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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS NEW DISCOVERY TO RE- THE MARK OF THE BEAST? 2 WRITE ANCIENT HISTORY! The gentlemen who came up: with the laser reader in’ supermarkets for IBM also The discovery of ancient artefacts on the | invented the means of placing the same kind of bar code beneath living tissue in one- Indonesian Island of Flores, just north of | pillionth of a second. This marking is totally invisible to the naked eye, and it can be Western Australia, has caused a dramatic | read only by a certain type of laser; The writing and reading is totally harmless and revision of parts of our ancient history. painless. The inventor demonstrated this system in 1979 by marking salmon as they The find of stone tools, and the bones of | swam downstream, The fish were totally unaware of the process as the laser burned a an extinct primitive elephant, indicates | code into their flesh. The computer then keeps track of the codes. “Years later, these humans may have been able to navigate | fish will be detected by the same system as they swim back upstream and are forced over short stretches of open ocean from | through fish ladders and chutes. 200,000 to 400,000 years ago, two Dutch Just as impressive is what Walter Wriston; the chairman of Citicorp did in 1983. He archaeologists have claimed. passed a rule within the bank that was later withdrawn as a result of public outcry: His The tools were found associated with | rule stated that unless you were a depositor of $5,000 or more, you were not entitled to remains of a primitive elephant, stegodon, | a teller. This meant that the vast majority of depositors would have to stand in line out- which became extinct in the Middle | side the bank and ‘talk’ to machines, Pleistocene. This meant they must be sev- This was an economic move, of course, because banks have had some problems of eral hundred thousand years old, the Dutch | Jate, But its message was that people would no longer talk to people. If banks could scholars concluded. establish such a policy, then they could make the minimum deposit higher and higher. Their find has focussed international | Finally everything for everyone would be done by machines. The concem is that we attention on the Australasian region as the | are reaching a highly automated state which, if followed to the next logical step, might probable birthplace of maritime technolo- | have profound impacts on how we rate life. gy. It also suggests the ancestors of Even more startling was an ‘off the cuff’ statement made by another chairman of an Aboriginal people may have had sailing | Bastern megabank. He announced that a method ‘is in place that can imprint in human skills millennia before the earliest recorded _| hands a silicon chip the size of the head of a pin, That chip will include not only the settlement of Australia 60,000 years ago. person's identification number, Social Security number, name and birthplace, but also But its strongest implication is for the | his criminal background, educational level, financial worth in the community and his way humans view themselves and their _| political affiliations. ancestors. Until now, with only the evi- With such a system, the minute someone walked through the door of the bank he dence of stone tools and rugged skeletal | would be sensed, and the bank would: know who he was, where he came from, what he remains, early man, Homo erectus, has _| did, and how much he was worth. All this would occur before:-a person could reach the been popularly regarded as too primitive to | counter. be regarded as human. Now this was one step’further' than even’ progressive thinkers envisioned. There had (Source: The Australian, 19 August 1993) | been discussions about placing codes on the hand to be used as identification marks, like fingerprints, similar to package bar codes in supermarkets. MARS MISSION COVER-UP With such a system you would not need cash or a validated cheque or even a Smart CLAIMED Card. You could put your hand through a laser and be read by the computer. The store would automatically deduct the amount of the purchase from your account. The method would be efficient in terms of cost, speed, thoroughness, and elimination of bad cheques.” But the price of all this automation is individual independence from nameless bureaucrats looking over your shoulder and approving (allowing) every transaction. The amount of control would be unprecedented: however, the government would immediately know how to put this ‘control to use. People would no longer be able to -. : as : cheat the government because every time anyone had any money, the government awaiting the findings of the now disap- | ould know about it: The government could collect taxes each time you spent your peared, Mars Observer spacecraft. money, and, thus, there would be no more filingon April 15th. It also means that Hoagland claims that there are those | advanced printing and photocopying machines could not be used for counterfeiting. within NASA who actively opposed the | Even a lawbreaker who traded with stolen goods would have his purchase and sale solving of the Martian mystery’ and did not _| traced by computer as he tried 10 move or ‘spend’ funds. The government would moni- want such lines of research from going fur- | tor every transaction, knowing precisely everyone's location, actions, and worth. Instant ther, Small wonder then that he is suspi- | evaluations, approval or disapproval, and tax deductions on every individual would be cious of the timely ‘disappearance’ of the | made, Mars probe just days before it was due to Is there a ‘face’ on Mars? Were those funny building-like objects photographed by the Viking probe in 1976 really intelli- gently made objects? Mars mystery researcher Richard Hoagland, among others, had been eagerly joo ab ‘wales 1. Such‘a system is currently manufactured by Taymar, Inc:, Westminster, CO. The US ® mf pic = - ‘ ~— Agriculture Department uses the product for cattle. Will it be used for people in the future? had rang Mr Hoagian = - whing 2, Such systems are not in the distant future. Six thousand people in Sweden have accepted a ey ee mark on their right hands in a test of a totally cashless society. Tests also have been conducted in up. He replied that a trusted source inside Japan and the Dominican Republic in Latin America, ae ge eprint gil 4 (Source: Excerpted from the book, The Delicate Balance, by John Zajac, 1989. ig’, and that the spacecraft was in ‘stealth ISBN nuenber 0-910311-57-9) mode’. Stay tuned! Aes wee NEW DISCOVERY TO RE- WRITE ANCIENT HISTORY? MARS MISSION COVER-UP CLAIMED NEXUS¢9 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1993