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LOB O> a. s VEN? ~ 5. DOD’S UNTOLD EARTH'S MAGNETIC 7 a SCANDAL FIELD REVERSALS A. Justice Department As you probably know, every investigation into possible few hundred thousand years, fraud oe bribery pore the direction of the magnetic defense contracts could equal field of the Earth reverses or exceed the “Teapot Dome” itself. scandal or the publication of Everyone assumed until now, the Pentagon Papers in its that this strange phenomenon scope but we may never happened gradually. know. Search warrants and But a team of geophysicists affidavits that contain from France and the USA has ( transcripts of wiretapped found evidence that reversals conversations of employces maybe much more sudden. with a major defense So sudden in fact that you contractor have now been may even be able to watch a sealed by court order. compass needle move when it 6. NO IRAQI THREAT TO Recto damage from the American-led SAUDI ARABIA? An unusual property of volcanic lava makes it possible to track past magnetic reversals. As molten lava cools, it remains magnetised in the prevailing The Gulf War set new, questionable direction of the magnetic field at the | standards for wartime secrecy. Many George Bush that same day in his time it solidified. important stories, which the public had | efforts to rally public support for the The team discovered iwo lava flows | a right to know, are still not being | Gujf War. from Steens Mountain in Oregon, USA | reported by the major media. It took a 7, FOIA IS AN OXYMORON. which revealed opposite magnetic field | freelance journalist, posing as a directions. By calculating the cooling | mortician, to get a more accurate rate of the two flows, they were able to | estimate of battlefield casualties from show that a field reversal had occurred the Dover AFB mortuary, the only one incid ith d icularl inavey satpiatoftine, | fniingDeser sim nate. | SN WM 8 nm a pa (Source: New Scientist 25 Jan '92) | 3, VOODOO ECONOMICS. right to know which has characterized The media failed to explain how bad | the Reagan-Bush administration. PROJECT CENSORED - 1991 | 1. national deficit was and why the | 8, CORPORATE AMERICA’S ANTI- Project Censored, a national media | economy went into a tailspin in 1991. | ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN, research effort now in its 16th year, | The interest alone on the federal debt} Recent corporate anti-environmental locates stories about significant issues | will be the nation’s single largest | innovations include multi-million dollar which are not widely publicized by the | expenditure this year, exceeding even] SLAPP suits, the harassment and bombing campaign was light. Satellite photos of Iraq and Kuwait on 2. OPERATION CENSORED WAR. September 11, 1990, revealed no evidence of a massive Iraqi army threat to Saudi Arabia as cited by President The erosion, and _ possible obsolescence, of the Freedom of Information Act over the past ten years national news media. the military budget. surveillance of activists, the infiltration Following are the top ten under- | 4, THE $250 BILLION POLITICAL | Of environmental groups by “agent reported stories of 1991, from the USA: | COVER-UP. provocateurs,” and the creation of 1, UNCENSORED IRAQ COVERAGE | An hour-long television documentary, dniay ertindy [reaps 2 levels SPIKED BY NETWORKS. produced by PBS Frontline and the San whiste blowers. CBS and NBC rejected professional | Francisco-based Center for | 9. THE INSLAW SOFTWARE THEFT. videotape footage taken at the height of | Investigative Reporting, revealed the In a little-publicized but potentially the airwar in Iraq by two Emmy-award- | truth about the extent of the savings and | explosive legal battle, the Inslaw winning documentary producers. The | loan scandal and how it was covered-up | Corporation charges that the U.S. footage substantially contradicted U.S. | so that it would not threaten George | Department of Justice robbed it of its administration claims that civilian | Bush’s candidacy in 1988. case-management and criminal-tracking 5. DOD’S UNTOLD SCANDAL. A Justice Department investigation into possible fraud and bribery in securing defense contracts could equal or exceed the “Teapot Dome” scandal or the publication of the Pentagon Papers in its scope but we may never know. Search warrants and affidavits that contain transcripts of wiretapped conversations of employces with a major defense contractor have now been sealed by court order. 6. NO IRAQI THREAT TO SAUDI ARABIA? APRIL-MAY 1992 6eNEXUS PROJECT CENSORED - 1991