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GLOBAL NEWS year his 300 hectares of wheat returned | formed into a nightmare river system of Jo Vialls is an Australian independent oil $200 per tonne, while his neighbour | filthy stinking black crude, bubbling with | project consultant with nearly twenty years received $75. entrained gas. experience on international operations. In his area, critical wheat protein levels While the wells were alight most of the (Source: Pegasus Networks 2:34 pm are falling, due to the use of chemical agri- | oil was kept clear of the ground by com- Dec 1, 1991 peg:oz.antibases) culture. Mr Williams regularly produces | bustion. With the fires out, the situation has wheat up to 50% higher in protein that the | deteriorated seriously. WAS MAXWELL MURDERED? area average. The British World Conservation He even exports wheat to France, in the | Monitoring Centre, supported by the UN The mystery surrounding the death of heartland of the EEC, which has pushed | Environmental Program, observed; media magnate Robert Maxwell deepens. down the world wheat prices to levels Burning wells cause less pollution dam -| A second autopsy has shown extensive which are crippling many wheat farmers | age than non-burning gushers. bruising inconsistent with his merely hav- Australia wide. With output from Kuwait and Iraq effec- | ing fallen or jumped into the sea. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, | tively at a standstill, Arab National produc- Bruising was found to his left shoulder, 24th Sept '91) | tion has decreased by 4.36 million barrels | brain, spine, nostrils and upper lip. An KUWAIT OIL VOLCANOS per day to 8.81 million barrels, a 33% drop. abdominal wound 12cm x dem was found STILL ACTIVE If George Bush carries out his threat of | on the right side above the waist. military ‘reprisals’ against Libya for the It has been reported that Robert Maxwell When Sheikh Jabir-al’ Ahmad al-Jabir al | alleged bombing of the Pan Am Jumbo, | had extensive links with Israeli Intelligence Sabah strode purposefully towards the con- | then oil production from that country might | (Mossad) and the KGB. According to for- trol panel to extinguish the last of the oil | also be curtailed. If so, Arab national pro- | mer Soviet police Col. Zaloman Levitsky, fires in Kuwait, he walked across some | duction will drop by a further 1.36 millions | Maxwell had a "contractual, well-paid rela- 12,000 tonnes of carefully washed sand, | barrels per day or another 10.3%. tionship" with the KGB, and was a "key laid in the area to create an environmental Libya was still providing humanitarian | link" in some secret operations run jointly illusion. As al Sabah ceremonially pressed | aid to Iraq when America and Great Britain | by the KGB and the Mossad. the button that snuffed out the last of the | ‘suddenly’ discovered new evidence alleg- It also purported that Maxwell pressured flames for ever, he unwittingly quadrupled | ing Libyan responsibility for the Pan Am | his Israeli contacts for legal and financial the magnitude of the oil disaster. bombing. help needed to stave off an imminent col- With a flick of his wrist al Sabah turned Overall, the USA could reduce Arab | lapse of his empire. It is rumoured that a valve at the podium, while the television | National production from 13.17 to 7.45 | upon being refused such aid, Maxwell cameras obediently panned swiftly to the | million barrels per day, a staggering 43%, | warned his Israeli contacts that his down- last burning wellhead. accidentally providing an economic wind- | fall would prove "highly damaging" to the The flames ceased abruptly and the cam- | fall for American multinational oil compa- | Israeli state. era crew panned upward to record the last | nies and the US economy as a whole. "We still don't quite know who in the few wisps of oily black smoke drifting The long term results of reduced produc- | Mossad terminated him", said one British across a brilliant blue sky. tion will be to increase world oil prices as | investigator, "but we know that they were Moments later global electronic networks | high as US $35 per barrel, a level that | the one outfit with strong motives and were confirming that the last of the Kuwaiti | would generate a second miraculous wind- | ample means to silence this desperate agent wells had been ‘capped’ in record time. fall effect for the US and also Great Britain. | and potential defector." Sadly, nothing could have been further By Joe Vialls (Source: Misc newspaper reports) from the truth. The carefully orchestrated stage performance was a coldly calculated illusion. The stage floor was constructed of bright yellow sand specially imported for the occasion, concealing the oily filth that lurked only inches below the surface. Camera angles accidentally excluded the large number of uncapped high pressure wells still violently spewing plumes of oil into the air, with a combined flow so great the landscape was already being trans- EE CENTRE FOR CONFLICT REsocuTON | | The British area average. ire. KUWAIT OIL VOLCANOS STILL ACTIVE ee eee f fem WOULD SEE FoR You Like CONFLICT RESOLUTION] TO STEP 3} Sipe 7/ NEXUS - 8 WAS MAXWELL MURDERED? (Source: Misc newspaper reports) YEAR BOOK - JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992