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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS Catcher 2025" very seriously. He admitted British broadcast reporter, Ian Gooding, there were profound ethical considerations, is quoted in the Spotlight as saying: “No but emphasised that BT was embarking on one around here has ever seen such pres- this line of research so it could keep at the sure to kill a front-page story. But in the forefront of communications technology. end, the cover-up was complete." Dr Winter said, "An implanted chip Whatever the cause or reason, Amschel would be like an aircraft's black box, and Rothschild's death is surrounded by mys- would enhance communications beyond _ tery. His body was discovered on the bath- current concepts. "For example, police room floor of his suite at the luxurious would be able to use it to relive an attack, Hétel Bristol in Paris, at 7.32 pm on 8th rape or murder from the victim's viewpoint, July. French police found that he had been to help catch the criminal... I could even strangled with the end of the cord of his play back the smells, sounds and sights of own bathrobe. One end of the cord was my holiday to friends." found attached to a towel rack, as if to sug- Other more frightening applications gest that his death was self-inflicted. include downloading an older person's Many French reporters claim that the experiences into a newborn baby by trans- (French) police never called the death "sui- planting the chip. cide". Apparently, after photographing the The device is expected to be on sale by body and the crime scene, one of the detec- 2025, so look out! tives gave the towel rack a sharp tug and it (Sources: The Daily Telegraph, UK; Daily came right out of the wall. Mail, UK, 18 July 1996) No suicide note was found, and no dis- cernible cause or reason appears to exist for HUMAN TISSUE TO MAKE a finding of suicide. ANIMAL-TESTING REDUNDANT (Sources: Weekly Telegraph, UK, 17-23 July The first pharmaceuticals company to 1996; The Australian, 12 & 15 July 1996; test drugs exclusively on human tissue is to The Spotlight, USA, 5 August 1996, start business in October this year. alt.conspiracy newsgroup on the Internet) Dharmawana haoad in Uartfardohica (See Book Reviews this issue.) Former NZ Prime Minister David Lange states in the book's foreword that he had no idea New Zealand had been committed to an interna- tional, integrated, electronic network. The book and the resulting media public- ity sent the local intelligence community (an oxymoron, to be sure) into damage control. Their response, fed to the public through selected journalists, was to claim that the information contained in the book was already a matter of public record and, anyway, it probably wasn't very useful. Mr Lange says, "...it is an outrage that I and other ministers were told so little, and this raises the question of to whom those concerned saw themselves ultimately answerable." The surveillance system, revealed pub- licly for the first time, operates under the code-name Echelon, and falls under the secret pact known as the UKUSA Agreement (see NEXUS, vol. 2, no. 27). It would appear from the disclosures in Secret Power that the Echelon network routinely intercepts civilian phone, fax and e-mail traffic, and shares this information with UKUSA member countries which include the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Just who it is shared with in Australia and New Zealand is probably a matter of some debate behind the scenes right now. (Sources: Secret Power, by Nicky Hager; The Australian, 15 & 19 August 1996; Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 1996; Guardian Weekly, UK, 25 August 1996) HUMAN TISSUE TO MAKE ANIMAL-TESTING REDUNDANT The first pharmaceuticals company to test drugs exclusively on human tissue is to start business in October this year. Pharmagene, based in Hertfordshire, England, will only use human tissue and will not conduct any research on animals. Animal rights groups see the move as a step in the right direction. "We've said for some time that the best science, as well as the most humane science, is based on examination of human rather than animal tissue," says Andrew Tyler, Director of the lobby group, Animal Aid. The group launched a donor card scheme in 1991 so that people could offer their tissue for research if/when they died. So far, over 250,000 people have joined the scheme. (Source: New Scientist, UK, 3] August 1996) NZ SPY-BASE KEEPS POLITICIANS ‘OUT OF THE LOOP' New Zealand-based peace activist, Nicky Hager, has revealed in his new book, Secret Power, that NZ (and Australian) politi- cians, including the NZ Prime Minister, were kept uninformed on matters of intelli- gence-gathering and information-sharing. SS CARTOONISTS ROTHSCHILD DEATH MYSTERY Rumours abound as to the method of and motives for the death of Amschel Rothschild, heir to the fabulous Rothschild banking fortune. Depending on which newspaper you read, his death has been reported as a sui- cide from hanging, a heart attack, a suicide from strangling, and a murder. One news report stated that a massive media cover-up was ordered by magnate Rupert Murdoch, who allegedly faxed “his 600-odd editors and news managers around the world, ordering them to report Amschel's death as a heart attack, if at all". NEXUS ¢ 7 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996