NEXUS NEWS 6 A round-up of the news you probably did not see.

ARI BEN-MENASHE INTERVIEW 11 Glenn Krawczyk interviews the author of the explosive book liThe Profits of Warl/ and uncovers a web of international conspiracy and intrigue.

MICROWAVES AND YOUR HEAHH 17 By Prof. Ron Laura and John F. Ashton. They are constantly bombarding us from the sun, and they sit in many of our kitchens, but how safe are we in their prescence?

GOLD IN THE SAN ANDREAS - Pt 3 21 By Ted Smith. Finishing our story of the Spanish conquest of parts of South America, and the links to the mountain of gold ingots found in New Mexico.

UFOs. OVER MEXICO 26 On 11 th July 1991, thousands of people in the world's largest city witnessed the beginning of a UFO flap that continues to this day. Edited by Ruth Parnell.

ENERGY & POWER IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER. 31 By Stan Deyo. A look at the monopolisation of energYt free energy research, and thermionic conversion.

NEXUS FOLLOW-UPS 36 A follow-up section of information that readers of previous issues will want to know. This issue follows up Ed McCabe, Oxygen Therapies, and Essiac - the herbal cancer cure.

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MIND CONTROL & THE NEW WORLD ORDER.~ ....41 The second and final part of an article written by Glenn Krawczyk which explores the many uncomfortable aspects of Mind Control in the New World Order.

NEW SCIENCE NEWS 47 A round-up of interesting news and titbits, from the underground science network.

THE TWILIGHT lONE 52 A collection of strange and bizarre stories from around (and of{) the world.

REVI EWS - Books .................................................57 "Profits of War" by Ari Ben-Menashe. "Big Brother" by Simon Davies. "It's A Conspiracy" by The National Insecurity Council. "Prophecies of the Presidents" by Beckley & Crockett. "AIDS, Cancer & The Medical Establishment ll by Raymond Keith Brown~ MD. "How to Screw 'Your' Bankl ' by Laurence F. Hoins. IIVaccinationr by Isaac Golden.

REVIEWS - Vilfeo &Audio Tapes 60 "Bankers & Bastards" - Paul Mctean. "New World Order; Seduction or Solution?" -Jeremy Lee. '''Missing Time" " Budd Hopkins. l'Oxygen Therapies 1992 Update" - Ed McCabe. "Messengers of Destiny" - UFOs over Mexico. "Earth Changes Australia l' by Gordon-Michael Scallion.

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Editorial Welcome again to the latest and greatest edition of Nexus! LotsJ to tell you this

issue. First up !,bough, yO" all owe me (and Catherine) a round of congratulations on the

arrival of our new daughter, Jacinta. To save all those phone calls, she weighed eight pounds and a bit, and emerged via a successful waterbirth at home. Second up, we have a full-time assistant editor/secretary/proof-reacter/editorial

assistant/photocopier/sandwich IJlaker/receptionist/researcher and sooth sayer. Her name is Ruth, and she is worth her weight in gold. (We were 'Ruthless' before her arrival). Some exciting events are also on the immediate horiz.on, such as the visit to

Australia by James Clark. He is the inventor of the Life Information System Ten (LISTEN), and will be speaking and conducting workshops. See inside cover ad. Maverick archaeologist David Hatcher Childress will also be visiting down-under

over the next few weeks. He is a speaker we highly recommend you see. Refer to the back cover for more details. On the exciting news front - there has been the biggest UFO 'flap' you have

(n)ever heard of. Tens of thousands of people watching UFOs hovering over the world's largest city, in broad daylight, and being captured on hundreds of home movies. The details are in the article on pages 26-29. There is a hot-off-the-dubbing studio video documentary now available through Nexus, with some incredible footage of the 'UFOs mentioned above. See page 30 for details of the video. Bruce Cathie has teamed up with an American computer whit, and produced a

computer programme for calculating the world's grid points. It is a highly accurate programme with many abilities, and will open up a Pandora's Box of research to come. For further infotmation, please refer to page 51. On a completely different front, Nexus Magazine has been cooking up a project

which is essentially the establishment of a high-tech, self-sufficient 'community', This is the 'community' many have dreamed of, with facilities for publishing, food growing, storage and sales, state of the art natural health facilities, a 'mad scientist' .research and development complex, chalet and bungalow style accomodation, conference faci'lities all set on a couple of hundred acres of good soil, abundant fresh clean water, bigh in altitude, with about one hundred like-minded people living there on their own couple of acres. Sound familiar? If this is your dream also, contact me at the office and I will share details of progress to date. Starting with the nex.t issue of Nexus, we will have a regular column. This will be

written by Gordon-Michael Scallion, and will focus on prophecy and earthchanges. We feel that his track record of predictions has been high enough so far, as to merit more serious attention. We agreed to publish this column in the interests of informing the hundreds of people who ring him in the US, wanting details of his predictions for Australia and New Zealand. Stay tuned. In the meantime though, get his tape on Earth Changes in Australia. Details are on page 57, If what he predicts eventuates with the accuracy level he is achieving at present"

then all you conspiracy theorists may be able to breathe a sigh of relfef. In a nutshell, it would appear that the 'Orwellian' New World Order that so many people fear happening, will be 'beaten to the post' by sudden, dramatic and severe earth changes. According ItO what he and others are predicting, massive earthquakes, tidal waves and freak weather patterns will foil the plans of any world-conquering conspirators. It would appear that we will need to band togetller locally to survive what's ahead. Nevertheless, Nexus wijl publish on, until the last newsagent goes underwater.

Meanwhiile, we hope you all have many years ahead in which 10 read, and re-read, our humble publication. Thank you all for your continuing and growing support. Duncan Roads

WARRANTY AND INDEMNITY Advertisers upon and 'by lodgmg material with the Publisher fex publication or authorising or approving of the publication of any material INQEMNIFY the Publisher and its se.rvants

Re: Hydrogen Peroxide discouraging any oxidative thera-Dear Duncan, As a new reader pies for their members.

of your magazine, thanks to the Apparently, they collect monies to publicity given to it by Brian meet their payroll, publish "facts" Wilshire on his radio programme and not one of them we contacted recently, I wish to compliment you has provided funds for their memon its contents. bers' treatment. 1 was particularly interested in In the last five years my clinic

the article on Hydrogen Peroxide as has treated over 200 cases of HIVI have been using it now for over positive patients. We have kept in six months, having been introduced contact with as many of these to it by Brian's references to it in patients as possible, and of that his book "The Fine Prinl". number, 113 patients still report Incidentally I have been a pharma- they are HIV-negative. It is harder cist for over 55 years, and at the and harder to get any patients to time I trained, 3% Hydrogen come forward with their results due Peroxide had an official oral dose to locality and "AIDS bashing" - a of2ml to 8ml. real growing social problem here in I note from your editorial that the South.

you have been experiencing com- I now fmd it necessary to publish puter problems and perhaps this the Boyce Ginic, Inc. protocol so accounts for the rather "garbled" that as many people affected with dosage table on page 22 under the HlV-positive AIDS can fmd treatheading "Purg~ng Schedule fOf 3% ment (possibly a cure) in other Hydrogen Peroxide". It would countries that are more broadmindseem that two suggested schedules ed, less interested in the dollar, and have been lumped together. Could more interested in the patient. AZT you please check your source copy and DOl, while making billions of and advise me as to the, correct dollars, are really cytotoxic to the dosage tables. patients. No one has lived past 3 I enclose my application for a years using AZT or DOl, bUl using

year's subscription and an order for oxidative and alternative therapies, back wpies. patients have been able to lead a Yours sincerely, productive healthy lifestyle for over Ernest W., Ph.D., M.P.S. five years.

(Dear Ernest, just as a good In closing, I hope many physicarpenter should never blame ci~ns, ~?th medical and n~tural,

his tools, so a good publisher Will ut~hse the prot~co~ With my should not blame his computer. ~est Wishes. If pOSSible, I woul~

. like to have some feedback, and If The pur.gzng. sche~ule you more protocol clarification is need-require IS p.n~ted zn full on ed,i'm sure they can write ,to you at page 37 of thiS Issue.) Nexus and youll forward it ,to me

. for fW1her explanation.Re: Suppression of Oxygen S 1 . mcere y,

Theraples .. Dr James Boyce Dear Mr Roads, Oxidallve thera- Boyce Ginic Inc.

pies are under attack in the United 4410 B. Wes~ Aloha Drive States. Large phannaceutical com- Diamondhead MS 39525 USA panies are paying huge sums of (W ho. bl' hed DB' money to Political Action e ve pu IS royce s Committees (PACs) to coerce leg- protocol for the succ:essful islators to force government treatment of HIV In the bureaucracies such as the FDA, I Resources and Updates Section DEA, NIH!, and the CDC to raid I ofthis issue; see pages 36-37.) individual practiLioneIS and cause revocation of their licences. There Re: Advertising Response are cases that are even being tried Dear Editor, A letter of great with recommended fines and prison II gratitude for the terrific response terms. Many AIDS support groups from your switched-on readers who are also being amanced by the phar caught a vision of Lymphacising maceutical companies. They are from the December-January issue

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of Nexus. I am pleased to be able to report that some of the many pe_ople who have purchased the Lymphaciser and gOl into a regular program are already seeing positive results. Some testimonials: "in less that a week I lhad clearness of thought, appetite back, and lots more energy ..."; "it really works, my hips ean now rotate freely, amazing... "; "in five minutes the Lymphaciser had corrected! my jet lag..."; "I have lost an incredible amount of excess weight....". Lymphacising is proving to be a

true self-help system where the "self' is catered for by cleansing the lymphatic system. This is the body's front line defence that removes toxins and allows the body to naturally find its own balance and heal itself. Energy meridians are also cleared promoting the proper function of the central nervous system and the establishment of self-worth. Th'

anks ~am,

Lymphatically yours, Ian PettiU (Ian, I think I should charge

you for advertising in Letters to the Editor. Lucky for you thoug h, I also use the lymphaciser and can thoroughly recommend it. Ed.) Re: Planetary Alignments Dear Ed, I appreciate articles

like that by Stan Deyo, (Nexus Dec-Jan '93), as they fill in the gaps with the son of research that does-n't get done by the rest of us. His overview information is valuable. As lMl astrologer though, I'd like

to raise an issue from Stan's article that has been bugging me for years. It is the question of "alignments". It's been used in heaps of articles 'by all sorts of people over the last decade. The media Il1so regularly abuse the term. The best example was in 1982

around a book called "The Jupiter Effect" and the subsequent debate it began. The gisJ was that all the planets would align in 1982 and this would cause tidal waves, floods, earthquakes etc. While it was an eventful year politically, socially and earthwise, none of the great predictions really materi

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alised. (And only some planet.s lined up anyway.) It did however give rise to the

"alignment" theory - that when the planets align the earth will cop it I would like people who use the alignment concept to explain what' planet is doing what to what Planets also square, conjunct,

oppose and trine each other. Are each different and in what way? How does that tie in with Stan's graph on page 12 of Vol.2,#II, and what happened planetarily at each month? lf they are not clarified then this general "alignment" tenn is applied to everything and no one is any wiser. Thanks for the article Stan, but

more clarification please. Richard G., Noosa Heads

Re: Adams' Pulsed Etectric Motor Generator D S' I h fced th ear II, a~e no lover e

years many stones and adverts fOli subsJances and devices which the inventors claim will work wonders and if you send $39.95 P&P you'll discover it for yourself. I have over the years sent away

many times for these miracles and ye~ received in return only disappomtmen~.

Many tlme~, I have attempted to construct deVIces from plans found

I in magazines and IIhave never been abl~ to reproduce what he author clal.ms. Most of the. ~eople who Itestl.fY to the authentlClty of these deVIces are to the average man, I unapproachable.

Could you write a follow-up story on the Adam's Motor, aboUl someone's successful construction of such a device. I have rarely heard of the inven

tors of these devices using them on a daily basis. A layman has a better way of

describing new technology without confusing everyone with technical jargo~, such as "my Adam's

E~ectnc Go-Kart can go two weeks Without a recharge". Not the EMF unity rated 114% of a gigawatt. Yours faithfully Peter W., Yarraman (Don'l worry Peter, you will be

hearing a 101 more of Roberl Adams inlhefWlure. Ed)

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BANK SCAMS A Letter to the Editor

appear,ed in our local paper recently. It was sent in by a local Independent candidate for the seat of Fairfax. He had queried his bank as

to why his son's Austudy payment was not shown on the statement six days after depositing it. 'fo his amazement the bank

advised that it was now policy of all banks mot to credit any government chequeS for at least seven days unless by prior special arrangement.

A call to th.e Australian Banks Association to confirm or deny this policy resulted in a "no comment". A further call to the Federal

Treasurer in Canberra for a "please explain" resulted in a record-like reply by one of the Treasurer's staff saying ... "Your comments have been noted, your comments have been noted, ... etc. etc." In now total disbe'lief, he phoned a

friend and currency trader to see what light could be placed on the subject. His friend $aid it was the latest scam

in banking circles to debit all accounts immediately and if they overdraw one cent, bounce and charge accordingly ... This sucks in about four to eight mil

lion a week to the "ring". Then on the other side of the fence,

they don't credit any account with any government social security, Austudy, or pension payments for seven days, shoot it onto the money markets for six days, continuously rolling over, and this brings in about $1.6 million per day nett. I guess ,it is just what we have come

to expect from banks, isn't it? (Source: Letter.to the Editor, sent by M.

Burnett, 1ndeperulent carulidate for Fairfax, published in the Sunshine Coast Daily,

11/11/92).

IT's NOT WHA, YOU THINK

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PARANOI D ABOUT TElECOM?

Telce.om is offering a new service called "Family & Friends" in which you can nominate five phone numbers (long distance or overseas) that will attract a savingof 10%. The service costs $1 per

month, and all you have to do is supply Telecom with the five SID phone numbers you ring the most. You can even include one ISD number among these. Is it just big brother keeping an

eye on us, or is Telecom trying to save us money? (Source: Telecom brochure, 1992)

NEW STUDY LINKS POWER LINES TO

CANCER The Swedish Nationab Board for

Industrial and Technological Development is now convinced that radiation from power lines can cause childhood leukaemias. After evaluating two studies examin

ing the possible links, the board is convinced that action such as banning new housing in exposed zones ,is necessary. One of these studies involved

researching the effects of ElectroMagnetic radiation in the work place, while the other researched the effects of living in houses under or near, overhead power lines.

(Source: New Scientist, 3111.0/92)

SLEEPING Pill TURNS POLICEMAN INTO KillER? An American jury found last week

that the sleeping pill Halcion (triazo~am) was partially responsible for tum,ing a former assistant police chief into a murderer. This was apparently tbe first case in

which a jury blamed tthe side-effects of Halcion for violent behaviour. Although Halcion has been banned

from the UK market for over a year, the FDA still considers it safe and effective.

(Source: New Scientist, 21111192)

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GL$-BAL NEWS CtA OPENNESS?

As the Cold War ended, the CIA decided it needed to project "a greater openness and sense of public responsibility". So it commissioned a task force. On 20 December 1991, the committee submitted a IS-page "Task Force Report on Greater Openness".

It is stamped "SECRET", and agency officials refuse to disclose any of the contents.

(Source: It's A Conspiracy! See book reviews this issue.)

TAX PAYERS MONIY BEING USED TO PROMOTE CPs

The Federal Government is spending $2.5 million on a two-week advertising campaign to encourage us to visit our local general practitioner (GP).

The campaign will include !two weeks of television advertising.

In light of the growing dissatisfaction with the medical system, and the rising number of people seeking alternative health care treatments, I would say the government is going to need to spend far more money than this to restore the ailing confidence in this industry.

According to sources in the natural health movement, approximately one in four people have visited a natural health care practitioner, and this number is tipped to continue rising.

(Source: Sunshine Coast Daily, 2011193)

EUROPEAN TREATY TO ELIMINATE HEAlTH FOODS? Britain's booming health food indus

try is under threat from European Commission plans to classify all but the smallest doses of vitamins and minerals as drugs, rather than ,food prod ucts.

The Commission also plans to move against sales of herbal teas, royal jelly and slimming aids.

The move, which could see the removal of most brand name vitamins from the shelves of health food stores and chemists, will seriously threaten the Ilivelihoods of thousands of people in the 200 million-per-year health food industry.

'Harmonisation' would require the

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UK to fall into line with other pregnancy - and 191 had miscar

European countries where vitamins and riages. minerals are classed as pharmaceutical The study concludes that pregnant products if they contain as little as one women who work with YDTs with and-a-half times the recommended strong magnetic fields are 3 1/2 times daily intake. more likely tb have miscarriages than

Once these substances are not those working with VDTs with low allowed to be classified as food supple magnetic fieldS. ments, then as things stand they would The research, reported at an internahave to go under medicines law tional scientific conference last instead. The Medicines Act requires September ,in Berlin, also asserted that laboratory and animal testing, which women exposed to medium levels of would cause a massive increase in the extremely low frequency magnetic cost of the substance to consumers, a fields had nearly twice as many miscarmove in itself that would bankrupt riages as those exposed to lower levels. m.any busin.esses in this field. The Finns were the first to do the (Source: Sunday Telegraph [UK], 9 August obvious: They measured the magnetic 1992). fields of 23 different computer models,

the women's exposure and the outNEW STUDY LINKS come. COMPUTER VDTs WITH Dr. Marija-Liisa Lindbohm, primary

MISCARRIAGES researcher on the Finnish study, conA new study of 585 pregnant women cludes that "pregnant women should

employed in banking and clerical posi not work at VDT terminals with high tions in Finland is the first to find an magnetic fields". She points out that increased risk of miscarriages for newer computers have lo-wer - and women who work at VDTs that emit safer ~ levels of electromagnetic radistrong magnetic fields. The women ation., were employed for at least three (Source : Taken from peg:gen.techeffects, months during the first trimester of via the Pegasus Computer Network.)

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STARVATION, OR STRATEGY? us military chief reveals Pentagon plan for new wars

It appears the massive US military intervention into Somalia could 'be the result of a new military doctrine developed to justify the Pentagon's bloated $300 billion annual budget. Many reporters at a 4 Dec'ember news

briefing were astonished when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Colin Powell bragged that the upcoming Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, would be a "paid political advertisement" !hat would showcase US military "capabilities and usefulness. "

In an article written for Foreign Affairs magazine just before the US invasion of Somalia, Powell outlined !.he new doctrine. He pushed it as the reason to maintain staggering levels of military spending even though poverty is deepening throughout the United States. "The new national military strategy is an

unclassified doe1UTlenL Anyone Can read it," Powell wrote. "The central idea in the strategy is the change from a focus on global war-fighting to a focus on regional contingencies. In the fall of 1992 we are fme-tuning that strategy. restructuring our armed forces so that they are ideally suited to executing it." In the Foreign Affairs article. Powell

made it clear that the Somali intervention has little to do with bringing much-needed relief to a suffering population. "Because of the need to accomplish a wide range of missions, our new armed forces will be capabilities-oriented as well as threat-oriented. What sorts 'Of missions can we envision? I believe that peacekeeping and humanitarian operations are a given objective..... LONGTERM OCCUPATION The groundwork: to cover a longer occu

pation of this strategically located African country h!!,S already Ibeen carefully orchestrated. The corporate media have begup to quote specialist and military personnel on me need for an expanded role and a longer stay. From the beginning, this has been the

purpose of the interventi,on. On 5 December 1992, Joint Chief of Staff head General Colin Powell explained, "We wanted Ito put in a large enough fo~ce so

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that we could dominate the entire country." Months ago, many international relief

agencies began to urge the US government to provide cargo planes md air drops to deliver food directly to villages in Somalia. No assistance came as huge numbers of Somalis starved to death, the death toll reaching 300,000, by some estimates. The US Air Force is by far the largest in

the world. It could have easily and inexpensively provided famine relief to every needy village and town in Somalia and then attempt to move the supplies through overland convoys on dangerous roads. The US corporate media expressed great moral outrage that various gangs, which had been armed and financed by the Pentagon for the past 18 years, were footing these convoys. Using this as a pretext, the Pentagon has

now stepped in to suppress the armed groups it created. The way the occupation is unfolding has little to do with providing famine relief or feeding the survivors. lD fact, the famine began to subside weeks ago after the rains came and new crops began growing. Even today UJe U.S could feed far more

starving people, much faster and at less expense, with a large airlift. But Washington has chosen aircraft carriers, destroyers and tanks to deliver food, proof that it is the strategic position of Somalia

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that most interests the Pentagon. STRATEGIC POSITION The attitude of US offlciaJdQm toward

the Somali people is reflected in a statement by a national security adviser. David Winterford of the Naval Post-Graduate School. "Somalia as a country is not worth much, but its geography is priceless," he said recently. "Whoever controls Somalia could control the southern entrance tOlthe Red Sea and thus could! control the Suez Cana, a prime location from which to influence the political sta bility of the Middle East." Other Pentagon advisors are cheering

the "bumanitarian precedent" this occupation sets for intervention in Yugoslavia, Sudan, or Haiti. This scenario of feeding the hungry is

only slightly different from the pretext of defending the self-determination of smal1 nations. The Pentagon for its devastating destruction of [raq, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of people. In a similar vein, fighting drug lords was the cover for .the 1990 invasion of Panama. But there is growing recognition in this

country that the Pentagon may have cynically allowed a crisis to develop in Somalia and then intervenedl to establish control of a strategic area li.nking Africa to the Middle East.

(Source: Workers World Service: 46 W. 21 St. New York, NY 10010 USA;

via Pegasus Computer Ne1Work.)

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GL$-BAL ,NEWS strains. School systems begin to 'job out' courses to the private sector.

Opportunities grow for teachers and teacher consortiums to teach without constrictions. Home-study grows and a return to the 'trades' begins.

Riots in major US cities beginning with Los Angeles, national guard and US military called in. US joins war in Europe. A sad time for the Middle East,- karma! Conflict begins as Palestinians join with other Middle East nations against Israel. During Tribulation (1991-1997), war shall be in that land, once again.

New Communities, based on lunar principles, form around the world, many in southwest and southeast USA, C~ada, Australia and New Zealand.

Mass dreams of the coming changes now occur for the many rather than the few. All are warned by God. Children receive the clearest information and are told by spiritual beings that God's messenger, Michael watches over them.

Framework for New Colonies of '96 is created.

The Great Awakening increases - all that choose to receive the message of His return do, His light is seen in the sky. Intuition and psychic abilities increase ten-fold for all humankind. A time of joy for those with eyes to see. Blessings abound. Records on the life of Jesus will be revealed. (Source: GordonMichael Scallion, in The

Earth Changes Report, Issue No. 16. January 1993.)

The Earth Changes Report is published by The Matrix Institute, RRI Box 391, Westmoreland, NH, USA 03467. Tel: 1 (603) 399 4916 Fax: 1 (603) 399 4340. A six issue subscription costs US$60.00.

(See also advert on page 57.) The next issue of Nexus will see the

start of a regular column by GordonMichael Scallion. It will take the form of questions and answers.

If you have a question (not personal) you would like answered by GordonMichael Scallion concerning his predictions for the future, send it in to Nexus Magazine. PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qld 4560, Australia.

EARTH CHANGES, EARTHQUAKES &

PROPH ECI ES FOR 1993 The year 1993 shall be known as

"The Year of the Great Quakes". The Earth's magnetic field shall become erratic as it prepares for its new course. In Ithe United States, the first of these changes will see the beginning of the breaking-up of California starting with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, the Golden Bridge damaged, the Imperial Valley inundated, ,a nation in shock. The final warning sounded the land's time has come, it prepares for its cleansing and reunion with its mother land, Mu. Many see the event as a relief and begin to rebuild. Sadly, more is to come. Mass migrations begin into Nevada, Arizona, Colorado. Western US hit with quakes-Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and Washington, many exceed 7.0. Inundation occurs in coastal US from Maine to Florida Keys,Vancouver to the Baja-Florida's Pan Handle to 'Texas.

With the beginning of the shifting of the magnetic poles, the forces of nature react. Weather becomes erratic throughout the world trade winds shift, high winds occur in many countries. The polar regions begin to melt,

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By Glenn Krawczyk

A ri Ben-Menashe is a man without a home, a coun.lry. or many friends in the cut-throat world of international intelligence. In his recently released book entitled Profits of War, the sensational story of the worldwide arrtJs cOIispiracy, BenMenashe details the unbelievable story of an international cabal of well-connected intelligence community and corporate arms dealers who, as dIe title of the book suggests, wage war to covertly gain power, influence and personal wealth. Ben-Menashe is the man responsible for leaking the information that eventually led to the Iran-eontra investigalions and the demise (or sacrifice) of Oliver North whO', it ,turns out, was only a small player in a much much bigger game.

After serving in the External Relations Department of Israeli Military Intelligence and acting as personall)a!ional security advisor to Yitzhak Shamir (former President of Israel) for a total of twelve years, Ben-Menashe has written what must arguably rate as one the mosl importanl political and intelligence exposes ever.

I met with Ari Ben-Menashe twice during 1991 to discuss various issues, including the theft by the US Justice Department of the most sophisticated data-eollecting computer program ever developed, which is known as 'The Inslaw Affair", and the subsequent modification and international sale of that program to various countries around the world, including Australia, by a CIA frontcompany and an Israeli Intelligence front-company owned and ron by Robert Maxwell.

The Do~sier Society The computeF program we are talking about is called Promis

and its use presents the Diggest threat to individual rights by any computer technology in use today. Not only that, it has given US Intelligence agencies access to extremely sensitive infonnation stored in the databases of possibly as many as eighty-eight countries around the globe.

Ben-Menashe devotes an entire chapter of his book detailjng Ithe joint ADtericaI}-jsraeJi initjative to sell Promis to intelligence ;md law enforcement agencies worldwide, and gives several examples of how the program has been used to ,interfere with the politic-al process of various countries and keep track of citizens.

Since obtaining an illegal copy of the program over a decade ago, the Central Intelligence Agency has, in conjunction with Israeli Iptelligence, embarked on a highly-successful worldwide initiative to i1Istalf "bugged" copies of the software in computer systems run by intelligence and bw-enforcement agencies, (as well as otb.er government organisations), to which they now covertly have Yiilimiteg access.

One of the earliest "leaks" regarding this covert computer double-dealing came out in an article entitled "Spy vs. Spy", (written by Zuhair Kashmeri for the Toronto Globe and Mail), which was published on Saturday 20 April 1991. Devoted entirely to the

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Promis initiative, the article quotes one of Ka,shmeri'-s Canadian Intelligence sources: "Some of our allies, such as Australia, are furious after they found out from the revelations of the Inslaw Case that they were sucked into buying Promis." Kashmeri confirmed to one of my colleagues that he has had a Itwelve year relationship with the two intelligence sources who supplied the information for the article and that 'they had always proved reliable in the past.

At the time I interviewed Ben-Menashe, it proved very hard to authenticate all his claims. Although Israeli Intelligence denied all knowledge of him for some_time, I was informed by a helpful contact within the Apstalian Democrats that he had indeed worked there for them, and, was giv_en copies of various personal references that supported the claim. After later interviewing Bill Hamilton, the director of Inslaw Inc., the company that wrote the program, and other individuals familiar with the case, I felt quite confident that ATi Ben-Menashe knew exactly what he was talking about On 1 September 1992, an investigative committee of the US

Congress released an investigative report on the Inslaw Case, which outlines the controversial history of the Promis software. It took three years of investigation to complete the report, due in part to the withholding of evidence by government agencies connected to the theit, modification and distribl!tion of the program, as well as the intimidation of important witnesses. In order to slow down and mislead the investigation there have been arrests, on false charges, of indiyiduals irtforming the judicial committee, as well as the suspicious death (read: murder) of journalist Danny Casolaro, who had been investigating the Inslaw Case and its links to the October Surprise, Iran-contra Affair, and BCCI bank collapse. Far from answering all the questions, the report concludes that a far more thorough and far-reaching investigation must be urgently undertaken.

The committee's report confirms many -of Ari Ben-Menashe's claims. He was, in fact, one of -the key sources of their information. I put the following question~ to him when we met in 1991: GK: What is Promis? B-M: It is the most sophisticated computer database that has

ever been developed in the wOJld. Computers are very Widely used by the intelligence corrununity; it's the main source of irtformation about people. You can essentially get everything about anybody you want to know. GK: To what extent would it be used by the intelligence com

munity to collect information about the civilian population? B-M: It's quite widely used, all over the world, to collect infor

mation about dissidents, opposition ieaders, and so on. What does it do? I'll give you an elliample which is very inter

esting. You have a computet', put this program on it, and connect this clilmputer to the wafer company, to the electric companY, to lATA (International Air Travel Association), to credit card companies, to the tax department, bank accounts, to anything you like to

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think '" phone lines, where someone calls, to, which is very important. Other than tapping him, now you can also have a written record of a.ll the telephone numbers he or she dials. So if you want Mr. Joe Smith and everything he does, it's the only program that can bring all this data from everywhere ... GK: Globally? B-M: Globally, yes, onto one screen! It's a very sophis.ticated

program. I mean, this is the biggest infringement of privacy on anybody, anything. Is there any privacy? I mean, the government agencie$ woul4 be

able to monitor anybody's activities as they wish. Very quickly too. Once they have ,this information, who knows what they do with it. GK: How quickly can Promis assimilate irtformation and pro

vide a dossier on aperson? B-M: If its hooked up correctly, a maner of seconds. It is a bet

ter ,information collection system than any other. I m~ I dlink it put the satellites out of business. . GK: Have you seen.this in operation? B-M: Oh yeah. You know, this program makes George

Orwell's '1984' iook like ... (nervous laugh). George Orwell was modest. What this program can do, the only one in the world that can do

this, is first of all make sure wHen you're ta:Iking about "Harry Smith" it's the same "Harry Smith", because therer could ten "Harry Smith's" . It would compare notes, check common denominators, and it would frod Harry Smith. His water usage, his electric usage, how many times he ~as travelled abroad, what does he do with his credit cards, his car licence number, all sorts of Sluff. Put it together, and there you go. You have everything you want to know about this person. The first version was ready in 1979/80. In, '81 he (Bill Hamilton)

offers it to the Justice Department, because it's also good for law

enforcement. lie offers it, and then suddenly the National Security Agency has it. Lt's given to the Israeli's in '82, and it's being marketed around the world, given to 1l11ies and non-!llli~s. The reason being, it was bugged as well. What you would do is basically set it up for one government, and without letting that government know, have a phone tap on that computer and can pull out information for yourself also. They bugged their allies as well! I'U give you an example. The Americans sold it on our behalf

(Israel) to some Arab countries. Jordanian Military Intelligence had it in '82 and they were collecting data on 'the Palestinians. The Palestinians were threatening the king (Hussein) as well. We were also sharing that information with ,them. GK: Without their knowledge? B-M: Of course, wi.thout their knowledge. Now, IDe two coun

tries that marketed, the two security forces that marketed this program, one was Israel and one was the United States. ilsrael dId it

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through various computcn companies owned by Robert Maxwell. The Americans on the other hand did it through a company called Hadron, based in the United States, owned by the owner of UPI (United Press International), a fellow by the flame of Earl Brian. He used to be Reagan's Secretary of Welfare and Health in California, when Reagan was governor. Then he was working for the imelligj;nce services. BasiCally his companies were "attached" to the CIA. The CIA was marketing it for the National Security Agency. One of the Maxwell companies sold it to the GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) and that was bugged. The West knew what was going on in that theatre faster than the Russians. Another example. South Africa. Great place. It was given to

them without the bug. lIt was set up through a company called Degem, owned by Maxwell. This program tracked ANC (African National Congress) ,people, and what came out of the computer was handed to the Buthelezi people (lnkatha) and then you had ''blackon-black" violence. GK: And meanwhile, was this being monitored by the US as

well? B-M: Yes. It's funny you know, there was also a terminal in

Pretoria that was used by the South African Military Intelligence, and ,the IV Embassy and that place share a wall, so ... GK: How widespread is the use of Promis in other countries? B-M: It's quite widespread. Most of the Western allies have it

The Australians have it, the British have it, as we said the South Africans have it, the Nicaraguans have it, even ,the Guatemalans. The ex-East Bloc countries have it too. I believe that since 1990 most of them have checked it for bugs, but they still use it. MIS, MI6, the Russians. GK: Who is using it in Australia? . B-M: ASIO (The Australian Security intelligence Organisation). GK: Do you know who installed Promis in Australia? B-M: Yes I do. It was Hadron. GK: Could the use of Promis be seem as a threat to privacy of

the general public? B-M: Sure. That's what it's all about. GK: So it couldn't be written off as something that's just there

to monitor terrorist groups and so oh?

B-M: Sure. That's what they say. But what's a terrorist? I mean what is national security, what is all this? It's a matter of monitoring people that are getting in the way of the government, keeping everybody in line. Once you have this technology and you know everything every

body else is doing, or whomever you want to follow ... you can b:as.ically control other people that way. You can put in disinformation, do all kiJJ.ds- of things, block bank transfers, you know, stop people doing things or make sure they don't have money, or their money doesn't come through on time, and so on. There's SO much that can be done with 'this information. Simple

things. You don't have to be very sophisticated. Cancel reserva-

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tions, slow down bank transfers, put in a computer that a credit card is no good. Just imagine, all you have is your American Express card, and you're stuck somewhere around the world and the computer shows ,that your card is no good! Simple as that And then When you complain three weeks later, "softY, mistake.". But in the meantime, for three weeks you were in trouble. GK: ] have been told that the National Crime Authority in

Australia is setting up a database to [Tlonitor every single bank transaction over $5,000. I suppose that system might be useful for this purpose as well?

B-M: It's the same database tby the way. 'They just got a condensed version of Promis. It's not called Promis, but once the program is out... GK: How much Of a connection is there between intelligence

agencies and banks or oth,er private organisations that hold extensive and sensitive computetr records? B-M: WeI], I think what happens is that the intelligence agen

cies become the centre of all of it. You know, the banks monitor the money, other guys monitor stuff, but the intelligence agencies put it all together. GK: SO they have access to banking records? B-M: Oh sure. They have access to everything. This is why a

lot, of countries love the idea oflD cards, because this way it makes things easier. Or they use a social security number or tax me num ber. Initially the idea was to do it all through law enforcement and that kind of Ithing, but since it didn't work, 'because of parliament or congress or whatever, they just had to do it through the back door. It's the Si!IDe thing, and again, it's governmertts and bureaucracies trying to control everybody's lives. GK: When yoU' Ilook at all the intelligence gathering capabilities,

surveillance, eavesdropping, tracking, monitoring and so on, it s-ee1T\S that they are all evolving and interlocking more and more. ls it steamrolling out of control? R-M: Yes, yes. I've always said this. It is getting out of con

trol. I mean, suddenly you have everything being monitored. Everything. GK: Do we need it? I mean, what are they going to do with all

this information? B-M: Who knows. But it's bureaucracy. Everybody loves it.

Each bureaucrat, or each guy that runs some section of a listening agency wants his empire Ito grow, and it grows and goes out of control. Remember that intelligence bureaucracies are just like everything else, they get over zealous.

I sometimes wonder, how the United States government ... I mean, $600 million for a stealth bomber. One stealth bomber! With $600 million you could clean up Los Angeles and all its homeless. But you 'know, "security", "defence", "he communists are coming". But I guess the commu.nists aren't coming any more. We need to find a new enemy. (Cynical.)

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GK: The question I get asked all the time is "how do they keep all this a secret?" B-M: It's easy. Everybody protects his job. And I'll tell you

another thing. Most of these guys in national security, what do they do? They either sit down listening aU day, or rurming their computers or re-li$tening to tapes. Some of these jobs are very !Jlenlill. He comes home. His wife asks him something. "It's secret. I can't tell you". It's also a means of protectiQIL Il's easy. This guy starts tal,K.IDg publicly... he's gone.

And there's another thing. Each person has a very sml!ll amount of knowledge, unless you get to a senior level, and once you get there you're part of the system. Each person has this very small lthing he does. In twenty years how many people have broken ,rank? Not that many who are sufficiently up there to know. But my question today is what is it ill for? GK: That's what we would like to know! B-M: When you look back at it, it's a whole load of buUshit

crap, bureaucrats keeping people in work and keepiPg tabs on their opponents. GK: But is all this surveillance capability so powerful now that

it's impossible to resist unfair govemmentpractice? B-M: It's hard to resist unfair govcmment practices. It's very

hard. I mean, how do you do it? You're fighting ghosts basjcally. But bureaucracies can be fought if you know how they operate. It's hard, but you can do it, you know, stay ahead. GK: 'You're suggesting that it's more bureaucracy out of control

than some grand conspiracy then? B-M: Yep! That's what it is. I never ran into any "super-com

mission". That's what it is. Friends with mutual interests protecting each other's powerbases or their own powerbases. That's how it goes. I don't see it as one grand conspiracy. It's just there's technology and Ibureaucrats, they want to do their job well, so the collection becomes larger and larger. More collection and more information. GK: What happens when interests collide then, say on a national

level? B-M: Then you have a fight. That's what they call a "crisis"! GK: Are we heading to a point where tllis is all too fragile, this

reliance on technology and a "balance of terror"? B-M: Would your life be any different if you were not moni

tore-d? Probably better. But the average person, what does he care? The way I see it, you go to work, you get your house, you give half of what you eam toward the house, at the age of 60 you own the house and live off your pension. You sJay in line, you get the house. I mean, this whole issue of

mortgage is ... make sure they get married at a certain age, you have two children, and that's how everybody's in line. You work all your life to Ipay your mortgage, and if you don't work you lose your house. Perform or... GK: In tem:l of gathering information on people, are there any

moral criteria as far as the intelligence community or bureaucrats are concerned? B-M: Moral criteria about what? If you're targeting somebody,

you're targeting somebody.

The Nationa I Safety'CouncillLink Another interesting connection may well lie in the cover-up of

the activi'ties of the National Safety Council of Australia, Victorian Division, and Ithe activities and alleged "s,uicide" of it's director, John Friedrich. In the 23 September 1991, issue of the American political newspaper Spotlighl, the following passage appears: "Two weeks before Casolaro's death in early August, John Friedrich was found dead in Sale, Australia. He suffered a single

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bullet wound to the head and his death was termed a suicide. Friedrich was a close ally of Lt. Col. Oliver North and (Amiran) Nir. He had a lot of knowledge about the Iran-contra and Inslaw cases. Nir died in a plane crash in Mexico." It is interesting to note that when the current affairs show Page

OfU! ran a story on John Friedrich and the iNSCA tsclUldal on 27 March 1989, they went out of their Way to make it look like Friedrich had engineered the entire fraud perpetrated by the NSCA. They ended their report with an interview wim FriOOIich's replacement at the NSCA, asking, "Is he (Friedrich) the SQrl of man who would contemplate suicide?", 'the reply, "I've tried to think that through,in my mind, I believe that it would be possible, bUJ I of course can't say if that is what's happ

liThe sun is our strongest natural source of microwaves. The microwave-oven-Ieakage

standard set by the Bureau of Radiological Health is

approximately one billion times higher than the total, entire

microwave spectrum given off by the sun. It is appalling for these ovens to be permitted to leak at

all, let alone for the oven advertisements to encourage our children to have fun by learning

to cook with them."

By Dr Ronald S. Laura & John F. Ashton

Extracted from their recent book: HIDDEN HAZARDS

published by Bantam Books, Australia, 1991.

T he statement opposite by Dr M.M. Zaret of the New York University Medical School was made to a US Senate committee hearing on microwaves in 1973.1 By this time, in some urban areas of Americ.a., the level of manmade communication microwaves and high frequency radio waves in the environment was estimated to be from one hundred to two hundred million times the natural radio frequency background ,from the 81m! Since the 1970s, the development of cheap solid-state devices

for the generation of microwaves had re'sulted in a proliferation of generation equipment and lise accompanied by a steady further increase ,in the environmental levels of this invisible pollution, sometimes termed 'electronic smog'. This invisible smog penetrates our homes, workplace.sandl recre

ational areas, and is absorbed significantly by the human organism. Literature has now accumulated which reveals a coos.tellation of

clues suggesting that persistent levels of microwave radiation vastly stronger than those occurring in nature are inimical to health. Microwaves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum and! are

considered to be that radiation ranging in frequency from 300 million cycles per second (300 megahertz) to 300 billion cycles per second (or 300 gigahertz). This radiation c.orresponds to a wavelength range of I metre down to 1 millimetre. Electromagnetic energy in this region is non-ionising and this is quite different in terms of biological interaction compared with harmful x-rays and ganuna rays. Microwaves are absorbed at the molecular level and manifest as changes in vibrational energy of the molecules or heat. Microwaves are reflected by electrical conductors such as metals

and certain obstacles. Consequently they can be focused into intense highly directional beams by antennas. Microwaves do not bend with the curvature of the earth. When long distance transmission is required, it is thus necessary to use repeaters that receive, .amplify and re-transmit the signal. Typically repeaters are about 50 kilometres apart. Even the power transmis,sion lines of the national ,electricity grid and their supporting towers may resonate with radio frequency radiation, thereby acting as repeaters, which re-radiate this energy into the environment. One of the first uses of microwaves was in radar during World

War II. Since the war microwaves have been utilised in air traffic control systems, military and police radar, television broadcast systems, long-distance telephone equipment, medical diathermy devices and microwave ovens. Industrial uses have also steadily increased. Microwaves are utilised for heating in rubber processing, plywood fabrication and paper and cardboard manufacture. These processes may utilise up to 1 million watts of microwave energy in individual factories. The ceramic, plastic manufacturing

~.d leather industries also use microwaves, with other applications including the drying of Itextile bales, dehydration of fruit and the sterilisation of food.

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As hum;ms a~o absorb microwave radiation and heat up accordingly, the possibility of hazard from microwave exposure prompted researchers in the early 1950s ~o consider setting exposure guidelines.

SAFETY LEVElS BASED ON A GUESS? In 1953, H.P. Schwan of the University of Pennsylvania pro

posed that human expQ!iure be limited t.o a maximum average power density of 100 watts per square metre or 10 milliwatts..per square centimetre. Schwan's proposal, directed to the US Navy, was based on a calculation that eXPQsure to this incident power should raise the temperature of the body by no more than 1ge, while power densities 10 times great.er might produce heat damage. Thus, the proposed1limit allowed a safety margin of about 10 times. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) adopted this maximum exposure limit in 1966, with many Western nations adoptin,g similar standards thereafter.' Unfortunately, this maximum average exposure limit, which is

still current in most Western countries, did not allow. for the possibility oJ microwaves having athennlj,'l health effects. Subtle effects of low levels of microwave radiation which were not directly attributable to heating have been reported by researchers, mainly in Europe, since the 1950s but have been largely dismissed by prominent American researchers. However, as R. Bowers and J. Frey point out, "scepticism is not a suUicient basis for setting standards"" It is revealing that athermal effects apparently were consideredi

when the USSR established its maximum exposure standard of 10 microwans per square centimetre per working day, a level 1000 times smaller than the US value. A strong supporte~ of the high American exposure limit has been

Professor S.M. Michaelson of the University of Rochester School of Medicine. In 1967 Michaels.on had written: 'The occasionall reports of headache, lassitude, stomach-ache pains, sleeplessnes..s, irritability, and other bigi:lJy s\lbjective symptoms among workers in the vicinity of microwave generating equipment have not been thoroughly investigated. These findings should not be ignored, as simiiar vague, mUd, and undefined symptoms have been experienced in the course of microwave studies in this laboratory. Such symptoms could indicate a basic microwave effect.'" However, six years later at the 1973 Senate hearings he testified

that there was no substantial evidence of injury to human beings from microwave radiation below the 10 milliwatt level. Over a decade Ilater, despite a growing llterarure of subtle and harmful radio frequency radiation effects, a report: by Michaelson stUl minimises the significance of much of this research and in his concluding remarks he states, "Depending upon the circumstances, what may be an adverse effect for one individual may be beneficial to another... Professor MichaeTson's research in this instance and! in earlier

times was supported by the US Air Force. This association of microwave research with the military was

mooted by P. Brodeur in 1977' as the main reason for the US maintaining its high exposure limit. R.O. Becker and G. Selden have pointed out:

"There were persuasive economic reasons why the 10,000 microwatt (=10 mW/cm') standard was and still is defended at all costs. LoweJing it would have curtailed the expansion of m'ilitary EMR use and cut into the profits of the corporations that supplied the hardware. A reduced standard !ilOW would! constitute an admission that the old one was unsafe, leading to liability for damage claims from ex-Gis and industrial workers.'11

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WHAT ARE THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF MICROWAVES? It would appear that it is obvious that if the human body is

exposed to a high level of microwave radiation it would 'cook' much the same way as food 'cooks' in a microwave oven. However, microwave ovens use it specific (requellcy gf radiatio!) which is designed both to penetrate and heal In cornmunic.ation systems a wide ,range of frequencies is used and the absorption of this radiation varies considerably with frequency. The human body begins to significantly absorb electromagnetic

radiation when the frequency exceeds about 15 megahertz. This absorption varies fQI differem parts of the body with certain organs such as the eye and testes being particularly sensitive to microwave heating effects. In the frequency range 70 to 100 megahertz, which overlaps the

TV and FM rat;ljQ broadCll.'lt frequencies, the human body acts as an efficient radiation antenna., strongly absorbing these wavelengths.' This radio frequency radiation constitutes a major component of the electronic smog in our environment. Although srudies of the health effects of microwaves began in

the 194Os,'o it was not until the mid-~960s that sufficient data had accumulated to alert observant researchers. In 1964, M.M. Zaret reported that radio frequency radiation may

produce capsular cataracts." A few years later testicular damage was reported after repeated exposure to microwaves.12 In both these cases high microwave intensities, such as those associated with military radar and which exceeded the 10 milliwan limit, were involved. What was more alarming was the steady trickle of reports that

low levels of microwave exposure could ,produce a range of nervous and vascular symptoms. Tliese were highlighted by Dr M.N. Sadchilcova at a symposium in Warsaw in 1973 and later published." Sadchikova presented data of a study of 1180 workers who had been exposed to microwave radiation up to about 3 milliwatts per square centimetre compared with a control of 200 people who had not been exposed to microwaves. SadchikQva's results showed that among microwave exposed workers there was a significant increase in neurological complaints, such as heaviness in the head, fatigue, irritability, anxiety, insomnia, and partial loss of memory. Microwave workers also showed a significant increase in cardiovascular symptoms, such as a tendency to slow heartbeat, reduced blood pressure and reduced ventricular capacity. These symptoms which seem to characterise what has been called 'microwave radiation sickness' were IProduced by microwave levels well below the 100 milliwatt safe level of Western countries." The low safety margin of this standard is ,jJlustrated by reported

cases where servicemen have accidentally been exposed ,to radar radiation a mere six to nine times the safety standard for a short time period and have been seriously affected. In one case, a fifty-four-year-old man in good health was

exposed to the radar for a mere Bo seconds. He experienced severe chest pain, vertigo and a heating sensation of the chest and head. Facial erythema (reddening of the skin) persisted for three days, stomach cramps, gritty eyes and other symptoms persisted for weeks, while insomnia and irritability remained for months. The severity of the complaints peaked three months after Ole

exposure and coincided with the diagnosis of arterial> hypertension. A detailed medical examination five months, later could reveal no secondary cause of the hypertension. In a second case, a twenty-one-year-old healthy man sustained

inteIff1ittent exposure for a mere 75 seconds at a similar intensity. He reported very similar initial symptoms.. Four months after his exposure hypertension was again detected. IS A decade earlier M.M. Zaret had suggested a possible connection between radar exposure and hypertension.'

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Commenting on a mOIe recent radar exposure case, M.M. Zaret "My analysis of, newly acquired epidemiologic data points out, "What is not fully appreciated by our profession is that implies tha't the mutagenic potential of non-ion.ising radiarepeated irradiation at subclinical levels can produce pathology that tion should now be considered a factor for increased

prevalence of Down's syndrome in Vernon Township, appears only after del!I.Y"Y malignancies in Bourne, Falmouth and Sandwich-towns The higher-than-expected incidence of cataracts in servicemen that surround the PAVE JPAWS radar on Cape Cod in

exposed to radar" and in radio-linesmen19 is another example. Massachusettsuand the otherwise unexplained increaSe in In the meantime studies with, animals have revealed a who:le breast canter-related mortality in white women younger

range of microwave-induced effects including disturbance of bio than age SO years, the group most linvo1lved with rhythms, increased protein synthesis of the liver, thymus and microwave ovens and video display terminals, both usualspleen, and the ability to recognise the presence of pursed ly operated at breast height. microwave radiation as a clicking sound heard in the head.'" Low ...we must become better ac~ainted with alii forms of

non-ionising radiation sickness." levels of microwave radiation have also been reported to induce cancer in test animals." MICROWAVE LEVELS IN THE ENVIRONMENIf

This brings us to the issues of what are the levels of electronic GEN ETIC EFFECTS smog in our environment, and' how many of us aFe being M:fected. The potentially devastating health effects of electronic smog are In 1972 Bowers and Frey drew attention to the already congested

the genetic effects produced by radio fre- microwave channels in the New Yorkmetroqu~cy radiation. '~&i.~,%i~i:#~f.'~~1:~~i~:';ijfL~i ..?W';,;~t;}1;.~%ii~ poli~ area with a coloured ~ap in, the report MIcrowaves were fust ~ported to cause ,fW'0!o~~W:}~~~~:~~I";'t.:~::~i~~~:~ff:'f~ s.ho~mg the approach to IDl.crowave sarura

chromosomal dam~ge ~n 19.59 by J.H. :'i~~~ttli'e~tJSSRestablislie:a~itS0ll tlOn. . Heller and A.A. Teiscelra-Pmto.'" The "':llj;.: ::"':;:':.;" 't,.:

MICROWAVE OVENS: IRRADIATING OUR 'FOOD AT HOME The develo,pment of microwave ovens came as an expected

spin-off from the rapLdly developing post-war microwave ,technology, and the flISt commercial ovens were produced around 1962. These ovens use a magnetron tube to produce a microwave frequency of 2.45 gigahertz at an energy output of between 400 fPld 900 watts for a typical gomestic unit. 'the oven power supply is designed to deliver 4000 volt negative pulses to the magnetron, which makes it me most dangerous power ~upply in any item of domestic equipment. The frequency chosel1 corresponds to the absorption peak for water, and thereby enables foods containing water Ito be heated quickly and efficiently. The microwaves are beamed from the magnetron into the oven compartment holding the food where they are contained. Microwave ovens are not permitted to leak microwaves at a power density level of more than 5 milliwatts per square centimetre at a distance of 5 centimetres from the outside of the oven. Thus small le~ below this level may occur and substantially contribute to the electronic smog in the home or office. Medical hazards reported to be associated with microwave ovens include burns, catllTact formation, neurologic injury and pacemaker dysfunction." Despite the publication of these reports, microwave oven sales

have continued to soar, reflecting the ever-increasing hold of technology on society. In 1987, 11 per cent of West German, 35 per cent of English and 66 per cent of US households had microwave ovens. It has been forecast that the percentage of microwave householqs in the us wilL rise to 90 ~r cent by the mid-1990s." These rises paralld the increasing percentage of women in tl:!e work force and decreasing family size in many Western countries. In the words of M. Doyle, president of The Consumer Network in the United States, "There's a new kihd of eater, buyer and user evolving, and there's a revolution against kitchen work and any kind of hassle anywhere. Time is so precious that "quality time" is afforded with our families not in front of the warm hearth, but around the microwave."'

WHAT WE CAN DO It is difficult to entirely avoid exposure to microwave radiation.

Local government agencies may be able to provide details of microwave high intensity corridors. Living in these corridors and near radar should be avoided. There are some other things you can do to minimise the health

risk to you and yOUT children. If you have a microwave oven and intend to go on using it, have it checked immediately and regularly for leaks. Microwave oven doors are especially prone to lellkage. Do not open the door while the oven is on. Try to avoid microwave cooking of frozen foods and commercially prepared dinners whenever possible. One additional worry is Ithat the most recemly targeted market

segment for microwave-ready cuisine is young children, with some microwave cooks reported to be only five or six years old. While the children's microwave meah market in the US already constilUtes in excess of $100 million in annual sales, the health cost to the population may be far greater. Exposing YOUllg, still developing children to low level microwave.s from potentially leaky or misused ovens is a business too risky to be in. Similarly, the hea:lth risks for young children associated with the

long-term eating of microwaved food 'are unkIlown and may prove to be yet another disaster in the name of economic growth and blinded commercialism. Given the unknown variables in this matter, we believe it prudent for parents Ito disco_urage growing children from using microwaves and to minimise the quantity of microwaved food eaten, $

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I

TREASU'RE OF' THE SAN AfN,DIR,EAS

by Ted Smith

Part 3.

Concluding the story of the mystery

surrounding the discovery ofan

estimated 20 billion pounds sterling in

gold, in the underground caverns

ofNew Mexico.

T he possession of immense wealth put them at an obvi. ous disadvantage, as it made them extremely vulnerable, forced, as they were, to remain rooted in the same place to protect it. The lesson to be learned from these very anxious weeks of dreadful uncertainty would never be forgotten by Pizarro. It was all very well going after a fabulous treasure, but what to do with it once it was secured? Atahualpa vehemently denied being involved in a secretly planned insurrection. But Pizarro was far from ,convinced of his innocence. Prince Huascar had mysteriously drowned in the Andamarca River, and Atahualpa, who had received the news of his death with suitable expressions of surprise and indignation, must surely have had a hand in it. Pizarro had sent messages to San Miguel, giving the

account of his capture of Atahualpa, and of the fantastic ransom offered for his release. He urged the Spaniards to send Almagro over the mountains to him as soon as he arrived from Panama. Only when Almagro showed up with reinforcements would he feel secure. To prove his good faith, Atahualpa suggested to Pizarro that he send some of his own men to Cuzco, they could then see for themselves that everything was being done to collect the gold, and that the country was not preparing for war. Pizarro gladly accepted the offer, and spared three cavalrymen to go and reconnoitre to the south. After several weeks' absence, the three cavalrymen returned from Cuzco. They had travelled six hundred miles to the capital without any hindrance ,through country entirely at peace. Nowhere did they encounter signs of trouble. Pizarro was greatly relieved to hear this. He was also greatly pleased with what they brought back with them: in addition to much silver, two hundred loads oflpure gold! Almagro had at last arrived! He had safely reached San

Miguel with reinforcements of 150 infantry and 50 cavalli)'. Pizarro received these glad tidings in a letter from Almagro's secretary, Perez, with a private note enclosed, informing him that his master planned to oust him from his position of leader. Pizarro wasted no time in replying to Almagro, very briefly touching on his secretary's disloyalty, and expressing full confidence in the one friend he could trust, with every hope that they should continue to share in the richness of the conquest. He ended with an urgent request that he make all haste to Cajamarca, where a wonderful welcome awaited him. Almagro, being a sincere and! open-minded man, accepted the' contents of the letter for what they were worth, and! set off early the next morning but not before he had dealt with secretary Perez whom he promptly hanged on the spot.

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The three Spanish cavalrymen who had returned from the south had 'been ecstatic about the incredibly :vast amount of Itreasure at Cuzco. The room full of gold that Atahualpa had promised was nothing compared wiih what they had seen at the capital. The great temple was absolutely ablaze with gold, silveli and precious gems. Tbis ioformation especially influenced Pizarro in deciding to wind up proceedings at Cajamarca, even though the amount for the agreed ransom had not yet 'been quite reached. He was impatient to move on Cozco. Once he had taken the capital he would be master of the empire. He was therefore overjoyed when Almagro finally arrived with reinforcements, because he could recommence active operations. But there remained the prickly problem of what to do about Atahualpa? "Kill the dog," growled Almagro. The accumulation of ransom gold was melted into ingots,

and was estimated to be worth 1,326,539 pesos de oro. [n addition, the silver was reckoned to be worth 51,6LO marks. The share Pizarro allocated Ito himself amounted to 57,222 pesos de oro, and 2,350 marks of silver. He also acquired the massive solid gold throne of the Inca, which was estimated to be worth 25,000 pesos de oro. The troublemakers whom Pizarro had left at San Miguel,

who had shown up' at Cajamarca with Almagro, were most vociferous in their demands that the Inca now be put to death. They had no claim on the enormous ransom and, indeed, received very little from it. The followers of Almagro, who also had nn claim on the ransom, joined the chorus demanding that Atahualpa be killed. They wanfed him out of the way, so the mission might proceed, and allow them to make their own fortunes. Since Atabualpa had fulfiled his side of the bargain, the

Spanish honour now required that he be set free, but that would tlten put him, a strong and very capable king, in a position to destroy the invaders. That would not be allowed. Accordingly, the Spaniards arranged to put the Inca on trial for murdering his brother, Huascar, and for inciting his own people to rebellion. The trial was a complete farce, a travesty of justice, with

Pizarro and Almagro, two of the biggest cut throats of the 16th century acting as judges. The emperor was, of course, pronounced guilty, and wa'i sentenced to be burned to death in the plaza. Atahualpa vehemently protested, his innocence to no avail. On that same day, 29 August 1533, just two hours after

sunset, a trumpet sounded in the great square of Cajamarca, where the entire military garrison was drawn up to witness the forthcoming proceedings. Atahualpa was [cd in chains out of the fortress. With some difficulty, he shuffled forward to the stake, with the Dominican friar, Vincente de Valverde, at his side, beseeching him to renounce his god, and embrace the true faith. "My son," cried Valverde, holding up a crucifix, "abjure

your false god, and be baptised. Even now, it is not too late to save yourself from the fires of hell, where you will burn for all eternity!" He leaned closer to Atahualpa, and hissed in his ear. "Do it, you fool, and I promise you shall not die by fire." "How then shall I die?" asked Atahualpa. "By the garrotte," replied Valverde. Atahualpa called to Pizarro, and asked if this wa'i true, and

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when told that it was, he consented to be baptised. Valverde performed the rite, the most important of Holy Church, and blessed the Inca in the name of Juan de Atahualpa. He then stepped back to allow his new convert to be taken away, to be executed by slow strangulation. With the death of Atahualpa, the Inca empire effectively

ceased to exist, and the Spanish conquest of Peru was brought to a successful conclusion. But not before the Spaniards, who descended upon the country like locusts, had marched south on the capital and stripped it bare of everything of value. The work of centuries was utterly destroyed by the organised brigandage. Temples and Pillaces were looted of their treasures. Homes were pillaged or demol- . ished. Vast amounts of gold, silver, and precious jewels were seized. There were gem-encrusted ornaments, gold vases, vessels and mensils. Of pure gold there were four life sized Lamas, and ten or tweI ve statues lof women east in gold or silver. In the home of one In"Ca poble, ten planks of solid silver were found, each plank being twenty feet long by a foot in width and three inches thick. Bands of goldmad Spaniards roamed the streets of Cuzeo in search of hidden treasures. Inca nobles and ,their families were subjected to the most vile and excruciating tortures to make them reveal 'the hiding places of real or imagined hoards of gold. Death, torture and mutilation was the' order of the day. Indian men, women and children caught wearing jewellry had their hands and fingers hacked off by the gold-crazy Spaniards who could not wait to be given the valuables. The whole amount of loot was piled high in a COIl\IDon heap, gathered together for division, after some of the best articles had been put aside for the Crown. The vast hoard of llreasure is said to have exceeded the ransom accumulated for Atahualpa. On 26 April 1538, almost five years after the tragic death

of Atahualpa, the followers of Pizarro clashed in battle with Almagro and his men at La Salinas, near CUZCQ. Almagro was defeated and was summarily executed by Hernando Pizarro. Three years later, on Sunday, 26 June 1541, Francisco Pizarro was attacked and killed in his palace at Lima. The perpetrators were a group of Spanish cavaliers seeking revenge for the death of Almagro. It was noon, the hour when Pizarro had dinner. The cava

liers came along the street, shouting, "Long live the king! Death to the tyrant!" Their leader, a man called Rada, was at their head as they ran through the open, unguarded palace gates and attacked two domestics loitering in the courtyard. One of these received a blow and fell to the ground; the other sped away towards the house, calling, "Help help! They're here to murder Ithe marquess!" The comwotion aroused Pizarro and his party of guests. Rising from the table, where they were all seated, Pizarro called to one of his officers to secure the outer chamber, while he hurried away to arm himself. The clamour outside grew louder, and his guests, who were a dozen of the leading citizens of Li!:na, including the judge Velasquez, became very alarmed, and retreated in haste to a balcony, where they jumped over a railing to the garden below and ran off, leaving their host to fend for himself. The officer, who should have secured the outer chamber, held the door ajar, and tried to enter into discussion with the assailants. But they burst in, killed hiJn on the spot, and threw his lifeless body down into the area below. Pizarro's brother-in-law, Martinez de Alcantara, who

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was assisting the marquess to put on his armour, ran to the outer chamber and, with the aid of two young men who were pages, tried to resist fthe attack.

In the desperate struggle that followed, two of the assassins were mortally wounded, and Alcantara and his two helpers were badly hurt. Pizarro, giving up futile attempts to don his breastplate, wrapped a doak around his arm, grabbed a sword, and rushed to the outer chamber to join the affray. By now, the two pages lay dead on the floor, and Alcantara was staggering backwards under a rain of blows, too weak from loss of blood to hold his position any longer. Pizarro sprang forward to take his place and, despite the disadvantage of being at least twice the age of his oldest opponent, fought with the speed and courage of a tiger. "Oh yes," he exclaimed, in the first flurry of cut and thrust, "traitors! Have you come to 'kin me in my own house?"

Two of his adversaries fell to his sword. The others drew back in dismay.

"Well, come on," he taunted them. "You think I can't deal with you all?" He lunged at them again, and the conspirators fell back a few more paces to avoid the fury of his assault.

"Why are we taking so' long?" yeU'ed Rada. Eager to end matters quickly, he grabbed hold of one of his companions, and pushed him forward, straight onto Pizarro's sword. In that instant, before the weapon could be withdrawn from the unfortunate man, Rada darted in, and stabbed Pizarro in the throat. As he reeled from the blow, and sank to his knees, Rada and several others plunged [their swords into his body.

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been shown how easily the conspirators gained entrance to Pizarro's palace to murder him. Keeping the gold in Lima would have been a very risky proposition, necessitating a permanent twenty-four-hour guard, with no absolute guarantee that it would remain safe. In any case, tile posting of such a guard would AOt have been practical, considering the uncertain state of the country, with soldiers continually having to be pulled away to deal with rebellions and civil wars. There was a political side to all of this. Pi~o would

never have allowed the Crown to treat him in the same manner as it treated Cortes. But if, at some future date, the Crown had decided to remove him, his entire fortune would have been in jeopardy. We have the fate oJ bis broth.er, Herando, to confum the likelihood of that happening. Upon returning to Spain, shortly before the assassination of Pizarro, he was arrested on trumped-up charges, and incarcerated for 20 years in the strong fortress of Medina del Campo. Could it be that he was held there without sentence because he would not reveal the secret hiding place of Pizarro's treasure? Doc Noss was not a mining engineer, and he bitterly regretted the fact a little later on, after alIbis efforts to blast a way into the mountain had proved useless. First he had tried clearing away the entrance h01e with a charge of dynamite, but the explosion had shaken ,the mountain so badly that the unstable roof of the passageway collapsed. Next he had tried blasting into the side of the mountain, but aU that had done was to bring countless tons of rocks crashing down. It was now going to be a very tricky job getting back into the treasure rooms again. He realised he would not be able to do that on his own. What he needed was the help of a qualified mining engineer. That would cost a deal of money he did not have readily available to him. FOJi that reason, he made arrangements to sell some of the gold he 'had earlier taken out of the mountain. It has previously been mentioned that the private ownership of gold was illegal in the USA. So what Doc Noss was intending to do, when he visited

the house of a prospective buyer on that fateful night back in 1949, was to take part in a crooked transaction. Doc Noss and the other man were in the kitchen, seated at a table facing each other. They were alone for a few minutes and then a door opened and the wife of the man came in. She did not look at them, nor did sbe speak, but went straight to the back of the kitchen where she pretended to be busy. Doc Noss was uncomfortably aware that she was quietly listening in on the discussion. He began questioning the man, at first tentatively, but, once he suspected ~ere might be something wrong, he came straight to the point. "Do you have the money?" he asked. "Yeah," answered the man, as though that was a non

essential detail. "I've got it." "Where?" said Doc Noss. "Can I see it?" "In the minute," replied the man. "Let's have a drink

first." "His wife crossed the floor with a bottle of whiskey and

ItwQ gl;lSses, put them on the table in front of the two men, 'and returned to the back of the kitchen. Doc Noss felt an uneasy qualm. As he did not know the

man, he had felt he could not trust him, even before he had come to the meeting. '

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The man took the bottle and poured whiskey into the glasses. "I've had some spare time on my bands just lately," he said, "and I've been making a few discreet inquires about you." Doc Noss frowned. "What did you want to know?" "Well," drawled the man, "I found out that you're a bit of a

prospector. " "So, what's newT' "Aw, just one or two things that don't seem to add up." "Such as?" "Well, I asked myself, wby would a prospector want to .

sell me gold?" "What's wrong with that?" "Nothing," said he, shaking his head. "Nothing, except, why oot sell it in the usual way?" "Look, do you want to buy the gold or not?" "Yeah, but I'd have to see it first" "And I'd have to see your cash," countered Doc Nos.s. He

was very angry and showed it. "[n any case, I don't think I'll stick around any longer." He rose to his feet. The man spoke quietly. "Why, where are you going?" "Home," replied Doc Noss. "You can't go home yet, you haven't finished your drink." Doc Noss gave him a scornful look. "I don't drink." With that he crossed the ,floor of the kitchen in a few rapid

strides, opened the door, and went out to the driveway where his utility truck was parked. Suddenly, the man's wife started to shriek that Doc Noss

was going to fetch a gun. Coming out of the house in a hurry, the man stood on the porch, raised his arm, and pointed a pistol at Doc Noss. "Stop," he shouted, "or m shoot!" Doc Noss ignored the warning, and kept going. Just as he

reached his truck, there was a sharp report frOID me pistol, and a bullet hit him in the back. He threw up his anus and clutched the empty air in a spasm of agony, then fell to the ground dead.

We now come to the most important part of the story, which deals with those who bave laid claims to the treasure of the San Andreas Mountains. These claims, for what they are worth, have been lodged by private persons, sucb as the Doc Noss family, and some ex-servicemen, who were stationed at the White Sands Missile Base when they made their discovery of the treasure. Claims have also been lodged by Indian agencies representing the Apaches, whose ancestors where supposed to have !hidden the gold under the mountain. All of these claims, which are now in the process of coming before the US court, must, inevitably, stand the test of the highest legal, as well as moral, standards of justice. This fact ought to encourage the Peruvian people, who have the strongest possible claim, to bring a lawsuit for the return of the treasure. Their claim, of course, would be that of victims of unprovoked aggression seeking the retom of property stolen from their country.

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The Dresden Codex, one of the remaining records of tthe great Maya, states that the total soJar eclipse of 11 July 1991 would usher in two life-altering events: earth changes and cosmic awareness in the fOfftl of encounters with the masters of the stars. Perhaps 1200 years ago, the prophetic Maya caught a glimpse of

our destiny and that of our predecessors. Eclipses played a transcendental role in the history of Meso-America; they were heavenly signals marking the beginning or end of an era. These phenomena depicted portents of things to come. Historically, an eclipse armounced the Aztec migration from the

mythical Atzlan and the settling of the valley of Mexico. It heralded the Spanish invasion and the plunge of the indigenous people into darkness where their culture would remain submerged for almost 500 years. The Maya revealed their profound knowledge of terrestrial

cycles through divLnations recorded on ancient storyboards. One of the most intriguing, the Dresden Codex, is a mysterious blend of accurate prophecy and pure science in Ithe form of tables. It constructs a calendar of events dated to 3114 BC, the date officially accepted by modern science as the age of the Codex. The Mayan hieroglyphics give us insight into the vast knowl

edge and magnificent genius that they created, understood and existed within, a realm of myth dictated by heavenly movements. To them, the sun, the moon and the Pleiades were the keepers of time, and the seers of future events. The people of Meso-America were indeed a cosmic race whose

thoughts and lives were ruled by what happened in the heavens, especially the birth of a new sun. Thus, a great number of historic events were directly linked 10 an eclipse. According to the inscription, the era of the first sun ended with a

devastating wind; the second with fiery rain; the third with darkness. The era of the fourth sun terminated with water, recognised by most cultures as The Great Flood. the fifth sun exited with the destruction by earthquakes that devastated Mexico City in 1985. The 1991 total solar eclipse armounced great changes. It also

marked Ithe beginning of the era of the sixth sun, the sun of Quetzalcoatl, the legendary bearded, fair-skinned god who is lillribUted with the social, technical and cultural enlightenment of prehistoric America, and who also promised to return. The sixth sun, due to its historic movement, trajectory lUld dura

tion, marked the end of cosmogenic obscurity, giviJrg credence to the prophecy given in the year 755 AD, that the sun of 1991 would usher in a new era of not only earth changes, but also cosmic awareness.

The people of Mexico prepared for what some called the eclipse of the millennium, dlle to the maximum- duration of 6 minutes 45 seconds, one of the longest in history. One thing was certain: Qlls would become the most scrutinised and photo'graphed eclipse ever recorded.

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Shortly after I pm, seventeen different people, unknown to each thirty minutes. other, in different locations, waited with camcorders in hand With his countrymen now gripped in what Jaime Maussan called expecting only to capture the total eclipse on videotape. UFO, or 0VNl, fever, he accepted an invitation to appear on the

To the left of the bright patch of sky, and slightly above, a star, popular television programme Siempre en Domingo. faiDt at fIrst, began to sparkle in the darkening afternoon sky. After presenting some of the more spectacular tapes, he made

Sr Leopoldo Laborde Ithought he was videotaping two stars. what is probably the fIrst televised prime-time appeal to the people Across town, Sr Alejandro Larraguivel also believed he was of Mexico, asking that they send him any videos containing recording bright stars. Sra Laura Hernandez saw a glimmer of a unidentifIed objects, and to please double-check their footage taken bright object as the clouds parted. Sr Miguel Angel Torres video- during the eclipse. The telephone number flashed across the screen taped a shimmering, stationary body. The camcorder read 1.22 pm. and moments later the studio switchboard lit up.

Padre Manuel Ferrer, a Catholic priest in the southern quadrant The eclipse footage had flamed the Mexican passion for intellecof the city, focussed on the luminous orb in the darkened sky. tual debate. Why were the sightings so overt? The UFO had posi-

On the outskirts of the city, at a hill named 'mountain of the tioned itself beneath the eclipsing sun at a time when millions of . stars', Sr Jorge de la Torre videotaped an extraordinary object sus- people were looking up. Why? Unless it wanted to be seen. And pended over the bustling city. Sr Marco Antonio Flores taped this the ultimate question, why Mexico? segment a:s the fifth sun preceded Ithrough its fmal stages before the Some thought it was an unknown intelligence carrying out a scinew sun, the sixth., emerged. The time was now 1.24 pm. 1ihe sun entifIc mission, similar to what our scientists were dQing .at that was in full eclipse. same time, measuring and monitoring. Others believed ,it was

The Aguilar family rorned the event into a fiesta. The camera indeed the fulfilment of the ancient prophecy, the age of cosmic clock read 1.04 pm in the beginning and 1.25 pm at the end. This awareness being usher