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GLOBAL NEWS unknown to soldiers in conventional the body, causing multiple injuries and EUROPE'S IDENTITY CARD IS armies, but taught by the Special massive haemorrhaging." Though total- SNEAKING IN Operations groups of the US and ly banned by the Geneva Convention Britain and its European Union part- Russia. Instead of firing atrandom with and every army in the world including ners are clearing the way for the intro- bursts of three or five bullets in full that of Israel, Goldstein nonetheless duction of identity cards, in the form of automatic mode, Goldstein fired very managed to obtain up to 150 rounds of _ standardised “smart cards". fast single shots with the weapon set to ammunition normally limited to covert Smart cards differ from normal mag- semi-automatic, releasing one shot special operations groups. netic stripe cards in the way that they every time the trigger was squeezed. When Yasir Arafat stated clearly from can store, access and process informa- Goldstein is reputed to have fired at 90 Tunis: "This was not the work of one _ tion stored on a card. shots per minute. Kill rates are much man: there is no Rambo", he might not The proposed smart cards can hold higher using this special high-speed at that stage have been advised of enough information to store an ency- semi-automatic technique, but only if Goldstein's elevated firing platform or clopaedia on each person. the assassin has received extensive the use of high-velocity fragmentation Already Schipol Airport in training. As a medical doctor from the bullets. Because the bullets were fired ‘Amsterdam has issued volunteers with nearby Kiryat Arba settlement, it is rea- downwards at a steep angle, each one smart cards the size of a credit card, sonable to ask where Goldstein gained that missed its target immediately splin- which contain personal data with a digi- his high level of special operations tered into dozens of slivers of razor- tised reading of the passenger's ‘hand expertise. sharp shrapnel on impact with the stone geometry’ or palm print. A quick swipe Perhaps the most chilling indication floor, ricocheting upwards and outwards of the card, combined with the hand of direct Special Operations involve- and injuring hundreds of other worship- pressed against a machine reader, is all ment was Goldstein's ammunition. _ pers. that is required to pass immigration. Rather than firing conventional solid or Written by Joe Vialls. (Sources: Mr It is interesting to note that in several even hollow-point bullets, staff at the Ali Kazak, PLO Representative and European countries where there is resis- local Ramallah Hospital confirmed: Ambassador of Palestine, Canberra, ACT, tance to ID cards, e.g., Germany, health “All those shot were injured [or killed) Australia; Palestinian Human Rights care cards are used instead. by devastating high-velocity ammuni- J/nformation Centre, Jerusalem; The staff (Source: The Independent, 3 tion which splinters into shrapnel inside of Makassed and Ramallah Hospitals) February 1994) SUNSPOT PEAKS AND BATTLES This figure was prepared from the data of Professor Raymond Wheeler of the University of Kansas. He found internation- al battles waxed and waned in cycles of approximately I1 years. His data spanned 2,500 years of world history up to 1957. By plotting the time that battles begin rather than the time of their peak intensity, a close connection was found with solar activity, which disturbs Earth's magnetic field and apparently changes brain rhythms and the hormone balance of humans. The Sun has just ended a peak of activity and is now in a quieter phase. The next expected peak in solar activity will be about the year 2000. International battles have been observed to usually occur a year to two before, or sometimes a year after the sunspot peaks, but never right at the maximum. The probability of their occurrence within two years of the sunspot peaks by chance is less than .008. This corresponds with the observation that geomagnetic activity increases either just prior to, or just after sunspot peaks, but is not strongest at the time of maximum sunspot activity. (Source: Townsend Letter for Doctors, February/March 1994) GEES Solid Bar-Sunspot Peaks i. — White Bar-International Battles Begin (Probability of Chance Coincidence=.008) No Format Data Predicted ‘ 1967 and 79 Sunspot Continuous Russia Pesk Fighting vs Crimean Minor Battles World War | Korean War 2000 Until 1816 Turkey War Onty World War I i / /\ *. H 1770-82 1800 12 24 36 48 60 72 1900 12 2 46 48 60 72 84 1990 2000 8eNEXUS APRIL - MAY 1994 No Formal Data Predicted ‘ 1967 and 79 Sunspot Continuous Russia Pesk Fighting vs Crimean Minor Battles World War | Korean War 2000 Unit 1836 Turkey War Onty World War Il / \ 1 \\ 4 /\ 1770-82 1800 12 24 36 48 60 72 1900 12 2 (36 48 60 72 84 1990 2000 Minor Battles Onty GEES Solid Bar-Sunspot Peaks ) White Bar-international Batties Begin (Probability of Chance Coincidence=.008)