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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS "Secrecy Orders". A secrecy order is region is witnessing the birth of a new ‘severely irradiated’ as a result of dump- imposed when the Pentagon believes fault system that could soon equal the _ ing and disasters since 1948. the patent could harm national security infamous San Andreas fault. Since 1949, "no less than 150 million by revealing technical secrets. The recent wave of earthquake activi- curies of radioactive substances have According to recently available data ty started on June 28, with an earth- been discharged into the environment obtained under the Freedom of quake of magnitude 7.4, centred in the as a result of Mayak's activities" says Information Act by the Federation of Jojave Desert about 150km west of Los _ the report. This is about the equivalent American Scientist, the US Federal Angeles. of three times the radiation leaked out Government has "gag" orders on nearly In the ten days since that event, the by the Chernoby! disaster. 6,000 inventions. Nearly three quarters US Geological Survey's seismic moni- | For example, between 1949 and of the 1991 invention, ie 506 out of 774 toring system has recorded 5,000 earth- 1956, some 76 million cubic metres of - were imposed on private companies. quakes in the area! liquid waste were poured in the river In one case during the 1980s, a grad- (Source: New Scientist 18 July ‘92) affecting an immediate 124,000 people. uate student applied for a patent for an And in 1957 and 1967, two “mini- invention described in his doctoral dis) PATENT FOR SURVEILLANCE Chernobyls" caused widespread deaths sertation. The government slapped a DEVICE SLIPS THROUGH NET and increased leukemia cases. ee on dar The British Ministry of Defence Meares: St SENOS, SE June TE) tation before a commitice of the univer- (MOD) has patented a system for AUSTRALIA'S PREHISTORY TO sity's faculty. The effectively meant °°Vertly reading the number plates o} BE REWRITTEN? that he could have been prosecuted for AS at night. . - going fot ouith, is pe pate Normally the MOD does not publi- The discovery of prehistoric pollen Fortunatell ” cise this kind of research and vets all 4nd charcoal off the Great Barrier Reef, caail pepe. rps a ne — patent applications filed at the British ay indicate that Australia was inhabit- (Source: New York Times, 23 May’'92; Patent Office, but patent application # 2 ed by humans 140,000 years ago. — New Scientist 20 June '92) 248 994 seems to have slipped through Dr Peter Kershaw, a palynologist, or the net. This means that anyone with pollen expert at Monash University's PATENT FOR SURVEILLANCE DEVICE SLIPS THROUGH NET The British Ministry of Defence ea? Te (MOD) has patented a system for AUSTRALIA'S PREHISTORY TO covertly reading the number plates of BE REWRITTEN? cars at night. ° Normally the MOD does not publi- The discovery of prehistoric pollen cise this kind of research and vets all 4nd charcoal off the Great Barrier Reef, patent applications filed at the British ay indicate that Australia was inhabit- Patent Office, but patent application # 2 ¢d by humans 140,000 years ago. 248 994 seems to have slipped through Dr Peter Kershaw, a palynologist, or the net. This means that anyone with pollen expert at Monash University's access to a patent library anywhere in Department of Geography and the world can examine the details of Environmental Science believes he has this system, which basically uses LEDs found signs of human disturbance in which generate long-wavelength rainforest patters in a drill core from the infrared, ie up to 1000 nanometres, edge of the continental shelf 80km east which is invisible to the human eye. of Cairns. (Source: New Scientist, 4 July '92) The core covers the past 1.5 million veare and chawe that arannad 14N NNN AUSTRALIA'S PREHISTORY TO BE REWRITTEN? FAULT OR DOUBLE FAULT IN CALIFORNIA According to New Scientist, southern California is undergoing its most intense period of earthquake activity since settlers first began keeping records. The core covers the past 1.5 million years, and shows that around 140,000 years ago, a drier type of tropical rain- forest in north east Queensland was subjected to an increase in fire frequen- cy. If Dr Kershaw's theory is correct, Australia's ancient past will have to be rewritten. The oldest Aboriginal site is at Kakadu, and is only 60,000 years old. SOVIET NUCLEAR PLANT KILLED THOUSANDS Move over Chernobyl, make way for the nuclear disasters that the Soviets did manage to "keep the media lid on". According to a report from the Institute of Biophysics at the former Soviet Health Ministry in Chelyabinsk more than 8,000 people have died and 28,000 have been ISRAEL! ATHLETES AT MUNICH Families of the 11 Israeli athletes who died at the Munich Olympics have obtained German documents showing that German police, and not PLO gun- men killed eight of them. The Yediot Aharanot newspaper in Jerusalem said the new evidence, including pathologists’ reports, proved , eee soe 8¢NEXUS One geophysicist claims that the GERMAN POLICE KILLED AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1992