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1994 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

A Time to Heal; Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges; Shadow of Obsession; Ace Ventura, Pet Detective; Silence of the Lambs; A Clear and Present Danger; Alien Nation: Dark Horizon; Beyond Suspicion; Stalked; No Escape; Encounters; Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All; Philadelphia; A Good Man in Africa; TekWar; Police Academy 6: Mission to Moscow; Imaginary Crimes; Junior; The Killing Machine; Death and the Maiden; Timecop; The Cisco Kid; Roswell; Dumb and Dumber; Forrest Gump; Airheads; Nobody's Fool; Renaissance Man; City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold; Guarding Tess; In the Army Now; Back in Action; Squanto: A Warrior's Tale; Avalanche; Running Free; The Client; Natural Born Killers; Serial Mom; Soft Deceit; Getting Even with Dad; Slam Dunk Earnest

General News:

The German Chemical Industry will serve a $100 billion market this year.

1994 - By this year,
Chlamydial Infections begin to be associated with heart disease and other endemic North American chronic illnesses.
Often assumed to be illnesses of aging because of their fatal frequency in patients aged 40 years and older, chlamydial influenced circulatory and systemic problems often take 10 to 30 years to develop to fatality, can be slowed in development by lifestyle changes, and are sometimes halted by either of 2 antibiotics, tetracycline and erythromycin.

As an intracellular parasite, still neither classified as a bacteria nor a virus, it is most often transfered from an infected host to a new host by sexual contact or during birth from mother to infant. While much of human research into heart disease, intestinal and colon irritability, and prostate and vaginal difficulties has been directed to improvements in corrective surgical sophistication or to remedial nutritional adjustments (often suggested as being "preventive"), the true origin of most such cases is chlamydial infestation and the cell and tissue damage resulting. Animals raised in a germ free environment with any selection of human diets do NOT get heart disease. This finding has not reinforced the status quo and does not sell media stories and commercial products so ... it has been largely ignored.

A South African pathologist, using an electron microscope to examine heart tissue taken during autopsies of heart disease fatalities, consistently found chlamydial infestation in the tissues. Research conducted in Helsinki found that 70% of heart attack patients in Finland had chlamydial infections and that by treating the infection the heart disease severity lessened. As the number 1 documented cause of fatalities in the USA is heart disease, one might expect that considerable resources and interest would be shown in these findings.

The spread of the infection continues to grow at geometric rates.
There is no easy, inexpensive, accurate way to screen a human technically for the possibility of infestation. And as varieties continue to develop resistance to antibiotics, the potential for control diminishes daily.

The reality is that the influence which promotes the death of millions of people annually receives no media attention while the Ebola-type viruses, which kill fewer than 25 people per year (on average) merit dramatic stories and scare movies. There are numerous epidemic level fatal illnesses available for concern. The difficulty appears to be that if human imagination and terror cannot be stimulated by their immediate influences, humans prefer to chose denial and ignorance as their defense.

1994 -
The use of 1-900 Telephone product/service delivery quickly expands throughout the year to massive proportions.
A "900" exchange telephone number costs the caller a surcharge, which goes to the service or product promoter, in addition to any regular phone charges. Services are set up such that the caller is charged A) a basic charge per minute; B) a charge per minute with a minimum charge applicable; C) a basic charge and a restricted time limit.

The major use of the numbers is for the purpose of " phone sex " services.
For a basic per minute charge with a minimum time duration, the caller can listen to or talk with a woman, usually, in an explicit sexual or erotic manner. The popularity of the services suggest a cultural immaturity in which fantasy and imaginary sexual stimulation has replaced tactile and visual presence, which has in turn replaced intimacy of identity and spirituality. This demonstrates that humanity has continued to fade away from spiritual direction towards that of infotech robots.

A second initial use of the 900 exchange becomes a place you participate in a media enhanced poll ... offered by numerous radio and television programs. These allow the listener or viewer to register a "yes" or "no" answer to a specific question on a topic of general interest - for a charge of $0.50 to $2.00. The format encourages the respondent to be intolerant, rationalistic, and self-centred. As there is no allowance for conversation, clarification, or justification - one cannot respond with an answer which qualifies itself to the imperfections of the question. Nor are there possibilities for a consideration of the question in any form of abstraction or relation to other aspects of reality.

In addition, if the answer really was that important and relevant to the sponsor, who has paying advertisers and a budget, why, in a democratic country, should you have to pay to voice an opinion. Still further, questionnaire research in which a simple Yes/No response is allowed (no "maybe", no written reply, no strength of agreement/disagreement), often proves to be substantially inaccurate in the true representation of the views of the participant. The factor that persons who feel strongly about an answer (as in anger, hate, possessive love, rage, vengeance, fear, terror - and other destructive human emotions) tend to take a more active response than those who feel more secure and compassionate about their response, also skews the totals to be reported.

As an example, a news program asks if you liked the weather today.
You can answer either "Yes" or "No" - and you will pay for your answer.
Would you answer? Which would you answer?
If you don't answer then the totals posted for you tomorrow will suggest that you are represented by either a "winning" (higher score) group or by a "losing" (lower score) group. Which do you want to represent you? And if you responded with the "losing" group, how would you feel about yourself? And about the adversary group? If you answered "Yes", does that mean that today was the best day ever for you, a very good day, enjoyable as a whole, partly good, or, just better than average? And what does it say about you if you don't wish to distinguish between those degrees of pleasure or displeasure?

And on what basis was today a good weather day?
Was it good because it was clear, sunny and cold - and the combination influenced you with pleasant feelings, or, was it good because that weather influenced your car to run better than on the rainy day previous. Or, was it good weather because it was ideal for an activity or some work that you planned? Does it matter why it was good? If it doesn't matter to you as to what degree it was enjoyable or why it was enjoyable, how aware of your capacity for enjoyment are you - do you want to be? What quality of life do you have if everything can be quickly and easily categorized into "yes" and "No" categories?

1994 - On January 4,
A Nuclear Reactor Accident occurred at the McMaster University research site in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Despite a long-term policy of openness, regulation and safety, the incident was not properly reported for 4 months and the public were not informed of it for almost 8 months.

At the time of the incident, the reactor was supposed to be in an "idling" cycle producing almost no power while fuel rods were being loaded. In a period of seconds, during which understaffed operating personnel apparently "winged it" in carrying out procedures, power output of the reactor surged from one-millionth of full power to 8 times maximum power. A blue glow of radiation filled the area, an indication of a near "critical" melt-down situation. Fortunately, the Canadian designed reactor incorporated a safety mechanism which worked correctly and became activated in response to the surge. Within seconds, the reactor automatically shut down.

Written procedures at the site mandate that this and much less severe incidents be reported immediately to university officers. The Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada (AECB) regulates and authorizes the operation of all sites in Canada and mandates that such incidents be reported to it quickly and that detailed reports be submitted within several days. In this case, university officers were NOT told of the incident by the staff, the AECB was informed of the incident by phone the day after, and a detailed report would never have been submitted if an AECB worker had not finally noticed the lack of documentation to support the phone call nearly 4 months after the event.

By the end of August, the University attempted to quell concerns with the statement that "personnel changes" had been made, the entire nuclear reactor program had been "overhauled" and that a full review by outside experts was expected to be available by the Summer of 1995.

Consider the following:

 1. Active commercial operation nuclear reactor numbers in 1991 were         415;
 2. Projections for new startups before the year 2000, in 1991, were          56;
 3. Reactors in locations expected to receive huge earthquakes are        10%;
 4. Reactors in locations experiencing political unrest account for       42%;
 5. Reactors in locations operating under economic duress exceed          90%;
 6. The proportion of active reactors with less safe designs is           85%;
 7. This reactor is in one of the most open and democratic of nations;
 8. Locations where these "accidents" now occur routinely involve         30%.

What are the odds of another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island or worse incident?

1994 - On January 18,
A 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake occurred in the Northridge urban area of the San Fernando Valley, 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It originated from a previously unknown fault, even though extensive geological and seismic research had been conducted in the area for almost 20 years. It lasted for only 10 seconds and left 60,000 persons injured and 20,000 homeless. 50 persons died.

Older brick buildings cracked, power lines fell, water mains broke and fires started as the ground seemed to move in many locations at once. Sections of 5 separate freeways collapsed and 9 freeway bridges were left in shambles. Santa Monica, 18 miles south of the San Fernando area was devastated: the earthquake had travelled under a mountain range. The low level of injuries and death relative to the destruction was directly attributable to the time of the quake: 4:31 A.M.

Although Caltech, a leading seismology research center, was located nearby - at first no one could tell where the epicentre of the quake had been. Ground sensors connected to the computer at Caltech were so overloaded with stimuli that the software interpreted the data as an error and essentially denied the reality of the data: its conclusion was that there had not been a quake. Eventually, the computer scientists salvaged the data and the epicentre was determined to have been under Northridge. Throughout that area, when observed from the air, there was no perceptible crack or displacement in the top earth layer.

The quake was later determined to have started deep underground, at perhaps a depth of 10 miles, and stopped at a depth of perhaps 5 miles. This came to be an example of a Blind Thrust Fault earthquake. Dozens of mini quakes followed the major one and mini dust storms continued in the desert areas nearby for much of the day. Other reports of the statistics of the quake recorded its magnitude as 6.5; duration of 6 seconds; number of injured: 9000; number of dead: 57. There was a 1 foot northerly rise in the land along the fault.

Most of the dead were found in the ruins of a 3-storey apartment complex, Northridge Meadows, which shrunk to 2 levels when the top storey completely collapsed. 100 steel frame buildings were found afterwards to have cracks in their welded joints. This finding had been considered theoretically unlikely earlier; the buildings so affected would have to be torn down as "unsafe construction."

The amount of money spent on earthquake research each year in the USA is a matter of several hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was determined that just north of Los Angeles, the Pacific plate and North American geological plates bend and compress the ground under Los Angeles rather than moving past each other, that is, they butt up against each other. Eventually, a thrust fault releases the energy. It had been noted that pressure was building up to the northwest of the city for the previous 7 years. A 6.4 magnitude "event" had been forecasted for the San Francisco and Northridge areas for 2 months before the quake had occurred.

After several years of study, a review of the Los Angeles County coroner's records would show that 5 times more people than usual died of cardiac arrest on the day of this earthquake than was otherwise usual. Of the 101 deaths reported by the end of the day, 51 of them had occurred from heart attacks and only 29 from actual injuries sustained in the quake. This fact indicates the survival importance not only in being prepared for such catastrophes but also in having a relevant perspective as to their likelihood in your region, the confidence of hope and faith regarding the life of the spirit after death, a reverent perspective towards the universe, and, a positive self-directedness. All of these healthful and survival traits are promoted by the development of spiritual skills.

There is little certainty in rationalized predictions of such events, based upon scientific measurements. It is currently considered not politically acceptable to make such predictions public. This is to avoid needless anxiety and panic. To the degree that the timing is not precise, and to limit ridicule and lack of confidence in the scientific process should the timing not be correct, it has been deemed better to provide no alert. This means that the potential for saving the lives of 50 to 5000 people does not begin to compare to the lack of self-directedness and lack of positive coping skills which are expected, by intellectual analysis, to result in the potential loss of more lives and the disruption of the local economy from social anarchy.

In typical fashion, the form of "preparation" provided to the citizen is promoted through the mass media in the form of "earthquake" movies. The human world spends over a trillion dollars each year on armaments. Spiritual methods are capable of foretelling earthquakes yet, for humans, they have a failing: they are not tied to any human authority or to the magic of human technology, but they are always correct.

1994 - On January 31,
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Nationalist leader, declares that any NATO air strike against Bosnian Serbs would be declaring war against the slavs.

1994 - By February,
Geoff Harris, atmospheric researcher, had confirmed that tropospheric ozone was increasing in the atmosphere at a rate of about 1% per year. Many plant species will find it difficult to adapt to ozone levels at or above their present concentration in the background troposphere:

"If we take the historical record at face value, then tropospheric ozone near the surface has increased by at least a factor of two, or maybe three, since the turn of the century. ... The most important chemicals involved in the process which lead to the production of ozone in the troposphere are the nitrogen oxides (the result in part from auto exhaust). Other substances involved are fuel molecules, which include carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, and these too are the product of human activity."

Methane, another greenhouse gas being studied by Harris, has increased greatly in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. Harris works for the Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) at York University, Ontario, Canada and is associated with the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Earlier, he worked at the State-Wide Air Pollution Research Centre at the University of California, at Riverside and has been involved in the "International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program" (IGAC).

1994 - During February,
In Rwanda, Africa, anarchy begins to expand.
A nation of 7 million people, assassinations are becoming daily events.
The Interahamwe (The People Who Stand Together), an extremist Hutu militia, oppose power sharing with the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front and its Hutu allies. A war of ethnic killings and assassinations escalates. France and South Africa support and arm the government forces.

The Patriotic Front was built from a small army of refugees, most from the minority Tutsi tribe who had fled the first wave of post-independence massacres in the early 1960s. Stateless in neighbouring countries like Uganda, which helped arm and train the rebel army, many of the rebels learned the art of guerilla war fighting with now Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's rebels who overthrew dictator Milton Obote. The Patriotic Front begin complaining of the radio broadcasts that warned of a massacre campaign being planned.

Belgian U.N. peacekeepers try to assist in bringing the two sides together, but Hutu dictator Juvenal Habyarimana stalls on negotiations while recruiting and training more Interahamwe and dispensing anti-Tutsi propaganda. The U.N. Security Council mandate is to MONITOR the ceasefire only, not to enforce peace.

1994 - During February,
A Provincial Special Inquiry was begun in Fredericton, New Brunswick, under the direction of Justice Richard Miller, into allegations by 56 men that they were sexually molested and raped while in the care of the government. All of the charges were against a former guard, Karl Toft, who would soon be serving a 20-year prison sentence.

After a year-long inquiry, one of the recommendations by Justice Miller would be the payment of $120,000 to each of the claimants. Just over 3 months later, New Brunswick Justice minister Edmond Blanchard would announce the payment package which had been worked out with the lawyers of the victims in order to expedite the benefit to the victims, avoid costly and time intensive court administrations, and, limit unfairly destructive and excessive media exposure of the victims. As young boys, the claimants had been attacked by Toft while they were at Kingsclear Reform School, near Fredericton, the William F. Roberts hospital school or the Boy's Industrial Home. Both of the latter are in Saint John, New Brunswick.

1994 - During February,
Yuri Vishnevsky, chairman of Russia's Atomic Industry Inspectorate said that widespread safety violations, poorly trained workers, thefts of radioactive materials, and abiding poverty have created an "intolerable" national hazard in the nuclear industry.

He reported that 20,000 safety rule violations were recorded in 1993 and that nuclear facilities were forced to shut down 78 times that year because of extremely dangerous operations. Nearly 10% of 5000 workers failed a test of safety regulations. The maximum fine for an individual who violates safety regulations is 100 rubles, or about 5 cents; the average monthly income is $30.00.

1994 - On February 20,
A Medical Disaster was warned by Alexander Tomasz at the annual meeting of the (AAAS) American Association for the Advancement of Science. Tomasz, of Rockefeller University in New York City, referring to the post-antibiotic world, spoke of the evolution of bacteria which were untreatable by known medicines. He noted that "Most people think it will happen ... It's unpredictable when (it will happen). ... The mortality is quite high." He described how some uncommon bacteria seem to have already developed untreatable strains and that lab experiments (bioengineering) had proven that the same thing could happen with common bacteria.

Dr. Mitchell Cohen, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta, concurred that "It's potentially an extremely dangerous problem." Any new drugs that might be developed to cope with the deadly bacteria are at least 5 to 7 years away, and drug companies are not pursuing them eagerly, Cohen said.

1994 - On March 8,
A Merger between Martin Marietta Corp. & Grumman Corp. is announced.
Each company has occupied the position of "king" of its international segment of the economy.
The two global kings will now become a singular and more dominant king.
The new company will have annual armaments sales of over $13 billion "that will have the critical mass ... to be solidly positioned in the aerospace/electronics industry."

Martin Marietta, based in Bethesda, Maryland State, ranked as the 10th largest USA defence contractor in 1992; Grumman was in 12th place. Martin Marietta has facilities in 39 states and 17 foreign countries and operates in the fields of electronics, space, information and energy. It employs 93,000 people, most in professional and high tech high paying positions.

Grumman operates out of Bethpage, N.Y.
Grumman developed the F-14 Tomcat jet fighter and it makes the Navy E-2c Hawkeye surveillance plane, as well as other surveillance and electronics systems for the USA military. Grumman has 18,000 employees.

1994 - In March
It was reported that a UFO hovered near an Austrian hospital for a short time and projected a 3 minute beam of blue light into the terminally ill ward. Dr. Klaus Schroeder, head of the ward heard an unusual whining sound near midnight and saw a gigantic saucer-shaped craft hovering above the building. The light it cast was so bright that it was difficult to look at. 24 severely ill patients were completely cured by the 3 minute beam including Johann Kraussner and Viola Ferdinand. Dr. Schroeder had the patients X-rayed to confirm their recovery to health.

1994 - During March,
LKEI (Lockheed-Khrunichev-Energia International) is formed from America's Lockheed Aerospace Corp. and 2 Russian rocket manufacturers: Khrunichev State Research and NBO Energia.

The former affiliation of Khrunichev State Research and NBO Energia provided a kingly world presence with no other company capable of truly competing with their technology. Lockheed has for decades been graced as the American leader in the development of surveillance and special military purpose aircraft and space devices.

Together, the Soviet and American "kings" will now become a singular global "king".
They will produce the Proton launch vehicle, the most reliable rocket ever to fly to date: it has flown for decades and has the capability of launching nuclear weapons carrying satellites, spaceships destined for Mars, orbiting spacestations and other massive and complex "Star Wars" military devices. Customers initially include Hughes Aerospace, Martin Marietta, Loral and Motorola; the latter two are satellite makers.

1994 - In March,
In Ontario, Canada, 1,449 nuclear war air raid sirens are dismantled.
They have been in place since the late 1950s with a current maintenance cost to the government of 2-1/2 million dollars per year. No air raid drills have been practised since the first several years of installation and almost no one would have recognized their significance or what actions to take if they had gone off in the intervening period. 14,000 air raid sirens were installed across Canada with an annual maintenance fee of $200. each; bureaucracy and the size of government can be credited with the waste of public funds over a 30 year plus period.

1994 - In March,
A 437 page book was released by the Natural Resources Defence Council, authored by Robert S. Norris et al, presenting the most detailed account of international nuclear activities publicly available to date. Findings include:

  - The U.S.S.R. has 15,000 nuclear weapons stockpiled;
  - The U.S.A.   has 10,500 nuclear weapons stockpiled;
  - China has 450 nuclear weapons of which 300 are long-range weapons;
  - Britain has 200 nuclear weapons and expects to raise that number by 100;
  - France has 524 weapons and expects to diminish that number to 465.
       Weapons can take the following forms: 
            long-range missiles, both mobile and stationary;
            submarine based missiles; artillery shells (atomic canon);
            bomber delivered bombs; troop delivered devices.
        Some devices are single warhead; others are multiple warhead.

1994 -
Germany's Environment and Forecasting Institute provided the following auto statistics early in the year:

Worldwide, one car is built every second of the day.

Each one has a ten-year output of 59.7 tons of CO2, 2,040 cu. meters of polluted air, and 26.5 tonnes of rubbish, takes up to 200 square metres of asphalt and is responsible for 820 hours of lost life through accidents.

Other statistics, from Greenpeace, state that worldwide, 250,000 people die each year in auto accidents and 10 million are injured. In the U.S.A. more land is designated for cars than for housing. Motor vehicle use 1/3 of the world's oil production.

1994 - Late in March,
In Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A., a sharp earthquake resulted in changes to the local geothermal activities.
Monarch geyser erupted for the first time since 1913, sending a growing column of rocks, mud and water about 2.5 metres high. The Ledge geyser also erupted after 15 years of dormancy, with angled columns of water 45 metres high.

1994 - Early in the year,
A study of UFO witnesses by researchers at the University of Ottawa produced the following results:
After giving a battery of tests to 49 people who had experienced UFO encounters and comparing those results with those gathered from two comparison groups who had no such experiences (at least no conscious memory of same), the researchers found that the witnesses were - as healthy and intelligent as those who were not witnesses. Neither were the witnesses more prone to fantasize. They were more likely to espouse beliefs in reincarnation, astrology, channelling and the like. And of those UFO spotters who had the most intense experiences - actually meeting spacebeings - the majority had their close encounters just before, after or during sleep.

1994 - On April 6,
It was reported by the Teal Space Consulting Group of Virginia, U.S.A., that since 1957, 271 space missions have failed or malfunctioned. 71 of the payload failures have been of U.S.S.R. origin; 34 similar failures originated with the Americans.

1994 - On April 6,
Newspapers reported a dangerous situation was evident at the 29 U.S.S.R. nuclear energy plants. Canadian $286 million was owed to nuclear plant workers, some of which had not received a paycheck since January!

Last year 700 people were caught trying to make off with nuclear secrets, a situation which the interior minister blamed on the poverty of the workers due to non payment. Others were caught trying to smuggle nuclear materials. Spare parts have not been in supply and the reactors are said to need repairs badly. Repair workers warn that "a lot of fuel (is needed) to cool (the stations) properly after it shuts down." Anger and fatigue amongst workers is now common.

1994 - During April,
The USA Joint Security Commission after reviewing a government document outlining guidelines to be followed when presenting Cover Stories, makes the conclusion that the use of Cover Stories is too frequent, too expensive, and, that a new set of guidelines must be introduced. Cover stories are misinformation provided to the public with the authority of the government for the purpose of concealing the reality behind the item or event under consideration.

1994 - On April 6,
Near Kigali, Rwanda, the President was killed with several senior government officials, when an airplane carrying them was shot down near an airport. Representing the Hutu majority, against the rebel Tutsi tribe, government troops would slaughter entire villages and groups of Tutsi's over the next six weeks.

As many as 500,000 women, children, men, Red Cross workers, and others would be killed and more than 1 million would flee to the largest refugee camp in the world, located across the border in Tanzania. Both neighbours and gangs of killers are trucked into areas to massacre whole villages at a time. They are usually composed of extremist government troops plus members of the Interahamwe. As the refugees cross the border, Tanzanian border troops add to the degradation and injustice by stealing any money the Tutsis have.

On April 7, Rwanda government soldiers arrest 10 Belgian U.N. soldiers guarding interim Prime Minister Agathe Unilingiyimana ordering them to surrender their weapons. The soldiers, part of Hutu dictator Juvenal Habyarimana's elite Presidential Guard, cut the Belgian soldier's achilles tendons to make it easier to torture them and then shoot them. When the rest of the Belgian soldiers pull out of Rwanda, the disgusted Belgians burn and cut apart their blue U.N. berets. Their officers don't try to stop them. The U.N. remains ineffective throughout, while millions die of massacre, hunger, cholera. The mobile propaganda radio continues to tell fleeing Hutus that they will be massacred.

1994 - On April 9,
The crew of the U.S.A. Endeavour space shuttle retrieve the bodies of two Chinese astronauts lost in 1984.
Lee Chu-in, 37 and Hu Shengli, 36, had gone for a space walk and got separated from their vehicle.
The tethers connecting them to the capsule became entangled and broke, dooming them to orbit until now.
Other astronauts on the mission had tried in vain to rescue their comrades but were forced to abandon the effort because of a fuel shortage. The Chinese had tried twice with no success to recover the bodies, in 1986 and again in 1989. The story first became public in June, 1992.

1994 - On April 11,
NATO U.S.A. fighter jets bombed Serbian targets near the town of Gorazde in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The strike came minutes after Bosnian Serb forces overran government defences to reach the outskirts of the town. At least two tanks were hit. Three 500 pound Mark 82 bombs were dropped by two U.S. F-16C planes based in Aviano, Italy. The Bosnian-Serb news agency SRNA reported that 4 missiles had been fired at civilian targets.

1994 - On April 12,
NATO U.S.A. fighter jets dropped five 500 pound Mark 82 bombs, destroying a Serb tank and three armoured personnel carriers near the city of Gorazde following renewed Serb shelling. The Serbs immediately intensified their artillery, mortar, tank, and heavy-machine gun attacks on the nearly defenceless city.

1994 - On April 12,
Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Eidelshtein), the Russian Nationalist leader, threatened Jewish protestors with an "atomic pistol"; declared that he was anti-Zionist not anti-semitic; declared that Italy's Aviano airport, from which NATO air strikes were made during the past 48 hours, should be bombed, and would have been if he were the Russian President. He made the statements in Strasbourg, Germany while attending the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe.

1994 - By mid-April,
The Office of the Securities Commissioner, State of Kansas, was investigating a potential large scale fraud - embezzlement case.

Investigator Gary D. Fulton,
(316) 263-1500, fax (316) 263-1185,
1540 N. Broadway, Suite 103, Wichita, KS, 67214-1144,
would have the facts by mid-June and would then offer the investors involved the facts.
Most would not inquire as to the facts, few would believe the facts, and, those who wished to prosecute the offender would find themselves unable to do so.

Beginning in 1969, 25 years earlier, a Mrs. Bloomfield of Ohio, had begun expressing a story in which she believed that a shipment of gold bullion worth US 2.5 billion was enroute from Europe to the Fort Knox Federal Reserve depository. The government required the assistance of private individuals in helping to finance the transportation costs. By contributing monies to the venture, an investor would receive a huge return in capital profit within a very short time.

Mrs. Bloomfield was very articulate, intelligent and persuasive.
She would never personally accept any of the invested monies raised on the basis of her belief over the coming years; that would be left to the many embezzlers who would use her testimony and conviction as part of their scheme to defraud others. Over the years as countless schemes were investigated, charges laid, and a few persons imprisoned - Mrs. Bloomfield became known to the legal authorities as "insane".

It is currently unknown as to who first took advantage of the opportunity presented by Mrs. Bloomfield. It began, it spread quietly; it would eventually result in the defrauding of more than 25,000 persons under the direction of at least 35 program operators in every state of the USA. Initially, the attempts to embezzle money (intentionally take monies from persons intended for an investment and use it for personal gain) from patriotic and greedy persons was simple enough that an arrest and conviction was made by 1975. As a white collar criminal, the convicted individual was sent to a jail in which other white collar criminals were being held.

For 2 years the convicted embezzler was given shelter, 3 meals a day, freedom from taxation, access to a library, dependable routines of activity, a highly regulated (anxiety-free) lifestyle, exposure to many other similar minded individuals, and, lots of free time to intellectualize. By the time the individual emerged from jail, the plan had been restructured for added safety to the embezzler and added believability for the investor. Also, for the one convicted, there was now 4 additional "project managers" recruited from the prison population. Each of these went to widely dispersed separate states so as not to overlap territories in their endeavours.

Potential investors were persuaded now to give monies to an out-of-state company which was supposedly in charge of financing the transportation charges on the gold bullion. Prosecution across state lines is always difficult, more costly, and, often proves impossible - relative to in state offences. Investments of $10,000 or higher were accepted with returns of $200,000. and up being "guaranteed" within 6 months. The 6 months came and went while the perpetrators lived in luxury. Excuses of delays with the ever available confidence expressed by Mrs. Bloomfield that the ship would arrive any day served to delay contact with the authorities for another 6 months. Flight by the individuals, difficulty of inter-state prosecutions, and inconsistency of response and cooperation from the persons swindled resulted in only 3 of these 5 embezzlers being sent to jail.

The cycle of "program improvement and dispersion" would repeat 3 more times before 1993: the schemes became more complex and safer for the criminals to operate and more criminals were becoming involved in the venture, each working independently - though each aware of and utilizing the confidence of Mrs. Bloomfield. While each purveyor of the scam utilized idiosyncratic differences in their use of the scheme, many of the central factors were present in that used by Kay Cahill from mid-1993 onward.

Kay Cahill ran her business from an address at
"Mailboxes Etc.",
11757 W. Ken Caryl Avenue, Littleton, CO, 80127.

She could be reached at their fax (303) 973-6554, and by her phone number (303) 973-5034.
She discouraged any direct contact between herself and the actual investors and instead contracted a well respected financial planner and securities salesman in another state as her front. She had attended a high profile convention called "The Million Dollar Forum" which was billed as a networking and self-development experience. Originally intended to attract entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs and investors for the purposes of greater spiritual and self-development and networking with each other - it would prove to be an ideal environment for a few embezzlers to recruit their agents.

Those who had taken up the ruse over the years had learned that it was important to portray the persuasive personality of the era. In the early 1970s, it was the right-wing patriot who was motivated to save the USA and capitalism from the communists. By the late 1970s, the persona had been modified to the left-wing patriot who sought world peace and economic stability. By the mid-1980s, the persona had graduated to the dynamic businessperson who sought out opportunities suggestive of insider trading and stretching the law on the basis that capital survival and gain was all important.

The early 1990s led to a new metamorphosis: the patriot who was a humanist, a spiritual and religious individual whose supreme goal was to help as many others succeed financially as possible. Kay had worked the gold-for-goverment scam for 20 years: she was experienced; she had perfected her technique; she had become a most persuasive actress; she had done time in prison.

Her target in mid-1993 had become David Matthews, of
"Asset Holdings Limited",
P.O. Box 432, 112 W. Pine,
El Dorado, Kansas, 67042,
(316) 321-5533, fax (316) 321-3910.
Matthews had attended several of the Forum multi-day, $4,000+ trainings and had networked successfully to add new clients to his already successful business. He was in contact with dynamic and innovative personalities at the Forum: inventors, marketing specialists, financial innovators and investors, self-development instructors - paupers to multi- millionaires. Unless you were intellectually and emotionally deadened, you would have to come away enthusiastic and confident that you could do anything.

Best of all, for many, you made contact with other persons who could contribute critical skills or knowledge to your financial success. Most of these contacts were sincere and well-intentioned, as Matthews was himself. There was an aura of getting ahead by helping each other towards a economic paradise in which spirituality would be merged with material luxury. One can become severely motivated when a heaven-on-Earth is at the end of the rainbow.

Kay Cahill made contact with Matthews at the Forum.
She judged correctly that he was strong in his traditional Christian religious faith; he had a young and growing family; he was a principal in his business; he was respected by whomever knew him; he had the confidence of his clients and prospects - earned from months or years of honest and beneficial service. Kay communicated to David how a friend of hers, Mr. James Harper, required monies (less than $100,000) to retain an investment which would return tens of millions. This was a proven and safe investment.

Cahill said that this was the third of 3 tiers of investment which had been made.
The first two had already been or were being paid out. She would put David in contact with several of the participants. If David could raise the money, she would arrange with Harper for David to receive 50% of the several hundred million dollars to be gained in a matter of several months. David remortgaged his house to raise half the money required.

The other half of the monies, Kay suggested, could be raised by David accepting small amounts of money (under US $900) per share in lots of 1 to 5 shares split between well-meaning friends and associates: large numbers of financially embarrassed yet religiously inclined persons would finally be rewarded and be able to fulfill their dreams of becoming financially independent and helping the poor and disadvantaged, the environment, peace, .... This was an extension of the motivational tone of the Million Dollar Forums. David checked out the referrals and bought in.

Over the next 6 weeks or less, ending in early November, 1994, David had involved perhaps 50 investors - many had sent their last dollar or borrowed on already depleted credit. The documentation given to Matthews confirmed the moral stature of those presumably involved. James R. Harper was going to use at least part of his profits to fund a proposed project: The Hope Institute of Wholistic Medicine. The image was keeping up with the times.

The proponents of the project:

Mrs. Marvene Bloomfield, 
107 East North St., 
Mt. Gilead, Ohio, 43338, and, a 

Dr. Bernie Bergevin, 
also of the same address.

Each paticipant was to receive over 1 million dollars in a months time for this last minute rescue of Mr. Harper - who stood to lose all of his investment unless he put up the additional to cover interest costs which had raised on the market. By the end of December, all would be rich.

December came and went.
The target date on the documentation was mid-January.
It passed. Explanations of delays suddenly arose which had not been planned for.
A meeting of the investors in Wichita, Kansas, was "postponed" at the last minute: that was when the cheques were to be handed out and reinvestment advice given in seminars. Transfers of the prospective profits were delayed by legal departments, government bureaucracies, inter-bank communications, one of Kay's parents had suddenly deceased - making her unavailable for a short period, then Kay reported that she thought she had cancer - more patience garnered, more sympathy.

Some people, in their high degree of confidence and their high degree of personal financial desperation or job disatisfaction, had quit their disheartening jobs, made additional purchases, ... based upon their timely receipt of such a huge sum of money. Now their position was even more untenable. By the end of March, at least one party had reported David Matthews and the investment program to the Office of the Securities Commissioner in Kansas.

The fraud began to unravel as the investigators obtained access to Kay Cahill's bank account documents, followed up on her background and that of the other names on the investment documents, and, networked with other state commissioners and the F.B.I. Kay Cahill had a prison record for fraud and embezzlement. She had given all of the monies to her live-in boyfriend immediately upon receipt of them. The monies had been used to continue a very pleasant lifestyle. The destination parties for the investment probably did not even exist. The referral contacts given to David Matthews, and others, were mid-income people who were paid less than $200. to lie about their involvement and success in previous tiers of this investment scheme.

Fort Knox had not been used as a Federal Reserve depository for almost 20 years.
Mrs. Bloomfield is now in her 80's and has never taken or received any of the monies collected on the basis of her story. The scheme had been parlayed through a number of other agents who were targeted in similar fashion to Mr. Matthews over the previous 2 years. Over 3600 persons had been swindled by her in this latest version of the "gold bullion delivery" scheme. Their total loss exceeded $2.8 million; the total gain to Kay Cahill and her associate(s) was $2.8 million.

By mid-July, David Matthews was facing criminal charges, Kay Cahill had been investigated and the lastest group of investors had been notified that they could contact Mr. Fulton for a status report. Few contacted him; fewer believed him. To proceed with a charge against Kay Cahill, the law enforcement offices required evidence that Kay would not return the monies she had accepted and confirmation from the investors. Few requested their monies back - continuing to hope for the impossible: this phantom ship to come in. Fewer followed up with Fulton to provide him with the evidence that Kay was unwilling or unable to return the defrauded monies.

Eventually, the Kansas Office of the Securities Commissioner dropped the case as one which they could not successfully take to court. With little assistance from the defrauded, the evidence was direct though small. It was an inter-state investment. David Matthews had unwittingly carried out most of the marketing of the plan, collection of the funds, administration of the funds and explanation of the delays. He was a patsy; he they could easily prosecute. David fully cooperated with the authorities. He emerged with a restriction on his business activities, considerable loss of personal capital, loss of personal reputation, and warnings that his activities would be monitored closely in the future.

All this, because Matthews and others had tried to take advantage of an investment opportunity which ultimately was intended to help his country and which, by his involvement of others, was to substantially financially assist many others. It would be the start of a positive moral revolution in the country with numbers of private individuals being financially capable of aiding their fellow citizens. Where did all of this go wrong ? Trust. You can be well assured that when any being asks you to place your confidence in them totally just because they exist, beware.

Trust, in any universe, is earned.
A being worthy of trust is one who has done something for you personally which has been of benefit to you, especially if it has taken a sacrifice on their part. The more times they have promised to provide for you, or to you, a service or product of benefit to you and of access to them - the greater the degree of trust you may constructively grant them. Yet absolute trust, devoid of question and scepticism is only justifiable to the Holy Spirit.

People and other beings who have choice in their decisionmaking have a capacity for change.
If such an individual is weak spiritually just once, for a second, that bond of trust can be broken.
The Holy Spirit, by its very nature, ALWAYS provides a positive and constructive decision for the spiritually inclined being humble enough to develop contact and self-directed enough to ask for guidance in decisionmaking. This is the only dependable way in which the fakes can be separated from those who are legitimate.

Kay Cahill went unprosecuted for her spiritual destruction of perhaps 3600 lives.
Rewarded with a luxurious lifestyle, the Commission chose not to prosecute partially because she is a woman and a grandmother. Their experience, in the American courts is that even if the prosection was successful, the jury would elect to either deny her guilt to absolve themselves from sending a 60-year-old woman to jail, or, they would request leniency in her sentencing. After expending considerable public funds to prosecute her, she might be off the streets for a few months. With tight enforcement budgets, its difficult to justify the cost or the effort - especially when the community does not seem to support the justice system. What will the damage be to the commuity next time? And remember, there are at least 150 more out there like her.

Why are so few of the public willing to stand up for their rights and to try to cleanse the community of such spiritual abuse ? Many of the participants have come to believe that the capitalist economy IS elitist. That is, that against their fundamental religious beliefs and the social and political myths of the American society - freedom and prosperity are NOT available for all.

When you have worked hard and persistently within the economic system and you appear to be going nowhere fast - perhaps even downhill - reality does not appear to justify one's moral beliefs. Lack of self-esteem, depression, despair, and envy weaken one's spirituality. Then one can easily accept the often true reality that persons who know the opportunity-finders and opportunity-givers are most often successful.

When an individual then profers a means to take a moral holiday which will be forgiven by the good works done in the end, the downtrodden are encouraged to bury themselves in their distrust or to elevate their expectations to include trust. Either reaction is often devastating. If you have elected to participate, and the venture fails - you are reminded of the baseline of cynicism from which you have tried to extract yourself.

If one's self-esteem now sinks lower than initially and one's despair intensifies - the attitude which often evolves is one of negative shame and paranoia. Why take legal action - it probably won't work. Why go to the police - they may feel that you are part of the problem. Why trust anyone - you've been (betrayed) again ! It's all a conspiracy by .... This is the rising standard of the American culture. Justice according to the expense; justice according to the image portrayed by the defendant.

And in the media: news is relative to how many people it involves, and, especially, according to how much drama can be amplified to sell copy. Media approached with this and other incidents were reluctant to inform their readership. The story didn't end in prosecution. The story did not involve physical danger, threats, attacks, murder - all the factors which can be manipulated into sensationalism. Finally, it was thoughtful and depressing, and, "the public don't want to hear it." Would the public rather be scammed - and then hear how they could have avoided it? What is the function of a society and a political system?

1994 - In mid-April,
Near Chelyabinsk, U.S.S.R. (1,200 km SE of Moscow), severe flooding from the Ural Mountains threatens to endanger the safety of the drinking water supply by leaching of nuclear materials buried following nuclear disasters in the 1940s and 1950s. Residents in the area have long reported high rates of cancer, miscarriages and other medical problems. The flooding is the worst in 30 years. The warning was made by Marina Ryklina of the Government Committee for Emergency Situations.

1994 - On April 21,
Concern regarding the Lewiston Nuclear Disposal Site, near Niagara Falls, U.S.A. reaches the public media.
The site contains 255,000 cu yards of soil and radioactive materials generated by the Manhattan Project in the 1940s. Cancer clusters in the nearby population have raised suspicions of groundwater leakage from the site of radium and other toxic substances.

1994 - On April 28,
Carol Baker and her husband Ken witnessed the appearance of a hovering white sphere around which a smaller sphere was seen to orbit. Carol was taking Ken to work at the time in the Gulf Breeze area, Florida, when they saw the UFO through the windshield of their car. Ken had been working previously for 7 years in the USAF and believes that he would have the perceptual awareness to determine if the object was an aircraft constructed by humans or not. He does not believe it was.

After the initial wave of Gulf Breeze sightings of 1986 were reported in 1990, a research group was established and with regular observers, over 1,000 sightings were recorded between November 1990 and November 1992. The sighting are becoming more frequent as time progresses; however, so are the number of observers.

1994 - By May,
Cronos 1, a Russian satellite, is launched to observe the sun during its 11-year cycle of waxing and waning.
Intended to be launched during the latest solar maximum, delays mean that the current launch is mid-cycle.

1994 - Early in May,
Beijing, China received its first major rainstorm in 16 months of drought.
More rain will be needed to replenish severely depleted water supplies.
Recent rain in Kenya, Africa has lessened the likelihood of famine and the loss of the tea and coffee crops.
Such marginal climatic-survival margin preclude real extensive disaster in the event of further minor shifts in or irregularities in climate.

1994 - During May,
Mikhail Yegorov of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that organized crime groups were trying to penetrate the facilities of the defense establishment and steal nuclear material.

1994 - By May,
Lack of response to ecological problems was reported in surveys of Canadian government, business and social response groups. In 1987, the Bruntland Report, "Our Common Future", which coined the phrase "sustainable development" and suggested that government interact with heads of businesses and social activist groups had produced only bureaucratic counterproductive action.

In 1987, Canada led the world by responding to the Report with the creation of roundtable sessions between such parties. Convening such groups to share expertise, concerns and experiences was hoped to replace fruitless public confrontation with a win-win catalytic generation of solutions. Instead, the British Columbia roundtables were shut down by 1994 and the most successful roundtable, Ontario's Roundtable on Environment and the Economy had not had any political response to its two-year-old study Restructuring For Sustainability.

Not only had the major report been ignored, unread by many politicians, but a background paper, An Environmental Impact of Farm Support Policies in Ontario, had been shelved. The study details how government subsidies pressure farmers to grow monoculture crops and adopt energy- and pesticide-intensive production. With the large number of participants, all with separate expectations and goals, together with the lack of authority to enact widespread policies and regulations - the predictable direction has been much discussion and suggestion resulting in a fogging of enthusiasm and commitment. Within 7 years, activism and public concern has been transformed into static bureaucracy.

In so-called modern democracies, the above presents evidence of one of the factors why such political structures are counter productive to the survival of humanity. First, the major and underlying concern of the paid empowered participants is to maintain order, accommodate all participants and remain in power by not taking leadership positions.

Effective leaders, those which assist humanity in surviving, do not seek to reflect the decisions of those which are ignorant of the issues, ill-informed, resistant to self-responsibility and lacking in social and spiritual skills. What inevitably arises in larger states, made necessary by the presence of larger populations, are either bureaucracies backed by powerful self-interest lobbies or suppressive military backed self-interest dictatorships. There is no positive alternative when a large population is a given factor.

Two historically effective political structures can exist only at the small city-state size of population level.
One, the Greek democracy of the city states, provided participation by all governed under the acknowledgement that present order and future prosperity would only by maintained by self-directed group activity. Difficulties arose as the population governed grew in size requiring more intermediaries to convey individual views and desires to full-time administrators who enacted deferred authority: bureaucracy. The image is that everyone has the right to participate and be heard; the reality is that a fundamental goal is never chosen, having been replaced by a multiplicity of contradictory self-interest programs. No goal, no future.

The other, was that of the Roman "tyrant" system in which an informed, spiritually positive, group-centred leader enacted political decisions which provided positive benefits for the governed individual without much individual participation or sacrifice. Difficulties arose in the selection of successors who inevitably were less spiritually directed than earlier ones, particularly once a power base had been established and the public had been patterned by non-involvement into "follower-slaves". Here, preservation of power becomes the goal, eventually.

The unfortunate but historically verified conclusion is that there is no positive political structure for large masses of population of any lifeform which we know of. Positive is here defined as enabling freedom of choice relative to that of other parties while providing a balanced effort-pleasure lifestyle based on self-direction and self-responsibility founded in self-esteem and positive spiritual skills. The larger the system, the less the positive factors can predominate unless spiritually based group-supported goals provide the foundation: religion.

Human religions have historically failed, not by intent nor by integrity of origin, but by conversion through large-group dynamics. Hypocritical human political systems, which live on the image of small system dynamics while providing large system practicalities have always self-destructed under biological, environmental, political, sociological - individual or composite challenges. This reality supports the motives of those who support Bilderberger positions. Morality is defined by what actions are taken, backed by motive, to reach a goal.

1994 - Early in May,
Off Kyushi Island, Japan, a subsea earthquake of 6.7 magnitude, lasting 30 seconds resulted in a tsunami (tidal wave) warning.
Earth movements were felt in western Sumatra, the mountains between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, northern Argentina, Oklahoma and Southern California.

Anak Krakatau (Krakatoa) volcano spewed a stream of glowing lava 70 metres into the early morning sky above the Straits of Sunda. The 20-minute eruption concluded hundreds of tremors and quakes which had occurred during the previous 2 days.

Oceanographic studies conducted during a re-creation of Columbus's first voyage to the Americas has indicated that the world's oceans are indeed warming up but not as the "greenhouse" theories have predicted. Instead of the expected warming at levels near the surface, Britain's James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation found the most pronounced rise in temperatures has occurred at a layer about 1,100 metres deep.

1994 - During May,
A computerized metal eyeball is found at a UFO landing site near Athens, Greece.
News agencies suggest that it belongs to a robot that travelled to the Earth aboard a spaceship.

1994 - By mid-May,
Tanzania was under a plague of Red Locusts unprecedented in scale in the previous 50 years.
They were expected to migrate into Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire.

1994 - During May,
The "Group 4" Human Resources Conference was held in Prague, Czech Republic.
It was reported that biodata was now being progressively used in the selection of personnel for the worldwide security company. "Group 4" have as clients major banks, airports, oil refineries and hydro plants, and other fundamental commercial manufacturers or services.

Their operations extend through many countries of different political structure including Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Slovak Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, U.K., and the U.S.A. At the conference it was presented that humans with the characteristics of low blood pressure, a high number of jobs, and evasiveness in answering questions, were likely dishonest. Although this finding was only 70% correct, it was promoted as a hiring factor.

Chance, as a decision-making strategy, is 50% correct.
Persons who cope with stressful situations better than the average often show low blood pressure, as do persons who regularly meditate. In the current longer-term global economic recession, many people in industrial-based economies have been subject to layoffs, company bankruptcies, relocations, relationship problems, or, chronic illness. With the majority of persons in these economies finding themselves in situations which they personally find humbling or frustrating, such as working at 2 or more jobs on a part-time basis, there arises a greater potential for persons to be evasive in answering questions phrased with the expectation of a simple answer.

The position being assumed by this conglomerate is indicative of an increasing number of companies which are using pseudoscientific conclusions to facilitate decision-making in an environment where the supply of qualified applicants far outdistances the employment positions available. Such a form of decision-making is comparable to the use of superstition. Both constructive intuition and meditation can far extend the accuracy of such decisions: most human cultures avoid the use of either.

1994 - In mid-May,
Sam Nunn, a U.S.A. Democratic party senator, who chaired the Senate's Armed Services Committee, and reputedly one of the most knowledgeable American politicians on military matters stated:

"It is no longer too fantastic an idea to imagine a scenario in which chemical or biological weapons, missile technology, nuclear materials or know-how or even weapons themselves could fall into the hands of criminal elements. "

Alexander Mihailov, deputy chief of communications for the new Soviet Counter-Intelligence Service stated:

"We used to think it was a problem for other countries ... Now we have a broken nuclear state."

Sergei Okhremenko, Moscow nuclear safety official, noted:

"Closed enterprises (state run bureaucracies) in the Soviet days were intensely controlled.
Now rules don't exist. You can get a radioactive source if you want to buy one."

Sergei Stepashin, intelligence chief, in an article in the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, stated:

"The Foreign Counter-Intelligence Service as well as customs, border troops and the police are helpless to stop the flow of contraband against Russia's transparent borders. ... Russian criminals have no problem obtaining foreign passports issued under phoney names."

All of the above are alarmed at the expansion of the mafia and the traffic in war materials which has arisen out of an economy which now has many unemployed and underpaid weapons experts; in which the only avenue for "enterprise" in the past 55 years has been through the illegal black market; in which the old military-industrial complex which has always operated behind walls of secrecy now boasts thousands of organized criminals with close connections to people in power; in which military recruits are exhausted, young officers overburdened, desertion and draft-dodging increasing.

Sam Nunn was one of five U.S.A. Senators who in November, 1992, mentioned publicly that they were spaceperson aliens. They are RED Walk-Ins. see "SPIRIT" file.

1994 - On May 17,
P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat spoke in a mosque in Johannesburg, South Africa while attending the festive inauguration of South African President Nelson Mandela:

"The jihad (holy war) will continue.
Our main battle is not how much we can achieve from them (Israelis) here or there.
Our main battle is Jerusalem."

Arafat claimed to have a letter from Israeli Officials stating Jerusalem's status will come up for negotiation within three years (before mid-1997). Jerusalem's Old City and its Arab suburbs, which had been ruled by Jordon from 1948, fell to Israelis army during the 6 Day War in 1967 and was later annexed by Israel. Arafat considers Jerusalem part of the permanent state of Palestine, not Israel.

1994 - During the week of May 21,
Valery Yemakov, a Russian researcher, warned that Koryakskaya volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern U.S.S.R., could explode at any time. The believed disaster could be as large as that of Vesuvius in 79. He warned that a nearby city and airport could be destroyed.

1994 - At the end of May,
Manuel Patarrovo, a Colombian chemist, received the Prince of Asturias Prize from Spain after developing the world's first completely synthesized vaccine and giving the rights to the patent to the World Health Organization rather than selling them to a multinational drug company. The vaccine is given in 3 shots at a cost of 30 cents per individual and provides immunity against malaria.

In the early 1960s, malaria was aggressively pursued with drugs and insecticides where previously most prevention and treatment had for millennia been the use of quinine. By the late 60s, 10 percent of the world's population were at risk. By the 1990s, the disease was a threat to 50 percent of the world's population, that is, 300 million cases per year! In the interim, the mosquitoes had mutated to insecticide resistant strains and the parasites had mutated to drug resistant strains.

In addition, Brazil had begun construction of the Trans-Amazon Highway in 1970, opening the forest to farmers, gold miners, and ranchers and increasing the incidence of the disease 20-fold. Similar conditions have arisen in other countries where jungle has been cleared to provide a livelihood for the increasing human population. Malaria parasites are transferred from an infected human to an Anopheles mosquito in which eggs are laid and larvae transferred from the infected mosquito into a human where it attacks the liver cells.

1994 - Late in May,
South Africa was swept with bitter cold with temperatures reaching a record low of -9 degrees Celsius in Jamestown, Orange Free State.

1994 - Late in May,
A misinformation technique used in the U.S.A. is exposed by a Canadian newspaper.
A novel, "La Femme Lapidee" (The Stoned Woman), originally published in France, is translated and published as fact in the U.S.A., supporting political foreign policies. The novel purported to be the tale of events leading up to the death of an innocent woman by stoning for adultery in a village in Iran.

It was evident in the original version that the story could not be the "eye-witness" account it was later made out to be: the language was imaginative and the author penetrated the darkest secrets and most private thoughts of the characters. Written by Iranian dissident Freidoune Sahebjam, Arcade Publishing of New York presented the novel as factual in every "true and shocking" detail. Stoning is prohibited in Iran. Sahebjam alleges that since 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power, hundreds of similarly motivated stonings have taken place.

Reviewed at face value across North America as nonfiction, the numbers of stonings suggested in the book have now been entered into numerous databases as fact! Often these databases declare that the figures have been taken from "credible international human rights groups" noting the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Red Cross - all of which deny responsibility for such statistics. ALL of the details in the story have been shown to be fictional. The author was formerly a diplomat who worked for the Shah before the ruler was deposed.

Interviewed from his home in France, Sahebjam maintains that the story was reconstructed from the accounts of various people and that Soraya, 35, was the victim of a 1986 plot masterminded by Sheik Hassan Lajevardi, a career criminal posing as a cleric (who happens to share a surname with Iran's current supervisor of prisons), one of many evil characters released from prisons under Khomeini.

"False statistics which are printed in reputable publications take on a life of their own," and should be of concern because they may be generated in support of vested political interests, says Nicholas Russell, professor at the School of Journalism in the University of Regina. "It is very difficult for the media to protect ourselves; we keep getting hoaxed, manipulated, sucked in." According to a 1987 report by Amnesty International, "Relatively few stonings to death have been reported since 1979 (in Iran) ... eight people who died this way in 1986."

1994 - By June,
"The Nations Program" investment via Marina Inc. was being well promoted by a series of linked brokers of which
Mr. John Precour of
4570 Westgrove, Ste 152, Dallas, TX,
75248, (214)407-0800, fax (214) 733-3838,
was 4th or 5th from the international sanctioned trader in Europe. Of course every 2nd referral source up the line presented himself as next to the trader.

Investors in this, like in any so-called Prime Bank Debenture Trading Program, were often recruited from contacts which were as distant as 8 or 10 contacts away. All that was required for any investment, in this string or in any other, to end in capital loss was for one individual to get greedy and set up intervening contracts, or, become possessive and secretive about who their prospective investors were. By December, Precour would boast that he had placed a trillion dollars in investment over the previous year.

Mr. Albert W. Ambs, the superior to Precour, was billed as having 20 years of senior V.P. experience in international banking with institutions such as Citibank and currently a holder of a Class 5 IMF registered securities trader. Ambs had apparently worked more recently at the 1991 incorporated Amherst Group Limited, a Greenwich, Connecticut, management consulting firm with 10 employees or less and annual sales in 1994 under 1 million dollars.

Investments were to be arranged by joint venture contracts between Marina Inc., a company owned by John Precour, and the investor. Participation levels were stipulated as US $10 million minimum up to December 31, 1994, increasing to minimums of US $25 million thereafter - in accord with changing I.C.C. trading regulations. The investor's assets would have to be transfered to a major Swiss bank. Profits guaranteed to the investor were 107% per year based on 39 trading weeks and 1 or 2 trades per week.

100 million dollar prime bank debentures were the subject of the trading with the investor being the interim purchaser between a debenture source and the destination bank. Since the buy-Re-Sell contracts were to be confirmed before anything happened, the investor would never hold the debentures which would be transfered electronically by Swift Wire and confirmed with CUSIP codes. The investors assets had to be "blocked" in the investor's account (reserved only for such trading) so as not to cause any delays and as a clear indication of an intention to trade. 50% of the profits would go to each party. The investor would also be responsible for paying finder's fees out of his 50% to from 1 to 5 intervening brokers.

What the investor was not told was that the investment made, unless substantially over $100 million, would have to be piggybacked or leveraged with other investments in order to truly participate. The I.C.C. was changing the rules and the minimum participation amounts had been raised substantially above the ones quoted by Precour. The real return in such a circumstance would be higher than 10% per trade with the intervening amounts going to so-called traders and a series of brokers. Smooth trading could yield numbers of trades as high as 3 per banking week. Depending upon international bank holidays, there are about 40 banking weeks in the international commerce year.

The bottom line was that if the Federal Reserve officials or the I.C.C. or the I.M.F. determined that the investment consisted of comingled funds and replicating contracts which subdivided the profits - everyone would be permanently ostracized and the investment would be "lost" by any one of many covert methods.

The Nations Program was simply one of the more recent mechanisms to enable the capital-based economies of the world to continue to function while bolstering up third world nations which were increasingly in danger of financial default. With the approval of the I.M.F., the World Bank and the USA Federal Reserve Board, a "collateral supplier" (investor) and a "funder" (broker) could form a joint venture to purchase newly issued prime bank debentures (guarantee of funds certificates) for immediate sale to the Lines-of-Credit banks used as intermediaries of the central banks of the particular third world nation. That is, a private large capital ($100 million to 1 billion) debenture could be issued by a company on capital secreted away in a bank of Swiss or other tax shelter - trust nation origin.

The origin of the assets could be capital embezzled by the Shah of Iran from his country, capital embezzled by President and Mrs. Marcos from the Philipines, capital sourced from the American, Sicilian, Russian or Japanese organized crime organizations, or any number of similar sources. After all, who was going to complain if it went missing. Indeed, who was going to check the integrity of the Swiss and other tax shelter banks to confirm that the certificates were not duplicated on the same capital, or that it belonged to the face name company - or that it even existed!

One point was clear, if the capital did not come from somewhere to "insure" the central banks of the world - the global banking system would collapse. This was not a simple matter of national security at stake. If the public ever really found out how weak their banking systems were - they would run to their banks and withdraw whatever they had while there was still something there. Whatever the source, once the debenture was issued, confirmed by the bank of resident asset, purchased by a "private" investor, and given the nod by the USA Federal Reserve Board select officials and the IMF - it would become "legitimate" and saleable to any bank in need of capital reserves.

The bank of capital origin would confirm the presence of the assets.
The certificate would be issued and a CUSIP number registered for it. A US $100 million debenture might be discounted (after all, its real value might not extend beyond that of the paper it was issued on) by 12% and "sold" on the insider market to the joint venture (of the trader, brokers and investor). The third world nation's central bank would purchase the security for the full face value. The immediate $12 million in profit would then be shared such that 1/3rd went to the I.M.F and the remainder was divided between the trader, investor and brokers.

The end result was that credit worthless countries gained additional credit to keep their banking system operating; the I.M.F. received capital which it could proudly use to back more loans to capital-based nations; an assortment of segregated investors and brokers received extraordinary profits and "commissions". One of the biggest conspiracies of all is the extension of endless deficit financing by almost every capital-based economy necessitated by an overdependence upon military expenditures and involvement during this century. As one officer commented in 1993: "It's got too big to stop! If we balance the books now, we'll have World War III".

1994 - On June 1,
"The Climate Timetable" a report released in London, U.K., by Greenpeace, catalogues more than 500 examples of extreme weather events from scientific journals, newspapers and computer databases. The 8 hottest years on record have ALL occurred since 1980 with 1990 being the hottest. Drought induced fires have occurred in California, Indonesia and Siberia; intense cyclones in the Caribbean and Pacific; floods in Europe and the USA; droughts in Africa, South America, and Australia.

1994 - Beginning in June,
A space-based nuclear war command network is put into orbit about the Earth by the U.S.A.
Satellites are equipped with programs capable of conducting remote-controlled nuclear war against the U.S.S.R. in the event that the U.S.S.R. carries out a first-strike nuclear attack against the U.S.A.

1994 - Early in June,
A U.S.S.R. multinuclear warhead torpedo was reported by the U.S. Navy Intelligence as heading towards New York City.
A thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the warhead was developed in the early 1980s as a revenge weapon to be used in the event that the U.S.A. and China joined forces to destroy the Soviet Union. It was installed on a "Typhoon" class submarine with the advisory to be used only in the event that the Soviet Union were beaten and on the verge of surrender.

The sub's commander apparently interpreted the collapse of the Soviet Union, the outlawing of the Communist Party and the financial support given by the USA to bolster capitalism in the U.S.S.R. as a U.S. victory over communism, to which he was dedicated, and launched the weapon. He then destroyed the sub and crew. The torpedo moves at only 5 knots and must surface to have its solar batteries charged for 4 hours of every 8 running time.

Russia and the U.S.A. used surface ships, submarines and aircraft to try and intercept it before it reached the U.S.A. Both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. fail to find it. BLONDS acting as part of a Bilderberger technological superforce, do find it, disarm it, and send it to the ocean bottom intact. They don't want the fuel, they don't want humanity alarmed - yet, and they have given up any hope of remaining on the Earth and are making plans to mass exodus to Mars as conditions permit. There target "complete removal" date becomes 1999. After much patience and consideration this date was chosen during July, 1994.

1994 - Early in June,
Southeastern Australia was the site of a huge dust storm which blew an estimated 30 million tons of soil out to sea and blanketed Sydney and other cities with a thick brown haze. The storm was 700 km. wide and 200 km. long at its zenith; it started in the dry farmland and outback desert of South Australia, then was blown into the Tasmanian Sea by winds gusting up to 100 km./hr.

A long dry autumn in eastern Australia threatens farmers across 2/3rds of New South Wales with huge crop losses. It is already too late in some districts to sow oilseed crops such as canola, and it's past the optimum sowing time for maximum yields from wheat and other cereals.

1994 - On June 6,
The U.S.S.R. announced that it had removed the guidance information from its nuclear missiles previously targeted at the U.S.A. and had made it impossible for any of its nuclear missiles to be launched.

1994 - Early in June,
In Bolivia, at least 100 people died when a quake unleashed a flow of ice, rocks and mud that roared down the slopes of Nevado del Huila volcano.
Meanwhile, more than 200 people were killed and 400 injured when a tidal wave crashed through fishing villages after tremors in the Sumatran province of West Nusa Tenggara.

1994 - In a report published June 7,
12 U.S.A. senators are said to have admitted that they are extraterrestrial aliens.
Five had admitted their position in November 1992:

    John Glenn, Democrat  -    Ohio
    Orrin Hatch, Republican -  Utah
    Nancy Kassebaum, R -       Kansas
    Sam Nunn, Democrat -       Georgia
    Alan Simpson, Republican - Wyoming

According to Nathaniel Dean, author and UFO researcher, the new entries are:

    Christopher Dodd,       D - Connecticut
    Bennett Johnston,       D - Louisiana
    William S. Cohen,       R - Maine
    Dennis Deconcini,       D - Arizona
    Phil Gramm,             R - Texas
    Howell Heflin,          D - Alabama
    John D. Rockefeller IV, D - West Virginia

Of course, most of the above were playing to the media, largely in a spirit of humour.
NONE were ET aliens; none were even Walk-ins. It was a good way to get some cheap, and, largely positive, media attention.

1994 - Early in June,
India and Pakistan experience the most searing heat wave in 50 years killing hundreds of people and worsening the water shortage in several metropolitan areas. Temperatures soared to 49 degrees celsius across India's western state of Rajasthan and parts of neighboring Pakistan where most of the victims died of heat stroke.

During a second week of soaring temperatures another 390 died with New Delhi breaking a 50-year record of 46 degrees. Nearly $1 million in damage was reported in the southern and eastern parts by the monsoon winds and heavy rains. Seasonal rains had already started across southern India, but government meteorologists predicted that it would be six weeks before they reach Delhi.

This is another of many indications that the influence of humans has resulted in the weather changes which will aggravate political conflicts and sap economic resources, contributing to the suggested appropriateness of Bilderberger elite survival programs.

1994 - On June 8,
650 km beneath central Bolivia, an earthquake measuring 6.4 damaged buildings in Brazil, caused panic in the streets of Chile, and was felt north as far as Ontario, Canada. Earth movements were also felt in Sumatra, Taiwan, southern Mexico, Pakistan, Rumania and Idaho, during the week.

1994 - On June 10,
China explodes an underground nuclear bomb at the atomic test site in the Lop Nor Desert of Xinjiang Province.

1994 - During the week ending June 10,
Popocatepeti Volcano, only 60 km from the capital city of Mexico, continued to emit vast quantities of gas, making it the world's fifth most active volcano. A violent eruption could send rock and ash down on as many as 20 million people.

1994 - On June 13,
Youssef Shaaban, 29, made the surprise confession today in Beirut, Lebanon that he blew up American Airlines Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 and was an explosives expert at that time in Abu Nidal's terrorist network. He is on trial for the January 1994 assassination of a Jordanian diplomat in Beirut.

1994 - On June 14,
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic pressed Russia and President Boris Yeltsin for their support of the Serbs in former Yugoslavia. He was meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in Moscow. Kozyrev warned the U.S.A. against lifting an arms embargo on Bosnian Muslims, saying this might return the world to the Cold War or even propel it into the Third World War:

"If one great power or both start supporting their clients
it would bring the world back to the worst years of the Cold War."

Kozyrev told Karadzic to choose between accepting international conditions on the split of Serbia or lose Russia's support. "But I want to warn you. There is also another choice, which we think leads to war. You cannot control 70% of the territory by force as you do now." The U.S.A. government voted in favour of lifting embargoes against Bosnian Muslims, imposed by the UN, last week, in spite of opposition from their President Clinton.

1994 - On June 14,
A meteorite was seen streaking across the sky described as a "big ball of fire falling like fireworks but it was a lot bigger" by a Varennes, Quebec witness, near Montreal, Canada. An object the size of a small football was found embedded in the soil in the town of St. Marc sur Richelieu, about 30 km east of Montreal. The flash of light could be seen as far away as Casselman, Ontario, about 140 km west of Montreal. During its fall there was a sonic boom which some witnesses described as a violent explosion.

1994 - By July,
Fred Goldberg, A Swedish Doctor of Technology, had been engaged by the Swedish National Road Administration to develop an "electronic drivers' license" - a license with a microprocessor that could store personal information, including a key to the vehicle's ignition lock. None of the technology involved would be difficult to engineer; only the political authorization might prove difficult.

The "smart card" - similar to the earlier introduced banking smart cards - would store such data as the medical history and cautions regarding the driver, and possibly the expected usual occupants; the persons allowed to drive the vehicle; the license status of the individual; the driving record of the driver; the repair record of the car or truck; the distance travelled and the speeds encountered - either by trip, by day, or, some other factor.

One of the primary concerns of the Swedish government, and a rationalization factor for all other governments, was the long-term statistical finding that between 50% and 60% of all vehicle accidents were associated with the addictive and/or irresponsible use of alcoholic beverages. While the profile of such impaired drivers designated males between the age of 17 and 25, other males and females also contributed to the havoc and social waste of disabling injuries, deaths, and high repair costs and rising insurance premiums.

The KitteLock, as it became known, could be programmed not to allow the starting of the vehicle until the individual had performed an alcohol breath test (i.e. if previously convicted of impaired driving). Over the next many years, a sacrifice of reason over the now too late prohibitive cost of re-orientation of human cultures, heavy restrictions on the alcoholic beverage industry, and the curing of alcoholism would be effected. An alcoholic driver could easily "beat" the breathalyser by having someone else provide the breath, or, by capturing an acceptable breath in a bag, storage bottle or other device - for future use.

In typical human fashion, the core of the problem, alcoholism, had been a point of denial for the public and the politicians of all countries for decades. After the trend of alcoholic consumption and vehicle accidents had been substantiated for a further several decades, minor legal restraints were placed on the usually repeat offenders. Parents and spouses of severely injured and murdered (drunk drivers were aware of the risks, unless they were imbeciles) victims began to demand media and political attention. Some governments responded with roadside police spot checks of drivers.

Costly media campaigns were launched at the public expense in an effort to regress the drinking patterns modeled by the society, promoted by mass media entertainment, and, particularly imprinted by 50 years of direct, suggestive, and, subliminal advertising promotion - with a cumulative budget of tens of billions of dollars. These idealistic and slightly effective measures betrayed a further factor about even the most educated groups of humans: few had any understanding of the foundations of addiction. Fewer had any awareness of the real lack of control which addicted persons have over their behaviour. Fewer still, had any concept of what a cure for addictive behaviour would be.

Idealistic approaches of education (presuming greater awareness and intellectual control) and attitudes of shame (presuming effective motivation after addiction by induced ostracism) continued to avoid the bottom line: prevention, harsh penalty, and, effective treatment. As would be seen, the rationale for this "technological" approach was simply another authoritarian quick fix to an endemic capitalistic response to the failures of the materialistic cultures which grew out of industrialized economies.

1994 - By July,
Marc Miller, RAND Corporation scientist and military and political adviser, had written in "Washington Quarterly":

"The United States needs to send a strong signal that regional nuclear predators
won't be allowed to attack U.S. allies and U.S. military policy should be upgraded accordingly."

Miller believes that unlike the Persian Gulf War approach, U.S. forces and facilities in the future will have to be carefully dispersed to make them less vulnerable to a nuclear hit. The military would have to be equipped with bases "hardened" to resist a nuclear strike.

1994 - On July 2,
John Kenneth Galbraith, noted Canadian economist notes major stupidities of our age and of history:

"Mergers and acquisitions, the large accumulation of debt, the leveraged buy-outs and the terrific inequality of income of the 1980s are all departures from elementary common sense. ... the extent to which people go to avoid rational decisions - the very large role of mental deficiency in economic history.

Generally, people have been very resistant to attributing a causal role in history to stupidity. ... (dangers ahead include) Mutual funds. With so much money flowing into stocks - and everyone thinking they're a safe bet - the markets could collapse if investors grow nervous. They could withdraw their money in a panic.

All of past history tells us - each new generation produces people who think they are endowed with financial wizardry until the day of reckoning comes."

1994 - During July,
Dr. Carl Jevolin, astronomer, and others would detect and begin to maintain observation of a stellar phenomenon similar to a cloud, which gives off powerful bursts of X-rays and jets of hot gases while travelling at or beyond the speed of light. It appears to obliterate, block out or engulf stars, or their light, from reaching the Earth. It is estimated to be at a distance of 10,000 lightyears from the Earth. NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite, orbiting the Earth confirmed the observation, also in July.

1994 - During July 18-24,
Shumaker-Levy Comet, is expected to collide with Jupiter, splitting into 21 pieces beforehand.
The influence of each piece will have an effect relative to its size. The comet split into pieces when it last passed by Jupiter in 1992 by the influence of differential gravity.

The largest fragment could explode with such force as to create a 2,000 km. high mushroom cloud that would leave signs in the Jovian clouds for decades. Smaller pieces, of kilometre size, could penetrate several hundred kilometres into Jupiter's atmosphere, then explode with a force greater than a million times the power of the Hiroshima bomb, disrupting Jupiter's atmosphere for weeks - perhaps months. If the pieces break up into smaller house-sized chunks before entering Jupiter's atmosphere, they may disintegrate before hitting the main cloud deck that forms the visible "surface" of the planet.

The gravitational influence of Jupiter effects the path of most asteroids and the potential for their impacting the Earth.

1994 - By mid-summer,
Supplies of bomb grade Plutonium stored at Chelyabinsk and Tomsk, in the former USSR, exceeds 125 metric tons - enough to make 15,000 new warheads or bomb cores. Some of it is raw; some is machined to perfect spheres. Another 1,000 metric tons of highly enriched uranium - enough for 45,000 additional weapons - is warehoused at Sverdlovsk, Angarsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Tomsk.

1994 - By August,
The influence of the REDS on humanity had been substantially more than intended.
Walk-ins had produced, contributed to, or stimulated amazing discoveries in the treatment of disease and such information was made available largely through self-help books and through clinics, for conventional medicine took little notice of their less costly more effectively curative and preventive means. Walk-ins had defused political conflicts both at the diplomatic and military level.

In eleven instances, REDS of lesser spirituality had been motivated by their empathy and grief, regarding the state of humanity, to enact gross interference. Atomic explosion mishaps were prevented in 3 instances during the period October 1946 to August 1952: two were in the White Sands, New Mexico state of the U.S.A.

In six other instances, nuclear war had been prevented:
two attempts had originated in the U.S.A. and four in the U.S.S.R.. In each situation, only a small group shared the intention. All attempts took place in submarines capable of launching a massive armageddon desperation attack of multiple warhead weapons.

Lastly, significant progress had been made in the field of medicine by the introduction of radical technology enabling the generation of antibiotics and biotechnology.

1994 - By August,
The Number of Nuclear Warheads held by the 5 super-power nations had dropped 55% from 1986 to a total of only 27,387. ALL of these are an average of 20 times the strength of the Hiroshima weapon which destroyed nearly everything within a 2 kilometre radius. This number does NOT include those weapons held by Israel, India, Pakistan, S. Africa, China and other countries. Most of the weapons (95%) are under the control of the USA or former republics of the Soviet Union.

In Canada, Peter Gizewski, a Carleton University professor and research associate at the "Canadian Centre for Global Security", in Ottawa, noted:

"Nuclear weapons continue to be perceived by many as an effective and relatively affordable means for achieving international status. ... In a world where the costs of conventional weapons and large military establishments are increasingly viewed as excessive, temptations to buy into the nuclear game can be compelling. ...

The threat (since the Soviet Union's collapse) is shifting away from large sophisticated nuclear arsenals possessed by relatively unified state actors, to that posed by a few crude weapons in the hands of sub-national groups and/or states which lack the checks and balances present in the declared nuclear weapon states. Left unattended, the chances for nuclear use, and for eroding the longstanding 'nuclear taboo' could increase."

While some political advisers are urging their leaders to develop policies threatening all others with retaliation for the use of nuclear weapons against any country, others are urging first strike preparedness to destroy nuclear reactors "suspected" of producing fuel for armaments, and, the further dispersal and entombment of military facilities to resist a nuclear weapons attack. Further authoritarian measures by major states including a worldwide integrated secret intelligence agency, technical supervision of activities in smaller nations, and "anti-terrorist" forces to suppress dissent and conflict in smaller nations have also been suggested.

Iraq, Iran, Taiwan, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, and the Koreas are all suspected of seeking to acquire or to build nuclear arsenals. Long-term proposals involving the renewal of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1995 and its extension to include all of the nations mentioned above have also been expressed. Proposed by USA President Clinton, and difficult to enact, are the possibilities of declaring the production of plutonium, the construction of larger nuclear reactors and the possession of reprocessing equipment illegal, internationally. No elected or appointed politician appears prepared to promote the spiritual, and assumed to be ridiculous approach, of a cooperative human community founded on an acknowledgement of the realities of the Earth, the universe, and human history.

1994 - In August,
It is reported that travel scams in Canada and the U.S.A. were costing the public $12 billion per year.
Many of the losses were less than $1,000. indicating that a great number of people were being negatively influenced. It was noted that scammers can only operate if no one knows about them. A national travel organization had shown leadership in presenting information to the public about such activities in order to educate and protect the victims.

In many incidents, the prospective victim had been contacted by phone and declared a winner of a free holiday as the result of a free draw conducted at a large local trade show open to the public. Credit card numbers were taken ostensibly to confirm the reservation and, when desired, to pay for optional upgrades in the vacation package from a spartan basic package. Monies were debited from the cards, yet the reservations were never confirmed or persistent delays or complications prevented the vacation from ever occurring.

This was one of many widespread organized deception activities which preyed both on persons wishing to help others with gains which they made, and, in this case, to gain something for nothing. As the proportion of the population in North America increased which was continually subject to job instability, with its accompanying home instability, increasing multiple part-time employments, loss of employment benefits, increasing number of working hours to maintain the same lifestyle, and increasing consumer debt - spiritual disintegration of the masses increased.

Distrust of all declarations, offers and presentations led to lack of success, and benefit to society, of legitimate, honest and well-directed activities as well as the dishonest. Material insufficiency of shelter and food together with declining material comfort encouraged the development of chronic paranoia, reduced self-esteem, self-obsession, petty crime, drug dependency, sexual addiction, and abuse. Relationships continued to be increasingly transitory with difficulties arising partly from financial instability frustrating the expected responsibilities associated with formal "permanent" marriages.

The inability to understand the reasons behind such trends, which were largely political and religious, excluded constructive coping options from being recognized and taken. An increasing number of people were becoming mercenary in attitude, depressed and accepting of participation in fundamentally illegal activities.

1994 - In August,
The Komineff Pipeline Company in Russia reported a crude oil spill of 4.3 million gallons.
At first, the oil was controlled behind a dike on permafrost.
In October, the dike would collapse, pouring oil into 2 rivers.

1994 - September 6,
This was the beginning date for the next Mail and 1-900 SCAM operated by
National Consumer Center (NCC),
1 NCC Plaza, P.O. Box 30790, Laguna Hills,
CA USA, 92654-0790.

The duration of the promotion was stated as March 6, 1995.
Most such SCAMS run for a duration of approximately 6 months.
After that, it is wise to move locations and change 1-900 numbers to avoid prosecution or harassment by the "customer."

The promotion was circulated in all of the provinces of Canada excepting Quebec (French-speaking and France-originated civil code) and the states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Alaska, South Carolina, Rhode Island, D.C., Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Maine, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

In case any of the state politicians gained some concern for the tens of thousands of citizens in their jurisdiction which could become victims, the "consumer disclosure" noted that the contest was "void where prohibited by law." That's like saying that if you bought illegal drugs from a dealer and you both were caught, the drug dealers defense would be that the transaction was your fault because he didn't know that dealing drugs was illegal in your neighbourhood and you should have told him!

In addition, the disclosure noted that this SCAM would be offered in different locales "in different creative presentations." Maximum circulation was set at 4,998,468 notices. There would be 5 awards only: $10,295; $3,432; $1,373; $1,029; $240. Total award payout: $16,369.

The creative presentations would be circulated by
Direct American Marketers, Inc. (DAMI),
16881 Hale Avenue, Irvine CA
92714-5020 (714) 261-8311,
under a series of company names by which DAMI had registered to do business.
"National Consumer Center" was designated as one of those fronts.

A (short) list of winners was to be made available through
NCC Winners List,
P.O. Box 25154, Santa Ana, CA
USA 92799-5154.

The presentation suggested that the recipient had won the grand prize of $10,295.00.
By responding with the pre-assigned winning cheque number before the deadline, and answering a simple mathematical question, a copy of which was included, the recipient would win the money. You could answer by mail or phone. If you answered by mail, the method outlined guaranteed that the entry would either by mangled or lost by the post office, or, that the company could easily infer such.

Immediate verification was hassle-free and a phone call away (1-900-451-3228).
The cost: $4.99 per min with a 7 minute average = US$ 34.93.
That is, DAMI was looking for a gross profit of 4,998,468 x $34.93, or US$ 174,596,487!
If you worked it out, DAMI had to profit after expenses by at least 169 million dollars.
I guess we now who's winning here.

Continuing on, successive promotions would be mailed to the same selection of major mailing lists on the basis of a new version about every 6 months. The basic concept would stay the same. Award numbers would change during the August 5, 1994 - February 6, 1995 promotion such that everyone who phoned would receive a prize of $1.37. Since this modification would remain for many future promotions it is evident that people who received $1.37 back for their $34.93 felt more positive than those who received nothing.

The system would be kept simple.
If you were on their selected major magazine publisher mailing list, you would continue to receive promotions whether you responded on not. Each time, a different 1-900 number would be used and you would be issued with a different cheque number and supposed photocopies of "your" winning cheque. Other promotions would run between December 15, 1994 - June 15, 1995, etc.

Sometimes, within days, an almost identical package would be sent out with subtle differences and a different 1-900 number. If you failed to respond, a "copy" of the original "notice" on light blue paper might be sent as a follow-up with a small yellow sticky note proclaiming "We're giving you one more chance. PLEASE RESPOND NOW." Of course, you would receive clear instructions on how to use either the original 1-900 number or a new one, so you could lose your money. Even slot machines and lotteries offer you a REAL though high odds opportunity of increasing your capital. Major prizes here were few and fictitious.

1994 - By October,
Astrological-psychic predictions by phone had become a new and increasing form of combined infomercial and 1-900 telephone exchange service. Included in the television promotion were all of the deceptions possible in the infomercials, earlier described. With the addition of the 1-900 service, the viewer would now be automatically charged a minimum to try the service or check it out.

It takes a tremendously gifted and practised psychic to be both reasonably accurate in their predictions, candid in their precautions and productive in numbers of readings per day. A professional reading is often tape recorded for the client and in all cases the reading is preceded by an introduction explaining the basic approach of that particular psychic and any idiosyncrasies which he or she follows. Most have some form of mental centring activity such as doodling or touching a personal article.

A professional astrologer will often require time to plot a nativity chart of the client and then consider the implications. With study, practice and insight - such an astrologer can provide a character assessment, suggestions for opportunities and difficulties in the present and near future in 30 to 60 minutes.

The psychic will often take a similar amount of presentation time.
But humans with psychic skills are not seldom professional astrologers and the latter are seldom psychics. There is a subtle difference between the results of each. The astrologer arrives at general conclusions of possibility and specific indications of character and skill ability. The psychic is inspired by "revelations", insights and a "sense" of the past, present and future. The former may or may not evidence a strong belief in a god-force; the professional psychic often appears reverent. The promotion of an astrology-psychic service by mass media and cost per minute impersonal telephone communication does not indicate a capacity beyond that of entertainment.

Reality is promoted in the infomercial.
The viewer is primed with the joyous testimonies of individuals who have won a lottery prize, met a lover, changed jobs, made a change! The viewer, being at a distance, not knowing the testimonial giver, not being able to question or see the person's activities before and after the testimony - does not know if the person is acting out a script or telling the truth.

Even if they are telling the truth, the viewer has no basis of reality for whether the person was chosen at random, appeared to be chosen at random, or, was planted. Neither does the viewer know if the testimonial provider was selected as one who was successful from amongst hundreds who were disappointed. It is an illusion marketed as Reality TV to a public starved for reality by the constrictions of role definition, denial, ignorance, status quo sameness, and abandonment. It is the soap opera made personal and interactive.

In addition, there is a placebo effect which is likely to be present in such a promotion.
Someone who lacked self-confidence to make a decision or take an action will now be confident, because they have been told they will be successful - to take the action or be open to the opportunity which they desire. Success does not often come to those who are full of despair and inactivity. The danger, is that if the person is successful, their spirit will have been manipulated to believe that the presenter is a miracle worker, or, that all people who call the 900 line will be as successful. How different is this from superstition or idol worship? How "real" is this promise?

If it may take years of dedication, practice and a degree of individual awareness to develop ONE true professional in either the psychic or astrology fields, how did the sponsor of this infomercial happen to gather the hundreds of them together which would be needed to answer the number of calls required to pay for the infomercial and provide a reasonable living. Many have reliable repeat clients which they have proven their talents to over a long period of time. Would they abandon this long-term dependable resource for a possible short-term questionable resource? While the infomercial may say in small print at the end that the "readings" are for entertainment only, the viewer has been brainwashed skillfully for up to an hour with the suggestion of reality.

Would there be that many wealthy people who would flippantly pay out $50 to hear 15 minutes of ego massaging? Or is it more likely, that a great number of confused, disappointed - even desperate, persons - will call in search of a new salvation? Instead of prayer, meditation, or professional guidance - they will be deceived, manipulated, enslaved - by their lack of spiritual strength, AND, the sanction of the culture and its leadership. The end result is the production of more "followers" who lack the spiritual skills to survive, let alone prepare for, massive change.

1994 - By October 4,
Rain forest fires in southeast Asia are providing chronic threats to human health and jeopardizing crops and climate.

Smoke and pollution have been so thick for so long over parts of Malaysia that scientists are cautioning that crops may be damaged by the severely reduced amounts of available sunshine. In parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, the pall of pollution has forced the closing of several airports. In Singapore, health officials are warning residents to reduce their outside activities. Last week, 2 separate ship collisions involving freighters occurred in the straits between Indonesia and Singapore as they made their way through thick smoke.

The last time there were large forest fires here was in 1991.
The massive defoliation and destruction of the Vietnamese and Cambodian rainforest during the war which ended in 1975 contributed to changes in rainfall and drought patterns. That, together with more intense cultivation of lands by the growing population has vastly increased erosion problems and resulted in massive flooding in the Mekong River delta region as well as throughout China in recent months.

1994 - On October 4,
The strongest earthquake recorded for Japan occurred.
It was measured at 8.2 on the Richter scale and influenced the full length of the north shore of the state.

1994 - During October,
An Oil pipeline burst northeast of Ukhta spilling 80 million gallons of hot oil onto the ground.
Ukhta is an oil refining town located 1200 miles northeast of Moscow.

1994 - By October,
The USA General Accounting Office (GAC) has noted a number of factors, NASA projects, regarding the administration, funding and efficiency of NASA projects. In its examination of 29 programs conducted over a period of 15 years, 25 (86%) are found to be overbudget. In addition, the GAC's greatest concern is about Contract Management which it terms a high risk area.

Costs of NASA programs have been found to frequently exceed estimates by 77% to 400% and have an average "schedule slippage" (late delivery) of 48 months. Programs not requested in proposed budgets due to their redundancy have been added back in by Congressmen in order to have federal monies finance the local economy served which a Congressman represents ("pork-barrelling").

The manned-flight emphasis has resulted in needless high costs and high risks for explorations which could have been carried out by remote controlled satellites. Safety and cost effectiveness has often been sacrificed for political expediency. NASA has repeatedly lied about its technical capabilities, physical realities of space and cost requirements in its budgets, reports and recommendations to Congress.

"Lied" means that more relevant answers were known and were available and less accurate statements were intentionally substituted to encourage Congress to support the programs requiring funding.

1994 - By October,
The Prevalence of Erotic - Pornographic Images on the Internet was defined in a USA survey.
It found that 450,000 such images and text files were available to Internet users around the world; that the material had been accessed more than 6 million times. Of the more than 11,000 newsgroups, less than 1% are devoted to sexual material. These however, usually contain much larger quantities of information than the other individual newsgroups. Within 6 months, some newly opening Internet sites would report that the access to sexual material newsgroups in their first few months of operation ranged as high as 60% of total usage by male members. It should be remembered that public access to the Internet is new and minor at this point relative to the everyday tool it will become in 8 years.

1994 - In the Winter 1994/Spring 1995
zine h2so4, M. Kadi wrote of the human restrictions of common public online services.
[e-mail:h2so4@igc.apc.org] It was later reprinted in the March-April 95 Utne Reader. In part:

"Computer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought provocation of newsgroups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. The fabulous, wonderful, limitless world of communication is just waiting for you to log on. Sure. Yeah. Right. What this whole delirious, interconnected, global community of a world needs is a little reality check.

Let's face facts. The U.S. government by and large, foots the bill for the Internet, through maintaining the structural (hardware) backbone, including, among other things, funding to major universities. As surely as the Department of Defense started this whole thing, AT&T or Ted Turner is going to end up running it, so I don't think it's too unrealistic to take a look at the Net as it exists in its commercial form in order to expose some of the realities lurking behind the regurgitated media rhetoric and the religious fanaticism of net junkies.

The average person, J. Individual, has an income.
How much of J. Individual's income is going to be spent on computer connectivity ?
... the brutal fact is that $120 is a "reasonable" monthly amount. ...
Thirty hours per month is a realistic estimate for on-line time spent by a single user engaging in activities beyond primitive e-mail. ... And let's be truthful here, 30 hours a month ignores shareware downloads, computer illiteracy, real-time chatting, interactive game playing, and any serious forum following, which by nature entail a significant amount of scrolling and/or downloading time. ....

What do you actually do on-line?
Well, you download some cool shareware, you post technical questions in the computer user group forums, you check your stocks, you read the news and maybe some reviews - hey, you've already passed the 30-hour limit! But, of course, since computer networks are supposed to make it easy to reach out and touch strangers who share a particular obsession or concern, you are participating in the on-line forums, discussion groups, and conferences. ....

Servicewide (on the smallest service, remember) there are over a million posts.

You may want to join the on-line revolution, but obviously you can't wade through everything that's being discussed - you need to decide which topics interest you, which folders to browse. Within the Exchange alone (one of 57 divisions within one of 50 higher divisions) there are 1,492 separate topic-specific folders - each containing a rough average of 50 posts ....

Ultimately, J. Individual does not engage in topics that do not interest J. Individual.
So who is J. meeting? Why, people who are just like J.

J. Individual has now joined the electronic community. Surfed the Net. Found some friends. Tuned in, turned on, geeked out. Traveled the Information Highway and, just a few miles down the great democratic expressway, J. Individual has settled into an electronic suburb.

Are any of us so very different?
It's my time and my money and I am not going to waste any of my time reading posts by disgruntled Robert-Bly drum-beating men's-movement boys who think they should have some say over, for instance, whether or not I choose to carry a child to term simply because a condom broke. I know where I stand. I'm an adult. I know what's up and I am not going to waste my money arguing with a bunch of neanderthals.

Oh yeah; I am so connected, so enlightened, so open to the opposing viewpoint.
I'm out there, meeting all kinds of people from different economic backgrounds (who have $120 a month to burn), from all religions (yeah, right, like anyone actually discusses religion anymore from a user standpoint), from all kinds of different ethnic backgrounds with all kinds of sexual orientations (as if any of this ever comes up outside of the appropriate topic folder).

People are drawn to topics and folders that interest them and therefore people will only meet people who are interested in the same topics in the same folders. Rarely does anyone venture into a random folder just to see what others (the Other?) are talking about.

Basically, between the monetary constraints that the sheer number of topics and individual posts, the great Information Highway is not a place where you will enter an 'amazing web of new people, places, and ideas.' One does not encounter people from all 'walks of life' because there are too many people and too many folders. Diversity might be out there ... but the simple fact is that the average person will not encounter it because with one brain, one job, one partner, one family, and one life, no one has the time!"

1994 - On October 27,
The Pantex Corporation showed its plutonium weapons disassembly plant to the North American mass media.
Located at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, it is now responsible for the disassembly of 2,000 nuclear weapons per year for the purposes of disarmament adherence by the USA. Plutonium "pit" spheres are removed from the warheads and temporarily stored in one of 7 bunkers built during WWII. C5A cargo planes, one of the largest aircraft in service, perform practice landings several times a day adjacent to the bunker area.

At this time, a Department of Energy investigation is ongoing about plant safety, even though executives of the corporation resist admitting this. After 2-1/2 years of employee complaints about the unsafe practices of a fellow employee who appeared to break every safety regulation at one time or another, were finally being investigated. The result: the man who had made the formal complaint was moved off of the disassembly line to a standby position; an energy consultant who had expressed concern was fired; the questionable employee continued to disassemble nuclear warheads. This area is one of a number of such areas designated by the government as a National Sacrifice Zone.

A giant repository for 70,000 tons of nuclear waste is being constructed nearby with a 5 mile long main tunnel and 11 miles of side drifts. The area is considered tectonically active with a 6.3 earthquake being experienced at Skull Mountain in June of 1992. During the previous 5 year period, $7.5 billion has been spent at the Hanford Nuclear site, constructed in the 1940s, substantially to upgrade safety systems. No particular cleanup has yet taken place there. Indeed, there is no known way to "cleanup" plutonium waste!

1994 - By November,
Dr. Heinrich Guttemach, a virologist with the Zurich Medical Center, has discovered that a "Lipogenic Contagiosum Virus (LCV)" contributes to the incidence of obesity in humans. According to his research,

"The infected cells manufacture fat, but they don't dump it into the bloodstream as
normal fat cells do when the body needs energy.  Instead, they store fat permanently.

Within a few months of contracting the virus, most victims begin to notice significant
weight gain.  There is little that can be done to eliminate this added fat as long as the
virus is present.  We're working on a cure ...."

Later studies proved that the virus was highly contagious with the ability to spread through the air, through direct physical contact, or through sexual activity. Genetically engineered bacteria would be developed in the hope of eradicating the virus.

Guttemach's caution: "Stay away from obese people until we have a cure."

1994 - On November 11,
Wendell Berry delivered a speach at the 23rd annual meeting of the Northern Plains Resource Council on
"A few practical guidelines on how to sustain a place-based community". It included:

"I hasten to say that I do not understand these rules as predictions;
I am not interested in foretelling the future.
If these rules have any validity, it is because they apply now.

Supposing that the members of a local community wanted their community to cohere, to flourish, and to last, they would:

   1. Ask of any proposed change or innovation:
      What will this do to our community?
      How will this affect our common wealth?

   2. Include local nature - the land, the water, the air, the native creatures
                                                              - within the membership of the community.

   3. Ask how local needs might be supplied from local sources, including the mutual help of neighbours.
 
   4. Supply local needs first (and only then think of exporting their
                                                   products, first to nearby cities, and then to others.)

   5. Understand the ultimate unsoundness of the industrial doctrine of 
       "labor saving" if that implies poor work, unemployment, or any kind of pollution or contamination.

   6. Develop properly scaled value-added industries for local products in order not to become 
                                                   merely a colony of the national or the global economy.

   7. Develop small-scale industries and businesses to support the local farm or forest economy.

   8. Strive to produce as much of their own energy as possible.

   9. Strive to increase earnings (in whatever form) within the community, 
                                                         and decrease expenditures outside the community.

  10. Circulate money within the local economy for as long as possible before paying it out.

  11. Invest in the community to maintain its properties, keep it clean
                    (without dirtying some other place), care for its old people, and teach its children.

  12. Arrange for the old and the young to take care of one another,
                                     eliminating institutionalized "child care" and "homes for the aged."

  13. Account for costs that are now conventionally hidden or "externalized."

  14. Look into the possible uses of local currency, community-funded loan programs, systems of barter, and the like.

  15. Be aware of the economic value of neighbourliness - as help, insurance, and so on. 
      They must realize that in our time the costs of living are greatly increased by the loss of
      neighbourhood, leaving people to face their calamities alone.

  16. Be acquainted with, and complexly connected with, community-minded people in nearby towns and cities.

  17. Cultivate urban consumers loyal to local products to build a sustainable rural economy, 
                                                 which will always be more cooperative than competitive.

1994 - On November 21,
Organized crime in Russia was the subject of an appeal to the UN for financial assistance by Russia's interior minister Victor Yerin. He reported that 4000 crime gangs had been identified in the first 10 months of 1994 and that Russia was now "ready for the widest possible cooperation from other nations" in combating such widespread criminal activity.

1994 - Late in the year,
A New CIA Cover Story for the Roswell crash in 1947 is issued.
In a 23 page report, an inordinate amount of space is devoted to attempts to discredit Stanton Friedman, a former government researcher, turned critic and UFO writer. Friedman is linked to a supposed National Enquirer expose, which, in fact, does not exist. The original crash in '47 is attributed, not to the weather balloon suggested at the time, but to a more sophisticated balloon type of object. After 50 years, the USA Government Intelligence Agencies still refuse to tell the truth and clear the air of lies and misperceptions.

1994 - On December 5,
Near Concordia, Argentina, 3 young boys, 9-year-old Andres Molero and his brothers, Jorge, 8, and Calos, 7, were abducted by a spacebeing. Witnessed by 6 eye-witnesses, a 75-foot craft flew to hover over the field where the boys were playing.

"With a strange beam of bluish light ... a great golden ship took us up in the sky and it was driven by God - I know it was God", said Andres. The spacebeing, who asked to be called by the name Lalar, "wore golden robes and had long silver hair and was shiny all over. ... He was very kind to us .. showed us the moon and other places (stars) in the sky ...." Lalar "scraped our faces with a white stick and stuck us in the back with a needle but it didn't hurt us." Carlos stated that "There were little lights blinking on and off everywhere. The man looked funny because he had a big head and two big yellow eyes. He is our friend."

It appears that some degree of medical testing was carried out on the ship and the needle marks were still visible on their backs when they reached home. Military and political authorities refused more extensive questioning by civil interests of the children.

1994 - On December 9,
Asteroid XM1 was observed and photographed by Jim Scotti with the Spacewatch telescope on Kitt Peak, USA.
During a 4 hour period, the tail of the object appeared to lengthen.
In 7.5 hours from the beginning of the sighting, the object made its closest approach to the Earth, a distance of 105,000 km (65,625 miles) - considered a near miss. Its averaged approach speed during that period was 38,000 km per hour (23,750 mph).

Over 30 such close passes have been recorded in the past 10 years.
Considering that their are few observers scanning the heavens, fewer who have minimal experience and equipment to assist them, and, that only a minute portion of the sky is observed at those times - it is not unreasonable to consider the following figure provide by a USAF special source:

"In the past 10 years, the Earth has been closely approached by about 1000 asteroids
possessing a minimum diameter of 1 km and ranging up to a maximum of 40 km. 
These passed closer than 100,000 miles distance (160,000 km).  An impact by the
smallest could have produced an explosive effect comparable to a 225 megaton
nuclear weapon.  Such an explosive force could equal 12,500 times that of either of
the nuclear bombs dropped on Nagasaki or Hiroshima in 1945."

Other estimates of the impact magnitude of a 1 km asteroid range up to "1 million Hiroshimas". Asteroids are largely controlled in their path by the mass attraction exerted by the planet Jupiter.

1994 - By December,
Alain De Chalvron a French diver, and another diver had discovered and escaped from huge carnivorous undersea sponges.
While diving in the Mediterranean, a group of 6 divers who had been studying sea turtles, discovered an undersea cave in which the sponges were. When they started to cut some of the tissue of one for sampling, sticky tendrils engulfed the divers. Dr. Martin Kusinet, a San Diego-based marine biologist, described the sponges as:

"... unlike anything else on the planet. They're 18 to 20 feet tall, up to 30 feet wide and, unlike ordinary sponges, they're carnivorous, feeding on large fish, turtles, sea mammals - and humans. These sponges are mutated members of the normally tiny Abestopluma genus that have evolved into huge deadly man-eaters. They trap their prey using sticky tendrils that extend from their bodies. When some living thing brushes past them, they grab onto it, pull it in, and start to eat it alive."

Some researchers believe that the sponges may have mutated into this recent form as a result of the influence of pollution. The new lifeform has been given the name Abestopluma giganticas.

1994 - On December 20,
Nearly 500 vanished aboriginal women were the concern of a report released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada's national police force.

Investigators noted that nearly 500 aboriginal women aged 16 to 30 had been reported missing when they checked their computerized database while investigating the discovery of 4 bodies of murdered women over a 3 week period in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan province area. The almost 500 had disappeared since 1992.

Bernard Schissel, a sociologist at the University of Saskatchewan said:

"It's quite remarkable that 500 people could be free floating and disappear and no one knows anything about it.
I think to a large extent it's a reflection of our indifference towards the marginalized.
We tend to blame the victim."

If this many persons can "vanish" from a mass human democratic industrialized urbanized bureaucratized society during several years in the 1990s, the "disappearance" of several thousand persons into spaceperson abduction programs COULD be safely done.

Hundreds of humans are unaccounted for every year through incident or war, famine or flood; media reports suggesting that specific numbers of person dead or missing tell the whole story are little more than disinformation, intended to impress upon the user that mass media represents an unquestionable all-knowing authority.

1994 - During or before December,
Award SCAMS were prevalent in North America and typified by the following one which originated in the Canadian Province of Quebec.

Embassy Industries (also operating as National Bonanza of Awards), located at
1000 St. Antoine W., Suite 710,
Montreal, P.Q. H3C 3R7, (514) 861-0091,
intended to SCAM 75,000 prospects across Canada - as stated by their representative, Kelly Taylor. Other individuals acting as executives went by the names: Don Martin, Doug Silver, John Philip. Prospects were contacted from a popular mass marketing subscriber list, such as that of Reader's Digest or Publishers Clearing House, or, from a list shared by or purchased from another operating SCAM.

The "mark" was telephoned and told that they were a winner of one of three prizes: $5,000 in cash; a 1995 Electra sport boat and motor; a 1995 Ford Aerostar van (redeemable for $10,000 cash). You would only know which prize you had won after you agreed to receive confirmation papers and an unpayable tax invoice stating the value of the prize. Those would arrive by mail in about 5 working days. But certain procedures had to be followed for you to receive this privilege.

As a sign of your appreciation and good faith, you were asked to order and prepay for 7 booklets of discount and grocery coupons at a price of $779. Each book of coupons was to include discounts of $10 to $100 on large quantity orders of any of 1500 items: the products would be obtained free or at half price. There would be no expiry date on the coupons and some of the merchandise would include cat litter and cat food, cold cereals, and products by Sara Lee, Duncan Hines and Pillsbury. At the end of 3 weeks, you would receive your gift certificate and coupon books and during the 4th week your gift would be delivered. You would not know what your prize was until you received it.

Yet, you would have to send your payment, by cheque, by Priority Post.
To ensure prompt and accurate processing of your participation you were asked to note the name of your contact on the envelope (I.E. Attention: Kelly Taylor). And, for your protection and security, you were advised to note the Post Office tracking number in your records and write on the cheque in the "memo" section that your cheque was for "Prepayment for 7 grocery coupon books and 1 of 3 gifts." On the back of the cheque, for extra safety, you were to write "For Deposit Only" and list the 3 gift options.

How would you know that this was a SCAM?

1. If you have won a prize, there is no need in any contest to buy a product.
In fact, the law usually states that such a claim is illegal and fraudulent. Either you have won the prize or not. The opportunity to try a product or service could be made afterwards but the suggestion that you should take advantage of such out of some obligation because you have been chosen to win a prize is a statement that you have been targeted and that you are being manipulated. The only time someone should feel an obligation for winning a prize is if the awards procedures are weighted in your advantage - which is illegal. What you are being subtely asked is to participate in a deception by which you will benefit; in order to benefit by thousands of dollars, you are asked to forward hundreds of dollars. Again, the question is: Have you won a prize without obligation, or, is this a SCAM.

2. The location of these "awards" was in the other provinces across Canada, and, specifically NOT in the originating province. Canada is peculiar in that it has two separate forms of civil law - the law you sue others under for fraud, breach of contract, embezzlement, etc. That is, the France-origined civil law of Quebec is markedly different from the British-origined civil law of the other 9 provinces and 2 territories. In the USA, every state has a different civil law. Each province or state is regarded as a separate legal jurisdiction. That is, for a lawyer to practice law in each juridiction, a separate legal licence must be held and maintained active. Few lawyers are licenced to operate in more than one jurisdiction and those which are, frequently charge higher fees to justify their wider expertise and higher costs.

The bottom line is that anytime you make any payment to a company located in another legal jurisdiction, you will incur double legal costs to pursue any non-delivery or fraud which may arise. Since such costs can often range between $2,000 and $10,000, take up to a year to resolve before the courts, and are easily avoided by SCAM promoters simply closing the old business and reopening under a new name and address - few defrauded persons ever act on the abuse. In order to keep any ensuing charges in the small claims courts, and subject to fines rather than imprisonment, the amounts requested of the victim are always under $1,000. If you have lost $1,000, would you want to risk losing another $2,000 - $10,000. Location is important when money changes hands regardless of what a contract says.

3. Why can't they tell you which prize you are being awarded ?
Again, if you have won, you have won.
The caller (usually a well spoken female) will have many rationalizations (from the telemarketing script) as to why they don't know what your prize will be until long AFTER (over 4 weeks) they have received your money: availability in stock, number of awarded to date, ease of delivery to you, delays in paperwork, backorders with suppliers, .... Keep focused. These are their excuses why they haven't got your award. How can you have won an award that doesn't exist, that isn't in stock, that hasn't been accounted for? Chances are, no one will receive any of the major awards. In 6 months or so, the SCAM operation will have moved on.

4. How realistic is the offer of the coupon books ?
Seldom do grocery suppliers provide consumers with 50 - 100% discounts on ANY size of order. The marketing of major coupon books seldom exceeds a price of $25 - $50. Would you really purchase $100 worth of cake mixes, cereals or cat litter at one time? Why should it take 3 weeks for you to receive a coupon book that exists? You are being asked to forward your cheque within 24 hours. Why should you trust them if they don't trust you? What are the chances that any major grocery supplier would be so desperate for promotion that they would hire such a firm to bribe you into using their products for much less cost than the products require to be made?

5. How much protection do the special notations provide you with ?
You can write any notation you want in the "memo" section of your cheque and it won't mean anything in a court of law. It's a memo, not a contract. It could be a misunderstanding on your part, a nonsensical abbreviation of something much more expressive, or, your attempt to defraud the supplier. The notation of the proposed gift options is no different, legally. Adding "For Deposit Only" doesn't protect you - it protects the SCAM perpetrators from being ripped off by a mail thief intercepting and cashing your cheque; it ensures that your money goes into their account. You have no such assurrance that anything is coming your way. Talk is cheap.

Persuasive talk that says you have won something you didn't put an entry in for and that you are being treated with privilege by a complete stranger - is likely a con (confidence game). And keeping the tracking number of the envelope taking your cheque to them is another protection for them, not you. If your cheque is lost, you put a stop payment on it and send another. Of course you would notify the Post Office. All of these added measures, which are presumably for your protection - they seem reasonable unless you know something about the law and about frauds - are distractions to keep you from focusing on the primary consideration: you are sending them money on a verbalization by someone you have never met and don't know exists.

"Kelly Taylor" could be a script name.
The script is designed to keep you moving from one part of the con to the next - to keep you from focusing on any one thing, and, to suggestively answer your concerns. Those answers may be irrelevant, may be lies, may be half-truths ... and you won't have the time to check them out.

6. How flexible are the telemarketers who are promoting this opportunity ?
If you have won an award in a legitimate contest, there are no negotiations.
If there is an honest special promotion, there is the best price and no other.
As soon as deeper discounts, smaller orders, or special concessions are introduced -
you are likely being scammed. In concept, they are revealing that they are lying to you.
First they told you that you had won an award; then you had to buy something.
They told you that you would receive one of three awards; then, they couldn't tell you which one.
They told you that you were getting a super deal; then, they offered you a better deal.
Better than the best? They may even agree to fax you a copy of the confirmation papers - but you won't get them.

You are short on money.
They'll accept a cheque postdated by a week.
It will take at least half that time for it to reach them.
You wrote the cheque; you are legally responsible to make it right.
If you don't pay it, YOU get an NSF charge from your bank and a bad credit record, UNLESS.
If you have made some form of arrangement with them by which they are responsible for doing something BEFORE cashing your cheque, you have some protection. So, if they agreed to fax or mail you a copy of their confirmation papers and you haven't received it by the day before your cheque is dated, you have the right to place a stop payment on the cheque, at your additional cost. However, a $10 or $20 disappointment is better than a $779 loss.

7. How much is this company likely to make if it is a SCAM ?
According to Kelly Taylor, by now, the end of the second month, 15,000 "customers" had already taken the bait. Their target was 75,000. If you couldn't afford the $779 package, you would be offered one for $684, and then one for $585. That is, they were willing to knowingly take your last dime, your emergency cash, your available credit - whatever you had that was still accessible. If only 80% (60,000) participated and if all of them negotiated for the lowest cost of entry ($585), the company would gross $35,100,000!

The expenses would include an office ($6,000 for 6 months), an outgoing only 800 telephone line or several for different provinces ($5,000 or less for 6 months), a mailing list, an electronic telephone by address index ($500), and, 5 or more telemarketers ($4,000 per month for 6 months X 5 = $120,000). There would be incidental expenses such as coupon duplication and mailing costs, perhaps. Potential profit: at least 34 million, that is, $5.67 million per month.

This "small" operation intended to challenge the spiritual strength of 75,000 persons.
Most would by average citizens who were unhappy with their jobs, overextended with their credit, living a material lifestyle beyond their means, worried about job layoffs and downsizings, unemployed, on welfare, facing salary or hours cuts, sold by the mass media on the material advantages of greed. Tending not to have spiritual coping skills (they're seldom taught in schools or churches and never promoted by the government and seldom by the media) they would have been challenged to act on the destructive materialistic coping skills they had been taught, modeled, or otherwise instilled with: impatience, envy, pride, greed.

If they took the bait, their negative skills would be intensified whether they received anything or nothing.
In the end, all would be losers; some bigger losers than others.
Anxiety, despair and frustration would be intensified by humiliation, betrayal, anger.
General levels of distrust and suspicion would increase.
Like a cancer, the spiritual strength of a mass of citizens would be diminished.
But in a mass society isn't the citizen to be protected by the government.
Isn't that what government representatives are paid for and responsible to do - and have the authority to do?

1994 - On December 26,
The USA Pentagon purchase of a USSR S-300 missile system was uncovered when a Russian made AN-124 cargo plane landed in sight of an interstate highway in Huntsville, Alabama, with the components on board.

The S-300 is similar to the American Patriot missile system which was used against Iraq's Scud missiles during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Its list price is $128 million. The components had been purchased by the Pentagon through its Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) with the assistance of an arms broker, BDM International, and a well-known Canadian arms merchant, Emmanuel Weigensberg - who acted on behalf of the seller, the former Soviet republic of Belarus.

By purchasing the system in component form, the Pentagon apparently bought it at a reduced price.
The intent of the purchase, as expressed by U.S. officials, was to reverse engineer the product, which Soviet generals had said was far superior to the Patriot system.

The chairman of "BDM International" is Frank C. Carlucci, who was secretary of defense and national security adviser (CIA) under former American President Ronald Reagan. BDM's majority owner is the Carlyle Group, an investment company, whose principals include Mr. Carlucci and James Baker, the former secretary of state, treasury secretary and White House chief of staff. BDM anticipates at least $750 million in revenue this year. BDM, based in McLean, Virginia, had won a lucrative and secret Pentagon competition to acquire the S-300 for the USA intelligence agency, DIA. Apparently other sources had complained that BDM was receiving exclusive consideration in too many of these transactions.

The operation had been paid for with classified funds set aside for so-called "Black" programs - which means that everyone outside the program is kept in the dark (ignorant) about the purpose and expenditure of the funds. In 1991, the Pentagon formally budgeted for "Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation" for the first time. Appropriations for 1993 and 1994 total over $265 million, yet this represents only the non-black program budget for such allocations. Such projects, to acquire competitor technology by the USA government have been under way for over 20 years, it was revealed. They have typically been administered by the CIA and the DIA.

Emmanuel Weigensberg had arranged the first secret shipment of weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels for President Reagan's administration in the 1980s. At that time White House operatives financed the operation with secret cash contributions from the Saudi government and other sources. They had turned to Weigensberg when the US Congress banned military aid to the anti-Communist contra guerillas in 1984. After the failed USSR coup of August 1991, the USA CIA expanded its efforts to buy sophisticated arms made by the former USSR.

1994 - By the end of the year,
Stock Market Investing in North America has grown so that 40% of Americans are participating, largely through the product of Mutual Funds. In the previous 2 years, 61 million Americans have invested in stocks with an average price-to-earnings ratio of 27 to 1.

This has been done through the self-deception of a belief in the hoped for security of mutual funds.
While considerably safer as investments than they were in the late 1960s, by virtue of disclosure and sales regulations, most purchasers are neither educated to understand the significance of the investment information available about their to-be-considered mutual fund choice nor do they have a concern. Dismayed by the share drop in the interest rate of secure investments such as Guaranteed Investment Certificates, Bonds, Treasury Bills, and Bank Savings Accounts over the same period, persons with capital assets have reacted like lemmings by running to grab the next easiest, best sounding, most promoted form of investment.

Only 10% of Americans were investing in the stock market in 1929.
Now, 40% of Americans are investing directly and indirectly into a stock market which has a price earnings ratio almost double that of the average stock in 1929. In other words, in relative terms, 4 times as many people stand to lose twice as much money as was lost in the stock market crash which is credited with the largest recorded peacetime market depression in human history.

Other factors which may aggravate a stock market crisis include these:

1. Most nations have high budget deficits;
2. Many nations have increasing social problems;
3. Most citizens oppose their government's raising of taxes;
4. A number of banks are low in maintaining their reserve levels;
5. A political norm maintains moderately high interest rates;
6. Money supply increases will decrease the value of currencies;
7. Tax revenue collected pays mostly for welfare and national debt expense.

1994 - During the year,
Theft of Computer Hardware in the USA is conservatively estimated to have reached US $3 billion for the year.
Most of the thefts have been of integrated circuit and memory chips which retail from prices between $200 and $20,000. Those involved in the theft most often are employees with hijacking of orders in transit, theft and robberies from computer distributors and computer stores running a distant second.

It is also estimated that one half of all American companies who have purchased computer parts that include any of keyboards, disc drives, memory or logic chips - have knowingly or unknowingly purchased stolen merchandise. Within the first 72 hours after such a theft, the stolen products may change possession a dozen times.

It is further suggested by computer industry executives that more than 50% of southeast Asian computers contain memory or logic integrated circuits stolen in the USA. Further, stolen chips may be disguised as more expensive units by having a new design or markings placed on over the original markings much like applying a decal. Due to market demand, a production company may buy its own stolen chips back knowingly in order to meet order volumes.

Finally, numerous advertisements running in most computer newsheets and magazines offering cash for computer parts are certain to be encouraging such thefts by providing a ready market for the stolen items. A lunchbox-sized container could hold several hundred thousand dollars worth of prepackaged chips, and, strips of integrated circuits worth thousands of dollars could be smuggled out of a factory in a shirt pocket.

The degradation of a society to this level of open corruption will continue to the eventual fall of the capitalist system. The siphoning off of capital from the culture, on a long-term basis, for military, addictive drug and entertainment purposes has maintained a continual rise in the cost of living, a segregation of wealth, increased interdependencies, and a continual obsession with a multiplication of work centres and profits. Efficiencies have been gained, often at the expense of maintaining the respect for the individual human.

In rebellion, many individual humans have increasingly sought to maintain or increase their standard of living by non-traditional methods such as employee theft, fraud, shoplifting, and the purchase of cheap products which are highly suggestive of having been stolen. The status quo has changed to being one where it is increasingly being considered acceptable to commit such legal infractions on the basis that "everyone else does."

When the production environment reaches a point at which a profit can no longer be made due to purchases by the consumer of products containing parts stolen from the manufacturer, the manufacturer will have to close. When that happens, what could have been an orderly and fair market, yet was allowed and prompted to become a market of anarchy and deception, will collapse. Companies dependent upon a supply of stolen parts will die, having bled to death their source. The general public will suffer from prices inflated by an absence of primary source. Political will has been absent in restricting such activities; religious and social leadership have demonstrated their lack of influence and their replacement by the communications media of print, radio, television, movies and videocassettes.

1994 -
Lack of Corporate Information Security was reported in a survey by Ernst & Young, a large North American accounting and management consulting firm, to have resulted in financial losses in the previous 2 years for 50% of 1,271 companies surveyed. In the same survey, 45% of companies said that they use the Internet or other public networks to exchange important business data.

1994 - By the end of the year,
Titanium Nitrate (TiN) was being used extensively as a longevity coating for dental instruments.
Through a process of physical vapour deposition a layer of TiN was deposited on the surface of stainless steel or other metals to a thickness of less than 3 microns (50 microns approximates the thickness of a strand of human hair). The benefits of such protection included the following:

1. Lower galvanic response in the mouth than gold (50%);
2. High ion transmission reduces numbers of adhering bacteria;
3. Reduced adherence of plastic dental filling material to the tool;
4. Reduced adherence of tissue and liquid to the tool surface;
5. Surface will not stain except by hydrogen fluoride;
6. Reduces wear and increases tool life by 3 to 6 times;
7. Colour closely resembles that of high carat gold.

This shows the remarkable stability of a nitrate of titanium; virtually the opposite in degree of reactivity to that of titanium dioxide when exposed to ultraviolet radiation.