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THE MURDOCH EMPIRE GROWS The National Westminster : Bank admitted last month that it keeps personal information about its customers—such as their polit- ical affiliation—on computer. But now Computer Weekly reveals that a financial institution, sadly unnamed, has gone one bet- ter and moved into the realm of personal abuse. The institution decided to mail- shot 2,000 of its richest cus- tomers, inviting them to buy extra services. One of its computer programmers wrote a programme to search through its databases 4 and select the customers automat- ically. He tested the programme with an imaginary customer called Rich Bastard. Unfortunately an error resulted in all 2,000 letters being addressed "Dear Rich Bastard". The luckless programmer was subsequently sacked. (Source: New Scientist, 28 August 1993) Rupert Murdoch's purchase of a 64 per cent share in the Asian satel- lite TV broadcaster, Star Television has awesome implications. The three-year-old network has the potential to become the biggest in the world. It already has the capacity to cover 38 Asian countries including China, India, Japan and Indonesia. If everyone in this catch- ment area had a satellite receiver, Murdoch would have 3 billion view- ers, or put another way, Star Television covers half the land mass of the planet, and two-thirds of its population! (Source: The Sun-Herald, 8 August 1993) MAGNETIC FIELDS INCREASE GRAIN YIELDS When pursued on the matter, the Clinton-Gore office refused to comment any further. m_ Chinese researchers have found magne- tised water boosts grain and vegetable yields, the official Hsinhua News Agency said recently. Water passed through a magnetic field was used to soak seeds, sprout seedlings and irrigate 12,350 acres of experimental farm plots. The results after two years of study showed that grain yields increased 10 per cent and vegetable yields increased 15 to 20 per cent. Treated with this magnetised water, seeds sprout faster and more abundantly, stalks grow sturdier, root systems are better developed and the plants are highly resis- tant to cold. (Source: Acres, USA, June 1993) (Source: Center For Action Monthly Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 16, November 1992) IS BILL CLINTON A ROCKEFELLER GRANDSON? During the US presidential election cam- paigns of 1992, the Utah office of presiden- tial candidate Col. "Bo" Gritz called the Clinton-Gore campaign headquarters, and requested a genealogical background (fami- ly-tree) on Bill Clinton. They were told that Clinton's mother's The University of Moscow, in conjunc- tion with the University of Madrid, Spain, has studied the Stalinist purges and deter- mined that the Communist dictator mur- dered at least 57 million people. (Source: Straight Talk, 1 April 1993) ANOTHER KENNEDY ASSASSINATION THEORY Of all theories regarding JFK's demise, the two most colourful are the UFO/Free Energy conspiracy, and the secret Executive Order theory. The former goes along the lines that Kennedy was about to spill the beans on the truth about UFOs and what the US mil- itary knew about alien technology but was- n't telling anybody; and the latter goes as follows: JFK issued an Executive Order authoris- ing the printing of US$450 billion in inter- est-free “United States Notes". If carried out, this Order would have effectively put the private banking consor- tium known as the US Federal Reserve out of business. “> CU a ay a, > 7