about the history of themost productive and ingeniousinventions that were everconceived during that period.Nikola Tesla was one of thosecasualties. One hundred yearsago, this genius was transmittinghuge amounts of electrical currentand 10 kW of power at a distanceof 42 kilometres.

It begs the question: who in theUSA censors and organises thescientific history of the last 100years on this Earth, and why?Two years ago, I contacted asenior history teacher stationed ina prestigious university inAmerica. She was amazed todiscover that Australia wasinvolved in the Second WorldWar! I rest my case.

R e g a r d s ,Brian Sallur, Director, Western

Australian Radio Observatory,Chittering, WA, http://members.w e s t n e t . c o m . a u / w a r o /

Letters to the Editor ...


The Sun's Harmonic IntervalsHi, Duncan: In regard to Julian

Kane's article in the June–July2007 edition [vol. 14, no. 4], "AnUnknown Planet Orbits in theOuter Solar System" (in theScience News section), it is statedthat "[n]either Titius nor Bodeever explained how the strangenumerical progression wasderived" (in regard to thenumerical progression of Bode'slaw formula).

There is an answer to this in thework of J. B. Stoneking and his"Stoneking resonance theory",and is referred to in DavidWilcock's Divine Cosmos e - b o o k .It is also shown that Neptune andPluto are indeed in their "musical"places. From Divine Cosmos:

"In 1962, R. Leighton foundthat the Sun's surface pulsatesregularly, and in the 1970s severalgroups from Russia and GreatBritain confirmed that the Sunoscillated in steady pulses, itssurface rising and falling by aboutthree kilometres. This pulsationoccurs in various harmonicintervals of a basic unit of timethat is exactly five minutes, risingto a maximum value of 160minutes.

"In his 1998 paper, J. B.Stoneking calculated thewavelengths that were producedby each of the different harmonicintervals that the Sun produces,such as a 5-minute pulse, 1 0 -m i n u t e pulse, 80-minute pulse,160-minute pulse, etc. Thesewavelengths would be measuredas existing at a certain d i s t a n c efrom the Sun.

"Calculating the wavelength isa simple mathematical problemthat involves the distance that theSun's surface moves in each pulse(2–3 kilometres), the time it takesto move in each pulse (intervals offive minutes), and the speed thatthe wave travels, which is thespeed of light (186,000 miles pers e c o n d ) .

"When Stoneking ran thesecalculations, he found that therewas a planet at the edge of eachwavelength he discovered. These'nodes' in the wavelength were thezones of least pressure, where all

vibrations cancelled out andallowed the planets to form.Furthermore, the entireheliosphere, formed by the Sun'smagnetic field, is exactly five160-minute pulses deep."

In Divine Cosmos there arediagrams of this that allow you tovisualise it easily, all the way outto the edge of the heliosphere.

R e g a r d s ,Troy S., Australia

Justice for Abused Orphans?

Dear Editor: I am one of theDuplessis Orphans survivors fromQuebec, Canada. In 1953–54, theCIA, with the participation of theRoman Catholic Church, theCanadian federal government andthe provincial government ofQuebec, used the orphans asguinea pigs, knowing that nobodywould be asking any questions, noone was aware of our existenceand, besides, we were all labelledmental retards—that way, nobodywould believe us. As the nunsused to say, "They don't knowwhat they are saying; they are allinsane anyway."

I lived this hell for eight longyears, listening to the screams,seeing the fear on the others,knowing I was next. There arenow some 3,500 survivors left outof over 20,000 children.

Forty-four years after the fact,the Quebec government did admitthat "they" had no reasons, legallyor medically, to "intern" me at theMont Providence orphanage/StJean de Dieu asylum. Nice tohave documents.

Pierre S., Vancouver, BC,C a n a d a

Facts and Interpretations

Dear Duncan: I welcome thenews that all back numbers will beavailable online and as a CD[Letters, 14/04]. An overhaul ofthe server should be good news,though my experience is that therewill be a lot more teethingproblems than you expect.

I have been reading GrahamHancock's book S u p e r n a t u r a l, inwhich at one point he notes thetheory, proposed by Narby, that

messages have somehow beenencoded into our DNA by someagency, and I got a weird feelingwhen I read in NEXUS thatscientists have now storedmessages in bacterial DNA["Long-term Data Storage onBacteria DNA", Global News,14/03]. A quick Google searchrevealed they were not the onlyones and probably not the first.

And that is one of the things Ilike about NEXUS. You presentmaterial that would be hard tofind, though the i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o fany facts you present is anothermatter. For example, when youreported plans to put microchipsin UK dustbins I was puzzled as towhy, till a UK paper revealed theaim was to be able to chargehouseholds by the amount ofrubbish they put out—a rathermore plausible motivation thansheer snoopery.

Congratulations on a greatmagazine, even though I have torepeat to myself "Stupidity ismore likely than malice" beforereading each article in order not tobecome paranoid.

Alex, UK but mobile

Death Ray Tragedy

Dear Duncan: An Australianinventor of a "death-ray" device,Charles Sidney Way, was founddead, shot through the heart undermysterious circumstances, on thepromenade of an English seasideresort in late 1937.

This man was my father. Hewas not Australian but English.He made headlines in newspapersat the time as the man who couldstop war.

His invention consistedbasically of a microwave beamthat could stop engines. To tellyou the whole story would takemore time than I have at themoment. I was two years oldwhen he died, but I gleaned whathappened all those years ago fromhis brothers during a visit to theUK in 1989. In short, he broughtdown one of Hitler's triple-engined bombers at Manises inSpain, only weeks before he tookhis life.

My mother eventually admitted

that he was quietly horrified thathe had taken the lives of thebomber crew and, in doing so,could be directly responsible overtime for the deaths of thousands.

He took the secret of hisinvention to the grave. There is somuch more to it but, as I said,right now I don't have the time toexpand on it.

Congratulations on what you'veachieved with these web pages.Extremely interesting! For now,cheers and keep up the goodwork!

Ian Charles Way, NSW,A u s t r a l i a

Hoaxed Second Coming Due?Dear Duncan: Reliable inside

sources claim that PopeBenedict's recent Vaticanmeetings with US PresidentGeorge Bush and outgoingBritish Prime Minister Tony Blairwere held to finalise plans forfaking an event purporting to bethe second coming of JesusChrist.

This appears to be a move bythe Christian leaders to avert "acrisis of faith" that the suppressedFátima message prophesiedwould cause the demise ofChristianity by 2015.

An insider close to the recentmeetings claims that the Church'sploy is to project a holographicimage into the sky in a ThirdWorld country, one showingJesus to an international TVaudience "coming in the clouds",as narrated in the New Testament.

That this is technically possiblewas graphically displayed at the2007 grand final of A m e r i c a nI d o l when Celine Dion sang a"live duo" on stage with abrilliant, three-dimensional,colour "holographic"reproduction of the long-deadElvis Presley.

Duncan, this old adage says itall: "Forewarned is forearmed".

Kind regards,Tony Bushby

[Tony is the author of The BibleF r a u d and several other relatedbooks; his article "The ForgedOrigins of the New Testament"was published in 14/04. Ed.]

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SECRET SATELLITES

AFrench space surveillanceradar has detected 20 to 30

satellites in low Earth orbit thatdo n o t figure in the US DefenseDepartment's catalogue.

After 16 months of operation ofits Graves radar system, whichcan locate satellites in orbits up to1,000 kilometres in altitude, theFrench Defence Ministry says ithas gathered just about enoughinformation to pressure USauthorities to stop publishing thewhereabouts of Frenchreconnaissance and militarycommunications satellites.

The US Defense Department'sSpace Surveillance Network isthe world's gold standard forcataloguing satellites and debrisin both low Earth orbit and thehigher geostationary orbit at 36,000kilometres in altitude, wheretelecommunications satellites operate.

Data from the US network of ground-based sensors are regularly published andused worldwide by those tracking satelliteand space debris trajectories. Thepublished information excludes sensitiveUS defence satellites, but regularlyincludes data on the orbits of other nations'military hardware.

The Graves radar, and a complementarysystem operated by the Germangovernment, together are enough topinpoint the location, size, orbit andtransmission frequency of satellites—data

which the US would prefer not bebroadcast worldwide, French officials said.

"We have discussed the Graves resultswith our American colleagues andhighlighted the discrepancies between whatwe have found and what is published bythe US Space Surveillance Network," saidone French defence official. "They told us,'If we have not published it in ourcatalogue, then it does not exist.' So Iguess we have been tracking objects that donot exist. I can tell you that some of thesenon-existent objects have solar arrays."(Source: Space.com, 8 June 2007,h t t p : / /w w w . s p a c e . c o m / n e w s / 0 6 0 7 0 7 _g r a v e s _ w e b . h t m l )

EM PULSE TECHNOLOGY

Agroup of Russian scientistshas developed a series of

unique compact generatorscapable of producing high-energypulses of hundreds and eventhousands of megawatts.

The new generators are sourcesof electromagnetic radiationrather than electricity. Their mainfeature is a capacity to produceenormous power in a matter ofnanoseconds. These impulses canbe generated with a very highfrequency.

Reporting these results to theRAS Presidium, scientistsemphasised that sources withsuper-radiation effects can bebroadly used in long-range, high-resolution, impulse-based radiolocation and in studies of non-

thermal impact of powerfulelectromagnetic fields on radio electroniccomponents and different biologicalspecies.

Super-powerful pulse generators can testthe reliability of radio electronic devicesand the immunity of energy facilities todifferent impacts. They can imitate theinterference caused by lightning and evenby a nuclear blast. Their tiny size andunique physical properties make theirsphere of application extremely wide.

The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is aproduct of a nuclear explosion. It puts outof action even those electronic controlsystems that have withstood theshockwave and reduces expensive smartweapons to scrap metal. A short, intensivepulse can instantly paralyse databases,financial centres and industrial equipment.(Source: Novosti, 11 May 2007,h t t p : / / e n . r i a n . r u / a n a l y s i s / 2 0 0 7 0 5 1 1 /65348455.html)

PLANTS RECOGNISE THEIRSIBLINGS

Researchers at McMaster University inHamilton, Canada, have found that

plants get fiercely competitive whenthey're forced to share their pot withstrangers of the same species, but they'reaccommodating when potted with theirsiblings.

"The ability to recognise and favour kinis common in animals, but this is the firsttime it has been shown in plants," saidSusan Dudley, associate professor ofbiology at McMaster University. "When


plants share their pots, they getcompetitive and start growing more roots,which allows them to grab water andmineral nutrients before their neighboursget them. It appears, though, that theyonly do this when sharing a pot withunrelated plants; when they share a potwith family, they don't increase their rootgrowth. Because differences betweengroups of strangers and groups of siblingsonly occurred when they shared a pot, theroot interactions may provide a cue for kinrecognition.

"Gardeners have known for a long timethat some pairs of species get along betterthan others, and scientists are starting tocatch up with why that happens," saysDudley. "What I've found is that plantsfrom the same mother may be morecompatible with each other than withplants of the same species that haddifferent mothers. The more we knowabout plants, the more complex theirinteractions seem to be, so it may be ashard to predict the outcome as when youmix different people at a party." (Source: PhysOrg.com, 13 June 2007,http://physorg.com/news100963920.html)

SHOCK OVER GUANTANAMODETAINEES REPORT

Alittle-known report released inFebruary 2006 reveals that the

majority of prisoners at Guantánamo werenot accused of hostile acts and, shockingly,that 95 per cent were seized by localbounty hunters and sold to US forces forUS$5,000 per claimed Taliban fighter and$25,000 for each supposed Al-Qaedamember. In addition, at least 20 detaineeswere children, some as young as thirteen.

The report is the first effort to provide amore detailed picture of the Guantánamodetainees and how they ended up there,and the purported basis for their enemycombatant designation. It is based almostentirely upon the US government's owndocuments. Among the findings:

1. Fifty-five per cent of the detaineeswere determined as not having committedany hostile acts against the United Statesor its coalition allies.

2. Only eight per cent of the detaineeswere characterised as Al-Qaeda fighters.Of the remaining detainees, 40 per centwere determined as having no definitiveconnection with Al-Qaeda at all and 18 percent as having no definitive affiliation witheither Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

3. The US has detained numerous

persons based on mere affiliations with alarge number of groups that, in fact, are noton the Department of Homeland Security'sterrorist watchlist. Moreover, theconnection between such detainees andsuch organisations varies considerably.Eight per cent were detained because theywere deemed "fighters for", 30 per centwere considered "members of", a largemajority—60 per cent—were detainedmerely because they were "associated with"a group or groups which the governmentasserts are terrorist organisations. For twoper cent of the prisoners, a link to anyterrorist group was not identified.

4. Only five per cent of the detaineeswere captured by United States forces.Eighty-six per cent of the detainees werearrested by either Pakistan or the NorthernAlliance and turned over to United Statescustody. They were handed over during atime when the US was offering largebounties for the capture of suspectedenemies.

5. Finally, the population of personsdeemed not to be enemy combatants—mostly Uighurs—are in fact accused ofmore serious allegations than a great manypersons still deemed to be enemycombatants.(Source: "Report on GuantánamoDetainees: A Profile of 517 Detaineesthrough Analysis of Department of DefenseData" by Mark Denbeaux and Joshua W.Denbeaux, Seton Hall University, School ofLaw, Seton Hall Public Law Research PaperNo. 46, February 2006, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885659)

IS YOUR CAR SPYING ON YOU?

Since 2000, most domestic automobilemanufacturers, namely General Motors

(GM) and Ford, have been quietlyinstalling what are technically calledMotor Vehicle Event Data Recorders(MVEDRs). These are devices based onIEEE standards formally adopted in 2002.

The MVEDRs are wired to the car'selectronic sensing devices and constantlyreceive input from various features inmodern cars.

Unlike the aeroplane versions, blackboxes in cars do not record conversationsinside the car, and retain data from onlyfive seconds before a crash until a fewseconds after, triggered by an increase ing-forces on the vehicle. The data areretained for as long as 45 days after anevent. Until now, what MVEDRscapture—and even when they retain it—has been left up to the manufacturers.

Now, GM has already found novel waysto integrate its MVEDR collection intoother aspects of the company, such asOnStar—a roadside service packageavailable in all GM cars.

In 2004, while testing a 2005 ChevyMalibu Maxx, the editors at A u t o W e e kreported that, after taking the SUV arounda particularly gnarly set of cones, theOnStar button lit up and the speakersystem offered a helpful voice to ask ifeverything was alright. No one in the carhad reported a problem. Rather, thevehicle's MVEDR system had kicked inbecause of the increase in g-force data.AutoWeek reported that OnStar collects

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data on near-collisions and collisions andretains this data for as long as 18 months.

In California, aides to GovernorSchwarzenegger have floated an idea inwhich these same MVEDRs could beenlisted to record mileage so that thosewho drive greater distances pay anadditional mileage tax.

In Oregon, a similar proposal calls forMVEDRs to include GPS transponders inorder to tax cars driving within the stateboundaries.

On the commercial side, at least one autoinsurance company has considered usingMVEDR data to offer discounts to "safedrivers". (Source: Robert Vamosi, CNET Reviews, 4May 2007, http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6731442-1.html)

CALL FOR CONTROLS ONSYNTHETIC LIFE

An international scientific congress,Synthetic Biology 3.0, met in Zurich,

Switzerland, on 24–27 June to discuss thelatest advances in synthetic biology—thenew field of extreme genetic engineeringthat attempts to build synthetic life-forms.

Synthetic biologists contend that all theparts of life can be made synthetically (thatis, by chemistry) and then engineered in thelaboratory to produce "living machines"—fully working organisms programmed forparticular tasks. Some are being designedfor intentional environmental release.

Today there are about a dozen syntheticbiology companies worldwide, plus almost70 commercial "gene foundries" thatmanufacture designer DNA molecules for

industrial use. The first commercialproducts using synthetic biology (e.g., atextile fibre by DuPont) are about to enterthe market and there are concerns thatdangerous pathogens, such as smallpox orEbola virus, could now be constructed asbioweapons.

Because synthetic biology goes farbeyond the genetic engineering techniquespreviously used to develop geneticallymodified food and drugs, no laws have yetbeen developed that address its safety,security and social risks.

"Once more, a new technology isstorming ahead with no government orinternational body able to regulate orcontrol it," says biologist FlorianneKoechlin from SAG (the Swiss WorkingGroup on Gene Technology). "Once more,we hear from the scientific community,supported by industry and the military, thatthey have life under control and will soonbe able to construct it. But life is morethan the sum of its parts."

Koechlin is a member of the Swissgovernment-appointed ethics body that willinvestigate the implications of syntheticbiology later this year.

Already, US patent application no.20070122826, entitled "Minimal bacterialgenome", claims monopoly ownership of a"free-living organism that can grow andreplicate", whose genome (full geneticinformation) has been built entirely throughmechanical means.

Craig Venter, whose scientific institutefiled the patent application, has since toldBusiness Week that his team is only weeksor months away from building such a

synthetic organism, dubbed M y c o p l a s m alaboratorium. If they succeed, it will marka break with evolution as we know it.(Source: ETC news release, 25 June 2007,http://www.etcgroup.org)

CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF US INTELLIGENCE WORK

The US government now outsources avast portion of its spying operations to

private firms—and with zero publicaccountability.

More than five years into the global "waron terror", spying has become one of thefastest growing private industries in theUnited States. The federal governmentrelies more than ever on outsourcing forsome of its most sensitive work, though ithas kept details about its use of privatecontractors a closely guarded secret.Intelligence experts have warned—as hasthe government itself—of a critical lack ofoversight for the booming intelligencebusiness.

On 14 May at an industry conference inColorado sponsored by the DefenseIntelligence Agency, the US governmentrevealed for the first time that 70 per centof its classified intelligence budget is spenton private contracts.

Because nearly 90 per cent ofintelligence contracts are classified and thebudgets kept secret, it's difficult to draw upa list of top contractors and their revenuesderived from intelligence work.

Based on publicly available information,including filings from publicly tradedcompanies with the Securities andExchange Commission and company pressreleases and websites, the current top fiveintelligence contractors appear to beLockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman,SAIC, General Dynamics and L-3Communications.

Other major contractors include BoozAllen Hamilton, CACI International, DRSTechnologies and ManTech International.

The industry's growth and dependenceon government budgets has madeintelligence contracting an attractivemarket for former high-ranking nationalsecurity officials, like former CIA directorGeorge Tenet who now earns millions ofdollars working as a director and adviser tofour companies that hold contracts with USintelligence agencies and do big business inIraq and elsewhere. (Source: Tim Shorrock, Global Research, 3June 2007, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5868)

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... GL BAL NEWS ...FAMILY FARMERS FIGHT BACK

Small farmers—and the consumers whosupport them—celebrated the fourth of

July with the launch of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. The non-profit organisation was founded to protectthe rights of farmers to provide meat, eggs,raw dairy products, vegetables and otherfoods directly to consumers.

The opening celebration was attended byover 500 farmers and consumers whobelieve in the constitutional right to obtainraw milk and other foods directly fromfamily farms without interference byfederal, state and local governments.

"Farmers across the land are either beingforced into producing factory-qualityindustrial food and selling it throughcorporate channels or just closing down thefarm," says Minneapolis activist WillWinter, DVM. "Some who've tried to do itthe old-fashioned way have foundthemselves faced with huge fines and evenjail time." (Source: Press release, 4 July 2007, fromKaayla T. Daniel, PhD, Media Liaison,Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund,email [email protected])

US GETS MILITARY BASE IN WA

After three years of secret negotiationswith Australia, the United States is to

build a new military communications baseat Geraldton in Western Australia. Thebase is to provide an important link for anew network of secret US militarysatellites, and is the first big US militaryinstallation to be built in Australia since thecontroversy surrounding the joint spy baseat Pine Gap more than two decades ago.

Philip Dorling, visiting fellow at theAustralian Defence Force Academy, saidthat once the base was operating it wouldbe almost impossible for Australia to befully neutral or stand back from any war inwhich the US was involved.

Details of the deal emerged on the sameday as the US finally told Australia itwould not allow even its key all ies,including Australia, to buy its best fighteraircraft, the F-22 Raptor.

Defence minister Brendan Nelsonconfirmed that talks were continuing withthe US Defence Department which wantsto build more ground stations for itsMobile User Objective System (MUOS),an array of satellites being developed toprovide new-generation communicationsfor US and allied forces.(Source: The Age, 15 February 2007)

IRAQI COLLABORATOR EXPOSES AMERICAN DEATH SQUADS

The Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reports that a former Iraqicollaborator has disclosed some of the US activities such as assassinations and

bombings in markets that aim at sparking sectarian fighting among Iraqis so as tofacilitate the partition of the country. AMSI reported the source as saying that heworked with the US occupation troops for about two-and-a-half years and then wasable to flee from them to an area outside Baghdad.

The former collaborator, who asked not to be identified, recalled: "I was a soldierin the Iraqi Army in the war of 1991, and during the withdrawal from Kuwait Idecided to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia along with dozens of others like me. T h a twas how I was recruited into the American forces, for there were US militarycommittees that chose a number of Iraqis who were willing to volunteer to join themand be transported to America. I was one of those," he said.

The former collaborator went on: "In 1992 I was taken to America, specifically toan island where most of the establishments were military. I was with a number ofother Iraqis, one of them the former governor of an-Najaf, 'Adnan adh-Dharfi. Wereceived military training and intense courses in English and in how to carry outtasks like assassination," he recounted.

The former collaborator said that during the 2003 invasion and subsequent war,he was transported back to the interior of Iraq to carry out specific tasks assigned tohim by the US agencies.

"During the last war that led to the occupation of Iraq, I was with a group ofcomrades who had received training in America on how to spread chaos in theranks of the Iraqi Army. The unit that I was with settled in the presidential palace inthe al-A'zamiyah district. My job was being a guard, but after a time that situationchanged and the American occupation forces put me in charge of a group of a unitthat carried out assassinations in the streets of Baghdad," he said.

"Our task was to carry out assassinations of individuals. The US occupation armywould supply us with their names, pictures and maps of their daily movements toand from their place of residence and we were supposed to kill the Shi'i, forexample in [the Sunni district of] al-A'zamiyah, and kill the Sunni in [the Shi'idistrict of] Madinat as-Sadr, and so on. Anyone in the unit who made a mistake wask i l l e d . Three members of my team were killed by US occupation forces after theyfailed to assassinate Sunni political figures in Baghdad. A US force that had beenso-ordered eliminated them. That took place two years ago."

The former collaborator said that the Americans have a unit for "dirty jobs". T h a tunit is a mix of Iraqis, Americans and foreigners and of the security detachments thatare deployed in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. This unit doesn't only carry outassassinations, but some of its members specialise in planting bombs and car bombsin neighbourhoods and markets. This unit carries out operations in which wantedpeople whom the American Army does not want killed are arrested.

The former collaborator said that "...operations of planting car bombs and blowingup explosives in markets are carried out in various ways; the best-known and mostfamous among the US troops is placing a bomb inside cars as they are beingsearched at checkpoints. Another way is to put bombs in the cars duringinterrogations. After the desired person is summoned to one of the US bases, abomb is placed in his car and he is asked to drive to a police station or a market forsome purpose and there his car blows up."

AMSI noted that the testimony of the former collaborator is consistent with someWestern reports that have disclosed the involvement of US military personnel inbombings that target Iraqi civilians. The British reporter Robert Fisk, AMSI noted,had recently met with Iraqis in Syria concerning such "black operations" carried outby the Americans.

The Egyptian writer and former editor of A l - A h r a m, Muhammad HasanaynHaykal, also noted in an interview with A l - J a z e e r a satellite TV that there aremercenaries who practically make up an army second only to the regular US Armyin Iraq in terms of their numbers and equipment. This force is now called the"Knights of Malta", Haykal said, and they are the cause of many of the attacks thattarget Iraqi civilians. Haykal noted that there are Iraqis and Lebanese working inthe ranks of that force.(Source: Uruknet.info, 9 May 2007, http://uruknet.info/?p=m32781&s1=h1)


T H E S E C R E T H I S T O R Y O F T H E A M E R I C A N EMPIRE

John Perkins worked from 1971 to 1981 for the international consulting firm ofChas T. Main, where he was a self-confessed "economic hit man". Amy Goodmaninterviewed him on 5 June for the radio/TV news program Democracy Now!, andfollowing is an edited transcript. — Editor.

Amy Goodman (AG): Hundreds of thousands of protesters are gathering in Germanyahead of tomorrow's [6 June's] G8 meeting of the world's richest nations. The three-daysummit is being held in the coastal resort of Heiligendamm. German police have spentUS$18 million to erect an 12-kilometre-long, two-metre-high fence around the meeting site.Global warming will be high on the agenda. Going into the meeting, President Bush hasproposed to sideline the UN-backed Kyoto accords and set voluntary targets on reducingemissions of greenhouse gases. Other top issues will include foreign aid and new trade deals.

Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forcesdriving corporate globalisation. In his first book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, JohnPerkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders intocreating policy favourable to the US government and corporations, what he calls the"corporatocracy". John Perkins says he helped the US cheat poor countries around the globeout of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay andthen taking over their economies. John Perkins has just come out with his second book onthis issue. It's called The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men,Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption. John Perkins joins us now in the firehousestudio. Welcome to Democracy Now!.

John Perkins (JP): Thank you, Amy. It's great to be here.AG: Well, before we go further, "economic hit men": for those who haven't heard you

describe this, let alone describe yourself as this, what do you mean?JP: Well, really, I think it's fair to say that since World War II, we economic hit men have

managed to create the world's first truly global empire, and we've done it primarily withoutthe military, unlike other empires in history. We've done it through economics very subtly.

We work many different ways, but perhaps the most common one is that we will identify aThird World country that has resources our corporations covet, such as oil, and then wearrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of its sister organisations.The money never actually goes to the country. It goes instead to US corporations, who buildbig infrastructure projects—power grids, industrial parks, harbours, highways—things thatbenefit a few very rich people but do not reach the poor at all. The poor aren't connected tothe power grids. They don't have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks. But they and thewhole country are left holding this huge debt, and it's such a big debt that the country can'tpossibly repay it. So at some point in time, we economic hit men go back to the country andsay: "Look, you know, you owe us a lot of money. You can't pay your debt, so you've got togive us a pound of flesh."

AG: Explain your history. What made you an economic hit man?JP: Well, when I graduated from business school at Boston University, I was recruited by

the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and perhaps most secretive spyo r g a n i s a t i o n .

AG: People sometimes think the CIA is that, but the NSA is many times larger.JP: Yeah, it is larger. It's much larger. At least it was in those days. And it's very, very

secretive. There's a lot of rumours. We know quite a lot about the CIA, I think, but we know

Having once helpedto overthrow ThirdWorld leaders for

the sake ofcorporate profits,John Perkins now

campaigns toconvince

corporations tobecome

economically,socially and

environmentallyresponsible.

Interview with John Perkins

by Amy Goodman 5 June 2007

from Democracy Now!Webpage:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/149254


very, very little about the NSA. It claims to work only incryptography, encoding and decoding messages, but in fact we allknow that they're the people who have been listening in on ourtelephone conversations. That's come out recently. And they're avery, very secretive organisation.

They put me through a series of tests, very extensive tests, liedetector tests, psychological tests, during my last year in college.And I think it's fair to say that they identified me as a good potentialeconomic hit man. They also identified a number of weaknesses inmy character that would make it relatively easy for them to hook me,to bring me in. And I think those weaknesses I [inaudible] mightcall the three big drugs of our culture: money, power and sex. Whoamongst us doesn't have one of them? I had all three at the time.

And then I joined the Peace Corps. I was encouraged to do thatby the National Security Agency. I spent three years in Ecuadorliving with indigenous people in the Amazon and the Andes, peoplewho today and at that time were beginning to fight the oilcompanies. In fact, the largest environmental lawsuit in the historyof the world has just been brought by these people against Texaco,Chevron. And that was incredibly good training for what I was tod o .

And then, while I was still in the Peace Corps, I was brought inand recruited into a US privatecorporation called Charles T. Main, aconsulting firm out of Boston of about2,000 employees, a very low-profilefirm that did a tremendous amount ofwork of what I came to understand wasthe work of economic hit men, as Idescribed it earlier, and that's the role Ibegan to fulfil and eventually I kind ofrose to the top of that organisation as itschief economist.

AG: And how did that tie to theNSA? Was there a connection?

JP: You know, what's veryinteresting about this whole system, Amy,is that there's no direct connection. The NSA had interviewed me,identified me and then essentially turned me over to this privatecorporation. It's a very subtle and very smart system, whereby it'sthe private industry that goes out and does this work. So if we'recaught doing something, if we're caught bribing or corrupting localofficials in some country, it's blamed on private industry, not on theUS government.

And it's interesting that in the few instances when economic hitmen fail, what we call "the jackals", who are people who come in tooverthrow governments or assassinate their leaders, also come out ofprivate industry. These are not CIA employees. We all have thisimage of the 007, the government agent hired to kill, you know, withlicence to kill, but these days the government agents, in myexperience, don't do that. It's done by private consultants that arebrought in to do this work. And I've known a number of theseindividuals personally and still do.

AG: In your book The Secret History of the American Empire ,you talk about taking on global power at every level. Right now,we're seeing these mass protests taking place in Germany ahead ofthe G8 meeting. Talk about the significance of these.

JP: Well, I think it's extremely significant. Something ishappening in the world today, which is very, very important. Yeah,as we watched the headlines this morning...what we can absolutelysay is we live in a very dangerous world. It's also a very smallworld, where we're able to know immediately what's going on inGermany or in the middle of the Amazon or anywhere else. And

we're finally beginning to understand around the world, I think, thatthe only way my children or grandchildren or any child orgrandchild anywhere on this planet is going to be able to have apeaceful, stable and sustainable world is if every child has that. TheG8 hasn't got that yet.

AG: Explain what the Group of Eight are.JP: Well, the Group of Eight are the wealthiest countries in the

world, and basically they run the world. And the leader is theUnited States, and it's actually the corporations within thesecompanies—countries, excuse me—that run it. It's not thegovernments because, after all, the governments serve at thepleasure of the corporations. In our own country, we know that thenext two final presidential candidates, Republican and Democratalike, are each going to have to raise something like half a billiondollars. And that's not going to come from me and you. Primarilythat's going to come from the people who own and run our bigcorporations. They're totally beholden to the government. So theG8, really, is this group of countries that represent the biggestmultinational corporations in the world and really serve at theirb e h e s t .

And what we're seeing now in Europe—and we're seeing it verystrongly in Latin America, in the Middle East—is this huge

undercurrent of resistance, of protest,against this empire that's been built outof this. And it's been such a subtleempire that people haven't been awareof it, because it wasn't built by themilitary. It was built by economic hitmen. Most of us aren't aware of it.

Most Americans have no idea thatthese incredible lifestyles that we alllead are because we're part of a veryvicious empire that literally enslavespeople around the world, misusespeople. But we're beginning tounderstand this. And the Europeans andthe Latin Americans are at the forefront

of this understanding.

E C O N O M I C H I T M E N I N L A T I N A M E R I C AAG: Let's talk back, going to Latin America, about this

Chevron–Texaco lawsuit.JP: Well, that's extremely significant. When I was sent to

Ecuador as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1968, Texaco had just goneinto Ecuador, and the promise to the Ecuadorian people at that timefrom Texaco and their own politicians and the World Bank was "Oilis going to pull this country out of poverty". And people believed it.I believed it at the time. The exact opposite has happened. Oil hasmade the country much more impoverished, while Texaco has madefortunes off this. It's also destroyed vast areas of the Amazonr a i n f o r e s t .

So the lawsuit today that's being brought by a New Yorklawyer—Steve Donziger, here in New York—and someEcuadorian lawyers is for $6 billion, the largest environmentallawsuit in the history of the world, in the name of 30,000 Ecuadorianpeople against Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron, fordumping over 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorianrainforest. That's 30 times more than the Exxon Valdez [oil spilldisaster]. And dozens and dozens of people have died and arecontinuing to die of cancer and other pollution-related diseases inthis area of the Amazon. So all this oil has come out of this area,and it's the poorest area of one of the poorest countries in thehemisphere. And the irony of that is just so amazing.

"So the G8, really, is this group of countries thatrepresent the biggest

multinational corporations in the world and really serve at their behest."


But what I think is one of the really significant things about this,Amy, is that this law firm has taken this on, not pro bono, but theyexpect if they win the case, which they expect to do, to make a lot ofmoney out of it, which is a philosophical decision. It isn't becausethey wanted to get rich off this. It's because they want to encourageother law firms to do similar things in Nigeria and in Indonesia andin Bolivia, in Venezuela and many other places. So they want to seea business grow out of this, of law firms going in and defendingpoor people, knowing that they can get a payoff from the bigcompanies who have acted so terribly, terribly, terribly irresponsiblyin the past.

And Steve Donziger, the attorney, an American attorney with verygood credentials...I was in Ecuador with him just two weeks ago,and one of the very touching things he said was: "I've seen a lot ofcompanies make mistakes and then try to defend themselves in lawcourts."

And he said: "That's one thing. But in thiscase, Texaco didn't make mistakes. This wasdone with intent. They knew what they weredoing. To save a few bucks, they killed a lot ofpeople."

And now they're going to be forced to payfor that, to take responsibility for that, andhopefully open the door to make manycompanies take responsibility for the wantondestruction that's occurred.

AG: Let's talk about Latin America and itsleaders, like Jaime Roldós. Talk about him andhis significance. You wrote about him in yourfirst book, Confessions of an Economic HitM a n.

JP: Yeah, Jaime Roldós was anamazing man. After many years ofmilitary dictators in Ecuador—US puppetdictators—there was a democraticelection and one man, Jaime Roldós, ranon a platform that said Ecuadorianresources ought to be used to help theEcuadorian people—and specifically oil,which at that time was just coming in.This was in the late '70s. And I was sentto Ecuador, and I was also sent at thesame time to Panama to work with OmarTorrijos, to bring these men around, tocorrupt them...change their minds.

You know, in the case of Jaime Roldós,he won the election by a landslide, and now he started to put intoaction his policy, his promises, and was going to tax the oilcompanies. If they weren't willing to give much more of theirprofits back to the Ecuadorian people, then he threatened tonationalise them. So I was sent down, along with other economic hitmen—I played a fairly minor role in that case and a major one inPanama with Torrijos—but we were sent into these countries to getthese men to change their policies, to go against their own campaignpromises.

And basically what you do is you tell them: "Look, you know, ifyou play our game, I can make you and your family very healthy. Ican make sure that you get very rich. If you d o n ' t play our game, ifyou follow your campaign promises, you may go the way of Allendein Chile or Arbenz in Guatemala or Lumumba in the Congo." Onand on—we can list all these presidents that we've either overthrownor assassinated because they didn't play our game. But Jaime wouldnot come around, Jaime Roldós.

He stayed incorruptible, as did Omar Torrijos. From an economichit man perspective, this was very disturbing, because not only did Iknow I was likely to fail at my job but I knew that, if I failed,something dire was going to happen: the jackals would come in,and they would either overthrow these men or assassinate them.And in both cases, these men were assassinated, I have no doubt.They died in airplane crashes two months apart from each other in1981: single plane—their own private planes crashed.

AG: Explain more of what happened with Omar Torrijos.JP: Well, Omar, again, was very stalwartly standing up to the

United States, demanding that the Panama Canal should be ownedby Panamanians. And I spent a lot of time with Torrijos, and I likedhim very, very much as an individual. He was extremelycharismatic, extremely courageous and very nationalistic aboutwanting to get the best for his people. And I couldn't corrupt him. Itried everything I could possibly do to bring him around. And as I

was failing, I was also very concerned thatsomething would happen to him. And sureenough—it was interesting that Jaime Roldós'splane crashed in May, and Torrijos got hisfamily together and said: "I'm probably next,but I'm ready to go. We've now got the Canalturned over." He had signed a treaty withJimmy Carter to get the Canal in Panamanianhands. He said: "I've accomplished my job,and I'm ready to go now." And he had a dreamabout being in a plane that hit a mountain. Andwithin two months after it happened to Roldós,it happened to Torrijos also.

AG: And you met with both these men?JP: Yes, I'd met with both of them.

AG: What were your conversationsl i k e ?

JP: Well, especially with Torrijos, Ispent a lot of time with him in someformal meetings and also at cocktailparties and barbecues—he was big onthings like that—and was constantlytrying to get him to come around to ourside and letting him know that if he did,he and his family would get some verylucrative contracts, would become verywealthy, and, you know, warning him.And he didn't really need much warning,because he knew what would be likely tohappen if he didn't. And his attitude was:

"I want to get done what I can in my lifetime, and then so be it."And it's been interesting, Amy, that since I wrote the book

C o n f e s s i o n s . . . Marta Roldós, who's Jaime's daughter, has come tothe United States to meet with me, and I just spent time with her inEcuador. She is now a member of parliament in Ecuador, justelected, and she married Omar Torrijos's nephew. And it's reallyinteresting to hear their stories about what was going on—she wasseventeen at the time her parents died; her mother was also in theplane, and the two of them died in that plane—and then to hear hertalk about how her husband, Omar's nephew, was in that meetingwhen the family was called together and Omar said: "I'm probablynext, but I'm ready to go. I've done my job. I've done what I coulddo for my people. So I'm ready to go, if that's what has to happen."

AG: So, what were your conversations at the time with other so-called economic hit men? I mean, you became the chief [economist]at Charles Main.

JP: Right. Well, you know, when I was with other people—we

"And basically what youdo is you tell them:

'Look, you know, if youplay our game...I can

make sure that you getvery rich. If you don'tplay our game, if youfollow your campaignpromises, you may gothe way of...all thesepresidents that we'veeither overthrown or

assassinated.'"


could be sitting at a table, say, in the Hotel Panama, knowing thatwe're both here to win these guys over, but we also had our officialjobs, which were to do studies on the economy to show how, if thecountry accepted the loan, it was going to improve its gross nationalp r o d u c t . . .

So we were producing these economic reports that would prove tothe World Bank and to Omar Torrijos that if he accepted these hugeloans then his country's gross national product would just mushroomand pull his people out of poverty. And we produced these reportswhich made sense from a mathematical econometric standpoint. Infact, it often happened with these loans that the GNP, the grossnational product, d i d increase.

But what also was true—and what Omar knew and Jaime Roldósknew and I was coming to know very strongly—was that, even if thegeneral economy increased, the poor people with these loans wouldget poorer. The rich would make all themoney, because most of the poor peopleweren't even tied in to the gross nationalproduct. A lot of them didn't even makeincome. They were living off subsistencefarming. They benefited from nothing, butthey were left holding the debt, and because ofthese huge debts their country in the long termwould not be able to provide them with healthcare, education and other social services.

CHEAP COLTAN A N D DEATH IN T H EC O N G O

AG: Talk about Congo.JP: Oh, boy. The whole story of Africa and

the Congo is such a devastating and sadone. And it's the hidden story, really. Wein the United States don't even talk aboutAfrica; we don't think about Africa.Congo has something called coltan,which probably most of your listenersmay not even have heard of but everycellphone and laptop computer has coltanin it.

And several million people in the lastfew years in the Congo have been killedover coltan, because you and I and all ofus in the G8 countries want to see ourcomputers and our cellphonesinexpensive. And of course, thecompanies that make these sell them on that basis, that "Oh, here,mine's $200 less than the other company's". But in order to do that,these people in the Congo are being enslaved. The miners, thepeople mining coltan—they're being killed. There are these vastwars going on to provide us with cheap coltan.

And I have to say, you know, if we want to live in a safe world,we need to, we must be willing to, and in fact we must demand thatwe pay higher prices for things like laptop computers and cellphonesand that a good share of that money go back to the people who aremining the coltan. And that's true of oil. It's true of so manyresources that we are not paying the true cost, and there are millionsof people around the world suffering from that. Roughly 50,000people die every single day from hunger or hunger-related diseasesand curable diseases that they don't get the medicines for, simplybecause they're part of a system that demands that they put in longhours and they get very, very low pay, so we can have thingscheaper in this country. And the Congo is an incredibly potentexample of that.

WARS AND T H E C O R P O R A T O C R A C YAG: You talk about the so-called defeats in Vietnam and Iraq and

what they mean for corporations.JP: Yeah, well...we, you and I, look at them as defeats, perhaps,

and certainly anybody who lost a child or a sibling or a spouse inthese countries looks at them as disasters, as defeats, but thecorporations made a huge amount of money off Vietnam—themilitary industry, huge corporations, the construction companies.And, of course, they're doing it in a very, very big way in Iraq. Sothe corporatocracy, the people that are in fact insisting that ouryoung men and women continue to go to Iraq and fight, they'remaking a tremendous amount of money. These are not failures forthem; they're successes from a very strong economic standpoint.And I know that sounds cynical. I am cynical about these things.I've been there. I've seen it. And, you know, we must learn not to

put up with that any more. All of us.AG: It's the 40th anniversary of the 1967

Israeli–Arab war. You talk about Israel being a"Fortress America" in the Middle East.

JP: I think it's very sad and very telling,once again, that the Israeli people, for the mostpart, are led to believe that they've been giventhis land as a pay-off, basically, for theHolocaust, because they deserve to berecompensed. And, of course, the Holocaustwas terrible, and they do deserve to be takencare of and recompensed and have stability.But why would we locate that place in themiddle of the Arab world, their traditionalenemies? Why would we locate that place in

such an unstable area? It's because it isserving as a huge fortress for us in thebiggest oil fields known in the worldtoday, and we knew this when Israel waslocated there...

So, in fact, we built this vast militarybase, armed camp, in the middle of theMiddle Eastern oilfields that aresurrounded by the Arab communities, andin the process we've obviously created atremendous amount of resentment andanger and a situation where it's verydifficult to see any positive outcomethere. But the fact of the matter is: ourhaving this military base in Israel has

been a huge defence for us. It's been a place where we could reallylaunch attacks, rely on. It's been our equivalent of the crusaders'castles in the Middle East. And it's very, very sad. I think it'sextremely sad for the Israeli people that they're caught up in all ofthis. I think it's extremely sad for the American people. It'sextremely sad for the world that this is going on.

AG: As we crisscross the globe, John Perkins, which is exactlywhat you did in your years as an international consultant, havingbeen groomed by the National Security Agency but then becoming atop economist in an international consulting firm, you have alsowritten books about shamanism. You also write about Tibet. Wheredoes Tibet fit into this picture?

JP: Well, you know, I was just in Tibet a couple of years ago,and it was an interesting thing because I took a group of about 30people into Tibet with me as part of a non-profit organisation... Ofcourse, Tibet right now is very depressing because the Chinesepresence is extremely strong and you see how the Tibetan culturehas been put down. And you're always aware that there are Chinese

"But the fact of thematter is: our havingthis military base in

Israel has been a hugedefence for us.

It's been a place where we could really

launch attacks, and rely on. It's beenour equivalent of thecrusaders' castles in

the Middle East."


soldiers and spies all around you. Many of the people on the tripcame to the realisation that this is terrible here. "Free Tibet"—we allknow about that; but the ones who had been with me on a trip to theAmazon, where the oil companies and our own military are doingthe same things, said: "But doesn't this remind us of what we'redoing in so much of the world?" It's something we tend to forget.

We can all wave banners about "Free Tibet", which we should,but how about freeing the countries that are under our thumb, too? Ihate to say it this way, because some people might disagree with me,but I think Iraq is in worse shape than Tibet is these days, althoughboth of them are in pretty bad shape. But so, what we saw in Tibetis that same kind of model that we're implementing around theworld. And yet, most Americans are not aware that we're doing it.They're aware that the Chinese are doing it, but not aware that w e ' r edoing it on actually a much bigger level than the Chinese are.

S E E I N G T H E L I G H TAG: John, talk about your transformation. You were making a

lot of money. You were travelling theworld. You were in a position whereyou were meeting presidents and primeministers of countries, bringing them totheir knees. What made you change andthen, ultimately, make the decision towrite about it?

JP: You know, Amy, when I first gotstarted, I grew up with 300, 400 years ofYankee Calvinism in New Hampshireand Vermont, with very strong moralprinciples; came from a prettyconservative Republican family. And allduring the 10 years that I was aneconomic hit man, from '71 to '81, I waspretty young, but it bothered my conscience. And yet, everybodywas telling me I was doing the right thing. Like you said, presidentsof countries, the president of the World Bank, Robert McNamara,patted me on the back. I was asked to lecture at Harvard and manyother places about what I was doing. And what I was doing was notillegal—should be, but it isn't. And yet, in my heart, it always tore atmy conscience. I'd been a Peace Corps volunteer. I saw. As timewent by and I began to understand more and more, it got to be moreand more difficult for me to continue doing this. I had a staff ofabout four dozen people working for me. Things were building up.

Then, one day I was on vacation, sailing in the Virgin Islands, andI anchored my little boat off St John Island and I took the dinghy in[to shore] and climbed this mountain...up to this old sugar caneplantation in ruins. It was beautiful. Bougainvillea. The Sun wassetting. I sat there and felt very peaceful. And then suddenly Irealised that this plantation had been built on the bones of thousandsof slaves. And then I realised that the whole hemisphere had beenbuilt on the bones of millions of slaves. I got very angry and sad.And then it suddenly struck me that I was continuing that sameprocess and that I was a slaver, that I was making the same thinghappen in a slightly...in a different way, more subtle way, but just asbad in terms of its outcome. At that point, I made the decision Iwould never do it again. And I went back to Boston a couple ofdays later and quit.

AG: So, you quit, but that was one step. Writing about it wasanother. Talk about your attempts over time.

JP: Oh, yes. After I quit, I tried several times to write the bookthat became Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and, each time Ireached out to other economic hit men I had worked with or jackalsto try to get their stories, word got out and I was threatened. I had a

young daughter at the time. She's now twenty-five. And I also wasoffered some bribes. In fact, I accepted a bribe of about half amillion dollars. It's what's called a "legal bribe", but it's a bribe, andit was given to me with the condition that I not write the book.There was no question about that. I describe it in detail.

I assuaged my guilt by putting a lot of that money into non-profitsI had formed—Dream Change and Pachamama Alliance—that arehelping Amazonian people fight oil companies. But I didn't writethe story. This happened a number of times, and I would find oneexcuse or another, and I wrote other books about indigenous people.I worked with these people. I wrote the books you mentioned earlierabout shamanism and so forth...

And then, on 9/11, I was in the Amazon with the Shuar people. Ihad taken a group of people from a non-profit in to learn fromindigenous people in the Amazon. But shortly after that, I came upto New York to Ground Zero, and as I stood there looking down intothat terrible pit, that smouldering pit, and it still smelled of burningflesh, I realised that I had to write the book—I could no longer defer

it; the American people had nounderstanding of why so many peoplearound the world are angry andfrustrated and terrified—and that I hadto take responsibility for what happenedat 9/11. In fact, we all have to take acertain responsibility, which is not inany way to condone mass murder byanybody, ever—I'm not condoning thatin any way—but I did realise that theAmerican people needed to understandwhy there's so much anger around theworld. I had to write the book.

So this time I didn't tell anyone I waswriting it, and even my wife and

daughter knew I was writing something but didn't know what. Ididn't reach out to other people. It made it a little more difficult towrite it. But finally I got it in the hands of a very good New Yorkagent and he sent it out to publishers. At that point, this manuscriptbecomes my best insurance policy, as if something strange happensto me, including now, suddenly the book will sell. Even though it'sbeen a bestseller for a long time, it will sell a lot more copies, if...People sometimes laugh and say, "Do you worry that your publishermay be trying to assassinate you, because it would certainly helpbook sales?" I don't worry about it. So at that point, once I got themanuscript there, it became my insurance policy.

A S S A S S I N S A N D C O U P SAG: You write "a jackal is born" about Jack Corbin. Who is he?JP: Well, Jack Corbin—and that's not his real name, but he's a

real person—is alive and well today, working for us in Iraq. But heis a jackal, he is an assassin. And one of the most fascinating stories,I think, involves Seychelles, which is a small country, an islandcountry, off the coast of Africa. And it happens to be located nearDiego Garcia, one of the United States's most strategic air bases.

There's a long history behind Diego Garcia. But in the late '70s,Seychelles had a president who was very friendly to us, JamesMancham, and he was overthrown in a bloodless coup by [France-Albert] René, a socialist. And René threatened to get us out ofDiego Garcia, to expose the real facts behind the terrible things thatwent on to put us in Diego Garcia. There's a lot of details that Iwon't get into now...

AG: Also, Diego Garcia is very significant as a military base.JP: Extremely significant. And it was used—it's being used—in

Afghanistan and Iraq and sorties that we fly in to Africa or any part

"What we saw in Tibet is thatsame kind of model that we're

[USA] implementing around theworld. Yet most Americans...are aware that the Chinese are

doing it, but not aware thatwe're doing it on a much bigger

level than the Chinese are."


of that world. In any case, I was called off the job, and a little whilelater a team of assassins were sent in from South Africa—forty-five,forty-six, I can't remember the exact number, were sent in as a rugbyteam to bring in Christmas gifts to children of the Seychelles, buttheir real job was to overthrow the government and assassinateRené. At the time, I didn't know these individuals. Now, I knowJack Corbin. I know him very well, personally. I've met him since.Our paths crossed back then, but we didn't know each other.

AG: What exactly did he do?JP: Well, the team went in, and they were apprehended at the

airport. A security guard discovered a hidden weapon on one ofthem. A huge gun battle broke out at the Mahi airport, and thesemercenaries were surrounded by perhaps a thousand soldiers on theoutside. Jack told me it was one of the few times in his life where hefigured he was going to die and had time to think about it. Manytimes he could have died, but he just reacted quickly. And theydidn't know what to do, but eventually an Air India 707 came intoview and asked permission to land, and [was given] permission toland. As soon as it landed, theyhijacked it and they flew it back toDurban, South Africa.

This was now on US national news,and...I didn't know what was going tohappen when I was called off the case,but now I'm seeing it unfold. And to theworld, what we saw was that this planeflies into Durban, South Africa,surrounded by South African securityguards. The men on the plane givethemselves up. They march off.They're sent to court and then sentencedto prison, and some, I think, toexecution, and that's the end of the story asfar as we know.

Now that I know Jack, what actually happened was when theplane was surrounded, the security forces got on the telephone withthe plane and discovered there were their good friend—theirteachers in fact—on the plane. They worked out a deal. The mengave themselves up. They did spend three months in prison. Theyhad their own wing with television, etc., and then were quietlyreleased after three months. A lot of those same men, that team,today are in Iraq working for us there, doing things that, you know,our soldiers are forbidden from doing. And they're making verygood money doing it.

AG: Who is this man, Jack Corbin, working for today in Iraq?JP: Well, he works for a private company in Iraq that has a

contract, you know, that comes through the Pentagon, CIA, one ofthose organisations. So, like so much of this work, there's atremendous number of these mercenaries there, as you've reportedon this program. Jack Corbin and his people are at the very top ofthat level. They're the extremely skilled ones who do the reallydelicate work. We've also got a lot of people working forBlackwater and others that, you know, are not quite as skilled andare just out there doing kind of the grunt work. But there are allkinds at that level.

C R E A T I N G C O R P O R A T E C I T I Z E N SAG: John Perkins, what do you see as the solutions right now?JP: Well, Amy, this empire that we've created really has an

emperor, and it's not the president of this country. The presidentserves for a short period of time, but it doesn't really matter whetherwe have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or runningCongress: the empire goes on because it's really run by what I call

the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggestcorporations. This isn't a conspiracy theory. They don't need toconspire. They all know what serves their best interest. But theyreally are the equivalent of the emperor because they do not serve atthe wish of the people, they're not democratically elected, they don'tserve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one excepttheir own boards, and most corporate CEOs actually run theirboards, rather than the other way around. And they are the powerbehind this. And so, if we want to turn this around, we have toimpact them very strongly, which means that we have to change thecorporations, which is their power base. Today corporations existfor the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few veryrich people a lot richer on a quarterly basis, on a daily basis, on avery short-term basis... There is no reason for that to be.

Corporations have been defined as individuals. Individuals haveto be good citizens. Corporations need to be good citizens. Theirprimary goal must be to take care of their employees, theircustomers and all the people around the world who provide the

resources that go into making this worldrun, and to take care of the environmentsand the communities where those peoplel i v e .

We must get the corporations toredefine themselves, and I think it's veryrealistic that we can do so. Everycorporate executive out there is smartenough to realise that he's running a veryfailed system... It has to change.Corporate executives know that... Ibelieve that they want to see change...We must convince them that theircorporations need to be institutions tomake this a better world, rather than

institutions that serve a few very rich people and whose goal is tomake those people even richer.

We need to turn this around. We m u s t.

E C U A D O R R E V I S I T E DAG: I want to ask one last quick question on Ecuador. Ecuador's

defence minister Guadalupe Larriva died in a helicopter crash nearthe Manta US Air Base installation [on 24 January]. Do you knowanything about that?

JP: Well, yeah. I just came from Ecuador and everybody istalking about it, because the same thing happened to Jaime Roldós'sminister of defence before he [Roldós] was assassinated. The factthat it happened next to the US Air Base in Manta and it was a freakcrash, two helicopters colliding, and with the similarities with whathappened to Jaime Roldós—people all through Ecuador are sayingthis was a warning to Rafael Correa, the new President of Ecuador.

AG: We're going to have to leave it there. John Perkins, thanksfor joining us. John Perkins's new book is called The Secret Historyof the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truthabout Global Corruption. ∞

Editor's Note:

This is an abridged, edited version of Amy Goodman's interviewwith John Perkins for Democracy Now! radio and television. Forthe complete transcript, go to http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/149254. John Perkins's book C o n f e s s i o n sof an Economic Hit Man was reviewed in NEXUS 12/06. Hisessay on the dark side of globalisation was published in A GameAs Old As Empire, reviewed in NEXUS 14/04. His new book T h eSecret History of the American Empire is reviewed in this edition.

"We must get the corporationsto redefine themselves...

Every corporate executive out there is smart enough torealise that he's running a

very failed system."

The Sun has set on Bilderberg 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. After a sumptuous lunchon this warm and sunny 3rd June, most Bilderbergers returned to their countriesof choice, freshly armed with precise instructions from the Steering Committeeon how to proceed in covertly expanding the powers of One World Government.

Amongst this year's luminaries in attendance were: Henry Kissinger; Henry Kravis ofKKR; Marie-Josée Kravis of Hudson Institute; Vernon Jordan; Etienne Davignon,Bilderberg Group President; Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, daughter ofone of the founders, Prince Bernhard; and the King and Queen of Spain.

As a rhetorical question, can someone please explain to me how it is that progressiveliberals such as John Edwards and Hillary Clinton as well as do-gooder humanitarianswith multiple social projects on the go, such as David Rockefeller and every Royal Housein Europe, can perennially attend Bilderberg meetings knowing that the final objective ofthis despicable group of hoodlums is a fascist One World Empire? How could it beorchestrated?

The idea is to give to each country a political constitution and an appropriate nationaleconomic structure, organised for the following purposes: (1) to place political powerinto the hands of chosen people and eliminate all intermediaries; (2) to establish amaximum concentration of industries and suppress all unwarranted competition; (3) toestablish absolute control of prices of all goods and raw materials (Bilderbergers make itpossible through their iron-grip control of The World Bank, the International MonetaryFund and the World Trade Organization); and (4) to create judicial and social institutionsthat would prevent all extremes of action.

NOT PRIVATE, BUT SECRETAlthough participants emphatically attest that they attend the Club's annual meeting as

private citizens and not in their official government capacity, that affirmation is dubious—particularly when you compare the Chatham House Rule with the Logan Act in the UnitedStates, where it is absolutely illegal for elected officials to meet in private with influentialbusiness executives to debate and design public policy.

Bilderberg meetings follow a traditional protocol founded in 1919, in the wake of theParis Peace Conference held at Versailles, by the Royal Institute of International Affairs(RIIA) based at Chatham House in London. While the name Chatham House iscommonly used to refer to the Institute itself, the Royal Institute of International Affairs isthe foreign policy executive arm of the British monarchy.

According to RIIA procedures: "When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under theChatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither theidentity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may berevealed; nor may it be mentioned that the information was received at a meeting of theInstitute."

The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority frominterfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. However,there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for itto be used as a political weapon.

Those who have attended Bilderberg Group meetings over the years and flouted theLogan Act include: Allen Dulles (CIA); Senator William J. Fulbright (from Arkansas, aRhodes Scholar); Dean Acheson (Secretary of State under President Truman); NelsonRockefeller and Laurance Rockefeller; former President Gerald Ford; Henry J. Heinz II

Discussions at the2007 BilderbergGroup meetings

covered concernsover the World

Bank presidency,Russia's muscle-flexing on energy

issues and thefailure of US-ledNATO forces in

Afghanistan.

by Daniel Estulin © June 2007

Email: [email protected]

Website:http://www.danielestulin.com



(former CEO, H. J. Heinz Co.); Thomas L. Hughes (formerPresident of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace);Robert S. McNamara (President Kennedy's Secretary of Defenseand former President of the World Bank); William P. Bundy(former President of the Ford Foundation, and former editor of theCouncil on Foreign Relations' Foreign Affairs journal); John J.McCloy (former President of Chase Manhattan Bank); George F.Kennan (former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union); Paul H.Nitze (former representative of Schroeder Bank; Nitze played avery prominent role in matters of arms control agreements, whichhave always been under the direction of the RIIA); Robert O.Anderson (former Chairman, Atlantic Richfield Co., andChairman, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies); John D.Rockefeller IV (former Governor of West Virginia, now USSenator); Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State under PresidentCarter); Eugene Black (former President ofthe World Bank); Joseph Johnson (formerPresident, Carnegie Endowment forInternational Peace); Gen. Andrew J.Goodpaster (former Supreme AlliedCommander in Europe, and laterSuperintendent of West Point Academy);Zbigniew Brzezinski (National SecurityAdviser to President Carter, co-founder of theTrilateral Commission); General AlexanderHaig (once European NATO Commander,former assistant to Henry Kissinger, and laterS ecretary of State under President Reagan);James S. Rockefeller (former President andChairman, First National City Bank,now Citibank).

BILDERBERG 2007CONCLUSIONS

Thanks to our inside sources at theconference, we have compiled what webelieve to be an accurate and a crediblemodel of the Bilderberg 2007conclusions. Following is a summaryof some key points with someadditional commentary added. Othersubjects discussed were climate changeand global warming, Turkey's role inthe new European Union, World Bankreforms, Middle East geopolitics, the conflict in Iraq, Iran'spotential nuclear threat, and the future of democracy andpopulism.

Robert Zoellick and The World Bank The United States delegation is standing unanimously behind

Robert Zoellick's candidacy as the next President of The WorldBank. Zoellick is a 53-year-old Wall Street executive, a formerofficial in two Bush administrations and a free-marketfundamentalist. During the meeting, he pledged "to work torestore confidence in the bank". "We need to put our differencesaside and focus on the future together. I believe that the WorldBank's best days are still to come," Zoellick said. The chances ofZoellick not being approved for the presidency are slim to none.The final decision is to be made in late June by the bank's 24-member board of directors.

The United States and Europe have a tacit agreement betweenthem that the World Bank's President should always be a USnational, while its sister institution, the International Monetary

Fund (IMF), should always be headed by a European.Nevertheless, according to our sources at the conference,European Bilderbergers are not at all pleased with continuing thestatus quo, in which the US nominates a single candidate afterinformal consultations with World Bank members.

The Zoellick nomination also appears to short-circuitburgeoning calls for reform of this selection process at the WorldBank, one of the cornerstones of the global financial architectureas designed by the victors of World War II. One BelgianBilderberger proposed "a merit-based selection process, withoutregard to nationality", something which will obviously bediscarded by the inept Bush administration. What is quiteremarkable is that on several occasions European Bilderbergersopenly rejected the current model, saying "the nomination reeksof double standards", especially because both the USA and the

World Bank preach accountability andtransparency to developing countries—themain clients of the bank.

But with the IMF under the control of aSpaniard, Rodrigo Rato, and the EuropeanCentral Bank headed by a Frenchman, Jean-Claude Trichet, it was difficult to imagine thatthe USA would give up control of the WorldBank. Only the US Federal Reserve wouldremain in the hands of the Americans.

"Replacing one Bush appointee withanother will not resolve the fundamentalgovernance problems of the World Bank,"said one Scandinavian. "Member

governments should reject a back-doordeal that leaves the bank's governancestructure intact, and should press for anopen, merit-based selection process," hesaid.

Zoellick's name also raised eyebrowsamong development groups for his closeties to the US establishment andcorporate interests.

One of the attendees (I have not beenable to confirm this individual's identity)asked Zoellick how he was planning topatch up relationships with Third andFourth World nations when he is bestremembered during his tenure as US

Trade Representative for arm-twisting poor nations' governmentsto adhere to US-imposed intellectual-property laws that makemedicines, for example, unaffordable in the developing world.Zoellick has been a close friend to the brand-name pharmaceuticalindustry, and the bilateral trade agreements he has negotiatedeffectively block access to generic medications for millions ofpeople.

However, what has really riled both the American andEuropean delegates is the fact that the World Bank's dirty linen isbeing washed in public, thanks in great part to Paul Wolfowitzand his ineptness, which incidentally he has blamed on the press.

[P o s t s c r i p t : On 25 June, Robert Zoellick was unanimouslyelected President of The World Bank for a five-year term, takingover from Paul Wolfowitz on 1 July. In a statement posted athttp://www.worldbank.org, he said: "Once I start at the WorldBank, I will be eager to meet the people who drive the agenda ofovercoming poverty in all regions, with particular attention toAfrica, advancing social and economic development, investing ingrowth, and encouraging hope, opportunity and dignity."]

The United States andEurope have a tacitagreement between

them that the World Bank's President

should always be a US national, while its sister institution,

the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF),

should always beheaded by a European.

Relations with RussiaAnother issue of great concern to both American and European

Bilderbergers is Russia's current muscle-flexing on the issue ofenergy. The controversy over the TNK-BP licence, BP's Russianventure, is just one of many circumstances causing anger amongstthe globalist elite.

One American Bilderberger said that after years of economicstagnation, "Russia is acting against unipolarity's accommodatingideologies and politics, against its recently resurgentmanifestations and machinations, and against the instruments ofits perpetuation, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[NATO]".

Bilderberg 2007 served as a consensus-building exercise todecide on a common policy and strategy to deal with Russia'sresurgence. In particular, Bilderberg is not at all happy withRussia's current strategy of actively dismantling what remains of"the atmosphere of acquiescence to America's will", in the wordsof one Bilderberger, which arose in the post-Soviet period andwas absolutely crucial to the thriving of US-led unipolarity.

That was in the beginning of the1990s, the early stages of the Yeltsinreign. With the wholesale looting ofRussia in the 1990s through shocktherapy and the loans-for-sharesscheme, engineered by the socialisttheoreticians at Harvard such as JeffreySachs, Andrei Schliefer, David Liptonand Jonathan Hay, the country wasbrought into the dawn of the 21stcentury capitalist economy. As a result,Russia eventually toppled into anarchy,its population rendered desperate; itsability to support a world-class militaryestablishment was smashed, which thenmade it inevitable that colonial behaviour would occur. That isexactly what George Ball was proposing during the Bilderberg1968 meeting in Canada. I'll get back to Ball later in this section.

Incidentally, the term "shock therapy" refers to the suddenrelease of price and currency controls combined with thewithdrawal of state subsidies and immediate trade liberalisationwithin a country—all the necessary ingredients forimpoverishment of the society...in this case, Russia.

In Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 book The Grand Chessboard,1

"Russia" and "vital energy reserves", as it turns out, are mentionedmore frequently than any other country and subject in the book.Brzezinski is President Carter's former National Security Advisor,a co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Club and a closeassociate of David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. He is theproverbial insider's insider. According to Brzezinski, global USand thus Bilderberg hegemony depended on having completecontrol of Russia's vital energy reserves in Central Asia. As longas Russia remained strong, it remained a threat—a potential blockto the complete imposition of Bilderberg-led economic andmilitary will.

Bilderberg energy imperatives and geopolitical control are onceagain coming to play a key role in the lives of hundreds ofmillions of unsuspecting people.

Brzezinski spelled out in The Grand Chessboard t h ecompelling energy issue driving American policy: "A power thatdominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three mostadvanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance atthe map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost

automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the WesternHemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world'scentral continent. About 75 percent of the world's people live inEurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well,both in its enterprise and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for60 percent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of theworld's known energy resources."

The history of mankind has always shown that controlling theheart of Eurasia was the key to controlling the entire knownworld. Azerbaijan, containing the riches of the Caspian Sea Basinand Central Asia, is a case in point. From the US perspective, theindependence of the Central Asian states will be rendered nearlymeaningless if Azerbaijan becomes fully subordinated toMoscow's control. To the Bilderbergers, energy imperatives arethe end game.

The energy theme appears again later in Brzezinski's book,written four years before 9/11: "The world's energy consumptionis bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades.Estimates by the US Department of Energy anticipate that world

demand will rise by more than 50percent between 1993 and 2015, withthe most significant increase inconsumption occurring in the FarEast. The momentum of Asia'seconomic development is alreadygenerating massive pressures for theexploration and exploitation of newsources of energy."

Clearly, to the Bilderbergers,Russia was the beginning of the endgame.

During a presentation titled"Internationalisation of Business" tothe 26–28 April 1968 Bilderberg

meeting at Mont Tremblant, Canada, George Ball provided a farmore truthful and insightful glimpse into the group's economicorientation. Ball, who was Under Secretary of State for EconomicAffairs under JFK and Lyndon Johnson, a Steering Committeemember of the Bilderberg Group as well as a Senior ManagingDirector for Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb Inc., defined theBilderberg's new policy of globalisation and how it would shapethe New World Order.

As Pierre Beaudry noted in Synarchy Movement of Empire ,2

"...Ball presented an outline of the advantages of a new-colonialworld economic order based on the concept of a 'world company',and described some of the obstacles that needed to be eliminatedfor its success. According to Ball, the first and most importantthing that had to be eliminated was 'the archaic political structureof the nation state'."

In other words, Ball was calling for a return to the oldcolonialism system, but this time built on the concept of a "worldcompany".

"Ball wrote: 'To be productive, we must begin our inquiry byexplicitly recognizing the lack of phasing between developmentof the world company—a concept responding to modern needs—and the continued existence of an archaic political structure ofnation states, mostly small or of only medium size, which isevolving only at glacier pace in response to new worldrequirements of scope and scale.'"

Beaudry concluded: "It was clear for Ball that the verystructure of the nation state, and the idea of the commonwealth, orof a general welfare of a people, represented the main obstacleagainst any attempt of freely looting the planet, especially the


Bilderberg 2007 served as aconsensus-building exercise to

decide on a common policyand strategy to deal with

Russia's resurgence.

weak and poor nations of the world, and represented the mostimportant impediment to the creation of a neo-colonial worldempire. The priority of the world company is obviously based oninternational free trade without restraint, that is, trade measuredby the British standard of profit of buying cheap and selling dear.The problem is that national governments have priorities, whichare different than and contrary to those of a looting company..."

On page 39 of a Bilderberg transcript from the 1968 meeting atMont Tremblant, Ball self-assuredly stated the following: "Wheredoes one find a legitimate base for the power of corporatemanagements to make decisions that can profoundly affect theeconomic life of nations to whose governments they have onlylimited responsibility?"

In other words, Messrs Rockefeller and Davignon, what MrBall would like to know is: how does one establish a Halliburtontype of world company, which would greatly surpass in authorityany government on the planet? Isn't that what "world company",run by the ruling class, stands for?

Not according to Bilderberg President and Belgianmultimillionaire Etienne Davignon. During his 2005 BBCinterview, Mr Davignon said: "I don't think a global ruling classexists. Business influences society, and politics influencessociety—that's purely common sense. It's not that businesscontests the right of democratically elected leaders to lead."

Is that so, Mr Davignon? Currentparliamentary democracy works on thebasis of an "elected" head of state and aparliament, which can be dumped anytime you decide to orchestrate a crisisand put a third branch of governmentin charge of its financial system, calledan "independent central bankingsystem".

In the United States, this"independent" banking system isknown as the Federal Reserve, aprivately owned bank interlocked withthe Bilderberg Group. In Europe, theindependent banking system is runthrough the European Central Bank, whose monetary policies areput together by the leading members of the Bilderberger elite,such as Jean-Claude Trichet. In Britain, this independent systemis run by the Bank of England, whose members are also full-timemembers of the Bilderberg Group's inner circle. The independentcentral banking system controls the emission of currency, controlsnational credit and interest rates, and, any time the governmentdispleases it, uses its power to orchestrate the overthrow of thegovernment. The British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wasoverthrown because she opposed the wilful handover of Britishsovereignty to the global world company superstate designed bythe Bilderbergers. This is what Kuhn, Loeb and Lehman Brothershave been building worldwide, by way of mergers andacquisitions, from the 1960s until today. In the past decades, theentire deregulation policy of US industries and banking wasprecisely set up in response to this blueprint scenario for creatinggiant corporations for a new empire whose intention is nothingshort of perpetual war.

Could the eventual dismemberment and weakening of Russia—to the point that it could not oppose US military operations thathave now successfully secured control of the oil and gas reservesin Central Asia—been part of a multi-decade plan for globaldomination? Most credible senior analysts definitely believe so.

At a 1997 symposium held in Bonn, Germany, Dr Sergei

Glazyev, Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of theState Duma of the Russian Federation, explained: "Thiscolonisation, masked as reforms, destroyed the basic institutionsof Russian society along the following basic lines: (1) destructionof the financial system of the state by means of an endless build-up of the state debt pyramid, shrinking of the tax base, deepeningof the non-payments crisis, and disorganisation of the monetarysystem; (2) destruction of the scientific and technologicalpotential of the country, achieved by means of a many-foldreduction in state financing of science, the collapse oftechnological cooperation and scientific production integration inthe course of mass privatisation, and the refusal of thegovernment to have any scientific and technical, industrial orstructural policy at all; (3) sale of controlling blocs of shares inthe leading and most valuable Russian firms, in industry, electricpower and telecommunications, to foreign companies; (4)Transfer of the right to exploit the most valuable Russian rawmaterials deposits to transnational corporations; (5) establishmentof foreign control over the Russian stock exchange; (6)establishment of direct foreign control over the shaping ofRussian domestic and foreign economic policy."3

The Bilderberg conclusions are striking in their candidness:"The US can no longer ride roughshod over, nor bully, nor simplyignore resurgent Russia, rising China or the globe's regimes that

supply the vital oil that fuels the USeconomy. Something must be done,and urgently, in order to cut deeplyinto Russia's mounting global energyleverage. The US–Russia strategicallydeteriorating relations are one victimof this geopolitical struggle for energysupremacy."

One Finnish delegate's opinion that"no US–Russia military confrontationis likely, no matter how tense thingsshould get" is increasingly an unsafeone as a more desperate US pushesback against a much more aggressiveRussia. Dr Henry Kissinger added

that "aggressive, unilateralist US foreign policy has forced 'axis ofevil' states to accelerate their pursuit of nuclear weapons toimmunise themselves against US military strikes".

Richard Perle pointed out that in response to aggressive UStactics across the globe, Russia has undertaken asymmetric stepsto undermine the ability of the US to project its military powereffectively into their neighbourhoods and into those of theirpartners and allies. When one American Bilderberger tried toobject, European delegates brought up China's recent response toUS intentions to weaponise space: a simple and relativelyinexpensive demonstration of destruction of its satellite. Theexample produced snickering in the room, much to the chagrin ofthe Americans.

Afghanistan and the price of treasonAnother subject under discussion dealt with Afghanistan. It was

commonly agreed by the attendees that the US-led NATOalliance/mission is in a state of quagmire and that "the situation inthe country is getting worse". The problem can be defined, in thewords of one British Bilderberger, as "one of the unrealexpectations". He went on to explain that clamouring fordemocratic reform while simultaneously propping up Pashtunwarlords without delivering serious progress "has managed todiscredit a lot of our basic notions in the eyes of the Afghans".


In Europe, the independentbanking system is run through

the European Central Bank,whose monetary policies areput together by the leading

members of the Bilderbergerelite.

Bilderbergers, however, aren't the only ones left scratching theirheads as to how Western governments and their carefully chosenAfghan partners have managed to spend billions of dollars indevelopment assistance with little to show for it.

Catastrophe is good for business; always has been. Withoutsuffering, there would be no humanitarian assistance. Andwithout humanitarian assistance, there would be no room forundercover intelligence network operations as part of Westernimperatives for geopolitical control.

The worse it looks, the better it sells. While the Americanpeople were getting their daily diet of ubiquitous images ofrepression, suffering and burka-clad Afghani women beamed intoevery living room in America, a propaganda campaign wassurreptitiously launched in the pages of newspapers and glossymagazines. The New York Times and the New Yorker w e r egreasing the gears of the misery machine by urging the USgovernment, the United Nations and anyone who would listen to"do something"—amid the jewelleryadvertisements. Terror and horror, likeexpensive jewellery, became commodities.

Today, Afghanistan and its African cousinsof Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Congo andRwanda and the rest of the nations blessedwith Western humanitarian help are all basketcases. Bilderbergers seem to be asking: howis it possible that humanitarian missions ofsuch scale and magnitude could have failed somiserably? Is it a case of good-intentionedexercises going bad due to corruption, greedand lack of oversight? Or is i t themerciless dismemberment of yet moreforeign lands and cultures exercisedstealthily through humanitarian aidagencies tied to the larger apparatus ofgovernment?

Furthermore, the US government'ssupport for known Afghani drug warlordsadds another vital clue to the puzzle. Theamount of profit generated annually by thedrug trade, according to the UnitedNations, is somewhere around $700 billionin tax-free cash flow per year. Sevenhundred billion dollars a year is too muchmoney to hide in a sock. You need a lot ofexperience and expertise to move thosekinds of funds stealthily. Does anyone doubt that Afghanistan isabout drugs? Does anyone doubt that the CIA is involved?

For example, the CIA financed the Muslim Brotherhood in1977 and trained the mujahedin in preparation for the campaign ofcollusion between Washington and right-wing Islam: the AfghanWar. The roots to the Afghan conflict can be traced to Al-AzharMosque in Cairo, the centre of the Muslim Brotherhood's activity.Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, alleged airline hijacker MohammedAtta was identified as a Muslim Brother in several Westernpublications such as the Washington Post (22 September 2001),the Observer (23 September 2001) and Newsweek (31 December2001). Other Muslim Brothers involved were Khalid SheikMohammed and Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the 1993bombing of the World Trade Center. Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, an Egyptian by the name of Ayman al-Zawahiri, is alsoa lifelong member of the Brotherhood.

Robert Dreyfuss, in his extremely important book D e v i l ' sG a m e,4 explained it thus: "They returned to Afghanistan and

formed a branch of the Brothers, the Islamic Society. Later, thesesame 'professors', as they were known, would form the backboneof the Afghan mujahedin who waged a US-backed, decade-longwar against the Soviet occupation. The three leading 'professors'were Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Burhanuddin Rabbani and GulbuddinHekmatyar." Sayyaf and Hekmatyar, two big-time Pashtun drugtraffickers and CIA assets, were backed by Pakistani Intelligenceas well as Pakistan's own "branch" of the Brotherhood and fundedby Saudi money.

There is yet another link between the Brotherhood and thesuper-secret Bilderberg Group. In the early 1980s, BilderbergerMichael Ledeen of the ultraconservative American EnterpriseInstitute and Bilderberger Richard Perle used Hekmatyar as aposter boy of anti-Soviet resistance at the time when Hekmatyarwas actively working with Hezb-i-Islami terrorists to undermineAmerica's influence in Afghanistan. Does anyone reading thisdoubt that this is hardly a coincidence?

First came the "humanitarian relief" throughnon-government organisations. In short order,this was followed by the US military whichcame to the rescue out of the goodness of itsheart for "purely humanitarian objectives".Once on the ground, it became an exercise in"nation-building". In the end, it morphed intothe hunt for a terrorist dictator.

During an animated discussion at Bilderberg2007 in Istanbul, one Italian asked if the US-led NATO forces have "the will to stay thecourse". In the wake of the US military siege

of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in December2001, the commanding general, TommyFranks, reportedly said it was not hisintention to "get embroiled in a Soviet-style long-term engagement as in the1 9 8 0 s " .5 Now, however, AmericanBilderbergers are pressuring NATO alliesto provide larger troop contributions tothe cause.

Dr Kissinger insisted that "the will" islacking and so "we must now begin toacknowledge our limits". "The choicesfacing us are very difficult," reflected oneEuropean Royal, wholeheartedly agreeingwith Kissinger's assessment on the lack ofcommitment and will. A NATO

representative categorically stated that the West has neither thepolitical intelligence nor the understanding to fight a protracted,decade-long counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan.

A means to an end?The Bilderberg Group is not the end but the means to a future

One World Government. This organisation has grown beyond itssecretive beginnings to become a virtual shadow governmentwhich decides in total secrecy at annual meetings how its plansare to be carried out. The ultimate goal of this nightmare future isto transform Earth into a prison planet by bringing about a singleglobalised marketplace, controlled by a One World Government,policed by a United World Army, financially regulated by aWorld Bank, and populated by a microchipped population whoselife's needs have been stripped down to materialism andsurvival—work, buy, procreate, sleep—all connected to a globalcomputer that monitors our every move.

And it is becoming easier because the development of


Catastrophe is good for business; always has been. Without

suffering, there would be no humanitarian

assistance. And without humanitarian

assistance, there would be no room for

undercover intelligencenetwork operations as part of Western

imperatives forgeopolitical control.

telecommunications technology together with profound advances inpresent-day knowledge and new methods of behaviour engineeringto manipulate individual conduct are converting what, in otherepochs of history, were only evil intentions into a disturbing newreality. Each new measure, viewed on its own, may seem anaberration, but a whole host of changes, as part of an ongoingcontinuum, constitutes a shift towards total enslavement.

But there is hope. In almost every corner of the planet, stresspoints are beginning to fracture and people are starting to takesides. There is a general awakening taking place as people holdmirrors up to the irrationality that's being imposed upon them. Thisawakening is beginning to empower our collective learning andunderstanding. You see, the powers-that-be have told us that worldevents are too difficult for the layperson to understand. They lied!We have been told that national secrets must be zealouslyprotected. Indeed, they must! No government wants its citizens todiscover that its best and brightest participate in massive collusion,conspiracy and pillaging of the planet.

Now, as the year 2007 unfolds, we find ourselves at thecrossroads. The road we take from here will determine the veryfuture of humanity and whether we will become an electronicglobal police state or remain free human beings. We must alwaysremember that it is not up to God to bring us back from the "NewDark Age" planned for us. It is up to us . Forewarned is forearmed.We will never find the right answers if we don't ask the rightquestions. ∞

Endnotes1. Brzezinski, Zbigniew, The Grand Chessboard: Americanprimacy and its geostrategic imperatives, Basic Books, New York,19972. Beaudry, Pierre, Synarchy Movement of Empire, Leesburg,Virginia, USA, 2005, Book IV, chapter 4, pp. 104-05, athttp://www.pehi.eu/organisations/SME/Synarchy_Movement_of_Empire_book_04.pdf3. Glazyev, Sergei, "From a Five-Year Plan of Destruction to a Five-Year Plan of Colonisation", EIR Bonn Symposium, 19974. Dreyfuss, Robert, Devil's Game: How the United States HelpedUnleash Fundamentalist Islam, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 20055. Smucker, Philip, "Missions impossible: NATO's Afghandilemma", Asia Times Online, 1 June 2007,http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IF01Df01.html

About the Author:Based in Spain, Daniel Estulin is an award-winning investigativejournalist who has been researching the Bilderberg Group for over15 years. He is the author of La Verdadera Historia del ClubB i l d e r b e r g (2005), a bestseller in Spain and now in its 13thprinting; it has been translated into 24 languages and sold to over42 countries. The English-language edition, The True Story of theBilderberg Group, is to be published by Trine Day, USA inSeptember 2007 (available through Amazon.com). The sequel,Los Secretos del Club Bilderberg (2006), is already in its secondprinting in Spanish; bidding for international rights is scheduled for(northern) autumn 2007.

Estulin's previous contribution to NEXUS was in 2005 with"Breaking the Silence: Bilderberg Exposed" (vol. 12, no. 5).The original text of this 2007 article is at the web pageh t t p : / / w w w . d a n i e l e s t u l i n . c o m / ? o p = n o t i c i a s & n o t i c i a s =ver&id=345&idioma=en.

Daniel Estu lin can be contacted by email [email protected]. For more information, visit his websiteat http://www.danielestulin.com.


DELEGATES AT BILDERBERG 2007 Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May – 3 June 2007

This year's delegation included many of the most importantpoliticians, businessmen, central bankers, European

commissioners and executives of the Western corporate press.They were joined at the table by leading representatives ofEuropean royalty.

According to the Bilderberg Steering Committee list which thisauthor has had access to, the following names have now beenconfirmed as attendees at the Bilderberg 2007 conference(uncharacteristically, David Rockefeller was not present).

Graham A l l i s o n, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government,John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University(USA); George Alogoskoufis, Minister for Economy and Finance(Greece);

Ali B a b a c a n, Minister for Economic Affairs (Turkey);Francisco Pinto B a l s e m ã o, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESASGPS, former Prime Minister (Portugal); Michel B a r n i e r, VicePresident, Mérieux Alliance; former Minister for Foreign Affairs(France); Michael B a r o n e, Senior Writer, U S News & W o r l dR e p o r t (USA); Martin B a r t e n s t e i n , Federal Minister ofEconomics and Labour (Austria); Nicolas B a v e r e z, Partner,Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (France); Her Majesty QueenB e a t r i x, Queen of The Netherlands (The Netherlands); LeonorBeleza, President, Champalimaud Foundation (Portugal); FrancoBernabé, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe (Italy); Rosina M.Bierbaum, Professor and Dean, School of Natural Resources andEnvironment, University of Michigan (USA); Carl B i l d t,Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Prime Minister (Sweden);Mehmet A. B i r a n d, Columnist (Turkey); Lloyd C. B l a n k f e i n,Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co. (USA); Anders Borg,Minister for Finance (Sweden); Charles G. Boyd, President andCEO, Business Executives for National Security (USA); Ümit N.B o y n e r, Member, Executive Board, Boyner Holding (Turkey);Vendeline A. H. von B r e d o w, Business Correspondent, T h eE c o n o m i s t; Rapporteur (Germany); Ian B r e m m e r, President,Eurasia Group (USA); Oscar Bronner, Publisher and Editor, DerS t a n d a r d (Austria); Hubert B u r d a, Publisher and CEO, HubertBurda Media Holding (Belgium); Gerald B u t t s, PrincipalSecretary, Office of the Prime Minister of Ontario (Canada);

Çengiz C a n d a r, Journalist, R e f e r a n s (Turkey); Henri deC a s t r i e s, Chairman of Management Board and CEO, AXA(France); Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, Grupo PRISA media group(Spain); Hikmet Çetin, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs andformer NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan(Turkey); Kenneth C l a r k e, Member of Parliament (UK);Timothy C. C o l l i n s, Senior Managing Director and CEO,Ripplewood Holding, LLC (USA);

Frans van D a e l e, Permanent Representative of Belgium toNATO (Belgium); George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola HBCSA (Greece); Etienne Davignon, Vice-Chairman, Suez-Tractebel,Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings (Belgium); RichardD e a r l o v e, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge (UK); KemalDervis, Administrator, UNDP (Turkey); Anna Diamantopoulou,Member of Parliament (Greece); Thomas E. D o n i l o n, Partner,O'Melveny & Myers LLP (USA); Mathias D ö p f n e r, Chairmanand CEO, Axel Springer AG (Germany); Cem D u n a, FormerAmbassador to the European Union (Turkey); Esther D y s o n,Chairman, EDventure Holdings, Inc. (USA);

Anders E l d r u p, President, DONG AS (Denmark); JohnElkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat SpA (Italy);

Ulrik F e d e r s p i e l, Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs (Denmark); Martin S. F e l d s t e i n, President and CEO,National Bureau of Economic Research (USA);

Timothy F. G e i t h n e r, President and CEO, Federal ReserveBank of New York (USA); Paul A. Gigot, Editorial Page Editor,The Wall Street Journal (USA); Eival Gilady, CEO, The PortlandTrust, Israel (Israel); Dermot G l e e s o n, Chairman, AIB Group(Ireland); Emre G ö n e n s a y, Professor of Economics, IsikUniversity, and former Minister for Foreign Affairs (Turkey);Marc G r o s s m a n, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group (USA);Alfred Gusenbauer, Federal Chancellor (Austria);

Richard N. H a a s s, President, Council on Foreign Relations(USA); Victor H a l b e r s t a d t, Professor of Economics, LeidenUniversity, former Honorary Secretary-General of BilderbergMeetings (The Netherlands); Peter D. H a r t, Chairman, Peter D.Hart Research Associates (USA); Frank Heemskerk, Minister forForeign Trade (The Netherlands); Paul H e r m e l i n, CEO, CapGemini SA (France); Richard C. H o l b r o o k e, Vice Chairman,Perseus, LLC (USA); Jan H. M. H o m m e n, Chairman, ReedElsevier NV (The Netherlands); Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer , *Secretary-General, NATO (The Netherlands/International);

Atte J ä ä s k e l ä i n e n, Director of News, Sports and RegionalProgrammes, YLE (Finland); Kenneth Jacobs, Deputy Chairman,Head of Lazard USA, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC (USA); James A.J o h n s o n , Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC (USA); Vernon E.Jordan, Jr, Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC(USA); His Majesty, King Juan Carlos I,* King of Spain (Spain);

Jyrki K a t a i n e n, Minister of Finance (Finland); Jason K e n n e y,Member of Parliament (Canada); Muhtar K e n t, President andChief Operating Officer, The Coca-Cola Company (USA); JohnK e r r (Lord Kerr of Kinlochard), Member, House of Lords,Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC (UK); Henry A.K i s s i n g e r, Chairman, Kissinger Associates (USA); Eckart vonK l a e d e n, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU (Germany);Klaus K l e i n f e l d, President and CEO, Siemens AG (Germany);Mustafa V. K o ç, Chairman, Koç Holding AS (Turkey); BruceK o v n e r, Chairman, Caxto Associates LLC (USA); Henry R.Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (USA);Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. (USA);Idar Kreutzer, CEO, Storebrand ASA (The Netherlands); NeelieK r o e s, Commissioner, European Commission (The Netherlands/International);

Bernardino León Gross, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs(Spain); Mogens L y k k e t o f t, Member of Parliament (Denmark);William J. L u t i, Special Assistant to the President for DefensePolicy and Strategy, National Security Council (USA);

Jessica T. M a t h e w s, President, Carnegie Endowment forInternational Peace (USA); Michael M c D o w e l l, Minister forJustice, Equality and Law Reform (Ireland); John R.M i c k l e t h w a i t , Editor, The Economist (UK); Mario M o n t i,President, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy); Craig J.M u n d i e , Chief Research and Strategy Officer, MicrosoftCorporation (USA); Egil M y k l e b u s t, Chairman, SAS and NorskHydro ASA (Norway);

Matthias N a s s, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit (Germany); EwaldNowotny, CEO, BAWAG PSK (Austria);

Christine Ockrent, Editor-in-Chief, France Télévision (France);Jorma O l l i l a, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chairman andCEO, Nokia Corporation (Finland); George O s b o r n e, MP,Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK);

Laurence P a r i s o t , President, MEDEF (Mouvement desEntreprises de France) (France); Christopher P a t t e n, Member,House of Lords (UK); Richard N. P e r l e, Resident Fellow,American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (USA);

Rick Perry, Governor of Texas (USA); Volker Perthes, Director,Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Germany); HRH P r i n c ePhilippe of Belgium (Belgium);

Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo , Managing Director, IMF(International); Olli Rehn, Commissioner, European Commission(International); Heather R e i s m a n, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books& Music Inc. (Canada); Matías Rodríguez Inciarte, ExecutiveVice Chairman, Grupo Santander, Ciudad Grupo (Spain); OlivierRoy, Senior Researcher, CNRS (France);

Paolo Scaroni, CEO, Eni SpA (Italy); Eric Schmidt, Chairmanof the Executive Committee and CEO, Google (USA); RudolfS c h o l t e n , Member of the Board of Executive Directors,Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (Austria); Jürgen E.S c h r e m p p, former Chairman of the Board of Management,DaimlerChrysler AG (Germany); Klaus S c h w a b, ExecutiveChairman, World Economic Forum (Switzerland); Robert W.Scully, Co-President, Morgan Stanley (USA); Kathleen Sebelius,Governor of Kansas (USA); Josette Sheeran, Executive Director,UN World Food Programme (USA); Kristen Silverberg, AssistantSecretary of State, Bureau of Interational Organization Affairs(USA); Domenico S i n i s c a l c o, Managing Director and ViceChairman, Morgan Stanley (Italy); Javier S o l a n a ,* HighRepresentative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy,Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and theWestern European Union (International); Her Majesty QueenSophía, Queen of Spain (Spain); Ayse Soysal, Rector, BosphorusUniversity (Turkey); Lawrence H. S u m m e r s, Charles W. EliotUniversity Professor, Harvard University (USA); Peter D.S u t h e r l a n d, Chairman, BP PLC, and Chairman, Goldman SachsInternational (Ireland); Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO,Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Sweden);

Paul A. T a g g a r t, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex(UK); Sidney Taurel, Chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company(USA); J. Martin T a y l o r, Chairman, Syngenta International AG(UK); Peter A. T h i e l, President, Clarium Capital Management,LLC (USA); Teija T i i l i k a i n e n, State Secretary, Ministry forForeign Affairs (Finland); Michel T i l m a n t, Chairman, ING N V(The Netherlands); Jean-Claude T r i c h e t, Governor, EuropeanCentral Bank (France/International);

Jens Ulltveit-Moe, CEO, Umoe AS (Norway); Daniel L. V a s e l l a, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG

(Switzerland); Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal DutchShell PLC (The Netherlands);

Jacob W a l l e n b e r g, Chairman, Investor AB (Sweden); Vin(J.V.) W e b e r, Partner, Clark & Weinstock (USA); GuidoWesterwelle, Chairman, Free Democratic Party (Germany); RossW i l s o n, Ambassador to Turkey (USA); James D. W o l f e n s o h n,Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC (USA); PaulWolfowitz, President, The World Bank (International); Joseph R.Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President, National SecurityAffairs (USA); Adrian D. W o o l d r i d g e, Foreign Correspondent,The Economist; Rapporteur (UK);

Arzuhan Dogan Yalçindag, President, TUSIAD (Turkey); ErkutY ü c a o g l u, Chairman of the Board, MAP, former President,TUSIAD (Turkey);

Philip D. Z e l i k o w, White Burkett Miller Professor of History,University of Virginia (USA); Robert B. Z o e l l i c k,* former USTrade Representative, former Deputy Secretary of State, ManagingDirector, Goldman Sachs (USA).

* Known to have attended Bilderberg 2007, although not includedon the official list of attendees distributed by the BilderbergMeetings office.


My idea is that cancer doesn't depend on mysterious causes (genetic,immunological or auto-immunological, as the official oncology proposes),but it results from a simple fungal infection whose destroying power in thedeep tissues is actually underestimated.

The present work is based on the conviction, supported by many years of observations,comparisons and experiences, that the necessary and sufficient cause of the tumour is tobe sought in the vast world of the fungi, the most adaptable, aggressive and evolvedmicro-organisms known in nature.

I have tried many times to explain this theory to leading institutions involved in cancerissues (the Ministry of Health, the Italian Medical Oncological Association, etc.),elaborating on my thinking, but I have been brushed aside because of the impossibility ofsetting my idea in a conventional context. A different, international audience representsthe possibility of sharing a view about health which differs from what is widely acceptedby today's medical community, either officially or from the sidelines.

There is an opposition between the allopathic and the Hippocratic medical ideal. Theposition that I promote represents instead a meeting point of these two conceptions ofhealth, since from the conceptual point of view it sublimates and adds value to both, whilehighlighting how they both are victims of a common conformist language.

The hypothesis of a fungal aetiology in chronic-degenerative illness, able to connect theethical qualities of the individual with the development of specific pathologies, reconcilesthe two orientations (allopathic and holistic) of medicine. The hypothesis is a strongcandidate for being that missing element of psychosomatics that was sought but neverfound by one of the fathers of psychosomatics, Viktor von Weiszäcker.

In considering the biological dimensions of the fungi, for instance, it is possible tocompare the different degrees of pathogenicity in relation to the condition of organs,tissues and cells of a guest organism, which in turn also and especially depend on thebehaviour of the individual.

Each time the recuperative abilities of a known psycho-physical structure are exceeded,there is an inevitable exposure, even considering possible accidental co-founders, to theaggression—even at the smallest dimensions—of those external agents that otherwisewould be harmless. In the presence of an indubitable connection between patient moraleand disease, it is no longer legitimate to separate the two domains (allopathic andnaturopathic) which are both indispensable for improving the health of individuals.

Flaws in mainstream theories on cancer causationWhen facing the most pressing contemporary medical problem, cancer, the first thing to

do is to admit that we still do not know its real cause. However treated in different waysby both official and alternative medicine, cancer has an aura of mystery that still existsaround its real generative process.

The attempt to overcome the present impasse must therefore and necessarily go throughtwo separate phases: a critical one that exposes the present limitations of oncology, and aconstructive one capable of proposing a therapeutic system based on a new theoreticalpoint of departure. In agreement with the most recent formulation of scientificphilosophy, which suggests a counter-inductive approach where it is impossible to find asolution with the conceptual tools that are commonly accepted, 1 only one logicalformulation emerges: to r e f u s e the oncological principle which assumes that cancer isgenerated by a cellular reproductive anomaly.

According to thishypothesis based on

years of scientificand clinical

research, the causeof cancer is

infection by acommon fungus,Candida albicans.

The good news isthat it can betreated with a

powerful antifungalagent that can't be

patented.

by Dr Tullio Simoncini(oncologist)

© 2007

Email: [email protected]:

http://www.cancerfungus.com


However, if the fundamental hypothesis of cellular reproductiveanomaly is questioned, it becomes clear that all the theories basedon this hypothesis are inevitably flawed.

It follows that both an auto-immunological process, in whichthe body's defence mechanisms against external agents turn theirdestructive capacity against internal constituents of the body, andan anomaly of the genetic structure implicated in the developmentof auto-destruction are inevitably disqualified.

Moreover, the common attempt to construct theories aboutmultiple causes that have an oncogenic effect on cellularreproduction sometimes seems like a concealing screen, behindwhich there is nothing but a wall. These theories propose endlesscauses that are more or less associated with each other; and thismeans in reality that no valid causes are found. The invocation inturn of smoking, alcohol, toxic substances, diet, stress,psychological factors, etc., without a properly defined context,causes confusion and resignation, and creates even moremystification around a disease which may turn out to be simplerthan it is depicted to be.

As background information, it is important to review the pictureof presumed genetic influences in thedevelopment of cancer processes asthey are depicted by molecularbiologists. These are the scientists whoperform research on infinitesimallysmall cellular mechanisms, but who inreal life never see a patient. Allpresent medical systems are based onthis research, and thus, unfortunately,all therapies currently performed.

The main hypothesis of a geneticneoplastic causality is essentiallyreduced to the fact that the structuresand the mechanism in charge of normalreproductive cellular activity become,for undefined reasons, capable of anautonomous behaviour that is disjointed from the overall tissulareconomy. The genes that normally have a positive role in cellularreproduction are, then, imprecisely referred to as "proto-oncogenes"; those that inhibit cellular reproduction are called"suppressor genes" or "recessive oncogenes". Both endogenous(never demonstrated) and exogenous cellular factors—that is,those carcinogenic elements that are usually invoked—are heldresponsible for the neoplastic degeneration of the tissues...

From a very superficial analysis of the presumed oncologicalpicture, however, it seems to be clear how the assertion of all thisunstoppable genetic hyperactivity can do nothing more that unveilthe abysmal stupidity that is at the basis of this way of conceivingthings. All those who work in the field do nothing but repeat thestale litany of reproductive cellular anomalies on a genetic basis.It is better to look for new horizons and conceptual instrumentsthat are capable of unearthing a real and unique neoplasticaetiology.

Back to taxonomy In order to find the possible carcinogenic ens morbi on the

horizon of microbiology, it appears useful to return to the basictaxonomical concepts of biology where we can see, incidentally,the existence of a noticeable amount of indecision andindetermination.

Already in the last century, a German biologist, Ernst Haeckel(1834–1919), departing from the Linnaeian concept that makesfor two great kingdoms of living things (vegetable and animal),

denounced the difficulties of categorising all those microscopicorganisms which, because of their characteristics and properties,could not be attributed to either the vegetable or the animalkingdom. For these organisms, he proposed a third kingdom,Protista (protists).

"This vast and complex world includes a range of entitiesbeginning with those that have sub-cellular structure—existing atthe limits of life—such as viroids and viruses, moving through themycoplasms to, finally, organisms of greater organisation:bacteria, Actinomycetes, Myxomycetes, fungi, protozoa andperhaps even some microscopic algae."2

The common element of these organisms is the feeding system,which, being implemented (with very few exceptions) by directabsorption of soluble organic compounds, differentiates them bothfrom animals and vegetables. Animals also feed as above, butespecially by ingesting solid organic materials that are thentransformed through the digestive process. Vegetables, byutilising mineral compounds and light energy, are capable offeeding by synthesising the organic substances.

The contemporary tendency of biologists is once again to pickup, though in a more sophisticated way,

the concept of the third kingdom. Onegoes even further, however, arguingthat within that kingdom, fungi mustbe classified in a distinct category.

O. Verona 3 says that if we putmulticellular organisms provided withphotosynthetic capabilities (plants) inthe first kingdom and the organismsnot provided with photosyntheticpigmentation (animals) in the secondkingdom—and organisms from boththese kingdoms are made of cellsprovided with a distinct nucleus(eukaryotes)—and, furthermore, if weput in another kingdom (protists),

those monocellular organisms that have no chlorophyll and havecells that are without a distinct nucleus (prokaryotes), the fungican well have their own kingdom because of the absence ofphotosynthetic pigmentation, the ability to be monocellular andmulticellular, and, finally, their possession of a distinct nucleus.

Additionally, fungi possess a property that is strange whencompared to all other micro-organisms: the ability to have a basicmicroscopic structure (hypha) with a simultaneous tendency togrow to remarkable dimensions (up to several kilograms), keepingunchanged the capacity to adapt and reproduce at any size.

From this point of view, therefore, fungi cannot be consideredtrue organisms, but cellular aggregates sui generis with anorganismic behaviour, since each cell maintains its survival andreproductive potential intact regardless of the structure in which itexists. It is therefore clear how difficult it is to identify all thebiological processes in such complex living realities. In fact, eventoday, there are huge voids and taxonomical approximations inmycology.

Fungi characteristicsIt is worthwhile to examine more deeply this strange world,

with such peculiar characteristics, and try to highlight thoseelements that somehow may be pertinent to the problems ofoncology.

1) Fungi are heterotrophic organisms and therefore need, as faras nitrogen and carbon are concerned, pre-formed compounds. Ofthese compounds, simple carbohydrates, for example


When facing the most pressing contemporary

medical problem, cancer, the first thing to do is to admit that we still do not

know its real cause.


monosaccharides (glucose, fructose and mannose), are among themost utilised sugars. This means that fungi, during their lifecycle, depend on other living beings which must be exploited indifferent degrees for their feeding. This occurs both in as a p r o p h y t i c way (that is, by feeding on organic waste) and in aparasitic way (that is, by attacking the tissue of the host directly).

2 ) Fungi show a great variety of reproductive manifestations(sexual, asexual, gemmation; these manifestations can often beobserved simultaneously in the same mycete), combined with agreat morphostructural variety of organs. All of this is directedtoward the end of spore formation, to which the continuity andpropagation of the species is entrusted.

3 ) In mycology, it is often possible to observe a particularphenomenon called h e t e r o k a r y o n , characterised by thecoexistence of normal and mutant nuclei incells that have undergone a hyphal fusion.

Nowadays, phytopathologists are quiteworried about the creation of individuals thatare genetically quite different even from theparents. This difference has taken place bymeans of those reproductive cycles, whichare called p a r a s e x u a l. The indiscriminateuse of phytopharmaceuticals has in fact oftendetermined mutations of the nuclei of manyparasitic fungi with the consequent creationof heterokaryon—and this is sometimesparticularly virulent in its pathogenicity.4

4 ) In the parasitic dimension, fungi candevelop from the hyphas more or less beak-shaped, specialised structures thatallow the penetration of the host.

5) The production of spores can beso abundant as to include always, atevery cycle, tens, hundreds and eventhousands of millions of elements thatcan be dispersed at a remarkabledistance from the point of origin 5 ( asmall movement is sufficient, forexample, to implement immediatediffusion).

6 ) Spores have an immenseresistance to external aggression, forthey are capable of staying dormant inadverse conditions for many yearswhile preserving unaltered theirregenerative potentialities.

7) The development coefficient of the hyphal apexes after thegermination is extremely fast (100 microns per minute under idealconditions) with ramification capacity, thus with the appearanceof a new apex region that in some cases is in the neighbourhoodof 40–60 seconds.6

8) The shape of the fungus is never defined, for it is imposedby the environment in which the fungus develops. It is possible toobserve, for example, the same mycelium in the simple isolatedhyphas status in a liquid environment or in the form of aggregatesthat are increasingly solid and compact, up to the formation ofpseudoparenchymas and of filaments and mycelial strings.7

9 ) By the same token, it is possible to observe in differentfungi the same shape whenever they must adapt to the sameenvironment (this is called d i m o r p h i s m). The partial or totalsubstitution of nourishing substances induces frequent mutationsin fungi, and this is further proof of their high adaptability to anysubstrata.

10) When the nutritional conditions are precarious, many fungireact with hyphal fusion (among nearby fungi) which allows themto explore the available material more easily, using morecomplete physiological processes. This property, whichsubstitutes co-operation for competition, makes them distinctfrom any other micro-organism, and for this reason Buller callsthem social organisms.8

11) When a cell gets old or becomes damaged (e.g., by a toxicsubstance or by a pharmaceutical), many fungi whose intercellularseptums are provided with a pore react by implementing a defenceprocess called protoplasmic flux, through which they transfer thenucleus and cytoplasm of the damaged cell into a healthy one,thus conserving unaltered all their biological potential.

1 2 ) The phenomena regulating the development of hyphalramification are unknown to date. 9 T h e yconsist of either a rhythmic development orin the appearance of sectors which, thoughthey originate from the hyphal system, ares e l f - r e g u l a t i n g ,1 0 that is, independent of theregulating action and behaviour of the rest ofthe colony.

13) Fungi are capable of implementing aninfinite number of modifications to their ownmetabolism in order to overcome the defencemechanism of the host. These modificationsare implemented through plasmatic andbiochemical actions as well as by avolumetric increase (hypertrophy) andnumerical hyperplasy of the cells that have

been attacked.11

1 4 ) Fungi are so aggressive as toattack not only plants, animal tissue,food supplies and other fungi, but evenprotozoa, amoebas and nematodes.

Fungi hunt nematodes, for example,with peculiar hyphal modifications thatconstitute real mycelial criss-cross,viscose or ring traps that immobilisethe worms.

In some cases, the aggressive powerof the fungus is so great as to allow it—with only a cellular ring made up ofthree unit—to tighten its grip, captureand kill its prey within a short time,notwithstanding the desperate

struggling of the prey.

From the short notations above, it therefore seems fair todedicate greater attention to the world of fungi, especiallyconsidering the fact that biologists and microbiologists constantlyhighlight large deficiencies and voids in all their descriptions andinterpretations of fungi's shapes, physiologies and reproductions.

So the fungus, which is the most powerful and the mostorganised micro-organism known, seems to be an extremelylogical candidate as a cause of neoplastic proliferation.

Imperfect fungi (so called because of the lack of knowledge andunderstanding of their biological processes) deserve particularattention, since their essential prerogative sits in theirfermentative capacity.

The greatest disease of mankind may therefore hide within asmall cluster of pathogenic fungi, and may after all be locatedwith just some simple deductions able to close the circle andprovide the solution.

Fungi can well have their own kingdom

because of the absence of

photosyntheticpigmentation,

the ability to bemonocellular and

multicellular and, finally, theirpossession of a

distinct nucleus.

Candida albicans: a necessary and sufficient cause ofcancer

Considering that among the human parasite species theDermatophytes and Sporotrichum demonstrate an excessivelyspecific morbidity, and that experience shows that Actinomycetes,Toluropsis and Histoplasma rarely enter the context of pathology,the Candida albicans fungus clearly emerges as the sole candidatefor tumour proliferation.

If we stop for a second and reflect on its characteristics, we canobserve many analogies with neoplastic disease. The mostevident are:

1) ubiquitous attachment—no organ or tissue is spared;2) the constant absence of hyperpyrexia;3) sporadic and indirect involvement of the differential tissues;4) invasiveness that is almost exclusively

of the focal type; 5) progressive debilitation;6) refractivity to any type of treatment;7) proliferation facilitated by multiplicity

of indifferent co-founders;8) Symptomatological basic configuration

with structure tending to the chronic. Therefore, an exceptionally high and

diversified pathogenic potentiality exists inthis mycete of just a few microns in size,which, even though it cannot be traced withthe present experimental instruments, cannotbe neglected from the clinical point of view.

Certainly, its present nosologicalclassification cannot be satisfactorybecause, if we do not keep the possiblyendless parasitic configurations inmind, that classification is toosimplistic and constraining.

We therefore have to hypothesisethat C a n d i d a, in the moment it isattacked by the immunological systemof the host or by a conventionalantimycotic treatment, does not react inthe usual, predicted way but defendsitself by transforming itself into ever-smaller and non-differentiated elementsthat maintain their fecundity intact tothe point of hiding their presence both to the host organism and topossible diagnostic investigations.

C a n d i d a's behaviour may be considered to be almost elastic.When favourable conditions exist, C a n d i d a thrives on anepithelium; as soon as the tissue reaction is engaged, it massivelytransforms itself into a form that is less productive but imperviousto attack: the spore. If, then, continuous subepithelial solutionstake place, coupled with a greater areactivity in that very moment,the spore gets deeper into the lower connective tissue in such animpervious state that colonisation is irreversible.

In fact, C a n d i d a takes advantage of a structuralinterchangeability, utilising it according to the difficulties, e.g., infeeding, to overcome its biological niche. In this way, Candida isfree to expand to maturation in the soil, air, water, vegetation,etc.—that is, wherever there is no antibody reaction. In theepithelium, instead, it takes a mixed form, which is reduced to thesole spore component when it penetrates the lower epitheliallevels, where it tends to expand again in the presence ofconditions of tissular areactivity.

The initial mandatory step of an in-depth research endeavour

would be to understand if and in which dimensions the sporetranscends, what mechanisms it engages to hide itself or, again, topreserve its parasitic characteristic, or if it has available a neutralquiescent position which is difficult or even impossible to detectby the immunological system.

Unfortunately, today we do not have the appropriate means,either theoretical or technical, to answer these and similarquestions, so the only valid suggestions can come solely fromclinical observation and experience. While not providingimmediate solutions, these sources can at least stimulate furtherquestions.

Assuming that Candida albicans is the agent responsible fortumour development, a targeted therapy would take into accountnot just its static and macroscopic manifestations but even the

ultramicroscopic ones, especially in theirdynamic valency, that is, the reproductive. Itis very probable that the targets to attack arethe fungi's dimensional transition points inorder to perform a decontamination withsuch a scope as to include the wholespectrum of the biological expression—parasitic, vegetative, sporal and evenultradimensional and, to the limit, viral.

If we stop at the most evident phenomena,we risk administering salves and unguentsforever (in the case of dermatomycosis or inpsoriasis), or clumsily attacking (withsurgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy)

enigmatic tumoural masses with thesole result of facilitating theirpropagation, which is alreadyheightened in the mycelial forms.

Why, one may ask, should weassume a different and heightenedactivity of Candida albicans, since ithas been abundantly described in itspathological manifestations? Theanswer lies in the fact that it has beenstudied only in a pathogenic context,that is, only in relation to the epithelialtissues.

In reality, C a n d i d a possesses anaggressive valency that is diversified in

function in the target tissue. It is just in the connective or in theconnective environment, in fact, and not in the differentiatedtissues, that C a n d i d a may find conditions favourable to anunlimited expansion. This emerges if we stop and reflect for amoment on the main function of connective tissue, which is toconvey and supply nourishing substances to the cells of the wholeorganism. This is to be considered as an environment external tothe more differentiated cells such as nervous, muscular, etc. It isin this context, in fact, that the alimentary competition takesplace.

On the one hand, we have the organism's cellular elementstrying to defeat all forms of invasion; on the other hand, we havefungal cells trying to absorb ever-growing quantities of nourishingsubstances, for they have to obey the species' biologicalimperative to form ever larger and diffused masses and colonies.

From the combination of various factors pertinent to both thehost and the aggressor, it is possible to hypothesise the evolutionof a candidosis.

First stage: Integer epitheliums, absence of the debilitatingfactors. Candida can only exist as a saprophyte.


... among the human parasite species, the

Candida albicansfungus clearly

emerges as the solecandidate for tumour

proliferation [cancer].

Second stage: Non-integer epitheliums (erosions, abrasions,etc.), absence of stage debilitating factors, unusual transitoryconditions (acidosis, metabolic disorder, and microbial disorder).C a n d i d a expands superficially (classic mycosis, both exogenousand endogenous).

Third stage: Non-integer epitheliums, presence of debilitatingfactors (toxic, stage radiant, traumatic, neuropsychic, etc.).Candida goes deeper into the subepithelial levels, from which itcan be carried to the whole organism through the blood andlymph (intimate mycosis).12

Stages one and two are the most studied and understood, whilestage three, though it has been described in its morphologicaldiversity, is reduced to a silent form of saprophytism. This is notacceptable from a logical point of view, because no one candemonstrate the harmlessness of the fungal cells in the deepestparts of the organism.

In fact, the assumption that C a n d i d a can behave in the samesaprophytic manner that is observed on integer epitheliums whenit has successfully penetrated the lowerlevels is at least risky, because theassumption would have to be sustainedby concepts that are totally aleatory(i.e., dependent on chance).

In fact, we are asked not only toaccept a priori that the connectiveenvironment is (a) not suitable tonourish the C a n d i d a, but also at thesame time to accept (b) theomnipotence of the body's defencesystem towards an organic structurethat is invasive but that then becomesvulnerable once lodged in the deepertissues.

As for point (a), it is difficult toimagine that a micro-organism so able toadapt itself to any substrata cannot find elements to support itselfin the human organic substance; by the same token, it seems riskyto hypothesise that the human organism's defence system is totallyefficient at every moment of its existence.

As for point (b), the assumption that there is a tendency to astate of quiescence and vulnerability in the case of a pathogenicagent such as fungus—the most invasive and aggressive micro-organism existing in nature—seems to carry a whiff of theirresponsible.

It is therefore urgent, on the basis of the abovementionedconsiderations, to recognise the hazardous nature of such apathogenic agent which is capable of easily taking the mostvarious biological configurations, both biochemical and structural,regardless of the conditions of the host organism.

The fungal expansion gradient in fact becomes steeper as thetissue that is the host of the mycotic invasion becomes lesseutrophic and thus less reactive.

Benign tumoursTo that end, it seems useful to consider briefly the "benign

tumour" nosological entity. This is an issue that always appearsin general pathology but is brushed aside most of the time tooeasily, and it is overlooked because it usually doesn't create eitherproblems or worries. It constitutes one of those underestimatedgrey areas seldom subjected to rational, fresh consideration.

If the benign tumour, however, is not considered a fully fledgedtumour, it would be advantageous, for clarity, to categorise it inan appropriate nosological scheme.

If it is thought that, instead, it fully belongs to neoplasticpathology, then it is necessary to consider its non-invasivecharacter and consequently to consider the reasons for this.

It is in fact evident how in this second scenario, the thesisbased on a presumed predisposition of the organism to auto-phagocytosis, having to admit an expressive graduation, wouldstumble into such additional difficulties such as to becomeextremely improbable.

By contrast, in the fungal scenario, the mystery of why thereare benign and malignant tumours is exhaustively solved, sincethey can be recognised as having the same aetiological genesis.

The benignity or malignancy of a cancer in fact depends onthe capability of tissular reaction of a specific organ expressingitself ultimately in the ability to encyst fungal cells and toprevent them from developing in ever-larger colonies. This canbe achieved more easily where the ratio between differentiatedcells and connective tissue is in favour of the former.

Situated between the impervious noble tissues, then, and thedefenceless connective tissues, thedifferentiated connective structures (the

glandular structures in particular)represent that medium term which isonly somewhat vulnerable to attackbecause of an ability to offer a certaintype of defence.

And it is in these conditions thatbenign tumours are formed; that is,where the glandular connective tissueis successful in forming hypertrophicand hyperplastic cellularembankments against the parasites.In the stomach and in the lung,instead, since there are no specificglandular units, the target organ,provided with a small defensive

capability, is at the mercy of the invader. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning how several types of

intimate fungal invasion do not determine the appearance ofmalignant or benign tumours but a type of particular benigntumour (specific degenerative alterations), as is the case withsome organs or apparatuses that do not have peculiar glandularstructures but nevertheless are attacked in their connectivetissue, although in a limited way.

In fact, if we consider multiple sclerosis, SLA, psoriasis,nodular panarthritis, etc., the possible development of the fungusin a three-dimensional sense is actually limited by the anatomicconfiguration of the invaded tissues, so that only a longitudinalexpansion is allowed.

Going back to the precondition of areactivity that is necessaryfor neoplastic development in a specific individual, it ispermissible to affirm how in the human body each external orinternal element that determines a reduction of well-being in anorganism, organ or tissue possesses oncogenic potentiality. Thisis not so much because of an intrinsic damaging capability asmuch as a generic property of favouring the fungal (that is,tumoural) flourishing.

Then the causal network so much invoked in contemporaryoncology, which involves toxic, genetic, immunological,psychological, geographical, moral, social and other factors,finds a correct classification only in a mycotic infectiousperspective where the arithmetical and diachronic summation ofharmful elements works as a co-factor to the externala g g r e s s i o n .


The benignity or malignancyof a cancer depends on the

capability of tissular reactionof a specific organ expressingitself ultimately in the abilityto encyst fungal cells and to

prevent them from developingin ever-larger colonies.


Conventional treatments vs antifungal therapyWith the theoretical basis of the tumour/fungus equivalency

demonstrated, it is clear how this interpretative key offers a longseries of questions concerning contemporary therapies, bothoncological (used without reference indexes) and antimycotic(utilised only at a superficial level).

Which path is best to walk today, then, when faced with acancer patient, since the conventional oncological treatment, notbeing aetiological, can only occasionally have positive effects andmost of the time produces damage?

In the fungal perspective, in fact, the effectiveness of surgery isnoticeably reduced because of the extreme diffusibility andinvasiveness characteristic of a mycelial conglomerate. Surgeryto solve the problem is therefore tied to the case; that is, toconditions in which one has the luck to be able to remove theentire colony completely (which is often possible in the presenceof a sufficient encystment, but only where benign tumours areconcerned).

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy produce almost exclusivelynegative effects, both for their specific ineffectiveness and fortheir high toxicity and harmfulness to the tissues, which in the lastanalysis favours mycotic aggressiveness.

By contrast, an antifungal,antitumour-specific therapy would takeinto account the importance of theconnective tissue together with thereproductive complexity of fungi.Only by attacking the fungi across thespectrum of all its forms, at pointswhere it is most vulnerable from thenutritional point of view, would it bepossible to hope to eradicate themfrom the human organism.

The first step to take, therefore,would be to reinforce the cancerpatient with generic reconstituentmeasures (nutrition, tonics, regulation ofrhythms and vital functions) that are able to enhance the generaldefences of the organism.

Concerning the possibility of having available pharmaceuticalcures, which unfortunately do not exist today, it seems useful, inthe attempt to find an antifungal substance that is quite diffusibleand therefore effective, to consider the extreme sensitivity ofCandida towards sodium bicarbonate (i.e., in the oral candidosisof breastfed babies). This is consistent with the fact that Candidahas an accentuated ability to reproduce in an acid environment.

Theoretically, therefore, if treatments could be found that putthe fungus in direct contact with high sodium bicarbonate(NaHCO3) concentrations, we should be able to see a regressionof the tumoural masses.

And this is what happens in many types of tumour, such ascolon and liver—and especially stomach and lung, the formersusceptible to regression just because of its "external" anatomicposition, and the latter because of the high diffusibility of sodiumbicarbonate in the bronchial system and for its highresponsiveness to general reconstituent measures.

By applying a similar therapeutic approach, it has been possiblein many patients to achieve complete remission of thesymptomatology and normalisation of the instrumental data.

It is important to emphasise that these cases are just an exampleof what could be a new way of perceiving the complexity ofmedical problems, especially in oncology.

[Reports of seven cases of patients, several of whom have been

documented for 10 years following sodium bicarbonate treatment,are summarised in the complete article at the web pageh t t p : / / w w w . c u r e n a t u r a l i c a n c r o . c o m / s i m o n c i n i - w r i t e s . h t m l ;Editor]

Critical considerationsIt seems appropriate to analyse, in a critical and self-critical

spirit, what may emerge in neoplastic pathology that is new andconcrete. If we closely observe the proposed therapeutic approach,it is possible to see that, independently of its real effectiveness, ithas value as an innovative theory. First, it challenges the presentmethodology and especially its assumptions. Second, it offers aconcrete alternative proposal to a mountain of conjectures andpostures that sound authoritative but are too generic and thereforei n e f f e c t i v e .

The identification of one tumoural cause, even with all thepossible general provisos, would represent a step forward that isindispensable for escaping that passivity determined by a lack ofresults, and which is responsible for medical behaviours that arebased too much on faith and not enough on real confidence.

Given, therefore, that an unconventional medical approach canbenefit some patients better—from any point of view—than the

official treatments, and since valuableresults can be demonstrated, this shouldstimulate us to pursue further researchwhile avoiding patronising postures thatare both limiting and non-productive.

We can therefore discuss whether ornot sodium bicarbonate is the realreason for the recoveries or if, instead,those recoveries are due to theinteraction of a number of conditionsthat have been created, the results ofunidentified neuropsychical factors, ormaybe the results of something totallyunknown. What is beyond question,however, is the fact that a certain

number of people, by not following conventional methods, havebeen able to go back to normality without suffering and withoutm u t i l a t i o n .

The message of this experience is therefore a call to search forthose solutions that are in accord with the simple Hippocraticobligation to man's "well-being"; that is, we must be stimulated to acritical evaluation of our contemporary oncological therapies whichindubitably can guarantee suffering. When we group together bothmalignant tumours that are occasionally or never healed (such aslung and stomach) and tumours that border with benignity (such asthe majority of thyroid and prostatic tumours, etc.) or put themtogether with those that have an autonomous positive outcomenotwithstanding chemotherapy (i.e., infantile leukaemia)—all ofthis appears to be devious and misleading, having only the purposeof forging a consensus that would otherwise be impossible to obtainwith intellectually ethical behaviour.

The fact that modern medicine not only cannot offer sufficientinterpretative criteria but even uses dangerous methodologies thatare also harmful and meaningless—even if carried out with goodfaith—is something which must push us all to search for humaneand logical alternatives. At the same time, it is necessary tocarefully, open-mindedly and logically consider any theory or pointof view that is dared to be advanced in the battle against thatmonstrous and inhuman yoke that is the tumour.

To this end, a note of acknowledgement is to go to all those whoare aware of the harmfulness of conventional therapeutic methods

... if treatments could be found that put the fungus in

direct contact with highsodium bicarbonate

concentrations, we should be able to see a regression

of the tumoural masses.

and constantly try to find alternative solutions. People like DiBella, Govallo and others, although guilty of utilising the sameinauspicious principles of official medicine (thus showing anexcessively conformist mindset), are actually using common senseby trying to relieve the suffering of cancer patients through the useof painless methodologies, and in some cases are able to achieveremissions, even though they're in the dark about the real causes ofc a n c e r .

In an alternative perspective, then, it would be necessary toconceive a new approach to experimentation in the oncologicalfield, setting epidemiological, aetiological, pathogenic, clinical andtherapeutic research in line with a renewed microbiology andmycology that would probably drive us to the conclusion alreadyillustrated: that is, the tumour is a fungus—Candida albicans.

The possible discovery that not only tumours but also themajority of chronic degenerative disease could be reconciled tomycotic causality would represent a qualitative quantum leap,which, by revolutionising medical thinking, could greatly improvelife expectancy and quality of life. Such reconciliation mightinclude a wider spectrum of fungal parasites (for example, indiseases of the connective tissues, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis,some epileptic forms, diabetes type 2, etc.).

In closing, considering that the world of fungi—those mostcomplex and aggressive micro-organisms—has been bypassed andleft unobserved for far too long, the hope of this work is to promoteawareness of the hazards of these micro-organisms so that medicalresources can be channelled not up blind alleys but towards the realenemies of the human organism: external infectious agents.

Addendum: A Note on Cancer TreatmentThe implications from my hypothesis that cancer is a fungus

which can be eradicated with sodium bicarbonate are that:1) eighty years of genetic study and application has been for

nothing, especially considering that the genetic theory of cancer hasnever been demonstrated;

2) the loss of millions, if not billions, of lives with all thesuffering has been for nothing;

3) the billions of dollars spent on chemotherapy medicine,radiotherapy, etc. has been for nothing;

4) the recognition and prizes given to eminent researchers andprofessors has been for nothing;

5) the oncologist could be replaced by the family doctor; and6) the pharmaceutical industry will incur tremendous financial

losses (sodium bicarbonate is inexpensive and impossible top a t e n t ) .

My methods have cured people for 20 years. Many of mypatients recovered completely from cancer, even in cases whereofficial oncology had given up.

The best way to try to eliminate a tumour is to bring it intocontact with sodium bicarbonate, as closely as possible, i.e., usingoral administration for the digestive tract, an enema for the rectum,douching for the vagina and uterus, intravenous injection for thelung and the brain, and inhalation for the upper airways. Breasts,lymph nodes and subcutaneous lumps can be treated with localperfusions. The internal organs can be treated with sodiumbicarbonate by locating suitable catheters in the arteries (of theliver, pancreas, prostate and limbs) or in the cavities (of the pleuraor peritoneum). (Note that sodium bicarbonate should not be usedas a cancer preventive.)

It is important to treat each type of cancer with the right dosage.For phleboclysis (drip infusion), 500 cc given in a series ofintervals—5% strength on one day and 8.4% the next—is required,depending on the patient's weight and condition; the stronger dosemay perhaps be needed in cases of lung and brain cancersaccording to the tumour type (primary or metastatic) and size. Forexternal administrations, it is enough to taste if the solution is salty.Sometimes it is judicious to combine different administrations.

For each treatment, take into consideration that tumour coloniesregress between the third and fourth day and collapse between thefourth and fifth, so a six-day administration is sufficient. Acomplete, effective cycle is made up of six treatment days on andsix days off, repeated four times. The most important side effectsof this care system are thirst and weakness.

For skin cancers (melanoma, epithelioma, etc.), a 7% iodinetincture should be spread on the affected area once a day, 20–30times consecutively in one sitting, with the aim of producing anumber of layers of crust. If, after one month of treatment, the firstcrust is gone and the skin is not completely healed, then thetreatment should be continued in the same manner until the secondcrust forms, heals and then comes loose without any assistance.(The procedure is also applicable for treating psoriasis.) After thistreatment, the cancer will be gone and stay away forever.

For more information, see "Protocol Treatments with sodiumbiocarbonate solutions" at http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/cancer-therapy-simoncini-protocol.html and FAQ sections athttp://www.curenaturalicancro.com. ∞


Editor's Note:Due to space constraints, we are unableto reprint Dr Simoncini's paper in full.To download the complete paperincluding case study summaries, go tothe web page ht tp:/ /www.c u r e n a t u r a l i c a n c r o . c o m / s i m o n c i n i -writes.html.

Endnotes1. Feyerabend, P.K., Contro il metodo("Against Method"), Feltrinelli, Milano,1994, p. 262. Verona, O., Il vasto mondo dei funghi("The Vast World of Fungi"), EdizioniNuova Italia, Firenze, 1973, p. 13. op. cit., p. 24. Rambelli, A., Fondamenti di micologia("Basics of Mycology"), Edizioni Guida,

Napoli, 1972, p. 355. op. cit.6. op. cit., p. 287. Verona, op. cit., p. 5 8. Rambelli, A., op. cit., p. 319. op. cit., p. 2810. op. cit., p. 2911. op. cit., p. 26612. op. cit., p. 273

About the Author:Based in Rome, I taly, Dr TullioSimoncini is a medical doctor andsurgeon special ising in oncology,diabetology and metabolic disorders. Heis also a Doctor of Philosophy. Anhumanitarian, he is opposed to any kindof intellectual conformity, which he seesas often based on suppositions without

foundation or, worse, on lies andfalsehoods. Dr Simoncini regularlyattends medical conferences and doesinterviews to explain what's wrong withconventional cancer theories andtreatments, to present his fungal theory ofcancer and to describe case s tudiesinvolving patients healed with sodiumbicarbonate, a powerful antifungal. Hisbook, Cancer is a Fungus: A revolutionin the therapy of tumours ( E d i z i o n iLampis), is available in Italian, Dutchand English from the websitehttp://www.cancerfungus.com.

For more information on DrSimoncini's theory, therapy and casestudies, and to view interviews andtestimonials, visit the portal websitehttp://www.cancerfungus.com.


More than a decade ago, NEXUS (vol. 3, nos 4–5) published my first article,"Hormone Heresy", which challenged the medicalising and pathologising ofwomen's hormonal health in the enthusiastic (and dangerous) prescribing ofhormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives. It is now a well-

established fact that these drugs are harmful and have contributed to the health problems(and deaths) of women worldwide. I have continued to research, write and lecture aboutthe many myths and misinformation regarding women's hormonal health in my ongoingpursuit of truthful information for hormonal well-being.

Our inescapable exposure to electropollution has many profound effects on our health.This article explores another important yet rarely understood consequence ofelectropollution: its ability to wreak havoc on the hormonal systems of women and men.As it turns out, electropollution is a very powerful hormone disruptor.

Our Wired and Wireless WorldA defining moment in world history occurred in 1879 when Thomas Edison switched

on the first light bulb. The flick of that switch radically transformed our world forever.The Age of Electricity was born. It is now impossible to imagine 21st-century lifewithout this energy source, not to mention all of the technology and life-enhancingdevices it has generated. However, even the genius of Edison could never have foreseenthe global health challenges created from his discovery.

Power lines, transmitters, electrical wiring and appliances create both electric andmagnetic fields—invisible lines of force that surround any electrical device. Our loveaffair with all things electrical means that we are now living in a dense sea of electro-magnetic energy waves, called electromagnetic radiation (EMR), which are estimated tobe 100 to 200 million times greater in prevalence than a hundred years ago.

Compounding the problem is the explosion of wireless technology such as cellphones(mobile phones), Bluetooth, PDAs (personal digital assistants), Wireless Internet, WiFi(wireless fidelity, which allows for Internet access in airports, hotels, coffee shops andschools, etc.) and powerful microwave-emitting towers that are required for transmission.This pervasive wireless world emits a particular spectrum of electromagnetic radiationthat has its own damaging effects on living systems.

Within just two decades, wireless technology has exploded onto the global scene.Currently there are more than 236 million cellphones in the USA, 20 million in Canadaand 19 million in Australia. In addition, millions of cellphone towers have appeared inthe landscape around the world and thousands of communities either have WiFi or areconsidering implementing it. The Wi-Fi hot-spot phenomenon is expected to burgeonfrom 12,400 locations in the USA and Canada by the end of 2007 to 78,000 by 2008.

In just 25 years, the great majority of the human race has been exposed to a massiveamount of electromagnetic radiation. Our homoeostasis is now being thrown into turmoilby unprecedented levels of all forms of EMR, seriously compromising our body's abilityto function properly.

What You Can't See Can Still Hurt YouA growing body of scientific research acknowledges that, presently, the greatest threat to

our health and well-being (and to that of all life-forms) is an insidious, all-pervasive andinvisible form of pollution called "electropollution". Many health issues have been linkedto EMR exposure, including various cancers (especially brain, eye, ear and leukaemia,),1, 2

Electromagneticradiation from

cellphones, towersand electrical

appliances as wellas new wireless

technologiesstresses our health

by disruptinghormonal action

and physicalprocesses, in some

cases triggeringcancer.

by Sherrill Sellman, ND © 2007

PO Box 690416Tulsa, OK 74169-0416, USATelephone: +1 (918) 437 1058

Email: [email protected]:

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m i s c a r r i a g e s ,3 birth defects, 4 chronic fatigue syndrome, 5

h e a d a c h e s ,6 chronic stress,7 nausea and heart problems,8 a u t i s m ,9

learning disabilities,1 0 insomnia and Alzheimer's disease.1 1

W hatever your thoughts may be about living in this high-techworld, this technology poses serious health threats to us all.Robert Becker, MD—author of Cross Currents: The Perils ofE l e c t r o p o l l u t i o n,1 2 medical researcher, expert on electromagneticradiation and twice Nobel Prize nominee—is very concerned aboutelectropollution: "I have no doubt in my mind that at the presenttime, the greatest polluting element in the earth's environment isthe proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be fargreater, on a global scale than warming...and the increase inchemical elements in the environment."1 3

Anatomy of Electropollution 101The 100 trillion cells of the human body

communicate with each other via subtle, low-frequency electromagnetic signals as well asthrough biochemical reactions. These signalpathways carry the information that becomestranslated into all the biochemical andphysiological processes of the body.Continuous exposure to electromagneticradiation can drastically distort and disruptthese cellular communication pathways,resulting in abnormal cellular metabolismand, ultimately, disease.

Electropollution-induced biological stressprofoundly compromises normal physiologyand intercellular communication.Imagine the chaos that results whencommunication systems go down in acity. In the body, on a cellular level, asimilar chaos is created when normalprocesses shut down and intercellularcommunication is disrupted. Cellfunction deteriorates, cell membranesharden, nutrients can't get in and toxinscan't get out. The breakdown of healthycellular processes leads to biologicalchaos in our bodies.

Hundreds of studies have shown theharmful effects of EMR on the immunes y s t e m ,1 4 enzyme synthesis, 1 5 t h enervous system,16 learning, moods and behavioural patterns.17 Allaspects of life at the molecular, cellular, biochemical andphysiological levels can potentially be damaged by EMRexposure.

EMR, Melatonin Suppression and CancerHormones are powerful substances. They pack a big wallop,

considering the tiny amounts that are produced by the endocrineglands. Most hormones, such as oestrogen, progesterone,testosterone, insulin and melatonin, are made in parts per billionor parts per trillion. Even small hormonal fluctuations can createmajor physiological changes. As profound orchestrators of all oflife's processes, maintaining hormonal balance is imperative foroptimum health. When delicate hormonal balance and rhythmsare altered, the body's ability to regulate fundamental systemsgoes haywire.

Our modern lifestyle poses many threats to optimal endocrinefunction. Stress, toxicity, poor-quality food, sleep deprivation andpharmaceutical medications are all known hormone disruptors.

However, there is one particular kind of hormone disruptor thathas been seriously overlooked: electromagnetic radiation.

Perhaps one of the most serious consequences of EMRexposure is its effect on our hormonal systems. Embedded deepwithin the brain is a light-sensitive endocrine gland, the pinealgland, which is about the size of a pea. Since ancient times, thepineal gland has been associated with the mystical all-seeing"third eye". Once dismissed as a useless gland, the pineal, whichin fact is a light-sensitive organ, is now considered to be one ofthe most significant glands in the body.

The pineal gland is the primary source of the hormonemelatonin. Discovered 50 years ago, melatonin is now hailed as amiraculous hormone, regulating many key functions of humangrowth and health and providing powerful anticancer protection.Melatonin is produced about 90 minutes after one falls asleep.

Studies have shown that blood concentrationsof the hormone rise after dark from lowdaytime values and usually peak in the middleof the night. Because the pineal glandresponds to signals transmitted by the opticnerves, bombarding a person's eyes withbright light during the night can erase theusual nocturnal melatonin surge and lower theoverall melatonin production for the day.Artificial light during sleep has a far moresignificant depressive effect than natural light.

Researchers are increasingly surprised atthe extent of the physiological processes thatare either controlled or influenced by

melatonin. It regulates our circadianrhythms governing our waking/sleepingcycle and is one of the most efficientdestroyers of free radicals, therebyensuring that DNA synthesis and celldivision occur. Melatonin not onlyinhibits the release of oestrogen but alsoactually suppresses the development ofbreast cancer.18

Melatonin's other anticancer propertyis its ability to increase the cytotoxicityof the immune system's killerlymphocytes. It is even able to enhancethe immune system and counteractstress-induced immunosuppression.

Melatonin's breast cancer fighting ability also addresses two otherthreats that can increase cell division in the breast: the hormoneprolactin, and the hormone known as "epidermal growth factor".

Melatonin also enhances the tumour-fighting power of vitaminD and increases this vitamin's ability to stop tumour growth. Infact, it makes vitamin D's tumour-fighting ability 20 to 100 timesstronger. In addition, melatonin acts as an aromatase inhibitor, apowerful protection against oestrogen-dependent cancers.19

Needless to say, it is vital to ensure the body's ability to produceregular and adequate levels of melatonin on a daily basis.Unfortunately, sleeping in a room surrounded by all our favouritedevices—cordless phone, cellphone, digital clock, CD/radioplayer, computer and TV—can seriously suppress our nightlymelatonin production. Suppression of melatonin by the pinealgland has been suggested as a pathway for EMR's deleteriouseffects on health.

In 2001, Dr Masami Ishido and colleagues at Japan's NationalInstitute for Environmental Studies showed that breast cancercells treated with melatonin would resume growing when exposed

Continuous exposure to electromagnetic

radiation can drastically distort

and disrupt cellularcommunication

pathways, resulting in abnormal cellular

metabolism and,ultimately, disease.


to power-frequency EMR. 2 0 They found that magnetic fieldsdisrupted the cells' signalling system—their internalcommunications network, which determines how they respond totheir environment. In the process, Dr Ishido et al. also challengedone of the central tenets of mainstream toxicology: less is betterand more is worse. The EMR effect he observed at 12 milligauss(mG) was pretty much the same as the one he saw when he used afield 100 times higher—at one gauss (1 G). Dr Ishido foundindications that the effect was even stronger at the lower EMRdose than the higher one.21 This mechanism has helped to explainwhy reduced melatonin levels from EMR have been shown tocause a number of cancers including breast, prostate, colorectal,melanoma, ovarian malignancies and childhood leukaemia.

It is now known that melatonin suppression occurs atfrequencies not far above those of the common household rangesof 50 hertz (Hz) (e.g., in Australia) and 60 hertz (e.g., in USA). Ifyou sleep next to a cordless phone base station and/or digitalclock or have faulty electrical wiring, there'll be enoughcontinuous EMR exposure to suppress night-time melatoninproduction.

The connection between breastcancer and EMR continues tostrengthen. Dr Patricia Coogan andcolleagues at the Boston University ofPublic Health reported a 43 per centincreased risk in women with a highlikelihood of occupational exposure tomagnetic fields, such as those given offby mainframe computers.22

In fact, women who work inelectrical jobs, including electricians,telephone installers, power line workersand electrical engineers have beenshown to have a greater risk of dyingfrom breast cancer. This increasedincidence has been directly linked to the suppression of melatoninby EMR.

And it's not just women who should be concerned about EMR'scausal link to breast cancer. In five studies, elevated EMR hasbeen implicated in an increased incidence of male breast cancer.Men who worked as telephone linemen, in switching stations andin the utilities industry were found to have as much as a sixfoldincrease in breast cancer compared with the general malepopulation.23

More Hormone Disruption from EMRExperimental physiologist Dr Charles Graham found that

magnetic fields have an effect on two other hormones. Overnightexposure of women to elevated levels of EMR in the laboratorysignificantly increased their level of oestrogen, which is a knownrisk factor for breast cancer.2 4 In men, EMR exposure reduced thelevel of testosterone—a hormone drop that has been linked totesticular and prostate cancers.2 5

Dr Graham notes that a field's steady magnitude matters lessthan its intermittency or other features, such as power surgescalled "electrical transients". These surges can pack a big burst ofenergy into a short period of time. They occur whenever lights orother electric devices are turned on, when motors or compressors(such as those in refrigerators and air conditioners) cycle on, orwhen dimmer switches are operated. Transients are hard to avoidbecause they may stem from surges elsewhere—in a neighbour'shouse or even in power lines up the street. Dr Graham alsobelieves that EMR may actually fit the definition of an endocrine

disruptor better than many hormone-mimicking environmentalpollutants because magnetic fields appear to elicit their effects byacting on and through hormones rather than as hormones.

Millions of women around the world are prescribed tamoxifen,the most popular drug given to prevent recurrence of breastcancer. A very significant study showed that tamoxifen lost itsability to halt the proliferation of cancer cells when exposed toEMR.26 The level of EMR which produced this effect—12 mG ormore—is found in common sources such as hairdryers, vacuumcleaners, can openers, computers, microwave ovens, desk lamps,blenders and electric clocks. What was even more troubling fromfurther research was that while melatonin successfully reduced thegrowth rate of human breast cancer in a culture, when exposed toa 12 mG magnetic field it completely lost its ability to inhibitbreast cancer cell growth.27

Women who are being treated for breast cancer with tamoxifenare rarely, if ever, advised to reduce exposure to EMR or to useadequate technologies to protect themselves from EMR exposure.

Neurotransmitters, a special class of hormones which includesserotonin and dopamine, play a majorrole in moods. Changes in serotoninlevels are known to be associated withdepression. For example, loweredlevels of this chemical in the brain havebeen linked to an increase in suicidef r e q u e n c y .2 8 One study examined thebrain functions of monkeys exposed to60 Hz magnetic fields. It was found thatthe levels of serotonin and dopamine (thelatter affecting brain processes thatcontrol movement, emotional responseand ability to experience pleasure andpain) were significantly depressedimmediately following exposure, andthat only the dopamine returned to

normal level several months afterwards.29

Dr Becker reports: "It seems that there may be two types ofclinical depression: one that is produced by simple psychosocialfactors, and one that is produced by some external factor thatinfluences the production of these psychoactive chemicals by thepineal gland. In view of the known relationship between the pinealgland and magnetic fields, it is advisable that the search for theresponsible factor include an evaluation of the effect of abnormalelectromagnetic fields."3 0 He is backed up in his advice by otherr e s e a r c h e r s .31, 32

Stress Hormones and EMRExposure to high levels of EMR also increases the level of

adrenalin, the flight or fight hormone, released from the adrenalglands. B. Blake Levitt, author of Electrical Fields , states:"Prolonged chronic stress is detrimental to every anatomicalsystem, including the reproductive one. Subliminal stress mayaffect fertility and elevate blood pressure, which can lead to heartdisease and stroke, as well as suppress immune function ... evenshort EMR exposures, like the use of a cordless phone on and offthroughout the day, could cause spikes in such hormone levels."33

The other stress hormone is cortisol, which affects long-termstress response. Also produced by the adrenals, cortisol isinvolved in glucose metabolism, blood pressure regulation,insulin release, inflammatory response, hormone balance andimmune system function. The cortisol level also influencesenergy and memory. It should come as no surprise that EMRexposure has been found to cause increased serum cortisol.34, 35

It is now known thatmelatonin suppression occursat frequencies not far above

those of the commonhousehold ranges of 50 hertz

(e.g., in Australia) and 60hertz (e.g., in USA).


Cellphones and Near Field RadiationWe now know that a very dangerous and specific form of EMR

affecting the functioning of the brain and body is the information-carrying signal that is emitted from the cellphone's antenna,known as a "near-field plume". (Note that in newer cellphones,the antenna may be hidden and not be visible to the user;nonetheless, the near-field radiation is still a health issue.) Thenear-field radiation emanates outwards about 6–7 inches [approx.15–18 centimetres] from the antenna in all directions. It is theresult of a burst of power required to carry a radio signal to a basestation that may be many kilometres away. Whenever we activatethe phone to send or receive, whether it is held against the head,clipped to a belt or kept in a pocket, we are being exposed todangerous information-carrying waves in the near field radiationplume.

The latest research shows that background radiation from themany EMR-emitting electrical appliances as well as the newwireless hot-spots equals the density of the information-carryingwaves emitted from the near field. This means that there isdanger not only close to the cellphone antenna, but also now inthe general environment to which we are exposed every day.36

Although the wireless technologyindustry and some governmentalagencies continue to assure the publicof the safety of cellphones (in a waythat is very reminiscent of the tobaccoindustry), the truth is that recentscientific evidence has revealed anemerging pattern of severe healthproblems caused from exposure tonear-field radiation. Cellphones areanything but safe and harmless. Someof the specific biological problemsinclude disruption to the blood-brainbarrier, genetic damage, breakdown incell-to-cell communication andincrease in the risk of cancers. 3 7 T h eblood-brain barrier is a special filter in the blood vessels of thebrain that keeps dangerous chemicals from reaching sensitivebrain tissue and causing DNA to break. Near-field radiation isable to open up the blood-brain barrier, allowing damaging toxicchemicals a free ride into the brain tissue.

Near-field radiation also contributes to DNA damage. Manystudies have found micronuclei (fragments of DNA with asurrounding membrane and with no physiological purpose) in theblood of people who use cellphones. Micronuclei result from abreakdown of the cell's ability to repair itself, and they indicategenetic damage. If the brain cells become unable to repairthemselves, then tumours could develop.38 More troubling is thefact that the presence of micronuclei can also indicate other healthissues, e.g., compromised immunity, sleep disturbances, attentiondeficient disorders, autism and Alzheimer's disease. Since thebody's master glands (pituitary, hypothalamus, pineal) are locatedwithin the brain, massive disturbances to the hormonal signallingcapacities may potentially be generated from continual cellphoneuse.

Then there's the electrical circuitry from cellphones, whichgenerates a competing energy that interferes with one's ownbiofield, or energy field. This kind of pervasive, or ambient,EMR compromises many physiological processes. When acellphone is clipped onto the belt or kept in a pant pocket, thisambient field most powerfully affects the tissues and organs that itis closest to, particularly in the pelvic area. Two studies have

already shown a 30 per cent reduction in sperm count in malemobile phone users. As more women clip their cellphone to theirbelt, female reproductive organs may also be at risk.39, 40

A word of caution also needs to be mentioned about the dangerscaused by ambient radiation from headsets. It is nowacknowledged that headsets, far from being protective, can actuallyincrease radiation emissions into the brain by as much as 300 percent. Bluetooth technology is especially dangerous. The only safeheadset to use is a hollow air-tube headset.

Cellphones, Cell Membranes and Carrier WavesIn recent years, exposure to radio frequencies emitted from

cellphones and wireless communication devices has taken centrestage, implicated as causing serious physiological damage to cells.

Initially the wireless technology industry and the USgovernment did not consider radio frequencies from cellphones tobe a health risk. Despite massive evidence to the contrary, theindustry still maintains that position. In the early days of thistechnology, it was believed that only a thermal effect, the heatingof tissues (such as what occurs in a microwave oven), resulted indamage to tissues. Since cellphones do not have enough power to

heat tissue, the US government did notrequire any studies to be done toinvestigate the potential healthproblems.

However, emerging science hasdiscovered that the problem withcellphones does not come from poweroutput (thermal effect) but rather fromthe information piggybacking on theso-called "carrier wave" emitted fromand received by the cellphone'santenna. This is called an"information-carrying radio wave"(ICRW). It is a frequency thatconveys specific packets ofinformation, allowing the transmission

of various features of cellphones, e.g., voice, text, graphics, etc.41

Herein lies the problem: this ICRW has a frequency that hasnever before existed in nature; our cells are totally unfamiliar withit and perceive it as a dangerous foreign invader.

The latest research has clearly identified the biologicalmechanisms of harm caused by ICRWs. We have special receptorsites, called "microtubules", on our cell membranes which cansense frequencies. The receptor sites interpret the ICRW as anunknown, threatening energy. Instantaneously the cell membranewill go into a protective lock-down mode. This means thatnutrients cannot get into the cell and toxins and waste productscannot get out. It also means that vital cell-to-cell communicationis lost.4 2 This effect is immediate and lasts for as long as a personis exposed to the ICRWs. The longer this condition persists,biological damage occurs—often resulting in free radical damage,genetic mutation, loss of cellular energy, premature ageing and,ultimately, degenerative disease.

If anyone should know about the harmful effects of cellphonesand wireless technology, it is George Carlo, MD, PhD, author ofCell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age. A respectedmedical professor of epidemiology, Dr Carlo was hired by theCellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) as thechief research scientist to lead a 28-million-dollar, five-yearresearch program investigating the potential harmful effects ofcellphones. The CTIA was confident that no health effects wouldbe found. However, Dr Carlo and his team of 200 research

It is now acknowledged that headsets, far from being

protective, can actuallyincrease radiation emissionsinto the brain by as much

as 300 per cent.


scientists found otherwise. Upon presentation to the CTIA of hisfindings, he was summarily fired and the damning results wereshelved. Dr Carlo has gone on to become one of the mostreputable and vocal critics of the wireless technology industry andone of the world's leading experts on electropollution. Accordingto Dr Carlo: "We understand that these information-carryingradio waves trigger protein membrane responses at the cellmembrane level, leading to disruption of intercellularcommunication and build-up of free radicals inside the cell. Thismechanism understanding is very important because it nowexplains the wide diversity of symptoms that we are seeing inpatients who are reporting electrohypersensitivity and also otherconditions such as headaches and unexplained anxiety thathenceforth...we'll know will be associated with these information-carrying radio waves."43

Imagine what happens to the functioning ofa cell if it can't receive vital nutrients,eliminate waste products or communicateproperly with other cells: complete havoc ona cellular level!

Since we are surrounded by cellphonetowers and users, it has become virtuallyimpossible to escape continuous andunrelenting exposure to ICRWs and ongoingharm to our physiological processes.

Increasing Risks from WirelessTechnology

The Mobile Telephone Health ConcernsRegistry is a non-profit organisationcreated to gather information abouthealth effects from cellphones. 4 4

Previously, complaints were abouthealth problems caused by cellphones.In the past two years, however, mostcomplaints have to do with ambient(background) information-carrying radiowaves coming from a vast variety ofwireless sources. The strength of theseambient ICRWs is approaching theintensity of the radio frequencies emittedby cellphones.

What does this mean? It means thatwhether or not you choose to have a cellphone/mobile phone, theproliferation of wireless technology is exposing you and yourchildren to dangerous radiation that instantaneously damages yourcells and alters all physiological processes. There is nowhere tohide any more.

Dr Carlo has profound insight into the unprecedented publichealth disaster brewing from an increasingly wireless world."Scientific studies continue to accumulate showing thatinformation-carrying radio waves from mobile phones and otherwireless devices, now used by more than three billion peopleworldwide, are dangerous. The mobile phone industry has notaddressed the problem; governments around the world continue tobe burdened by entanglements with the industry that render themunable to protect consumers. Emerging science shows links toconditions ranging from learning and spectrum disorders tocancer. If unabated, the brunt of the disease burden will continueto be borne by our children and grandchildren."45

The bad news is that we face an unprecedented public healthdisaster. The good news is that there are some effective,scientifically validated, preventive interventions now available.

Three Pieces of the Intervention PuzzleResolving the electropollution problem necessitates addressing

three distinct interventions: primary, secondary and tertiary. DrCarlo is adamant that all three levels of intervention are requiredto ensure adequate protection against electropollution. He refersto this as the Public Health Paradigm.

Primary intervention technologies are those that act to preventthe cell membrane's protective response from beinginappropriately triggered. These act on the "cause" of theproblems and include appropriate headsets, active noise-fieldtechnologies (developed by the US military) and passive noise-field technologies.

Secondary intervention technologies are those that act to restoreintercellular communication and thus can ameliorate the "effects"of EMR exposure. These are most effective in conjunction with

primary interventions, and include subtleenergy technologies, diodes and somependants.

Tertiary intervention technologies are thosethat act to rehabilitate and correct celldamage. These work only in conjunctionwith primary and secondary interventiontechnologies, and include nutritionals,antioxidants and repair supplements.

To ensure the greatest protection, all three"layers" must be initiated simultaneously: toprotect the cells from direct harm, to re-establish healthy cell-to-cell communicationand to provide the body with the essential

nourishment so it can repair itself andstay healthy.

On the subject of these three levels ofintervention, Dr Carlo says: "Thecombined effect of electropollutioncovering all three effect windows is themost serious health risk we have everfaced because it is an overlay health riskthat is now working insidiously in ourlives. These exposures compromisefundamental biological processesincluding immune response and otherphysiological compensation systems.Thus, electropollution makes the

population more susceptible and vulnerable to otherenvironmental insults such as air and water pollution, poornutrition, exposures to viruses and bacteria, as well as physicalstressors such as extreme heat or cold and stressful life events."46

As we rush headlong into our exciting high-tech world, wemust also understand that we are all participating in a massiveexperiment. Electropollution is a very real threat to present andfuture generations. Effective interventions are not a luxury butsimply a necessity. Like it or not, the ever-expanding andintrusive electromagnetic world is here to stay. The responsibilitylies with each one of us to take the proactive steps that willprotect us, our family and future generations. ∞

About the Author:S h e rrill Sellman, ND, is a naturopathic doctor, psychotherapist,international lecturer, radio host, writer and Cert ifiedElectromagnetic Radiation Safety Advisor (CERSA). She is theauthor of the best-selling books Hormone Heresy: What WomenMUST Know About Their Hormones (GetWell International, 1996,2001 4th ed.) and Mothers, Prevent Your Daughters From Getting

... whether or not you choose to have

a cellphone, the proliferation of wireless technology is exposing you and

your children todangerous radiationthat instantaneouslydamages your cells

and alters allphysiological

processes.

Breast Cancer (GetWell International, 2003). She has contributednumerous articles to NEXUS, most recently "Drugs and ChemicalsStraight from the Tap" in 12/03.

Sherrill Sellman can be contacted by telephone on +1 (918)437 1058, by email at [email protected] or via her websitehttp://www.whatwomenmustknow.com.

Postscript: My Personal Choice for Protection againstElectropollution

Four years ago, when I began investigating the effects ofelectropollution, I realised that it was becoming more and more

difficult to avoid its pervasive health consequences. With theunparalleled explosion of EMR, it is now virtually impossible toescape the reach of the wireless world—whether you use acellphone/mobile phone or not.

In light of this reality, I investigated the most scientificallysupported forms of protection available. Few products actuallydemonstrated results. However, one company, BIOPROT e c h n o l o g y , has provided the science that proves the efficacy oftheir novel technologies (http://www.bioprotechnology.com).

They have licensed two technologies that are married in their phonechips and "Universal" chips for appliances, e.g., computers,wireless routers, etc.

The first technology is a patented passive noisefield technology,called Molecular Resonant Effect Technology (MRET), whichsuccessfully addresses primary intervention, immediately stoppingdamage to cell membranes.

The other is a subtle energy technology, Energy ResonanceTechnology (ERT), which improves cell-to-cell communication,i.e., a secondary intervention.

While in the past I have always chosen to remain impartial withproduct recommendations, in this case the problem ofelectropollution is so serious that I felt it was imperative torecommend a proven technology. Visit the websitehttp://www.bioenergeticsinstitute.com for the studies.

I not only recommend these products, but also make themavailable for purchase. If you would like more information, pleasev i s i t the website http://www.mybiopro.com/yes or email me atgolight@ earthlink.net. In Australia, you can call (03) 9808 1822.

— Sherrill Sellman


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PART I: ANAESTHETISED BY THE AETHER: How a Few Failed ExperimentsPut Science in a Stupor

In a statement issued following the death of Professor Albert Einstein on 18 April1955, US President Dwight Eisenhower said: "No other man contributed so much tothe vast expansion of the 20th century knowledge." And this, 45 years before theclose of the century. "Yet no other man was more modest in the possession of the

power that is knowledge, more sure that power without wisdom is deadly. To all who livein the nuclear age, Albert Einstein exemplified the mighty creative ability of theindividual in a free society," said Eisenhower.1 T I M E magazine lauded the scientist as"Person of the Century" on the cover of its 31 December 1999 edition.2

In his lifetime, Albert Einstein (1879–1955) gained scientific fame for theories such asOn Brownian Movements, the Photoelectric Effect, the Bose–Einstein Statistics ofThermodynamics and, above all, the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) (1905) and theGeneral Theory of Relativity (GTR) (1915–16). The Photoelectric Effect explanationswon him a Nobel Prize in 1921. 3 Due to his inaccessible and often remote theories,Einstein became the symbol of the mystical scientist in the ivory tower. He was a gentleman, whose enigmatic looks and veiled utterances made him an ideal for scientists as wellas for science-fiction writers and the person in the street.

Yet in his lifetime there were those who doubted his greatness, and more than 50 yearsafter his death, when glory seemed secure, there are those who once more feel free todoubt whether everything is alright with relativity.4 Here are some reasons why.

The Aether ControversyThe path to Einstein's mythical fame, and his eventual fall from grace, was via a

devious substance known as the "aether". The aether was described in various works byGreek, Egyptian and Indian philosophers as early as the fifth century BC.5 According totheir ideas, the aether is the most subtle substance in creation—the mother of all otherphenomena. Fifth-century-BC philosopher Anaxagoras also speculated that atoms arevortexes in the aether, a theory picked up 2,500 years later by the genius Scottish physicistWilliam Thomson, alias Lord Kelvin (1824–1907).6

The very reason for reviving old concepts was because of certain advancements inscience. By the early 19th century Michael Faraday and Hans Oersted had discoveredelectromagnetism, and by the middle of the century Dr Hermann Helmholtz (1821–94)had proved that such forces could spread through "empty space" as waves. Great men ofscience such as Michael Meyerson, Lord Kelvin and Robert Young competed to give thebest explanations for these phenomena, but the man to win the prize for the best theorywas James Clerk Maxwell (1821–79). In 1864 he proposed the theory of the "mechanicalaether"—an invisible, ethereal substance endowed with elasticity and filled with small"idle wheels". Magnetism was pictured as vortexes in the aether, while electricity wasimagined to be deformation of the vortexes and the wheels. By a continuous process ofdeformation and rotation, electromagnetism could be explained and expressed by fourfundamental equations, known today as the Maxwell electromagnetic wave equations.7

These equations and the picture based on the theory of the "mechanical aether" becamea veritable goldmine for 19th-century science: a host of phenomena found their trueexplanation, and light was finally explained as electromagnetic waves of ultra-shortwavelengths.

Using such thinking, scientists now started to discuss the aether and three schools of

Einstein has beenhailed for his

relativity theoriesand has always hadhis detractors, butthe consensus viewis changing as moreproblems with his

explanations ofphysical reality are

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thinking emerged. One claimed that the Earth traverses animmovable sea of aether, another that the aether is carried alongwith the Earth, and a third held that the aether is in motion.Discussions broke out between the schools, showing a need toprove who was right, but proofs rested on technical means and noreliable mechanical instruments were available until the 1880swhen Professor Albert Michelson (1852–1931) from CaseUniversity, Cleveland, USA, built his one-millionth-part-accurateinterferometer. Such an instrument could identify differencesbetween two arriving light waves in terms of geometricalinterference patterns—that is, patterns formed when beams oflight hit the same spot, either amplifying each other or weakeningeach other depending on whether they arrive at the same time orslightly out of phase.

The idea behind the famous Michelson–Morley experiment wasto send two beams of light along two different paths, equally longas measured by earthly measuring sticks, the only differencebeing their direction—one path being along the movement of theEarth through the "sea of aether", the other traversing the Earth'spath. By mirrors and prisms, the two light beams would then bemade to meet at the same spot. If those light waves travellingalong the path of the Earth got an extra speed through the aethersea and those traversing the path werenot influenced, they would arrive atdifferent moments, provided that theaether waves we call light haddifferent speeds in different directions.Thus the observer would see aweakening of the light as the wavesarrived at different moments to createnegative interference—somewhat likewaves on the sea arriving out of order,creating weaker waves compared tothose that roll in at the same time,marching in order, so to speak.

Michelson acted according to thistheory, being a true believer in the staticaether, and his contention was that this static aether penetrated allobjects, heavy and light, and would in turn influence the speed ofthe propagating light waves as described above. To test this idea,he set up his interferometer in the basement of the universitybuilding in an attempt to see if there was any difference between alight beam parallel to the movement of the Earth and oneperpendicular to it. Michelson and his colleague Edward Morley(1838–1923) figured that the light beam going a g a i n s t t h emovement of the Earth would be slowed down, the one going withthe Earth would be speeded up, while the one t r a v e r s i n g t h edirection of the movement of the Earth would be unaltered. Theyreckoned that these differences should be detectable down to onein a millionth of a wavelength of light. After just 36measurements over a period of three days, Michelson and Morleydeclared that there were detectable differences, but not greatenough to support the theory of a static aether.8 This was later tobe known as the famous "1887 zero- result experiment"—but didit really produce zero result, and what did it prove or not prove?

Shrinking ScienceGreat minds were at a loss, since neither the e n t r a i n e d a e t h e r

(aether that moves with the Earth) nor the s t a t i c aether wasproperly proved. In 1892 Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), one ofthe proponents of the static aether theory, suggested a way toexplain the zero-result experiment. He asked what it would takein the change of distance travelled by light to keep the formula for

the "speed = distance / time" constant under all conditions. Theanswer was a surprising formula, where lengths shrink and timegoes slower by the same factor. When he divided shrinkinglengths by slowed-down time, the result was "c", confirming theconstancy of the speed of light.

This was not, however, a mere mathematical trick to save theday: Lorentz firmly believed that physical shrinking really tookplace. The material "bolts and wheels explanation" was thatmatter consists of atoms and that the radius of atoms isdetermined by the size of the orbit of the outer electrons—latercalled the "Bohr radius". When atoms of matter speed throughthe immutable aether, electrons experience an aether-resistanceand their orbits get compressed so that they are no longer circularbut elliptical, with the shorter axis in the direction of movement.The shortening of the axis is calculated by the Lorentz formula forshrinking.9

In practical terms, what Lorentz was saying was thatMichelson's steel interferometer had experienced a minuteshrinking in the direction of the Earth's movement through theaether. Thus light beams travelling along this axis had a shorterway to go, and since c = distance / time, c appeared to be constantsince time had slowed down by the same factor as the length had

shrunk. Suddenly it could be explained to

the moving scientist why he wouldmeasure the same speed of light as onewho was floating in a stationaryspaceship in the aether. But is thiswhat was proved? Was there any trulycosmic, motionless aether, or was it anentrained aether that travelled with thesolar system? Or what was going on?

Later, French mathematician HenriPoincaré (1854–1912) started to seethings differently: maybe it was a caseof how we view this world. Manybaptised this viewpoint the

Lorentz–Poincaré Theory of Relativity.

A Patent Solution?In 1905, a patent clerk by the name of Albert Einstein, working

at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, sent three articles to theGerman journal Annals of Physics concerning Brownianmovements (movements of particles in water), the photoelectriceffect and the zero-result experiment of Michelson and Morley.The latter came to be known as the Special Theory of Relativity.Einstein didn't bring much that was new into the aether discussionwith his theory, except for two new postulates that he hoped couldkill the whole aether controversy: (1) the speed of light is auniversal constant, take it or leave it; (2) there is no suchmovement as absolute speed relative to a universal, resting aether,thus all movement is just a measurement of difference in speedbetween moving bodies. From these two initial postulates, it waspossible to arrive at the Lorentz transformations as a consequenceof how we observe things.10

By the 1930s, Einstein had become a household name, andjournalists became interested in how he had come upon his ideas.In traditional Einsteinian style, he claimed that he did so on apurely philosophical basis: "Physics constitutes a logical systemof thought which is in a state of evolution, whose basis[principles] cannot be distilled, as it were, from experience by aninductive method, but can only be arrived at by free invention.The justification [truth content] of the system rests in the


By the 1930s, Einstein hadbecome a household name,

and journalists becameinterested in how he had

come upon his ideas.

verification of the derived propositions [a priori/logical truths] bysense experiences [a posteriori/empirical truths] ... Evolution isproceeding in the direction of increasing simplicity of the logicalbasis [principles] ... We must always be ready to change thesenotions—that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics—in orderto do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically.11

Einstein soon changed the story in his booklet Essays onScience, admitting that he accepted the Lorentz transformations asthe only solution to make the speed of light in the Maxwellequations appear constant to all observers—exactly as Lorentzand Poincaré had speculated!

Thus, according to mathematician Edmund Whittaker: 1 2

"Einstein had published a paper which set forth the RelativityTheory of Poincaré and Lorentz with some amplifications, andwhich attracted much attention!" When confronted with theseallegations, Einstein denied them asirrelevant—but were they irrelevant?

Was it possible for one interested inLorentz's and Poincaré's work not to havenoticed that they had started to change theinterpretation of the original equations from areal physical phenomenon to one concerninginformation?

Einstein in WonderlandRelativity theory seemed to contradict

common sense when interpreted theEinsteinian way. Apart from making the speedof light, "c", a universal constant, it leads tosome strange results concerning the waywe experience the world when using lightas a primary source of information.

Time on a moving object seems to slowdown, and scientists believing the newmessage assumed that if you put a man ina rocket and sent him into the universe atsufficiently high speed, he might nevergrow old. But according to Einsteinianwisdom, all movements are relative, sothe man in the rocket may believe it is theEarth that is moving and he feels that heis the one losing out on time. In thehavoc created by such arguments, evenEinstein seemed to forget his originalpremises. These phenomena were not real: they were apparentbecause all information between the two—the astronaut and theEarth—was transmitted by signals going at a finite speed, "c". Itwas not about space at all: it was about transmission ofinformation!13

Along the same line of thinking, information about lengths alsochanged: lengths seemed shorter in the moving body. Accordingto the original Lorentz interpretation, they did indeed becomeshorter. But Einstein argued that it was only an illusory effectcaused by the way we measure distances by the use of signalsgoing at finite speed, emitted from objects moving past theobserver. One would expect that if it's an optical illusion, itwould be possible to photograph the effect; but Einstein deniedthis, as no one in his time had actually attempted to do so.14

Whereas clocks seem to tick slower and lengths seem to shrink,mass in the Relative Wonderland seems to increase and becomeheavier—for the observer at rest. But of course, all is relative, sothe man in the spaceship will claim that it is Earthlings who aregetting heavier. So, who is putting on weight?

Of special interest are pions moving at impossible speed.According to calculations performed independently by Britishastronomer/physicist Sir James Jeans (1877–1946) 1 5 and by thelesser-known Italian industrialist Olinto De Pretto (1857–1921) in1904, their mass is exactly equal to mc 2, where "m" is thehypothetical mass of the photons. Einstein extended this idea toconcern all moving bodies by ascribing to them a "resting energy"of E = mc2. When asked what was the glory of the Special Theoryof Relativity, he specifically named the energy formula. But wasit his own? And can all matter indeed be transformed into pureenergy?

Later, when the nuclear bomb was produced—after Einsteinhad signed a petition for its construction—many scientistsclaimed to have used the E = mc2 formula as a basis for releasingthe potential energy of the atom. Or was the energy calculation

actually based on other, more complicatedformulas?

According to French professor ofchemistry C. Louis Kervran (1901–83) inBiological Transmutations (1962), thisformula can never be applied to the atomicnucleus because "...it is a mistake that mattercan be transformed into energy. Thestatement is false, even though it is found inpractically all books on nuclear physics. Weknow only how to use the bonding energybetween nucleons (which seems to comefrom mesons). But matter is not transformedinto energy; matter is essentially composed

of protons and neutrons, and in atomicfission the nucleons do not disappear butare found in the fission products. If someneutrons are expelled, they are notdestroyed. For matter to disappear, itmust be opposed by antimatter."

Backward ThinkingIn 1906, Professor Hermann Minkowski

(1864–1909), Einstein's old teacher whohad scornfully called him a "lazy dog" afew years earlier, presented a new idea toEinstein. If the Lorentz transformationswere correct, then they presented arotation in a four-dimensional

mathematical "space" (the proper term being "manifold", not to beconfused with the concept of space used to mean a room, natureor the cosmos). The "space" he was thinking of was not ourphysical "outer space", but a mathematical construct of fourequally important distances that can be measured with the sameyardstick: height, length, breadth and the distance travelled bylight in a certain period of time (light distance = c x seconds).

To make things clearer: mathematical space starts out with theexperiences of the three dimensions of length, height and breadthwhen discussing space, and then makes a picture of the outerspace on paper and starts making formulas for how to go aroundwhen measuring distances and describing objects located in thispaper-space that is an abstract of real space. It is all paperworkwhere the paper-world corresponds to the experiences we have inthe real world. In this paper-world, we deal with known topicssuch as distance, movement, volumes, shapes, surfaces, etc., andestablish formulas or, rather, rules for how to express thesetangible magnitudes known to our senses.

It is all "a piece of cake", even when maths goes sour, because


"But matter is nottransformed intoenergy; matter is

essentially composed of protons and

neutrons, and in atomic fission thenucleons do not

disappear but are found in the fission

products."

real life is there as a reference. But what if we go beyond thepremises of our concepts and, for argument's sake only, addanother dimension, another measurable yardstick to our threedimensions, and make it 4D: length, breadth, height plus"something else". This something else can be measured with thesame yardstick as the three others, but what is it? In real life, thereis nothing compared to it: it is a mental construct. But we canapply the same rules to 4D as to 3D, and play with ideas in 3D.

To make things easy on mathematics, one uses a system ofmeasurement of speeds where the speed of light is equal to unity(c = 1) and all other speeds are presented as a percentage of c(v' = v/c). Miraculously, it seems one has created "space-time" byforgetting that "c", just a few minutes ago, was measured inkilometres per second and now appears as unity: one (1). Sobeware: it is not space-time after all: it is space-light-distance andnothing but a simple paper-world suited for easy calculations.16, 17

It is in such a paper-world that all movements appear to spread outnicely as time-space paths, and one can backtrack to gainknowledge of the "past".

Few scientists were happy about this and still fewer understoodthe use for it. Michelson admitted openly that he did not grasp themeaning of the new ideas—but ayoung Swiss scientist, Walter Ritz,did!

Being a specialist in optics andinterferometry, Walter Ritz(1878–1909) offered to restore somes a n i t y . 18, 19 He claimed that if weassume that all radiation loses someenergy as it traverses space, this couldaccount for a vast majority ofphenomena, explain the Michelson–Morley zero-result experiment, saveNewton from embarrassment and buryEinstein's theoretical fundament.

Because Einstein's two postulateswere insufficient to support his STR, as he admitted in later years,one had to assume two other postulates not presented in 1905:that all information transmitted by radiation must be reversible,paving the way for backward time, and that space must bear noimpression of what is going on—i.e., the world must be withoutmemory!

However, if radiations are an irreversible process, as Ritzargued in 1908–09, time becomes irreversible and knowledge ofreal space depends on direction. Thus, if some history of events islost forever and our world becomes inhomogeneous (anisotropic),the rug is pulled from under the Einsteinian thought-world.

Einstein, who was regarded as a genius by his admirers, couldfind no good counter-arguments to defend his theory against thesearguments and somewhat lamely accepted Ritz's criticism butwithout changing his own theories.

In 1909, Walter Ritz died, and Einstein and the believers in the"new physics" were all too eager to forget his name and theembarrassment he had created.

Many years later, as quantum physics came of age, proponentsof this new atomic theory admitted that Ritz's ideas were 100 percent in accord with quantum physics; Einstein's were not: time isirreversible and tomorrow will forever be different from today.But in the paper-world of Einstein, these facts were only regardedas "ugly trees" in the garden of "pure marble".20

And moreover, if Einsteinians were to have been believed, theycould have found the "holy grail": perpetual creation out of alimited amount of matter!

Afraid of VertigoAs Einstein's theories gained a foothold with the younger

generation of believers in the "new physics", Einstein's fameincreased steadily and the stature of the aether scientists seemedto die out accordingly.

But in 1913, French scientist Georges Sagnac (1869–1926) tookEinstein's second postulate to the slaughter-house by mounting aninterferometer on a spinning disc and proving that there is adefinite difference between light going with or against thedirection of rotation. This difference could be easily explained byusing old-time Newtonian arguments that the speed of lightchanges according to the direction of rotation. 2 1 This not onlykilled the second postulate, it killed the whole of STR.

Again, Einstein ran short of arguments and was once moreunable to defend himself. Instead of dissecting Sagnac'smathematical analysis, he just sent a "short note" stating that thewhole phenomenon was due to a "Doppler effect" (a change offrequency due to movement of the source)!22

For the moment, Einstein thought he had saved his reputationbut all he had done was to prove his own incompetence. When,as late as 1925, Michelson and Gale repeated the Sagnac

experiment using the spinning Earth astheir laboratory, their results once moreconfirmed rotation as an absolute typeof movement. Einstein, who was bythen a Nobel laureate, did not doanything to save the sacredness of hispostulates.23

But Sagnac and, later, Michelsonand Gale had actually proved nothingnew that Einstein ought to have beenconfused about! They had just provedwhat Galileo and Copernicus hadclaimed 300 years earlier: that rotationis not relative movement: it isabsolute.

By simple means, any man on a spinning planet can realise thathis world is going round, utilising simple means such as thoseused in 1854 by the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault(1819–1868). Using a pendulum suspended from the ceiling ofthe Panthéon, anyone living in Paris could observe how therotation of the Earth made the pendulum perform strange patternsin sand on the floor. Thus, claiming that the Earth is spinning andthe heavens are still is by no means identical to holding on to thebelief that the heavens spin and the Earth is at rest.

Unknowingly, as incredible as it may seem, Einstein hadclaimed exactly this, reviving the cosmology of Ptolemy from thefirst century AD. 2 4 Maybe he had been in a rush creating histheory?

After publishing his General Theory of Relativity in 1916,Einstein still refused to accept that galaxies spin. He claimed thatthis counteracted his second postulate in the STR. Sadly forcommon sense, all astronomers by 1916 knew that galaxies spin.25

Years after Einstein's death, opinion is still in favour of Sagnacand the absolute nature of rotation. When satellite clocks aresynchronised, corrections are made using a speed of light eithergreater or less than "c".26

And today, spaceships, satellites and aeroplanes all carry laser-ring gyroscopes that use the non-relativistic Sagnac effect to tellthe speed between the aeroplane and the rotating Earth, withaccuracies down to nanoseconds.27


After publishing his General Theory of Relativity in 1916, Einstein still refusedto accept that galaxies spin.



PROJECT UNITYA Fuel-Free Energy System

from GravityControl.org © 2007

GravityControl.org has receivedmany submissions regardingantigravity over the years, but none

compares with the submission of oneW. David Barclay. Read how his theorytranscends all rocket and combustionscience, taking us to a new level of a fieldwithin a field that causes abrasion,interaction and resistance to create fuellesspropulsion and achieve antigravity.

As we continue to pursue this mostamazing and wonderful subject, we are nowexposed to Project Unity. We haveembraced Project Unity because, after yearsof research, it would appear that if gravitycontrol isn't a project waiting in the wings

of government then it is theobvious next step for manas we contemplate ourdwindling oil supply andtry to reach for the stars.The thousand-year-oldtechnology of rockets hastaken us to the Moon—andperhaps Mars. But thiskind of push-propulsionenergy and the currentunderstanding oftechnology is in for a bigshake-up.

The new science, aspartially explained byWilbert B. Smith, hasnothing to do with rockettechnology. It's more in line with theworks of Keely, Tesla, Kozyrev andcurrently Alex Frolov.

Gravity control is a matter of time. Thefact that some of the new sciencecontradicts current thinking should notcome as a surprise. Newton's laws will bechallenged as surely as his students wereheard to say, "This is hard". For thosecapable of understanding, Project Unity isits own reward and with it comes thechallenge to help shape the things to come.

Against a background of mainstreamscience, W. David Barclay offers newgenius with a theory so profound as to becapable of moving our entire civilisationforward. If there is a spark of a new ideaand it catches fire, we are all privileged towitness the beginning of a new era, ProjectUnity.

The Field Frequency Modulator by W. David Barclay

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The FFM System is a four-phaseelectromagnetic array capable of sustaininga unified field system existing relative to

the field in which it is situated. Thisprovides for a differential in dynamicpotential between the FFM System and thefield of frequency in which it is situated.

In other words, the idea is to create arelative unified field of frequency (theFFM System) within another unified fieldof frequency (the Earth's field), wherebyutilising the differential existing betweenthe two systems to provide an electricpotential.

This effectively creates a differential inelectrical charge between the FFM Systemand the surrounding environment, whichcan be transferred to electrical generatorsand delivered through the existingelectrical system.

The beauty of the FFM System is itsnatural simplicity, as it requires no fuelsupply of any kind in the form of liquids,solids or gases.

The FFM System functions on the basisof the existing continuance of fieldfrequency associated with any unified fieldsystem, but unlike many otherexperimental systems it allows for thecontrolled modulation of the underlyingenergy potential.

In other words, the FFM Systemprovides a controlled flow of energy whichcan be increased or decreased by the simpleturning of a dial.

The various applications to which theFFM System can be applied have not at

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this time been fully explored, but it can beclearly stated that no aspect of humanactivity would remain unaffected by theversatility of this advanced science andtechnology.

The most obvious application of gravitycontrol is in the area of aerospace researchand development, with the focus onadvanced systems of transportation andcommunication.

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Principles and TechnologyProject Unity defines the function of a

four-phase modulator in relation to thecontrolled modulation of the underlyingforce of field. The Project allows for muchresearch and development to be carried outover the coming years.

It can be assured that all those personallyinvolved with the development of the FFMSystem will find the process to be anexciting and rewarding experience, as ourgoal is to provide the world with the firstcompletely fuel-free energy system. Noteven water is used in the process.

The diagrams show the basic design ofthe FFM System. The four-phasemodulator can be described as anelectromagnetic drive unit consisting offour tiered rings of magnetic discs. Eachmagnetic disc is mounted on an electricallydriven control arm which can lift and/orlower the magnetic disc or turn the discfrom side to side. The calibrated andsynchronised lifting and/or lowering of thediscs allows for the vertical focus of fieldin an up or a down direction, while theturning from side to side allows for thehorizontal focus of field in any directionrelative to the vertical plane.

Diagram 1 shows a plane view of a disc-

shaped craft with the four-phase modulatorsituated in the centre.

Diagram 2 shows a section view of adisc-shaped craft with the four tiered levelsof the four-phase modulator situated in thebottom half of the craft—much like aninverted pyramid turned inside out to forma cone, with the smallest ring at the bottomand the largest ring at the top.

Diagram 3a shows a side elevation ofone magnetic disc mounted on a controlarm, whereby the magnetic disc can beturned 180 degrees to the left or 180degrees to the right relative to the verticalplane.

Diagram 3b shows a front elevation ofthe same operation.

Diagram 4 shows a side elevation of onemagnetic disc mounted on a control arm,whereby the magnetic disc can be liftedand lowered 90 degrees up or down relativeto the horizontal plane.

Project Unity allows for gravity control,in that the ratio of energy per unit of mass ismodulated by a simple four-phaseelectromagnetic modulator, in relation to aunified field of frequency remaining relativeto the system of reference. And in that thefour-phase modulator affects the fielddynamics of the craft in relation to gravityand electromagnetism, the proportionallydynamic electromagnetic response issufficient to operate all onboard electronics.Therefore, the system is self-sufficient inrespect to all energy requirements necessaryto sustain the craft's operation.

The dynamic principles which allow forthe design and construction of this systemhave been thoroughly researched andstudied over a period of more than 40years. Therefore, I am confident that theField Frequency Modulator will provide fora variety of practical and efficientapplications, not the least of which isProject Unity. ∞

The Quest for Gravity Control GravityControl.org has been created to

help pave the way to a future beyondrockets to a new age of propulsion withoutfuel. The search for antigravity is arelentless task but, to many, gravity controlis 50-year-old science fiction. Althoughmore than 50 per cent of Americans believeUFOs are real, few ask how they work.

Fortunately, there are small teams allover the world asking that question andhelping to realise our future of a fuellesssociety. Gravitycontrol.org is one smallmember of that global team, is self-funded

and non-profit (so far) and is dedicated tothe quest for gravity control.

The product is gravity control. There isno combustion engine and no liquid gas orsolid fuel involved. It's a different sciencethat works on focus rather than fusion orfission.

Experiments with Project Unity havebegun. Expected successful results willcreate opportunities to build Project Unity.

For more information, visit the websitehttp://gravitycontrol.org/. ∞

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FUEL VAPORISATION ANDOPTIMUM COMBUSTION

by Robert M. Stanley © June 2007

In October 2004, I wrote a brief articleabout a revolutionary new spark plugcalled the FireStorm [see NEXUS

12/02]. As a result, thousands of NEXUSreaders contacted me requesting moreinformation. Although most people justwanted to save money on fuel, many otherswho wrote to me were inventors andinvestors with interesting new ideas andinsights regarding "green" technology.From them I learned a lot about fuel andignition, which I will now share with you.

In June 2007, I spoke on the phone withRobert Krupa, the inventor of theFireStorm spark plug. For unspecifiedreasons, after many years he still hadnot gone into production of his space-age ignition system.

However, when I asked Mr Krupa ifhis spark plug would work as promisedwithout adjusting the air/fuel mixture,he stated that he could not get the sameresults (more power, higher mileage andlower emissions) without "leaning" outthe air/fuel to a 30:1 ratio. I asked MrKrupa that specific question because itturns out that the answer to getting morehorsepower and mileage out of a gallonof gasoline is not found in a morepowerful ignition system.

Vaporisation is the actual key tooptimum combustion. All modern sparkplugs are powerful enough to ignite aproperly vaporised fuel.

Gasoline or petrol is most efficientlyburned in a gaseous state, not a liquid state.Thanks to the many letters I received fromNEXUS readers, I was informed that thereare hundreds of devices that vaporise liquidpetroleum into a gaseous state.

This is a confirmed method fordramatically improving the efficiency ofany liquid fuel. One of the most simplisticyet ingenious methods of vaporisation Ihave seen so far involves running the fuelpump in reverse to send air into the bottomof the gas tank. The rapidly expanding,vaporised gas is then routed out of the topof the tank via the fuel hose to the engine.

A far more complex system ofvaporisation is US Patent No. 4,323,043,awarded in 1982 for one variety of fuelvaporisation technology. This patentclearly indicates that any internalcombustion engine's horsepower and miles-per-gallon can be increased, while

pollution (mainly in the form of unburnedfuel) is significantly decreased by using avaporiser.

Proof that this is a viable, emergingtechnology comes from a team of engineersin Canada that have built a Vapor Car. Thishigh-performance vehicle is reportedly ableto achieve over 90 miles per gallon of gas,using vaporisation technology (seeh t t p : / / w w w . f u e l v a p o r c a r . c o m / ) .

There are related technologies that usevapour extraction. One of the mostinteresting of these is called "hydrogen ondemand". This is based on the sametechnique of vaporising a liquid into a gas.In this case, the liquid fuel is water. Thehydrogen and oxygen gas is generated fromwater, using a small amount of electricityand a catalytic compound.

The hydrogen/oxygen gas is then fed intoan internal combustion engine to generateclean power. The drawback with this isthat hydrogen/oxygen gas is highlycorrosive and will damage metal over time.The current, rather complex, solution tothis problem involves coating a metallicengine with ceramic.

The big question is: who will build thebest commercial fuel vaporiser? I assureyou, inventors and engineers around theworld are working on this and otherfuturistic vaporisation technologies. It isjust a matter of time before we all benefitfrom these green machines.

PS: Following is an important newsitem. Apparently someone beat Krupa athis own game. However, as I said in myupdate, improved ignition alone doesn'treally solve the problem.

Breakthrough Ignition Technology

Ignition products company Enerpulse,Inc. announced today [23 January 2006]

that its pulse plug prototype, PulstarTM, has

demonstrated improved vehicle fuelefficiency over spark plugs in both requiredEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA)testing and initial company tests.

Pulstar, which holds eight US andforeign patents, is the first capacitor-enhanced spark plug, called a "pulse plug".The Pulstar pulse plug provided a 2.7 percent improvement in fuel efficiency overconventional spark plugs in the EPA test.

Internal tests conducted by Enerpulse,using an actual driving cycle, demonstrateda nearly 9.0 per cent improvement in fuelefficiency. Enerpulse has also performedthe industry-recognised dynamometer testto determine torque and horsepower output.This test's results show a 7.0 per centimprovement in torque and a 10.5 per centimprovement in horsepower output over

regular spark plugs.Pulse plugs represent a whole new

category of ignition devices. Althoughthey look like spark plugs and fit intothe engine exactly like spark plugs, theirtechnology is based on pulse power—awell-recognised technology used inlaser, X-ray and radar products.

"What makes Pulstar different fromspark plugs is its built-in capacitor,which stores the ignition's electricalpower and then discharges it in anintense plasma ball," said EnerpulseCEO Daniel Parker. "Pulstar is capableof delivering up to 10,000 times thepower of an average spark plug, which

translates into greater fuel efficiency,increased torque and horsepower andreduced hydrocarbon emissions. In fact,spark plugs can be compared to the low-power output of a flashlight, while pulseplugs generate intense power like thebrightness emitted from a camera's flashbulb."

Enerpulse, a privately held companyheadquartered in Albuquerque, NewMexico, was founded in 1996. Thecompany develops environmentallyfriendly ignition products through theapplication of pulse power technology.

For more information, visithttp://www.pulstarplug.com. ∞(Source: Business Wire, 23 January 2006,h t t p : / / f i n d a r t i c l e s . c o m / p / a r t i c l e s /m i _ m 0 E I N / i s _ 2 0 0 6 _ J a n _ 2 3 / a i _ n 1 6 0 1 8 8 2 7 )

About the Author: Robert M. Stanley is a California-basedwriter and researcher specialising intechnology trends. He can be contactedby email at [email protected].

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Although they look like sparkplugs and fit into the engineexactly like spark plugs, theirtechnology is based on pulse

power—a technology alsoused in laser, X-ray and radar

products.

The excavations near the French village of Glozel, a hamlet located 17 kilometres fromthe French spa town of Vichy, are among the most controversial of archaeologicalendeavours. These excavations lasted between 1924 and 1938, but the vast majority offinds—more than 3,000 artefacts—were unearthed in the first two years. The artefactswere variously dated to Neolithic, Iron Age and Mediaeval times. What transpired is atextbook case of archaeological feuding and fraud versus truth.

Glozel 101: How to get ahead in archaeology

If one word could be used to describe the Glozel affair, it should be "controversial". Ithas been described as the "Dreyfus affair" of French archaeology, and the Dreyfusequivalent was Emile Fradin, a seventeen-year-old, who together with his grandfatherClaude Fradin stepped into history on 1 March 1924.

Working in a field known as Duranthon, Emile was holding the handles of a ploughwhen one of the cows pulling it stuck a foot in a cavity. Freeing the cow, the Fradinsuncovered a cavity containing human bones and ceramic fragments. So far, this couldhave been just any usual archaeological discovery, of which some are made every week.That soon changed…

It is said that the first to arrive the following day were the neighbours. They not onlyfound but also took some of the objects. That same month, Adrienne Picandet, a localteacher, visited the Fradins' farm and decided to inform the minister of education. On 9July, Benoît Clément, another teacher, this time from the neighbouring village andrepresenting La Société d'Emulation du Bourbonnais, visited the site and later returnedwith a man called Viple. Clément and Viple used pickaxes to break down the remainingwalls, which they took away with them. Some weeks later, Emile Fradin received a letterfrom Viple, identifying the site as Gallo-Roman. He added that he felt it to be of littleinterest. His advice was to recommence cultivation of the field—which is what the Fradinfamily did. And this might perhaps have been the end of the saga…but not so.

The January 1925 Bulletin de la Société d'Emulation du Bourbonnais reported on thefindings. It brought the story to the attention of Antonin Morlet, a Vichy physician andamateur archaeologist. Morlet visited Clément and was intrigued by the findings. Morletwas an "amateur specialist" in the Gallo-Roman period (first to fourth centuries AD) andbelieved that the objects from Glozel were older. He thought that some might even datefrom the Magdalenian period (12,000–9500 BC). Both Morlet and Clément visited thefarm and the field on 26 April 1925, and Morlet offered the Fradins 200 francs per year tobe allowed to complete the excavation. Morlet began his excavations on 24 May,discovering tablets, idols, bone and flint tools, and engraved stones. He identified the siteas Neolithic and published his "Nouvelle Station Néolithique" in September 1925, listingEmile Fradin as co-author. He argued that the site was, as the title of the article states,Neolithic in nature.

Though Morlet dated it as Neolithic, he was not blind to see that the site containedobjects from various epochs. He still upheld his belief that some artefacts appeared to beolder, belonging to the Magdalenian period, but added that the techniques that had beenused appeared to be Neolithic. As such, he identified Glozel as a transition site betweenboth eras, even though it was known that the two eras were separated by severalmillennia. Certain objects were indeed anachronistic: one stone showed a reindeer,accompanied by letters that appeared to be an alphabet. The reindeer vanished from thatregion around 10,000 BC, yet the earliest known form of writing was established around

When artefactsunearthed at

Glozel, France, inthe mid-1920sdidn't fit the

accepted scholarlyexplanation of

human prehistory in that region,archaeologists

engaged in a bitterbattle that has still

not seen a clearwinner.

by Philip Coppens © 2007

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3300 BC, and that was in the Middle East. The general consensuswas that, locally, one would have to wait a further three millenniabefore the introduction of writing. Worse, the script appeared tobe comparable with the Phoenician alphabet, dated to c. 1000 BC,or to the Iberian script, which was derived from it. But, of course,it was "known" that no Phoenician colony could have beenlocated in Glozel.

From a site that seemed to have little or no importance, Glozelhad become a site that could upset the world of archaeology.

Incontestable evidence—or not?No wonder that French archaeological academics were

dismissive of Dr Morlet's report—after all, it was published by anamateur (a medical doctor) and a peasant boy (who perhaps couldnot even write properly). In their opinion, the amateurism drippedoff their conclusion, for itchallenged their carefullyestablished andvociferously defendeddogma on several levels.Prehistoric writing? Acrossover between aPalaeolithic and aNeolithic civilisation?Nonsense! And hence,the criticism continued.

One person claimedthat the artefacts had to befakes, as some of thetablets were discovered ata depth of 10 centimetres.Indeed, if that were thecase they would indeed befakes, but the problem isthat all the tablets werefound at substantialdepths—clear evidence ofmanipulation of the factswhen the facts don't fit the dogma. It should be noted that the "10centimetre" argument continues to be used by several sceptics,who falsely continue to assume it is true. Unfortunately for Frenchacademic circles, Morlet was not one to lie down easily, and todayhis ghost continues to hang—if not watch—over Glozel.

Morlet invited a number of archaeologists to visit the siteduring 1926; they included Salomon Reinach, curator of theMusée d'Archéologie Nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, whospent three days excavating. Reinach confirmed the authenticityof the site in a communication to the Académie des Inscriptions etBelles-Lettres. Even higher academic circles descended on thesite: the famous archaeologist Abbé Breuil excavated with Morletand was impressed with the site. In late 1926, he wrote twoarticles, in which Breuil stated that the authenticity of the Glozelsite was "incontestable". It seemed too good to be true, and itwas…

Breuil worked together with prehistorian André Vayson dePradenne, who had visited the site under an assumed name andattempted to buy the artefacts from Fradin. When Fradin refused,Vayson became angry and threatened to destroy the site. Underhis own name, he obtained permission to excavate from DrMorlet, but then claimed to have detected Fradin spreading salt inthe excavation trench. Was Vayson de Pradenne keeping hispromise? Again Morlet chose to attack, and he challengedVayson to duplicate what Fradin had allegedly done. When he

was unable to do so, or find where Fradin had supposedly saltedthe trench, Morlet felt he had successfully dealt with thatimposter. He was wrong: Vayson de Pradenne's allegation madeit into print.

But it would be a reindeer that soured the relationship betweenBreuil and Morlet, as Breuil had identified an engraved animal ona tablet as a cervid, neither reindeer nor elk.

Morlet had received confirmation from Professor AugustBrinkmann, director of the Zoology Department at BergenMuseum, Norway, and informed Breuil of his mistake. It was themoment when Breuil changed his attitude. Morlet had begun tomake powerful enemies…

More controversy over site excavationsRather than talk, Morlet dug, unearthing 3,000 objects over a

period of two years, allof varied forms andshape, including 100tablets carrying signsand approximately 15tablets carrying theimprints of humanhands. Otherdiscoveries includedtwo tombs, sexual idols,polished stones, dressedstones, ceramics, glass,bones, etc. Surely,these could not befakes?

On 2 August 1927,Breuil reiterated that hewanted to stay awayfrom the site. On 2October, he wrote that"everything is falseexcept the stonewarepottery".

Just before that, at the meeting of the International Institute ofAnthropology in Amsterdam held in September 1927, the Glozelsite was the subject of heated controversy. A commission wasappointed to conduct further investigation. Its membership waslargely comprised of people who had already decided the Glozelfinds were fraudulent. Among the group was Dorothy Garrod,who had studied with Breuil.

The commissioners arrived at Glozel on 5 November 1927.During their excavations, several members found artefacts. Buton the third day, Morlet saw commission members DorothyGarrod, Abbé Favret and Mr Hamil-Nandrin slip under the barbedwire and set off towards the open trench before he had opened thegate. Morlet followed her and saw that she had stuck one of herfingers into the plaster pattern on the side of the trench, making ahole. He shouted out, reprimanding her for what she had justdone. Caught in the act, she at first denied it, but in the presenceof her two colleagues as well as the attorney, Mallat, and ascientific journalist, Tricot-Royer, she had to admit that she hadmade the hole.

Though it was agreed they would not speak about the incident(underlining the fact that some people have more privileges thanothers), Morlet did speak about it after the commission hadpublished its unfavourable report. This might be seen asmudslinging, trying to get back at the commission, but,unfortunately for those willing to adhere to this theory, a


One of the more notorious carved stones at the centre of controversy. Forsome, the animal has been extinct since prehistoric times, resulting in theargument that the Glozel site was thousands of years old.

photograph attested to the incident. In it, Garrod is hiding behindthe four men, who are in heated discussion about what she hadjust done. Most importantly, Tricot-Royer and Mallat also gavewritten testimony confirming Morlet's account.

What was Garrod trying to do? Some have claimed it wasmerely an accident, but it is remarkable that she was part of aposse that entered the site before the "official start" of the day andhad an accident that could have been interpreted as interfering withthe excavation. If others had found that the excavation had beentampered with, fingers would not have been pointed at Garrod but,instead, at Fradin—whom the archaeologists suspected of beingthe forger, burying artefacts in the ground only to have amateurarchaeologists like Morlet, who did not know "better", discoverthem. If this suggestion that Fradin had entered the site at nighthad been made, it would have resulted in a "case closed" and theGlozel artefacts would have been qualified as fraudulent.

The incident did not cause any harm to Dorothy Garrod, whothen went on to teach a generation of British archaeologists atCambridge. Perhaps unremarkably, she made sure to tell all ofthem that the Glozel artefacts were fakes. And several of herstudents echoed her "informedopinion"; the list included Glyn Danieland Colin Renfrew, both fervent criticsof the Glozel finds. We can onlywonder whether the "finger incident" isknown to these pillars of archaeology.

Remarkably, when challenged withevidence that thermoluminescence andcarbon dating had shown that theGlozel artefacts could not be forgeriescreated by Fradin, Renfrew wrote in1975:

"The three papers, taken together,suggest strongly that the pottery andterracotta objects from Glozel,including the inscribed tablets, should be regarded as genuine, andwith them, presumably, the remainder of the material... I still findit beyond my powers of imagination to take Glozel entirelyseriously."

Though all the archaeological evidence suggested the site wasgenuine, Renfrew's emotions prevented him from taking itseriously. Whoever said men of science let the facts rule overemotions?

But back to the past. Morlet sent a letter to Mercure de France(published on 15 November 1927), still upset with Breuil'squalification of the site as a fake and having spotted one of hisstudents sticking an unwanted finger into an archaeologicaltrench:

"From the time your article appeared I declared to anyone whowanted to listen, especially to your friends so that you would hearabout it, that I would not allow you to present a site alreadystudied at length as a discovery which had not been describedbefore you wrote about it. I know that in a note you quoted thetitles of our articles; that you thank me for having led you toGlozel; and that finally you give thanks to our 'kindness' in havingallowed you to examine our collections. You acknowledge that Iam a good chauffeur. I have perceived, a little, that I have alsobeen a dupe… Your report on Glozel is conceived as if you werethe first to study the site…so much so that several foreignscholars are misinformed about it… Your first master, DrCapitan, suggested to me forthrightly that we republish our leafletwith the engravings at the end and his name before mine. Withyou, the system has evolved: you take no more than the ideas."

Morlet was highlighting one of the main goals ofarchaeologists: to have their name on top of a report and beidentified as the discoverer. It is standard practice, in whichamateurs specifically are supposed to stand aside and let the"professionals" deal with it—and take the credit for the discovery.Again, Morlet did not want to have any of it.

Peasant boy versus Louvre curatorThe commission's report of December 1927 declared that

everything found at the Glozel site, with the exception of a fewpieces of flint axes and stoneware, was fake. Still, members ofthe commission, like Professor Mendes Corrêa, argued that theconclusions were incorrect and misrepresentative. In fact, heargued that the results of his analyses, when completed, would beopposite of what had been claimed by Count Bégouen, theprincipal author of the report. Bégouen had to confess that he hadmade up an alleged dispatch from Mendes Corrêa!

René Dussaud, curator at the Louvre and a famous epigrapher,had written a dissertation that argued that our alphabet is ofPhoenician origin. If Morlet was correct, Dussaud's life's work

would be discredited. Dussaud madesure that would not happen, and thushe told everyone that Fradin was aforger and even sent an anonymousletter about Fradin to one of theParisian newspapers. But whensimilar finds to those at Glozel wereunearthed in Alvão in Portugal,Dussaud stated that they, too, had tobe fraudulent—even though theartefacts were discovered beneath adolmen, leaving little doubt they wereof Neolithic origin.

When similar artefacts were foundin the immediate vicinity of Glozel, at

two sites at Chez Guerrier and Puyravel, Dussaud wrote: "If, as they claim, the stones discovered in the Mercier field and

in the cave of Puyravel bear the writing of Glozel, there can be nodoubt the engravings on the stones are false."

What could Fradin do? In a move that seems to have been afew decades ahead of his time, on 10 January 1928 Fradin filedsuit for defamation against Dussaud. Indeed, a peasant boy oftwenty was suing the curator of the Louvre for defamation!

Dussaud had no intention of appearing in court and must haverealised that, if he did, he could lose the case. He needed help,fast, for the first hearing was set for 28 February and Fradin hadalready received the free assistance of a lawyer who was greatlyintrigued by a case of "peasant boy versus Louvre curator".Dussaud engineered the help of the president of the SociétéPréhistorique Française, Dr Félix Régnault, who visited Glozel on24 February and, after the briefest of visits to the small museum,filed a complaint against "X".

That the entire incident was engineered is clear, as Régnaulthad come with his attorney, Maurice Garçon, who immediatelytravelled from Glozel to Moulins to file the complaint. Theaccusation was that the admission charge of four francs wasexcessive to see objects which in his opinion were fakes. Thepolice identified "X" as Emile Fradin. The next day, the policesearched the museum, destroyed glass display cases andconfiscated three cases of artefacts. Emile was beaten when heprotested against the taking of his little brother's schoolbooks asevidence. Saucepans filled with dirt by his little brother wereassumed to be artefacts in the making. Despite all of this, the raid


Morlet was highlighting one of the main goals ofarchaeologists: to have their name on top of a

report and be identified as the discoverer.

produced no evidence of forgery. However, the suit fordefamation could not proceed because a criminal investigationwas underway. It meant that the defamation hearing set for 28February would not happen for as long as the criminalinvestigation continued.

Dussaud, it seemed, had won. Meanwhile, a new group ofneutral archaeologists, the Committee of Studies, was appointedby scholars who, since the November conference in Amsterdamand specifically since the report's publication in December, wereuncomfortable with how the archaeological world was handlingGlozel. They excavated from 12 to 14 April 1928 and continuedto find more artefacts. Their report spoke out for the authenticityof the site, which they identified as Neolithic. It seemed thatMorlet had been vindicated.

Police distort truth, but Fradin is vindicated Any vindication was soon

outdone when Gaston-EdmondBayle, chief of the CriminalRecords Office in Paris,analysed the artefacts seized inthe raid and in May 1929identified them as recentforgeries. Originally, Bayle hadsaid that it would take onlyeight or nine days to prepare areport, but a year passed withoutanything being set down onpaper. This, of course, wasexcellent news for Dussaud, asit delayed his defamationhearing. To pave the way, on 5October 1928 information wasleaked to the papers, whichplayed their part by faithfullystating that the report wouldconclude that the Glozelartefacts are forgeries. In May1929, Bayle completed a 500-page report , just in t ime topostpone once again the Dussaud case, which was scheduled forhearing on 5 June.

Bayle argued that he could detect fragments of what might havebeen grass and an apple stem in some of the Glozel clay tablets.As grass obviously could not have been preserved for thousandsof years, it was obviously a recent forgery, he reasoned. Theargument is very unconvincing, for the excavations wereobviously not handled as a forensic crime scene would be treated.Most likely, the vast majority of these artefacts were placed ongrass or elsewhere after they were dug up from the pit—a practicethat continues on most of today's archaeological excavations;archaeology, at this level, is not a forensic science. Later, itwould emerge that some of the objects had also been placed in anoven to dry them—which in due course would interfere withcarbon-dating efforts on the artefacts.

Bizarrely, in September 1930, Bayle was assassinated in anunrelated event; his assassin accused him of having made afraudulent report that had placed him in jail! After his death, itwas found that Bayle had lived an extravagant lifestyle that wasinconsistent with his salary.

Most interestingly, Bayle was close to Vayson de Pradennes,who was the son-in-law of his former superior at the CriminalRecords Office.

And it seems the Breuil–Vayson de Pradennes–Dussaud axiswas not only powerful in archaeological circles: it could alsodictate to the wheels of the law.

The court accepted Bayle's findings, and on 4 June 1929 Fradinwas formally indicted for fraud. For the next few months, Fradinwas interrogated every week in Moulins. Eventually, the verdictwas overturned by an appeal court in April 1931.

For three years, Dussaud had been able to terrorise Fradin forhis "insolence" in filing a suit against him. Unfortunately, thoughthe wheels of the law had largely played to the advantage of the"axis of archaeology", in the final analysis righteousness had won.The defamation charge against Dussaud came to trial in March1932, and Dussaud was found guilty of defamation, with all costsof the trial to be paid by him.

Eight years after the first discovery, the leading archaeologistscontinued to claim the Glozel artefacts were fraudulent, though all

the evidence—including alengthy legal cause—had shownthat was absolutely not the case.But why bother with facts whenthere are pet theories andreputations to be defended?

Morlet ended his excavationsin 1938, and after 1942 a newlaw outlawed privateexcavations. The Glozel siteremained untouched until theMinistry of Culture re-openedexcavations in 1983. A fullreport was never published, buta 13-page summary did appearin 1995.

This "official report"infuriated many, for the authorssuggested that the site wasmediaeval, possibly containingsome Iron Age objects, but waslikely to have been enriched byforgeries. It therefore reinforcedthe earlier position of the

leading French archaeologists. But on 16 June 1990, EmileFradin received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, suggestingthat the French academic circles had accepted him for making alegitimate discovery—and that he was not a forger. The Glozelexcavation site, however, continues to be seen as a giant hoax.

Emile Fradin was honoured that the British Museum requestedsome of his artefacts to go on display in 1990 in the "holy ofholies" of archaeology. What he did not know (because of alanguage barrier) was that the exhibit was highlighting some ofthe greatest archaeological hoaxes and forgeries in history... ∞

About the Author:Philip Coppens is the editor-in-chief of Conspiracy Times(http: //www.conspiracy-times.com). He has previouslycontributed eight articles to NEXUS, the most recent being"State-Sponsored Terror in the Western World" (see 14/02).Philip is a scheduled speaker for the forthcoming NEXUSConference on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, on20–22 October.

Philip's website is http://www.philipcoppens.com, and hecan be contacted by email at [email protected]. Toread more about the Glozel archaeological controversy, seehttp://www.philipcoppens.com/glozel.html.


Caught in the act! When it was learned that one of thearchaeologists had entered the site and tried to pretend Fradinhad interfered with the digs , Dr Morlet confronted thearchaeologists. At first, they denied the incident happened…until this photograph was produced and entered as evidence.Yet another lie of the archaeological establishment.

I n t r o d u c t i o n

Over the past few years I have had the responsibility of briefing senior government andscientific leaders both in the US and abroad on the UFO/extraterrestrial subject. Theevidence regarding this subject is clear and overwhelming: it has not been difficult tomake a compelling case for the reality of UFOs per se. What is a greater challenge is

elucidating the architecture of secrecy related to UFOs (see the exposition of this mattercontained in the paper entitled "Unacknowledged" by this author). But the greatest challenge isexplaining the "why". Why all the secrecy? Why a "black" or unacknowledged governmentwithin the government? Why hide the UFO/ET subject from public view?

The "what", or evidence, is complex but manageable. The "how", or nature of the secretprograms, is more difficult, much more complex and Byzantine. But the "why"—the reasonbehind the secrecy—is the most challenging problem of all. There is not a single answer to thisquestion, but rather numerous interrelated reasons for such extraordinary secrecy. Ourinvestigations and interviews with dozens of top-secret witnesses who have been within suchprograms have enabled us to understand the reasons behind this secrecy. They range from thefairly obvious and straightforward to the really bizarre. Here, I wish to share some key pointsregarding this secrecy, why it has been imposed and why it is so difficult for the controllinginterests within covert programs to reverse policy and allow disclosure.

In the beginningIn the early days of the UFO/ET phenomenon, military, intelligence and industrial interests

had concerns regarding the nature of the phenomenon, whether it originated from our humanadversaries, and, once it was determined to be extraterrestrial, how the public would react.

In the 1930s and 1940s, this was no small matter: if these UFOs were of terrestrial origin,they would be evidence of an Earthly adversary with technological devices far in advance of USaircraft. And once it was determined to be extraterrestrial (some quarters knew this prior to theend of World War II), there were many more questions than answers. Why are the ETs here?What are their intentions? How do the devices travel at such fantastic speeds and through thevastness of space? How might these technologies be applied to the human situation—both inwar and in peace? How would the public react to this knowledge? What effect would thedisclosure of these facts have on human belief systems, on political and social systems?

From the late 1940s through the early 1950s, a concerted effort was made to figure out thebasic science and technologies behind these spacecraft, primarily through the direct study andreverse-engineering of the extraterrestrial objects retrieved from New Mexico and elsewhere. Itwas immediately recognised that these objects were using laws of physics and appliedtechnologies far in advance of internal combustion engines, vacuum tubes and the like. In theclimate of the Cold War and in a world where a relatively minor advantage technologicallycould tilt the balance of power in the nuclear arms race, this was no small matter.

Indeed, the theme of human geopolitical dysfunction appears as a recurring feature of thesecrecy related to UFOs—up to the present hour. More on this later.

From the Wilbert Smith top-secret Canadian government document of 1950, we know thatthis subject was held in greater secrecy than even the development of the hydrogen bomb.There was a tremendous effort underway by the late 1940s to study extraterrestrial hardware,figure out how it operated and see what human applications might be made from suchdiscoveries. Even then, the project dealing with this subject was extraordinarily covert.

It became much more so by the early 1950s when substantial progress was made on some ofthe basic physics behind the ET craft energy and propulsion systems.

Fifty years ofsecrecy over

UFO/ETtechnologies has

meant that we havebeen denied not justthe truth but access

to non-pollutingenergy sources

which could saveour planet from

eco-disaster.

by Steven M. Greer, MD © 2001–2007

The Disclosure Project PO Box 265

Crozet, VA 22932, USAWebsite:

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The best we can estimate is that it was then that the entire projectbecame increasingly "black" or unacknowledged. Thecompartmentalisation of the project dealing with UFOs wasexponentially increased by the early 1950s when it was realised whatit was that these covert projects actually had: devices displayingphysics and energy systems which—if disclosed—would forever alterlife on Earth.

By the Eisenhower era, the UFO/ET projects were increasinglycompartmented a w a y from legal, constitutional, chain-of-commandoversight and control.

This means that—while we know from witness testimony thatEisenhower knew of the ET craft—the president (and similar leadersin the UK and elsewhere) were increasingly left out of the loop. Suchsenior elected and appointed leaders were confronted with (asEisenhower called it) a sophisticated military-industrial complex withlabyrinthine compartmented projects which were more and more outof their control and oversight.

From direct witness testimony we know that Eisenhower, Kennedy,Carter and Clinton were frustrated in their attempts to penetrate suchprojects. This is also true of senior congressional leaders andinvestigators, foreign leaders and UN leadership.

This is indeed an equal-opportunity exclusion project. It does notmatter how high your rank or office: ifyou are not deemed necessary to theproject, you are not going to knowabout it, period.

Contrary to popular myth, since the1960s concern over some type ofpublic panic over the fact that we arenot alone in the universe has not been amajor reason for the secrecy. Those inthe know—notwithstanding thefantastic tales spun in UFO circles andon the X - F i l e s—understand that fear ofhostile ETs has also not been asignificant factor. While there has beencontinued confusion in some covertcircles over the ultimate purpose behindthe ET phenomenon, we know of no knowledgeable insiders whoregard the ETs as hostile and a threat.

By the 1960s, and certainly by the 1990s, the world was veryfamiliar with the concept of space travel, and the popular science-fiction industry had thoroughly indoctrinated the masses with the ideaof ETs from far away being a possibility. So why the continueds e c r e c y ?

The Cold War is over. People would hardly be shocked to find outthat we are not alone in the universe (the majority of people alreadybelieve this—in fact, most people believe that the UFOs are real).Besides, what could be more shocking than to live through the latterhalf of the 20th century with thousands of hydrogen bombs aimed atevery major city in the world? If we can handle that, surely we canhandle the idea that ETs are real.

The facile explanations of fear, panic, shock and the like do notsuffice to justify a level of secrecy so deep that even the president andhis CIA director could be denied access to the information.

A current estimate on technologiesContinued secrecy on the UFO subject must be related, then, to

ongoing anxiety related to the essential power dynamics of the worldand how such a disclosure would impact these. That is, theknowledge related to the UFO/ET phenomenon must have such greatpotential for changing the status quo that its continued suppression isdeemed essential at all costs.

Going back to the early 1950s, we have found that the basictechnology and physics behind these ET spacecraft were discoveredthrough very intensive reverse-engineering projects. It was preciselyat this point that the decision was made to increase the secrecy to anunprecedented level—one which essentially took the matter out of theordinary government chain of command and control as we know it.W h y ?

Aside from the possible use of such knowledge by US/UKadversaries during the Cold War, it was immediately recognised thatthese devices were not your dad's Oldsmobile. The basic physicsbehind the energy generation and propulsion systems was such thatthese systems could easily replace all existing energy generation andpropulsion systems on the Earth—and with them, the entiregeopolitical and economic order.

In the 1950s, there was no great concern over global warming,ecosystem collapse, ozone depletion, rainforest loss, biodiversitydegradation, etc. In the wake of WWII, what was needed wasstability, not a new convulsion of the world economic, technologicaland geopolitical order. Remember: those in control like to stay incontrol. They are risk averse, do not like significant change and donot give up control and power easily.

The disclosure of the existence of ETs, with the inevitabledisclosure related to these newtechnologies soon to follow, wouldchange the world forever—and theyknew it. This was to be avoided at allcosts. Besides, that was the era of "whatis good for GM is good for America"and the same would be true of big oil,big coal and the like.

The inescapable fact is this: thedisclosure of the ET presence wouldbring with it the certain release of thesetechnologies—and that release wouldsweep away the entire technologicalinfrastructure of the planet. Thechanges would be immense—ands u d d e n .

Fifty years later, this is more true now than then. Why? Becauseavoiding the problem in the 1950s—while convenient at the time—means that the situation is more tenuous now. For example, worlddependence on oil and internal combustion technology is greater nowthan in 1955. And the world economy is larger by orders ofmagnitude now, so any change would be exponentially greater—andpotentially more chaotic.

And so this is the conundrum: each decade and generation haspassed this problem on to the next, only to find any path but continuedsecrecy to be more destabilising than it would have been a decadeearlier. In a maddening circle of secrecy, delay of disclosure andincreasing world complexity and dependence on out-dated energysystems, each generation has found itself in a greater squeeze than theone before. As difficult as disclosure would have been in the 1950s,disclosure now is even more difficult—and potentially Earth-shakingin its consequences.

The technological discoveries of the 1950s resulting from thereverse-engineering of extraterrestrial craft could have enabled us tocompletely transform the world economic, social, technological andenvironmental situations. That such advancements have beenwithheld from the public is related to the change-averse nature of thecontrolling hierarchy at the time—and to this day.

And make no mistake: the changes would be immense. Consider:a technology which enables energy generation from the so-calledzero-point field and which enables every home, business, factory and

By the Eisenhower era, the UFO/ET projects were

increasingly compartmented away from legal, constitutional,

chain-of-command oversight and control.


vehicle to have its own source of power—without an external fuelsource, ever. No need for oil, gas, coal, nuclear plants or the internalcombustion engine—and no pollution, period.

Consider: a technology using electrogravitic devices which allowsfor above-surface transportation—no more roadways to cover fertilefarmland, since transportation could take place totally above thes u r f a c e .

Sounds great. But in the 1950s, oil was plentiful, nobody worriedtoo much about pollution, global warming was not the faintest concernand the powers-that-be just wanted stability, the status quo. Andbesides, why risk the tectonic changes related to such a disclosure?Let a later generation take care of it.

But now, we are that later generation. The Earth is straining underthe burden of a growing population—now six billion people—all ofwhom want cars, electricity, TVs and the like. Everyone knows thatwe do not have 50 more years of oil—and even if we did, the Earth'secosystem could not withstand 50 more years of such abuse. Therisks of disclosure are now much l e s s than the risks of secrecy: ifsecrecy continues much longer, the Earth's ecosystem will collapse.Talk about a big change and global instability...

Many people will consider the technological and economic impactof such a disclosure as the central justification of continued secrecy.After all, we are talking about a m u l t i t r i l l i o n-dollar-per-year change inthe economy. The entire energy andtransportation sectors of the economywould be revolutionised. And theenergy sector—the part where non-renewable fuels are purchased andburned and have to be replenished—will utterly vanish. And while otherindustries will flourish, only a foolwould dismiss the impact of such amultitrillion-dollar segment of theeconomy disappearing.

Certainly the "vested interests"involved in the global industrialinfrastructure related to oil, gas, coal,internal combustion engines and publicutilities are no small force in the world.But to understand UFO secrecy, you must consider what all thatmoney represents at its core: power. Massive geopolitical power.

One must consider what will happen when every village in India (orAfrica or South America or China) has devices that can generate largeamounts of power without pollution and without spending huge sumsof energy on fuel. The entire world will be able to develop in anunprecedented fashion—without pollution and without billions spenton power plants, transmission lines and combustible fuels. The have-nots will have.

This will widely be considered a good thing—after all, much ofworld instability, warfare and the like is related to mind-numbingpoverty and economic deprivation in a world of great wealth. Socialinjustice and extreme economic disparity breed much chaos andsuffering in the world. These decentralised, nonpolluting technologieswill change that permanently. Even the deserts will bloom...

But it must be remembered that geopolitical power flows fromtechnological and economic prowess. India has over one billionpeople and the US about one-fourth of that, but who has the greatergeopolitical power?

As these new energy systems proliferate, the so-called Third Worldwill r a p i d l y reach parity with the industrialised world of Europe, theUS and Japan. This will cause a massive shift in geopolitical power.And the industrialised world will find that it must then actually sharepower with the now downtrodden Third World. Those in the cat-bird

seat currently have no interest in doing any such thing; nor did they in1950. We can hardly even support and share power in the UnitedN a t i o n s .

The release of information on the UFO/ET subject will lead to theglobal proliferation of new energy systems which will rapidly result inan equalisation of power in the world. The US and Europe havearound 600 million people. That is only 10 per cent of the world'spopulation. Once the other 90 per cent rise in technological andeconomic standing, it is clear that the geopolitical power will shiftto—or equalise with—the rest of the world. Power will have to beshared. Real global collective security will be inevitable. It will bethe end of the world as we know it.

When you combine the economic and technological impact with thegeopolitical impact, it becomes obvious that the changes related toending secrecy are truly tectonic—massive, world-encircling andtransformative. It is not to be regarded lightly.

But 50 years after the world c o u l d have had these newtechnologies—and with 50 long years of ecological degradation,social and economic chaos and disparity—we find that we are the lastgeneration in the long line of passing the cosmic hot potato known asthe UFO secrecy problem.

And here we stand, holding this hot potato, but what shall we doabout it?

To end the secrecy means vast andprofound changes in virtually everyaspect of human existence—economic,social, technological, philosophical,geopolitical and so forth. But tocontinue the secrecy and the suppressionof these new energy and propulsiontechnologies means something far moredestabilising: the collapse of the Earth'secosystem and the certain depletion ofthe fossil fuels on which we depend.And the growing anger of the have-nots,who are needlessly being deprived of afull and dignified life. There are nomore generations to which we can passthis cosmic hot potato: we must deal

with it and do what should have been done in 1950.

The webs we weaveAs if the foregoing were not enough to justify secrecy, recall that

extraordinary things have been done to maintain this secrecy. Theinfrastructure needed to maintain and expand the level of secrecywhich can deceive presidents, CIA directors, senior congressionalleaders and European prime ministers and the like is substantial—andillegal.

Let me be clear: the entity which controls the UFO matter and itsrelated technologies has more power than any single government inthe world or any single identified world leader.

That such a situation could arise was forewarned by PresidentEisenhower when, in January 1961, he cautioned us regarding thegrowing "military-industrial complex". This was his last speech to theworld as president—and he was warning us directly of a frighteningsituation about which he had personal knowledge. For Eisenhowerhad seen the ET craft and deceased ET bodies. He knew of the covertprograms dealing with the situation. But he also knew that he had lostcontrol of these projects and that "they" were lying to him about theextent and full nature of their research and development activities.

Indeed, the current state-of-the-art in secrecy is a hybrid, quasi-government, quasi-privatised operation which is international—andfunctions outside of the purview of any single agency or any single

But to understand UFO secrecy, you must

consider what all that moneyrepresents at its core: power. Massive geopolitical power.


government. "The government"—as you and I and Thomas Jeffersonmay think of it—is really quite outside the loop. Rather, a select,tightly controlled and compartmentalised "black" or unacknowledgedproject controls these matters. Access is by inclusion alone, and if youare not included it does not matter if you are CIA director, president,chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or UN secretary-general: you simply will not know about or have access to thesep r o j e c t s .

Indeed, the situation is so dire that senior Joint Chiefs of Staffleaders in the Pentagon whom I have briefed have no more access tosuch projects than any other civilian—unless they are on the "inside"for some reason. But this is rare.

To acquire and maintain such power, all types of things have beendone. We are reminded of that Robert Frost poem in which hedescribes "the webs we weave".

But how does such an entity extract itself from such a web ofsecrecy, deceit, lies and insubordination?

To be specific, this group has usurped power and rights not legallygranted to it. It is extra-constitutional, in both the US and the UK andin other countries around the world.

I will grant the possibility that, at least initially, this covertundertaking was designed to maintain secrecy and avoid instability.But the risks of inadvertent leaks—or a national or world leaderdeciding legally that it was time for disclosure—made it essential toweave a web of greater and greatersecrecy and of illegal operations. A n dnow the web has closed in on theoperation itself.

That is, the complexity of thecompartmentalised projects, the degreeof unconstitutional and unauthorisedactivity, the "privatisation" (or theft) bycorporate partners (the "industrial" partof the military-industrial complex) ofadvanced technologies, the continuedlying to legally elected and appointedleaders and to the public—all of theseand more have contributed to apsychology of continued secrecy,because disclosure would expose the greatest scandal in recordedh i s t o r y.

For example, how would the public react to the fact that thedegradation of the entire Earth's ecosystem and the irretrievable loss ofthousands of species of plants and animals now extinct due topollution has been utterly unnecessary—and could have been avoidedif only an honest release of this information had occurred in the1 9 5 0 s ?

How would society react to the knowledge that trillions of dollarshave been spent on unauthorised, unconstitutional projects over theyears? And that these taxpayer dollars have been used by corporatepartners in this secrecy to develop spin-off technologies based on thestudy of ET objects which were later patented and used in highlyprofitable technologies? Not only have the taxpayers been defrauded,they have then been made to pay a premium for such breakthroughswhich were the result of research paid for by them! And this does notaddress the intellectual property theft of such technologies from theETs. While the basic energy generation and propulsion technologieshave been withheld, these corporate partners have profited wildlyfrom other breakthroughs and benefits in electronics, miniaturisationand related areas. Such covert technology transfers constitute amultitrillion-dollar theft of technologies which really should be in thepublic domain, since taxpayers have paid for them.

And how would the public react to the fact that the multibillion-

dollar space program, using internal combustion rockets and the like,has been a primitive and an unnecessary experiment, since much moreadvanced technologies and propulsion systems were in existencebefore we ever went to the Moon? NASA and related agencies have,for the most part, been as much a victim of this secrecy as has the restof the government and the public. Only a small, verycompartmentalised fraction of NASA people know of the real ETtechnologies hidden away in these projects. Certainly my uncle, whohelped design the lunar module which took Neil Armstrong to theMoon, was as much a victim as any one insofar as he was deniedaccess to these technological breakthroughs. He had to rely on the oldphysics and the old internal combustion jet thruster technologies justlike everyone else. What a shame.

The inescapable reality is this: this secret project, no matter howwell intentioned initially, got carried away with its own secret power.It abused this power. It has hijacked our future for 50 years. In fact,the quiet coup d'état of the late 1940s and early 1950s, once exposed,could result in real instability today.

Relations with ETsBut the situation is actually much worse than this. All that is written above is dwarfed by a larger problem: the covert

group running these UFO-related black projects has also had exclusivesway over the early days of an embryonic extraterrestrial–human

relationship. And it has been tragicallymismanaged—nearly to the point ofgenuine global catastrophe.

For what happens when an unelected,unappointed, self-selecting, militarilyoriented group alone has to deal withinter-species relations between humansand ETs? Well, as in most areas, if youwear rose-coloured glasses the entireworld looks red. And if you are wearingmilitary glasses, every new anduncontrolled development will be seenas a potential or real military threat.

The nature of such a group—which isinordinately controlled and incestuous—

is that it is homogenous in world view and mindset. Power andcontrol are pre-eminent qualities. Such extreme secrecy creates a verydangerous milieu in which checks and balances, give and take, areutterly lacking. And in such an environment, very dangerousdecisions can be made with inadequate feedback, discussion or insightfrom needed perspectives which are, perforce, excluded.

We have found that, in such an environment of extreme secrecy,militarism and paranoia, immensely dangerous actions have beentaken against the ETs. Indeed, we have multiple inside sources whohave described to us the use of increasingly advanced technologies totrack, target and destroy extraterrestrial assets. If there is even a 10 percent chance that this is true (I am convinced it is 100 per centaccurate), we are dealing with a global, diplomatic and social crisiswhich is utterly out of our control but which puts the entire planet atr i s k .

Remember, covert reverse-engineering projects have resulted inhuge quantum leaps forward in technologies that, once applied tomilitary systems, could be a real threat to ETs who may be herepeacefully. The attempts to rapidly militarise space are likely a resultof a myopic, militaristic and paranoid view of extraterrestrial projectsand intentions. If left unchecked, it can only result in catastrophe.Indeed this group, no matter how well intentioned, is in urgent need of

How would society react to the knowledge that trillions of dollars have been spent onunauthorised, unconstitutional

projects over the years?




MORE TESTIMONY FROM"HENRY DEACON"

by Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy © February–May 2007

Our last communication from "HenryDeacon", a "Livermore physicist",was on 30 March 2007. Since then

he has been totally silent, despite all ourefforts to re-establish contact. Prior to hislast communication, he told us that he wasbeing "coerced" and that he feared hemight be obliged to cease communicationwith us.

Although he was very careful (andsometimes enigmatically so) with hismessages—which reached us through avariety of sometimes very creativemeans—he was also under no illusionsabout the capacities of some agencies tomonitor information; see below for details.

We continue to regard Henry as a goodfriend whom we'd grown to like, admireand trust. We miss his wry messages, hissparkling humour and his strong principlesand values. Wherever he is and whateverhe is doing now, we hope he is safe and wewish him well. We assume that if he's stillalive, he'll be reading this page.

What we present here was not recordedin any interview. This is our owncompilation of what we consider importantfrom a number of conversations and

written exchanges since our first meeting inAugust 2006.

For Henry's background and for atranscript of our first interview, go toh t t p : / / p r o j e c t c a m e l o t . o r g / l i v e r m o r e _physicist.html [see NEXUS 14/01; Ed.].

— Project Camelot, 2 May 2007

The biggest secret In our first interview, Henry told us he

had never heard of Dan Burisch. Becauseparts of Henry's story seemed to overlapwith Dan's, we strongly urged him to viewour three-part Dan Burisch video interview.

On 27 September 2006, three weekslater, we received the following email. It'squoted verbatim and in its entirety:

Dan Burisch is telling the whole truth.I confirm this.timelines and allbest wishesThis was of extreme importance, and we

checked this with Henry in person as soonas we could. It appears that Dan's claims—as extraordinary and incredible as they mayseem—are true.

Henry did not comment on J-Rod, thetreaties or L o t u s, as he had no experienceor knowledge of those. But he did confirmthat the greatest secret in the classifiedworld—about which many insidersthemselves have n o t been briefed—is thatthere is a complex problem concerning

alternative timelines, that some of thevisitors are indeed humans from the distantfuture, and that there are significant issueswith a possible future event which mayseriously affect the Earth and itspopulation. The last of these is the reasonthat all this has been kept so highlyclassified and why disclosure is soproblematic.

Roswell: humans from the future According to Henry, the Roswell visitors

were future humans—as Dan Burisch hasstated. They were not from another planet,but from a future Earth—stepping (whichis a better word than "travelling") back intime to 1947 to attempt to deal with theproblems which had occurred in theirhistory. Apparently, Dan is also correct inthat the Roswell visitors were from earlierin the future than some other visitors whoarrived subsequently. But Henry didn'tgive details or time frames.

The Roswell visitors were on a purelyaltruistic mission. They did not have to dothis, but chose to—out of compassion. Butthe mission went disastrously wrong, notjust because they crashed (an accidentcaused by high-powered radar; later, themilitary realised this and adapted the radaras a weapon) but because they had a devicewith them which was their only means, asan orientation device in time and space, to

get them home and back to their own time. The device was a little box, far smaller

than the "Looking Glass" that Dan Burischand Bill Hamilton described as beingutilised subsequently by military scientistsin various experiments. When the box wasacquired and investigated by the military,this became a catastrophe in itself. It madethe timeline problem many times worse,because this introduced the time-portaltechnology to us at the wrong time and alsotold the military what lay ahead.

Henry could not stress too strongly howtotally calamitous for us all the Roswellincident was. It was a major, majorsetback, right at the start of the futurehumans' project to help fix the problem.

Since then, there have been continuedattempts by the future humans to remedythe exacerbated situation. This is what hascaused an overlay of timelines, creating atangled complexity which apparently ischallenging for even the most brilliantpresent-day minds to understand fully.

We asked Henry why the discs kept oncrashing, almost year after year. He said itseemed strange that the visitors had notevaluated the risk from radar before theyreturned in time, but he explained it wasjust very dangerous for them to be here fora variety of reasons, despite their advancedtechnology. Crashes have been caused bymany factors, including offensive action.Importantly, Henry emphasised that theRoswell visitors were n o t the Greys. (Hedid not mention who the Greys were.)

The "dark star" and global warmingHenry at one point did some work with

NOAA (National Oceanic & A t m o s p h e r i cAdministration; http://noaa.gov/), and itwas there that he learned about what hecalled the "second Sun". This is a massiveastronomical object which is on a longelliptical orbit around our own Sun, on aninclined plane to that of the rest of theplanets. It 's now approaching and iscausing resonance effects on our Sun invarious ways.

A small organisation within NOAA isaware that this is a cause of the warming ofa l l the planets, not just the Earth. Thisinformation is classified, but has beenknown for a number of years.

We told him about Andy Lloyd'sexcellent Dark Star website (seehttp://www.darkstar1.co.uk/), which he hadnot seen before. We also offered to sendhim Lloyd's book Dark Star but he

declined, saying that there was a risk that itmight "front-load" him too much before hehad the chance to recall more information.

This issue is connected with the Roswellcatastrophe described above. Theproblems the future humans wereattempting to address were multiple, butprincipally—as Dan Burisch has stated onmany occasions—featured a possible eventtriggered by a massive "spike" of solaractivity at some point in our currently nearfuture. Henry, like Dan, was at pains toemphasise strongly that this event is onlypossible—having been observed inLooking Glass devices in a possiblefuture—and currently is evaluated to beunlikely.

Henry explained that the increase in solaractivity is caused only in part by the "darkstar", multiple factors being at play. Theseare complex. Some of them are on agalactic scale and are associated withnatural, periodic events which the Earth hassuffered through a number of timespreviously. What makes this particulartime unique for our planet is that there is aconvergence of serious factors—such astoxic emissions, overpopulation and ourpropensity for choreographing war—all ofwhich combine with these major cyclic andsolar events to threaten simultaneously thewell-being of ourselves and the biosphere.

Signal non-localityHenry told us that he had personal

experience in interfacing with a teamwhich, independently in the late 1970s,effectively conducted Alain Aspect'spivotal and conclusive (1981) experiment

to prove Bell's theorem, under the auspicesof a classified project at Livermore. Theresults obtained were never published injournals—as is usual in the case of "blackbudget" research. The mathematicalphysics is complex, but the technologydeveloped is now regularly used tocommunicate instantaneously across vastdistances.

Disc shot down at Hunter LiggettWe asked Henry to tell us more about

this event with the UFO shot down atHunter Liggett, California.

He gave the location of the incident:within a mile of the centre of this map (seeh t t p : / / m a p s .g o o g l e . c o m / m a p s ? f = q & h l = e n & q = j o l o n +c a & i e = U T F 8 & z = 1 4 & l l = 3 5 . 9 5 6 4 7 1 , - 1 2 1 .1 7 3 1 0 5 & s p n = 0 . 0 2 9 1 1 1 , 0 . 0 8 5 8 3 1 & t =h&om=1). It occurred in late 1972 or early1973. His team was testing experimentallaser weapons, targeting various materialsin the field environment.

Suddenly, a disc-shaped craft appearedout of nowhere—measuring about 100 feetin diameter by 25 feet high (30 by 8metres). It was about 150–200 yards(135–180 metres) away. Someone shot atit with the Air Force experimental laserwhich was being tested at the time.

The primary laser system was containedand operated from the back of a slightlymodified M-35 2.5-ton truck called a"Deuce and a half". There was no visibleexternal damage from what Henry couldsee or remember, but the craft wasdisabled. Three small child-like aliens (notclassic "Greys") were captured, alive and in

THE TWILIGHT ZONE


good health, and were transferred to a Nikebase located in the hills near Tilden Park,directly east of Kensington, California. Allthis happened very quickly and was quite ashock to all concerned.(Source: Project Camelot, 17 February2007, http://projectcamelot.org/livermore_physicist_2.html)

Monitoring speech and cellphonesHenry warned us that there exists

advanced technology that can monitorconversations even in the outdoors. Hetold us that satellite lasers now have thecapacity to pick up vibrations on a person'sc l o t h i n g. Monitoring speech vibrationsfrom a glass window pane is elementary,and is older technology.

This is important for us all to understand:bugs no longer need to be physicallyplanted in someone's apartment.Cellphones can also be activated to relayconversations, even when switched off; theonly true safeguard is to remove thebattery. Our conversations can be heardalmost anywhere, at any time—if theagencies choose to listen in.

9/11 foreknowledgeHenry told us that besides knowing way

beforehand that something like 9/11 wasplanned (see his first interview), he'd beenbriefed about it in detail a few hours beforeit happened in his place of work at thetime. The briefing took place with a groupof colleagues. He reported being shocked

not only at the low-key way it wasannounced, but at the comparative apparentlack of reaction of many of his colleagues.The purpose of the announcement was sothat when the employees heard about it onthe news later that day, they would not bealarmed: "When you hear this in the newslater today, don't panic, because this iswhat's going on."

Five years after the event, Henry may bethe first insider to come forward withconfirmation that 9/11 was an inside job:

• The planes that hit the twin towers wereremotely controlled (overriding the pilots,and with software modifications that wouldpermit tight turns that would normally beimpossible due to autopilot default limitsettings). The remote control was enactedfrom thousands of miles away.

• The plane that hit the Pentagon was asmall, remotely piloted [US] Navy jet. Afull-sized Boeing 757 could not have beenused because the aerodynamic groundeffects would have prevented it coming inso low at full speed without it having toslow right down as if to land.

• The well-publicised cellphone callswere fabricated.

• Osama bin Laden had nothing to dowith any of it, apart from the fact that hewas a US government asset.

Henry also thought that control overFlight 93, which either crashed or was shotdown over Pennsylvania, had been lost andthat that part of the plan had gone wrong(there had been another targeted building,

but he did not know which one). When weasked what had happened to the Flight 77passengers and aircraft (the plane thatsupposedly hit the Pentagon), he repliedthat he didn't know.

He told us that that was all he knew.

Multiple timelinesWe received this email message from

Henry in February 2007. We reproduce itin its entirety, verbatim:

"Do we exist on multiple timelines?Your reality, in one way, depends upon'your' perceptions, awareness, selections...from a vast ocean of 'probabilities'...but thisis only an extremely limited model to workwith in an attempt to conceptualise ananswer. The English language alone doesnot accommodate for communicating ananswer to this question. Most humans intoday's Earth-bound world cannot grasp ananswer to this question due to lack ofexposure to other aspects of 'reality'. Thequestion itself is not complete, again, dueto the constraints inherent in most worldlanguages (the languages being, at best,related to four dimensions) (or, on the otherhand, utilizing 'time' as a part of thelanguage[s]) and possible non-exposure toother reality sets by the person attemptingto ask and to understand the nature of so-called timelines, etc. The concept oftimelines is only a model attempting toexplain what cannot be explained in 'words'here. There ARE other communicationmodalities available to us here, which canaid in understanding certain concepts.Explain colors to a person who has neverhad sight. Explain this world, as you knowit, to an unborn child, who has activesenses but yet to put them to use in our'world'. Remember the story of theFlatlanders—or even Sphereland? At thismoment, the focus should be on waking thepeople...preparing them for a 'reality'shockwave...to minimise suffering. BestWishes."

Stargates and "Looking Glasses"Regarding Montauk, Henry said most of

Al Bielek's information is correct. Thereare apparently several kinds of stargate,notably: (a) the kind where you stepthrough a portal and leave the devicebehind, and (b) the kind where you take thedevice with you. The latter he said was abit like "Think about where you want to go,and you're there". The mental interface issignificant, apparently.

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He confirmed that, as far as he knew,Dan Burisch's information about stargateswas 95% correct, but the missing 5% wasthat he had no knowledge of the large-scaleLooking Glasses that Dan described (seeh t t p : / / p r o j e c t c a m e l o t . o r g / p r o j e c t _ l o o k i n g _glass.html). We showed him Dan'sdiagrams and also Bill Hamilton's source'stext (also see http://projectcamelot.org/project_looking_glass.html). Henryemphasised that this didn't mean they didn'texist, because there was so muchcompartmentalisation, but simply that hehad no knowledge or experience of thosedevices.

We showed him Dan's diagrams inperson. We watched him while heexamined them carefully. Then hesuddenly said: "Did he tell you about theone in Iraq?" We asked him whether hehad heard that part of Dan's interview( h t t p : / / p r o j e c t c a m e l o t . o r g / d a n _ b u r i s c h _interview_transcript_2.html). Henry toldus that he'd not finished watching thevideos. We asked him what he knew. Hesaid the Iraq stargate is what the Iraq war isreally all about, that its location is one ofthe biggest secrets, and that the war is atleast partially about control of it. We askedhim how he knew all this—did he readabout it in a briefing document? The onlything he would say was that it was "first-hand knowledge".

The distant futureHenry told us that in approximately

6,000 years' time, the Earth will bepractically barren and there will be anattempt to repopulate it. He said that largenumbers of children have been abductedfrom the present and taken to the futureEarth because their genome is undamaged.(In future history, the imminent catastrophesignificantly damages the human genome.)

He also confirmed that somewhat laterthan 52,000 years' time, the Looking Glassseems to go blank and no more informationis accessible. This is exactly what wasstated by Dan Burisch. (This informationwas given in a meeting. Henry finished thesentence for us as we were asking thequestion.) (Note: Henry clearly confirmedthe existence of "Looking Glass" deviceswhich could "see" into the future, or intopossible futures. However, he was unableto confirm personally the details of the typeof technology described by Dan Burisch(see http://projectcamelot.org/project_looking_glass.html).

Henry told us that he'd thought there wassome kind of barrier in place which meantthat future humans were only able to visitus at certain intervals of about 6,000 years.He stressed that he didn't know much aboutthis. Interestingly, a quick calculationconcerning the two principal datesfrequently referenced by Dan Burischshowed that 45,000 = 7 x 6,500 and 52,000= 8 x 6,500.

This struck us as potentially significant.We had wondered about why there had notbeen visiting future humans from theintermediate periods of 46,000, 47,000,48,000 (and so on) years in the future.Henry seemed to be offering oneexplanation.

Incredibly and significantly, it seems thatthe Mayans (whose famously accuratecalendar ends in the year 2012) apparentlyhad access to information left to them byvisiting time travellers.

An environmental threatHenry very much wanted to visit Egypt.

He was quite anxious about it, and told usit was a problem. When we asked why, hesaid there was very little time remaining inwhich to travel there. We pressed him fora reason, and he responded that it was notconnected with war or politics. We pressedhim further, and he eventually said, simply,"an environmental threat". He refused toelaborate, nor would he reveal how it wasthat he had access to this information.

Chaotic resonating circuitsHenry elaborated on the chaotic

resonating circuits he mentioned in our firstinterview (http://projectcamelot.org/livermore_physicist.html). He confirmedthat they were relatively cheap and easy tomake and that the information, insegmented pieces, had been fairly widelyavailable in a certain academic communityin the 1970s. He had retained no records ofthe circuit diagrams, but intriguingly hesaid he was 80% confident that he wouldbe able to locate them if he spent timesearching public-domain records in aparticular university library. We know thelocation, but for understandable reasons arenot revealing it at this time.

Key researchersHenry on several occasions referenced

and strongly recommended the work ofBernard Pietsch (http://sonic.net/bernard/pyramid.html), Stan Tenen (http://www.

m e r u . o r g / P r e s s / A t l a n t i s r i s i n g . h t m l ) ,Richard Hoagland and David Wilcock( h t t p : / / w w w . e n t e r p r i s e m i s s i o n . c o m /_ a r t i c l e s / 0 5 - 1 4 - 2 0 0 4 _ I n t e r p l a n e t a r y _Part_1/Interplanetary_1.htm), and ArthurC. Clarke. He maintained that Pietschknows everything there is to know aboutthe Great Pyramid, that Tenen is aninspired genius, that Hoagland andWilcock know a great deal of accurateinformation about the solar system, andthat Clarke somehow must have been privyto classified information about stargatesand influences on humanity from otherintelligences.

Manned base on MarsHenry claimed the existence of a large

manned base on Mars, supplied through analternative space fleet and also throughstargates [17 February posting]. The storyappears to be extremely complex, and thatmay be an understatement. Henry fed ussnippets on an intermittent basis; thesewere sometimes very enigmatic.

• Henry told us that the Mars base has alarge population—670,000 as of a fewyears ago. This seemed a huge number tous. We asked if this population was allhuman. "It depends what you mean byhuman", came the reply. The base hasbeen in existence for an extremely longtime ("tens of thousands of years") and itspopulation has waxed and waned over thecenturies. It lies "at the bottom of anancient seabed". It is "not far" from thelocation of this NASA photo ath t t p : / / s s e . j p l . n a s a . g o v / m u l t i m e d i a /display.cfm?IM_ID=568, taken by the1976 Viking 2 Lander on the expansiveUtopia Planitia ("Nowhere Plain",sometimes referred to as "Utopian Plain").

• The most recent NASA images( h t t p : / / s c i e n c e . n a s a . g o v / h e a d l i n e s / y 2 0 0 1 /ast24may_1.htm) discrediting the notion ofa "Face on Mars" have been doctored, ashave the colours of the Martian sky onmost officially released NASA photos (seeh t t p : / / w w w . e n t e r p r i s e m i s s i o n . c o m / c o l o r s .htm) (it is apparently more blue than weare permitted to believe).

• The Anunnaki are one part of the mix.Henry referred to them a number of timesas being operational in present time. Hesaid that they originated from another starsystem, but he could not remember where.

The Anunnaki is our name for them, and

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NATIONAL INSECURITYby Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon andJohn MathewsAllen & Unwin, Australia, 2007 ISBN 978-1-74175-051-5 (298pp tpb) Available: www.allenandunwin.com

Ten years of Australia's leadership byPrime Minister John Howard amounts to

a betrayal of the nation's security, economy,culture and institutions. Howard has soldout the national interest to the USA to gainkudos in its corridors of power, to achievestatus and personal glory (which he wasdenied in his years in the opposition wilder-ness), and to destroy his chief political oppo-nent, the Australian Labor Party.

So argue Sydney-based academics LindaWeiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and JohnMathews, who issued a warning in their2004 book, How to Kill a Country, about thethe free trade deal with the USA which evenAustralia's expert negotiators saw as indirect conflict with the national interest andamounted to a sell-out of the nation.

In National Insecurity, the authors focuson several key areas or industries—energy,rural, cultural, defence and blood supply—where PM Howard has put US strategic andeconomic interests first, but the astute per-son can name dozens more. They explainhow Howard has been able to step up hispersonal agenda with the US Bush adminis-tration, using the alliance as an ideologicalplatform rather than a geopolitical impera-tive and stifling domestic dissent in theprocess. They accuse him of servile pander-ing to George W. Bush, of making decisions

about energy/climate change policy, protec-tion of the cattle industry from BSE, promo-tion of creative industries, defence procure-ments and safety of the nation's blood prod-ucts which deliberately favour US interests.

Australians are expecting to go to the pollsin late 2007, but not before Howard aggran-dises himself on the regional APEC stage inSydney in September. Have the authorsconsidered that the PM must dance to a for-eign piper's tune, regardless of who wins?

BLACKWATER: The Rise of the World's Most PowerfulMercenary Armyby Jeremy ScahillNation Books, New York, USA, 2007 ISBN 1-5602-5979-5 (464pp tpb) Available: www.blackwaterbook.com

The transformation of the US military wasset in motion long before the events of

9/11, thanks to the efforts of Dick Cheneyand Donald Rumsfeld. However, waiting inthe wings following 9/11 was BlackwaterUSA, a private army established in a NorthCarolina swamp in 1996 by multimillionaireChristian conservative and Republican Partysupporter Erik Prince.

As investigative journalist Jeremy Scahillreveals in Blackwater, the corporation testeditself in Afghanistan but came of age threemonths after the massacre of some of itsmercenaries in Fallujah, Iraq, on 31 March2004, when it won the lucrative contract toprovide personal security for US VIPs inIraq (see his article in our previous edition).

While 100,000 private contractors (includ-ing military, catering, cleaning, etc. person-nel) were on the ground in Iraq as ofRumsfeld's departure as US secretary ofdefence in November 2006, Blackwater's

contribution was small but significant—as itwas in the Caspian where it built a militarybase only miles from the Iranian border.Today it has 2,300 private soldiers of vary-ing nationalities deployed in nine countries,but the company can draw on 21,000 formermilitary and law enforcement personnel atshort notice and is planning a bright futurewhere outsourcing will be instrumental inthe success of foreign campaigns.

Scahill, who credits the research input offellow investigators, says Blackwater alsohas big plans for forays on domestic soil. Itsrole in patrolling the streets following hurri-cane Katrina in New Orleans provided amodel for intervention in future natural dis-aster relief efforts. What is particularly dis-turbing is that this company operates beyondthe rule of law, whether at home or abroad.Fortunately, some Congress representativesand senators are pressing for legislation torein in what is a new elite Praetorian Guardwhose rise is a threat to democracy.

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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE: Economic HitMen, Jackals, and the Truth aboutGlobal Corruptionby John PerkinsDutton Adult, USA, 2007 ISBN 0-5259-5015-X (384pp hc) Available: http://www.Amazon.com

In this sequel to his bestselling 2004Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (see

12/06), John Perkins elaborates on his expe-riences as an EHM with recollections of hisexploits, reflections on recent return visits,and reassessments on the social and eco-nomic devastation his actions have brought.

His travelogue takes in parts of Asia, LatinAmerica, the Middle East and Africa, andincludes testimony from "jackals" (the oper-atives who move in to assassinate ThirdWorld leaders if no other forms of coercionwork in buying out a nation), corporate andbanking executives, CIA operatives andsocial justice activists (e.g., a filmmakingduo out to expose Nike's sweatshop prac-tices in Indonesia). Many of these contactscame forward after the release of Perkins'sfirst book, and they add to the tales of plun-der of local economies, disempowerment ofalready impoverished people and destructionof fragile environments. Several disaffectedpeople have their say here, claiming theyhave long been awake to the greedy, tyranni-cal ways of corporations, especially those ofthe "American Empire". Perkins urgesordinary Americans to wake up to the factthat their disproportionately high standard ofliving comes at the expense of poor peoplein resource-rich Third World countries.

Perkins himself has been trying to makeamends for the wrongs he caused as an

EHM by founding non-profit organisationsaimed at creating a stable, sustainable andpeaceful world. Now a passionate critic ofthe "corporatocracy", Perkins has ideas fortransforming corporations into accountableand compassionate entities (see interview inthis edition). A gripping inside story.

GENETIC ROULETTE: The Documented Health Risks ofGenetically Engineered Foodsby Jeffrey M. SmithYes! Books, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, 2007 ISBN 0-646-46822-7 (318pp hc) Available: www.GeneticRoulette.com

One of the world's foremost campaignersagainst GE technology and genetically

engineered foodstuffs being foisted upon anunsuspecting public is Jeffrey Smith, execu-tive director of the US-based Institute forResponsible Technology (http://www.ResponsibleTechnology.org). To follow uphis bestselling Seeds of Deception (seereview, 11/02), he has produced the defini-tive textbook aimed at scientist and novicealike. Genetic Roulette has a foreword byBritish MP Michael Meacher, the outspokenformer environment minister, and has beenvetted by a host of scientists for accuracy inits scientific reporting and referencing.

The introduction of this well-designed,large-format hardcover book gives anoverview of the deceptions, assumptions anddenials associated with GE/GM crops. Thebook is divided into four sections, covering:the documented health risks of GE foods(allergies to soybeans, for instance, havebeen on the rise since the introduction of GEvarieties); the inadequate regulations andsafeguards in place to protect public health;industry studies that are not competent to

identify most of the unpredicted side-effectsfor health and the environment; and anexposé of the flawed arguments used to jus-tify GE/GM crops, e.g., that they are neededto feed the world's growing population.

Each chapter is headed with summaryinformation and relevant quotations to assistthe skimming reader but contains solidinformation that can be explored by keenresearchers. The conclusion reiterates howresistance to imposition of GE foods isgrowing worldwide, has virtually halted theintroduction of new GE crop varieties and,with any luck, is likely to force the with-drawal of existing GE foods from the marketsoon. Smith writes that there is still hope,now that US consumers are shifting awayfrom GE towards organics, that legislation isbrewing to enforce safety testing andmandatory labelling of GE content, and thatsome states and even schools are going GE-free. This is an important book for ourtimes, and encourages us all to take actionand personal responsibility for safe eating.

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SECRETS OF THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEYby Christopher O'BrienAdventures Unlimited Press, Kempton,Illinois, USA, 2007 ISBN 1-931882-66-5 (440pp tpb) Available: adventuresunlimitedpress.com

The high-alpine valley of San Luis, takingin Colorado and New Mexico, USA, is a

hot-spot for paranormal activity, as docu-mented since 1989 by local researcherChristopher O'Brien (http://www.tmv.us).This is O'Brien's third book on the subject,and for it he draws on the hundreds of docu-mented cases of animal mutilations, UFOsightings and events of "high strangeness"that he has investigated over the years.

Veteran Santa Fe–based cattle mutilationsresearcher-of-note David Perkins has writtenan enlightening and often wryly humorousforeword and is quite happy to present hispoints of disagreement with O'Brien whilecheering him on in his endeavours. Perkinshas influenced O'Brien in suggesting that theUnited States military is involved with thesecattle mutilations as part of an environment-monitoring program, particularly where theanimals may be located in close proximity tosites of adverse environmental conditions.Perkins also sees the mutilations as a "lastfrost to first frost phenomenon", indicatingthat cattle are targeted most often when theyare grazing on pasture grass and, presum-ably, are exposed out in the open.

Nevertheless O'Brien points to evidencefor the phenomenon going back to the early1930s in modern times, but also for its beingpart of ancient legends and having somerelationship with unusual electromagneticand gravitational anomalies specific to theregion. Questions regarding US government

involvement in anomalous aerial and under-ground activity are addressed, though notanswered, in this fantastic journey thatincludes tales of ghosts, native sorcerers,cryptozoological creatures, space-time por-tals and covert military activity. It's allenough to give you the creeps!

THE STARCHILD SKULL: GeneticEnigma or ... Human–Alien Hybrid?by Lloyd PyeBell Lap Books, Pensacola, FL, USA, 2007 ISBN 978-0-9793881-7-0 (330pp tpb) Available: http://www.BellLapBooks.com

Our regular readers will remember LloydPye's contributions in 2002–03 on

human creation by outside interventionrather than by Darwinian evolution or intel-ligent design (see 9/04 and 10/01-2). Forthe last eight years, Pye has been the custo-dian of a curious skull, dubbed "theStarchild skull", that he suggests could befrom a human-alien hybrid child. His newbook documents his efforts to have the rightsort of scientific testing done to confirm theskull's DNA heritage as being human—perhaps a genetic anomaly—or otherwise.

The skull is from one of two skeletons(one an adult human) found in a mine tunnelin northwestern Mexico in 1930 and hasbeen carbon dated as being around 900 yearsold. However, the bone is half as thick, halfas heavy and twice as durable as would beexpected in a normal child's skull.

As can be seen from the numerous colourplates and b&w photographs in the book, theskull has many other strange features—microscopic durable fibres and an unusualreddish residue within the bone, an abnor-mally flattened occipital region and shalloweye sockets—which can't be explained away

by any known types of deformity. In his travels with the skull under the aus-

pices of the Starchild Project, Pye has beentreated with the usual derision meted out toanyone touting something so removed fromthe norm, and the idea that the skull may beof alien origin has been met with sceptism.He has always called for open-mindednessin relation to this unusual artefact, as he haswith his alternative theories on humanity'sorigins. Nevertheless, some progress hasbeen made. Geneticists at the University ofCalifornia at Davis in 2003 extracted mito-chondrial DNA from the skull, but could notrecover any paternal nuclear DNA—thussuggesting a hybrid status. Now, a companycalled 454 Life Sciences has developed aradical new DNA recovery technique thatcan be used to analyse the skull, but resultswill take yet more time. So, while the juryis out, Pye regales us with the stories ofwhat he's been through to get this far.

For a peek at what it's all about, visithttp://www.starchildproject.com.

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AGAINST RELIGIONby Tamas PatakiScribe Short Books, Melbourne, 2007 ISBN 978-1-921215-18-6 (136pp pb) Available: http://www.scribepub.com.au

Several books questioning the basis ofreligion and religious belief have been

published recently. Here we review three ofthem, starting with Against Religion byTamas Pataki, an honorary senior fellow inthe philosophy department at the Universityof Melbourne and an honorary fellow atDeakin University. Pataki analyses the psy-chology behind religions, focusing mostlyon the so-called Abrahamic monotheisticreligions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,and concludes that they are based on fear,wishful thinking and a misplaced infantile,narcissistic "phantasy" of omnipotencewhich is a form of mental illness.

In his philosophical critique, Pataki exam-ines the factors that are common to mostreligions and also considers the undue influ-ence of "the religiose", which he takes toinclude most groups that can be defined as"fundamentalist". While he doesn't disputethat many members of religions performcharitable tasks based on love and moralprinciples, he argues that religion is notidentical to morality: confusing the twoonly fuels the pretension of the "religiousright" to the high moral ground.

When fundamentalists are so filled withthe certainty of being the chosen elite doingthe will of the Supreme Being, it's no won-der, says Pataki, that they commit acts ofviolence in the name of this often harshGod, insist on invoking theocratic laws, sub-jugate women and homosexuals out of fear,and sacrifice reason to revelation. Patakiutilises developmental psychology and

psychoanalysis to show why these funda-mentalist beliefs and actions are not onlyunenlightened but are threatening the foun-dations of civil societies everywhere. We'reseeing it today in the growth of their undueinfluence in world affairs, he says.

Pataki criticises Richard Dawkins's propo-sition in The God Delusion that religiousbelief is an accidental by-product of biologythat confers evolutionary advantage and isalso a by-product of our tendency to fall inlove. Pataki's stance is that religion satisfiesunconscious needs and dispositions, andthus is not in the realm of the rational. It is acreature of and reaction to human needs,particularly the need to be loved. A polemicwith a compelling psychological bent.

GOD IS NOT GREAT:How Religion Poisons Everythingby Christopher HitchensAllen & Unwin, Aust & NZ, 2007, byarrangement with Warner Books, NewYork, USA, 2007 ISBN 978-1-74175-222-9 (307pp tpb) Available: www.allenandunwin.com

British journalist, author and well-known"public intellectual" Christopher

Hitchens launches a scathing attack onreligion in God Is Not Great, taking no pris-oners. Everywhere he's been in his travels,from the Balkans to Ireland, from Israel toPakistan, from Lebanon to the USA, he'shad cause to reflect on conflicts resultingfrom clashes of religious belief systems. Ifthese religions are so great, why do so manyof their adherents behave so appallingly tothose who don't share exactly their brand offaith, he asks. Religion obviously is not theanswer to regional or world peace.

Hitchens argues for a secular world based

on science and reason, not on myths andwishful thinking. He expounds on why themetaphysical claims of religion are false,outlines the "transparent fables" in the "holybooks" of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,expands on savage moments in religious his-tory, and deplores how religion is forcedupon impressionable young children in away that's akin to child abuse.

Monarchs who have ruled under "divineright", Vatican leaders who accommodatedNazi horrors for the sake of realpolitik, andthe vile apartheid system in South Africa arepart of the territory in Hitchens's response to"the 'case' against secularism". Finally, hepoints to the confrontation between faith andcivilisation in an Iran intent on becoming anuclear power. What we need, he says, is arenewed Enlightenment, a humane civilisa-tion, in which we can ask the eternal ethicalquestions without religion entering the dis-course, pursue unfettered scientific inquiry,and divorce the fear, guilt and repressionfrom the sexual life. Hitchens is informativeand insightful, if not controversial.

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THE DEATH OF RELIGION AND THEREBIRTH OF SPIRITby Joseph Chilton PearcePark Street Press, Rochester, USA, 2007 ISBN 1-59477-171-5 (261pp hc) Available: www.InnerTraditions.com

Veteran human potential nurturer JosephChilton Pearce (The Crack in the

Cosmic Egg; The Biology of Transcendence,see 9/06) points to culture and religion asunderlying a negative imprint stamped on usin early childhood. In effect, it's a force-field that blocks our connection between ourheart and higher brain and prevents the nat-ural rise of spirit towards the love and altru-ism that are part of our innate nature.

Pearce contends that generation after gen-eration we've been conditioned to believethat without the constraints of culture wewould be demonic, violent beasts, and sowe've been forced to accept religion, beingculture's principal support, to save us fromour inherently violent natures. But history,as we know, is full of examples of failure ofthe spirit under the guise of religion.

So what's the solution? Pearce says it isbiological, referring to the logic of life itself,and it lies in knowledge of consciousnessfield effects and the "mindset of the heart"—the nonjudgemental creative force of theheart-brain dialogue. We can resume ourevolutionary progress when we realise thatwe have a fourth brain—one that was sub-sumed or seduced by the instinctual drivesof the three older brains (reptilian or hind,and old and new mammalian) before it wassufficiently developed. If we had properlydeveloped fourth brains seated in heart intel-ligence, we'd have nurturing, loving, com-passionate societies and no violence, warand repression. We also have to overturn

the devolutionary effect of today's religions,both scientific and ecclesiastic, if we seek atrue science and spirituality, says Pearce inhis ultimately positive thesis.

THERE IS NO TIME: Motional Perspective & MotionalEscalation of Energy by John R. S. Peck, ASTCJohn Peck, Galston, NSW, Australia, 2006 ISBN 0-646-46822-7 (92pp tpb) Available: www.johnpeckscience.com

Retired Sydney electrical engineer JohnPeck has put his passion for physics to

good use. Here he theorises that time doesnot form part of the universe, and thus manyscientific concepts that utilise time in theirformulae are incorrect. In his well-producedself-published book, Peck first gives an his-torical perspective on time and lists manyscales of time measurement, taking intoaccount such notions as quantum time, cal-endar time, longitude and radians (fractionalintervals of the Earth's rotation). He reasonsthat time is a concept, a human construct;thus it is wrong to treat it as an entity.

Next, Peck examines apparent anomaliesconcerning fast motion, which he says canbe explained in terms of classical physicsrather than relativity theories. To argue hiscase that time is not motion-dependent anddoes not vary with motion, he uses examplesof trains and light sources, aircraft andclocks, sea-dwellers and mountain-dwellers.

He then takes a new look at the three so-called Fitzgerald–Lorentz Transformationequations of length, time and mass, whichhold that while both length (space) and timeare seen to contract, mass becomes larger.Peck claims that objects in motion do notundergo a contraction in length together

with an increase in mass, as suggested bythe Michelson–Morley interferometerexperiment. He disputes Einstein's specialtheory of relativity, saying it is a mistake topresume that the velocity of light is the sameconstant numerical value c within a givenframe of reference and that all observers inthat same frame will see the same velocityof light. According to his new theory ofMotional Perspective, Peck says that anycontraction related to angular displacementis just a visual effect, and he proposes sim-plified equations that counter the anomalies.And contrary to special relativity, time doesnot run slower but shorter in Peck's TimeContraction equation. Finally, in his theoryof Motional Escalation of Energy, the masscomponent in the mass Transformationequation should be replaced by a force com-ponent. So too, should the international unitof mass be considered a force unit becausethe very process of weighing introduces agravitational acceleration component.

Peck's is a thought-provoking thesis thatdeserves attention from serious physicists.

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WHAT REALLY CAUSES MULTIPLESCLEROSISby Harold D. FosterTrafford Publishing, BC, Canada, 2006 ISBN 1-4251-1636-1 (221pp tpb) Available: www.trafford.com/4dcgi/view-item?item=19403; www.hdfoster.com

In his latest addition to his What ReallyCauses... series, Harold Foster, PhD, turns

his attention to multiple sclerosis (MS), anautoimmune disease in which the myelinsheath around the nerves deteriorates to suchan extent that electrical impulses are pre-vented from travelling along the nervefibres, causing a decline in mental and phys-ical functions. Again, Dr Foster draws ongeographic models showing incidence of thedisease around the world and finds multiplesclerosis as well as other autoimmune condi-tions such as Parkinson's disease in coun-tries where the soil is iodine-deficient andwhere dairy products and gluten-containinggrains are consumed. Again, it's not genet-

ics but environment that triggers the diseasein most cases, as Dr Foster has observed inover 20 years of research along this line.

He has devised a three-step hypothesis toexplain the cause of MS, and if it's correctthen MS should be easy to prevent andreverse (Dr Foster's AIDS treatment proto-cols are being successfully applied in severalAfrican nations; see review, 10/05, article11/01-02). He posits first that MS patientssuffer from chronic inflammation caused bydiets with inadequate antioxidant andomega-3 intakes, excess sugar, foods thatfail to reduce oxidative stress, gluten, cow'smilk and perhaps allergens. Second, there isa thyroid hormone deficiency that causes anabnormal need for dopamine—a hormonethat can break down to form toxic indoleswhich in turn kill oligodendrocytes, the cellsneeded to repair the damage to myelincaused by chronic inflammation. Third,myelin deteriorates further because a short-age of the enzyme triiodothyronine in MSpatients reduces their ability to produce newoligodendrocytes. Others have proposed

that this thyroid malfunction is related toiodine deficiency or inadequate thyroid hor-mone production in foetal or early childhooddevelopment. Dr Foster refers to the anti-inflammatory diet plans of key nutritionalresearchers and includes a (by no meansexhaustive) table of the inflammatory andanti-inflammatory potential of a range offoods. He discusses ways to address thedopamine and enzyme deficiencies with vit-amin, enzyme, essential fatty acid and min-eral supplementation, and particularly advo-cates pregnant women topping up againstpossible iodine deficiency.

Dr Foster concludes from his analyses thatthere are paths to MS prevention and treat-ment that are simple as well as accessible.

COLLOIDAL SILVER: Hidden Truthsby Keith F. Courtenay (Dr Metaphysics)The Courtenay House Publishers,Conondale, Qld, 2007, 3rd edition ISBN 978-1-876494-10-0 (359pp tpb) Avail: The Courtenay House, 21 HerronRoad, Conondale, Qld 4552, Australia,www.houseofcourtenay.wetpaint.com

Silver has been known for its powerfulgermicidal properties for millennia.

Ancient Chinese healers worked with silveracupuncture needles, and the metal waswidely used in clinical environments untilthe 1930s when, with the introduction ofpenicillin, it fell out of favour.

In colloidal form (as well as in otherforms), silver has a long pedigree in treatinga range of ills from acne, burns and cancerto pneumonia, septicaemia and yeast(Candida) infections. Over the years it hasbeen documented to kill 650 disease-causingpathogens including bacteria, fungi andviruses, attests Keith Courtenay in theexpanded third edition of his handbook onthis amazing preparation. Unfortunately, asof 2002, this relatively inexpensive solutionwith nanoparticles of silver in suspensioncan only be sold in Australia for waterpurification purposes; no claims as to itstherapeutic value can be made. Soon it mayonly be available on prescription, as is thecase in the UK, and its resurgence in theUSA is being curbed by the EPA and theFDA—after all, it is a genuine threat to BigPharma. Courtenay is not shy with hisviews on how this safe, non-toxic, effica-cious preparation is being suppressed at thebehest of the pharmaceutical giants.

But views aside, there's some solid infor-mation in these pages on colloidal silverchemistry, history, research, use in diseasetreatment, dosage and more, as well as onother mineral colloids like copper and gold.Courtenay's new edition, a work in progress,is still the most comprehensive collection ofcolloidal silver information I've seen.

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REVIEWSTHE DIVINE MATRIXby Gregg BradenHay House, USA, 2007 ISBN 978-1-4019-0573-6 (240pp tpb) Available: http://www.hayhouse.com;www.hayhouse.com.au; hayhouse.co.uk

Combining the implicate order idea pro-posed by quantum physics pioneer

David Bohm, with its "creative operation ofunderlying...levels of reality", and the holo-graphic mind notion posited by conscious-ness researcher Karl Pribram, former aero-space computer systems designer GreggBraden reasserts and demystifies the modelof an interconnected matrix that is basic tomany ancient wisdom traditions. Bradenhas been doing his bit to shatter unworkableparadigms for 20 years, and his first book,Awakening to Zero Point, was a landmark inreconciling the worlds of science and spirit.

First of all in The Divine Matrix, Bradendescribes the so-called "space between" andexplores the sense that we're all united by a

field of energy that connects everything. Heuses several famous experiments which sug-gest that not only does our DNA have adirect effect on the material world, but thathuman emotion, or feeling, has a directeffect on the DNA which in turn affects theworld. Furthermore, this relationship tran-scends space and time: these experimentsshow effects regardless of, say, distancebetween a Petri dish DNA sample and theperson from whom the DNA was taken.

Braden aims to show how we can use thismatrix in our lives, and this means under-standing how everything is linked holo-graphically, so that ordinary concepts suchas "here" and "there" are meaninglessbecause "here is already there". If we cancourageously take on board these conceptsof "nonlocality", we can understand how aprayer we direct to a loved one far away isreceived instantaneously. We can thenapply this "nonlocal" awareness to the col-lective consciousness by visualising positiverealities with feeling and intent. Bradenshows how we can make this unified field a

practical reality, steeped in "the divine". Using data from social research studies as

well as the well-known "Maharishi effect",Braden has worked out that the minimumnumber of people required to "jump-start" achange in consciousness is the square rootof 1% of a population. For a city of onemillion, all it takes is 100 people to be atone in their personal peace. The "rules" ofthe matrix that Braden describes are work-able keys for us to learn total connectedness.

HOW WE WERE MADE: A Book ofRevelationsby William NeilOracle Books, Reading, UK, 2007 2nd ed. ISBN 978-0-9545957-1-5 (245pp tpb) Available: Oracle Books, email [email protected]

In the preface to his new edition of HowWe Were Made, London-based author

William Neil declares that engineers, withtheir inventiveness, have improved livingstandards through the ages. Himself anengineer, Neil has turned his curious mindto the question of how life itself works—andhe discovered the answer is mathematical.

His thesis centres around base 6, or 60 asused by the ancient Sumerians (and 20, one-third of 60, by the Mayans), and it suggeststhat we as well as our planet and solar sys-tem have been constructed or placed accord-ing to this "engineering specification" ofbase six. The number six was fundamentalto the earliest Egyptian calendar—made upof a 360-day year of 36 decans of 10-dayweeks. Neil speculates that this numbersystem was put in place not by God but by"them" whom we may call gods—engineersworking within the Galactic Ordering andDelivery System (GODS)! To him, it's noaccident that the same "bizarre numbers"keep cropping up all over the place.

Neil demonstrates a host of dazzlingnumerical correspondences, mostly extrapo-lated from the famous number 666: multi-plied out (6 x 6 x 6), it gives a key number216, which produces other fundamental con-stants when it is divided or multiplied.Interestingly, the sum of all the numbersbetween 1 and 36 is 666!

Neil applies his findings to show how 666and related numbers can be found in thehuman form (apparently there are 216 bonesin the human body!), in our DNA, in monu-ments like the Great Pyramid andStonehenge, in the Earth's position in thesolar system, and in ancient and modernmeasurement systems. It can even be seenin the "building and placing" of the Moon,which he calculates is hollow apart from a300-mile thick crust.

If you're fascinated by numbers and sacredgeometry, this book will be a treat.


THE RINGING CEDARS SERIESby Vladimir MegreRinging Cedars Press, 2006-07 (edited by Leonid Sharashkin, translated byJohn Woodsworth; 8-book series)Book 4 – Co-Creation, ISBN 978-0-9763333-3-3; Book 5 – Who Are We?,ISBN 978-0-9763333-4-0; Book 6 – The Book of Kin,ISBN 978-0-9763333-6-4Available: NEXUS offices;www.ringingcedars.com

In 1994, a Siberian eldertold the entrepreneur

Vladimir Megre afascinating story about the"ringing cedars"—treesrespected from biblicaltimes for their curativepowers and the capacity toreconnect human beingswith the Divine. The eldertold him where such a ringing cedar wasgrowing in the Siberian backwoods.

Vladimir Megre set out on an expeditionto find the tree. But his encounter with theelder's granddaughter, Anastasia,transformed him so deeply that heabandoned his commercial plans and,penniless, went to Moscow to write a bookabout the spiritual insights she shared withhim. What happened next thrilled andinspired millions.

With no advertising other than word-of-mouth, the Ringing Cedars Series hasbecome an international bestseller,translated into 20 languages, with over 10million copies published in Russian alone.

Co-Creation, the fourth book andcentrepiece of the series, paints a dramaticliving image of the creation of the Universeand humanity's place in this creation,making this primordial mystery relevant toour everyday living today. Deeplymetaphysical yet at the same time down-to-

Earth practical, this heartfelt volume helpsus uncover answers to the most significantquestions about the essence and meaning ofthe Universe and the nature and purpose ofour existence. It also shows how and whythe knowledge of these answers, innate inevery human being, has become obscuredand forgotten, and points the way towardsreclaiming this wisdom and—in partnershipwith Nature—manifesting the energy ofLove through our lives.

Who Are We?, the fifth book of theseries, describes the author's search forreal-life "proofs" of Anastasia's visionpresented in the previous volumes. Findingthese proofs and taking stock of ongoingglobal environmental destruction, VladimirMegre describes further practical steps forputting Anastasia's vision into practice.Full of beautiful, realistic images of a newway of living in co-operation with the Earthand each other, this book also highlights therole of children in making us aware of theprecariousness of the present situation and

in leading the globaltransition towards a happy,violence-free society.

The Book of Kin, thesixth book of the series,describes another visit bythe author to Anastasia'sglade in the Siberian taigaand his conversations withhis growing son, whichcause him to take a newlook at education, science,history, family and Nature.

Through parables and revelatory dialoguesand stories, Anastasia then leads VladimirMegre and the reader on a shockingrediscovery of the pages of humanity's realhistory that have been distorted or keptsecret for thousands of years. Thisknowledge sheds light on the causes of war,oppression and violence in the modernworld and guides us in preserving thewisdom of our ancestors and passing it overto future generations.

Reviewed by Duncan Roads

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PUTUMAYO WORLD PARTY by various artistsPutumayo, USA, 2007 (44mins)Distributors: Aust—MRA, tel (07) 38496020; UK—Putumayo Music, tel 07759600495; USA—www.putumayo.com

This new Putumayo album features musicto get up and dance to; reggae, ska, salsa

and zydeco are among the varied styles ofhot-footed music. Artists include BurningSpear, Los Pinguos, Roy Paci and Aretuska,Osibisa, Laid Back, Sarazino and more. Ifit's a party you want, this is the perfect looseand easy accompaniment: the best of globalmusic with names you'll love to hear overand over. It's feel-good, sunny music.

GYPSY MOON by PriyoSounds True, USA, 2007 (48mins)Distributors: Australia—Brumby Booksand Music, tel (03) 9761 5535; USA—Sounds True, tel 1800 333 9185, web-site http://www.soundstrue.com

Sicilian-born Priyo, the leader behind themusic sensations One at Last and Gypsy

Moon (which he formed in Byron Bay,Australia, in 1992), puts flamenco guitarstraight into the spotlight. On Gypsy Moon,he creates a fresh, sultry sound by blendingthe heartbeat of African drums and thegroove of trance-dance electronica with hissmooth flamenco guitar. With an intoxicat-ing mingling of past and present traditions,he liberates the Spanish sound, creating asensuous and contemporary evolution of fla-menco in a trance-dance style.

HERITAGE by Mamadou DiabateWorld Village, Europe, 2006 (50mins)Distributors: Aust—Select Audio, tel(02) 8966 3307; Germany—HarmoniaMundi, tel +49 (0)711 2567671; USA—http://www.worldvillagemusic.com

Malian kora player Mamadou Diabate is,by birth, a member of the jeli (griot)

caste of musicians in his native Bambara.His lineage goes back to the 13th centurywith the founding of the Mande Empire.Now living in the USA, he performsthroughout North America and Europe andis committed to bringing the kora (a 21-string harp) to new audiences. While he hasplayed with jazz artists and other musicians,he remains faithful to his kora and jeli roots.Heritage, his third album, features tradition-al kora backed by some interesting jazz andcontemporary styles. Mamadou Diabate has

been named the 2007 World Music Artist ofthe Year by the American Folk Alliance.

LA JUDERIA by Yasmin LevyConnecting Cultures Music, TheNetherlands, 2005 (59mins)Distributors: Australia—MRA, tel (07)3849 6020; Europe—ConnectingCultures, tel +31 (0)594 212120, web-site http://www.choicemusic.nl; http://www.yasminlevy.net

Born in Jerusalem in 1975, Yasmin Levywas introduced at a young age to the

Ladino language and style of singing whichstemmed from the Spanish Jews who wereexpelled from Spain in 1492. Her fatherwas a leading figure in the preservation ofthis Judaeo-Spanish heritage. In her pro-foundly spiritual and passionate vocal style,Yasmin revives beautiful Ladino songs,mixing them with an Andalusian flamencobent on this, her second album. She hasreceived rave reviews from world music afi-cionados. Soaring and inspiring!

ALEVANTA! by Benjamín EscorizaRiverboat/World Music Network, UK,2007 (43mins)Distributors: Australia—MRA, tel (07)3849 6020; UK—World MusicNetwork, tel 020 7489 5252, websitehttp://www.worldmusic.net

Though it disbanded last year, the Spanishgroup Radio Tarifa is still celebrated for

its blending of flamenco, Latin, NorthAfrican and popular music. Vocalist/lyricistBenjamín Escoriza, who co-founded thegroup in the early 1990s, has pursued hisown great love of the flamenco form byreleasing his first solo album. Alevanta! isred-hot flamenco, tinged with rumba andtango colours and flavoured with severalMoroccan-influenced mixes. Try "Rap deMarrakech" and "Talismán" for some hot,fast tracks. Exciting and rousing music.

REVIEWSReviewed by Richard Giles

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3 2 . "Serotonin...", The Lancet, op. cit. 3 3 . Blake Levitt B, Electromagnetic Fields: AConsumer's Guide to the Issues and How toProtect Ourselves, Harcourt Brace &Company, Orlando, Florida, 1995, p. 1333 4 . Becker, op. cit. 3 5 . Hillman D, "Exposure to Electric andMagnetic Fields (EMR) Linked to Neuro-Endocrine Stress Syndrome: IncreasedCardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, & Cancer",Shocking News, no. 8, November 20053 6 . Carlo, George, Dr and Schram, Martin,Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age – An Insider's AlarmingDiscoveries About Cancer and GeneticD a m a g e, Carroll & Graf, 2001, reprint editionFebruary 9, 2002, p. 2173 7 . Transcript from Dr George Carlo's meetingwith Scrutiny Panel, Telephone Mast Review,States of Jersey, UK, 26 February 2007,h t t p : / / w w w . j e r s e y m a s t c o n c e r n . c o . u k /d r c a r l o t r a n s c r i p t . h t m l3 8 . Lai H, Singh NP, "Magnetic-Field-InducedDNA Strand Breaks in Brain Cells of the Rat",Environ Health Perspectives 2004 May;112(6):687-94 3 9 . Agarwal A, PhD (Director, ClinicalAndrology Laboratory and ReproductiveTissue Bank; Director of Research,Reproductive Research Center, The Cleveland Clinic), "Relationship between

Cell Phone Use and Human Fertility: AnObservational Study", presentation P-398,October 23, 2006, at 62nd Annual Meeting ofthe American Society for ReproductiveMedicine (ASRM), New Orleans, October 21-25, 2006 4 0 . Henderson M, "Mobiles may decreasemen's fertility", October 23, 2006,h t t p : / / w w w . t i m e s o n l i n e . c o . u k / t o l / n e w s / w o r l d /a r t i c l e 6 1 0 4 9 4 . e c e4 1 . Carlo and Schram, op. cit., p. 246 4 2 . Ungar J, McGregor S, Rahman M, TaylorD, Torres N, Hanser A, "Energy ResonanceTechnology (ERT): A Targeted InterventionFor Electro-Magnetic Radiation (EMR)Induced Biological Effects", I n t e r n a t i o n a lJournal of Clinical Bioenergetics 2 0 0 7 ,Bioenergetics Institute,h t t p : / / w w w . b i o e n e r g e t i c s i n s t i t u t e . c o m /P o r t a l s / 0 / D o c u m e n t s / U n g a r 2 0 0 6 E R T i n t e r vEMRbioeffectupdateCorrected.pdf 4 3 . Television interview with Dr George Carloin London, RTÉ News, Dublin, Ireland, 22February 2007, http://www.rte.ie/news/2 0 0 7 / 0 2 2 2 / p r i m e t i m e _ a v . h t m l ? 2 2 2 2 2 5 1 , n u l l , 230, reported at Omega-News, February 23,2007, http://omega.twoday.net/200702234 4 . http://www.health-concerns.org/ 4 5 . h t t p : / / w w w . s a f e w i r e l e s s . o r g4 6 . Telephone interview with Dr GeorgeCarlo, June 5, 2007.

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Continued next issue...Endnotes1. BBC, 18 April 1955,http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/apri/18/newsid_3721000/3721783.stm2. TIME, vol. 154, no. 276, December 31,19993. Beckhard, A., Albert Einstein, Ernst G.Mortensen Publ., Oslo, 1962 4. Aspden, H., "Aether Science Papers",1996, http://www.aspden.org/books/asp/0000.htm5. http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether 6. Naess, A., Textbook of Philosophy,Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 19707. Berkson, W., Fields of Force, Routledge& Kegan Paul, London, 19748. Michelson, A. A., Studies in Optics,University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1962(first published in 1927)9. Berkson, op. cit. 10. Einstein A., "Zur Elektrodynamik derbewegter Körper" ("About theElectrodynamics of Moving Bodies"),Annalen der Physik, 1905, 17:891-2111. Einstein, A., "Physics and Reality",Journal of the Franklin Institute 1936,221:349-382, fromhttp://www.spaceandmotion.com/

Albert-Einstein-Principles-Physics.htm 12. Whittaker, E., History of the Theories ofAether and Electricity, Nelson, London, 1953rev. ed.13. Kelly, A., "Special Theory, Right orWrong?", Electronics World & WirelessWorld, September 2000, pp. 722-23 14. Bohm, D., The Special Theory ofRelativity, W. A. Benjamin Inc., New York,196215. Jeans, James, Physics and Philosophy,Cambridge University Press, London, 194316. Bohm, op. cit. 17. Kaku, M., Hyperspace, OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, 199418. Ritz, W., Ann Chim Phys 1908,8(13):145 19. Ritz, W. and Einstein A., "On theCurrent State of the Radiation Problem",Phys Zeitschrift 1909, 10:32320. Kaku, ibid.21. ibid.22. ibid.23. Michelson, ibid.24. Ptolemy's theory was that the Earth iscentre of the universe.25. Kittel, C. et al., Mechanics, BerkeleyPhysics Course, vol. 1, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 196526. Kelly, op. cit. 27. ibid.

About the Author: Born in Norway in 1947, Bjørn JohanØverbye, MD, PhD, is a practis ingmedical doctor, writer, researcher andlecturer. He studied physics at theUniversity of Oslo from 1966 to 1969 andfinished his MD degree at the sameuniversity in 1976, receiving his licence topractice in 1978. In 1984 he wasawarded a PhD in ComplementaryMedicine from the International OpenUniversity, Sri Lanka. He is the author ofseveral books on alternative medicine plusa scientific report on cellphone hazards("The Biophone Project", 2003). He hasconducted research into bioresonance anddeveloped biophysical theories anddiagnostic methods for treating diseasesusing biophoton equipment,electromagnetism and bioresonance.

Dr Øverbye supports the notion that theaether is a key concept in both physicsand energy medicine. This interest ledhim to invest igate how Einsteinprematurely killed a useful concept andmay have contributed to more problemsthan solutions.

Dr Øverbye can be contacted atArendal Helsesenter, Box 348, 4803Arendal, Norway, and by email [email protected].

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exposure so that global statesmen with a newperspective can intercede in this situation.

While we see no evidence that the ETcivilisations are at all hostile, it is also clearthat it is unlikely that they will allowunfettered and growing interference with theiroperations. Self-defence is likely a universalquality. And while tremendous restraint hasbeen shown by the ETs thus far, might therebe a "cosmic trip-wire" if human coverttechnologies begin to reach parity and we areusing such advanced technologies in abellicose fashion? The prospect is sobering.

Our future in the balanceWe need our Jimmy Carters and Dalai

Lamas and other international statesmeninvolved with so vast a problem. But if accessis denied—and the subject remainsundisclosed and off the global radar screen—we are left with the unelected few to decideour fate and act on our behalf. This mustchange, and soon.

In the final analysis, while the changesattendant on such a disclosure related to UFOsand ETs would be massive and profoundlyimpact virtually every aspect of life on Earth,

it is still the right thing to do to disclose thetruth. Secrecy has taken on a life of its own:it is a growing cancer which needs to be curedbefore it destroys the life of Earth and all whodwell on her.

The reasons for secrecy are clear: globalpower, economic and technological control,retaining the geopolitical status quo, the fearof scandal surrounding the exposure of suchprojects and their behaviour, and so forth.

But the one thing more dangerous thandisclosure is continued secrecy. The Earth isdying because we are killing her. The top 250people and families in the world have the networth of US$2.5 billion of our poorestcitizens. The promising relationship betweenhumanity and people from other planets isbeing militarised and strained by failedthinking and failed programs run completelyin secret.

As daunting as disclosure may be, with allits potential for short-term instability andchange, continued secrecy means that we willdestroy the Earth through our folly and greed.The future of humanity, which has beendelayed and hijacked for the past 50 years,cannot be hijacked for 50 more. For we donot have 50 more years: the Earth'secosystem will collapse before then.

There are no easy choices. But there is oneright one. Will you help us make it? ∞

About the Author:Steven M. Greer, MD, is a medical doctor anddirector of The Disclosure Project, which hefounded. In May 2001, Dr Greer presidedover The Disclosure Project Press Conferencefrom the National Press Club in Washington,DC, where over 20 insiders presentedtestimony confirming the existence of UFOsand ETs. Dr Greer has also been supervising aworldwide search for alternative energy sources,specifically zero-point or over-unity devices,with the plan to identify and develop systemswhich will eliminate the need for fossil fuels.

Dr Greer recently published Hidden Truth,Forbidden Knowledge, which tells the story ofhis spiritual journey, his relationship with ETsand his encounters with those forces trying tokeep the ET/UFO and energy issues secret.Extracts were published in NEXUS 13/06 and14/01–02. The book (reviewed in 13/06) isavailable from your nearest NEXUS office orfrom Crossing Point, Inc., P O Box 265, Crozet,VA 22932, USA.

For more information about Dr Greer andhis research work, visit the websiteshttp://www.DisclosureProject.org andhttp://www.SEASpower.com.

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they are the same race referenced anddescribed in Zecharia Sitchin's work.

The Anunnaki themselves are split into anumber of factions, some of which arefriendly and others not. The most sinisterthing he alluded to was that one faction ofthe Anunnaki sometimes preys on humanflesh, having acquired a taste for it. Otherfactions of the Anunnaki seek to preventthis. Such was the extreme nature of thispiece of information that (in conversation)Henry was obliged to make repeatedoblique references to it before we finallygrasped what he was trying to tell us.

• Transport is by two means: stargatesfor personnel and small items; spacecraftfor larger items of freight. The alternativefleet is codenamed Solar Warden.

We had first heard of this from anothersource, and we queried Henry about thecodename. We sent him two separatemessages, each simply of one word: Solar,and then W a r d e n. We offered no contextor reason for our communication.

The reply came immediately in threeemails, each from a different address. Thefirst said "Mars"; the second said

" A l t e r n a t i v e"; and the third had as itssubject "Not listed here", and gave theURL http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-list1.html as itsonly content. We were impressed.

• Most controversially, Henry gaveseveral hints, on separate occasions, that hehimself had been to Mars. The firstoccasion was in conversation, when he wastalking about the base. We impulsivelyasked him if he had been there. There wasa very long pause. Eventually he smiledand said, "I played a lot of ping-pong andwatched a lot of TV". He repeated thisobscure allusion later, on two furtheroccasions. Every way he referred to thebase was consistent with his having visitedit personally.

Later, in a separate conversation, he saidthat a journey through a stargate is"instantaneous", and he gave theimpression that the experience of thestargate transition is at once disorientingand exhilarating. He described theappearance of a man-made stargate as afeatureless grey surface. Natural stargates,he said, have a different appearance whichis much harder to detect.

He appeared to agree with us strongly

when we remarked that the primeprotection of claims of this nature is theirsheer unbelievability.

We have withheld this part of Henry'sstory thus far because of the obvious riskthat this may appear to discredit him in theeyes of some. Intellectual honesty compelsus to report this, now that Henry appears tohave been silenced. ∞(Source: Project Camelot, 2 May 2007,h t t p : / / p r o j e c t c a m e l o t . o r g / l i v e r m o r e _physicist_3.html)

About the interviewers:Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy are the teambehind Project Camelot. In NEXUS vol. 13,no. 6, we published their interview with"Mr X", and in vol. 14, no. 1 their firstinterview with "Henry Deacon" (see http://p r o j e c t c a m e l o t . o r g / l i v e r m o r e _ p h y s i c i s t .h t m l ) . Their video interview with DanBurisch is also available at their websitehttp://projectcamelot.org.

If any readers have inside informationwhich they would like publicised, ProjectCamelot promises full confidentiality and awide audience for the disc losure ofimportant subjec t matter. [email protected].

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