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production, predicting it to "peak" between 2004 and 2008. Aboutthe Author; ; ; ; ; It seems hard to dismiss a connection between American Austrian-born Dr Siegfried E. Tischler received his PhD in Geosciences in 1977 from Leopold-Francis University, Innsbruck. Since then, he has worked on five continents as a geoscientist in academia (with the Austrian Mining University), in government (as Director of Mining in Transkei, a former South African "Homeland" where he established a Geological Survey Department), and in geopolitical posturing (and unilateral action) and this kind of thinking. This time around, it is the oil reserves of the Argentina— Falklands Shelf, discovered in the late 1970s (which were the rea- son for the Falklands War), which require an oil price hike of vast industry (as a mineral exploration management consultant). proportions to justify the gigantic investments to put this resource In 2001, he took on an assignment as Visiting Professor in the (rumoured to be 10 times the size of that of Saudi Arabia) into Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria, to teach production. Ethics of Science within the framework of a course dealing with the management of crises and catastrophes, offered to post-gradu- DEPLETED URANIUM AND THE IRAQI OILFIELDS ates within senior positions in government and industry. Since Only lateral thinkers will ever grasp the probable reason for May 2003, he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of turning Iraq into a nuclear waste dump. When the truth about the Riau, Indonesia, setting up a Centre for Ethics of Science. He has effects of using depleted uranium’ (DU) ammunition hits home, joined PT Multi Nuansa Harmoni as Director Utama in order to the second-largest (commonly known) oil reserves of the globe market his technologies for the oil service industry and the region, ° ° ° ° and is presently based on Batam Island, will remain in the ground. Indonesia. Nobody will risk having their children born Dr Tischler is happy to receive and reply to anophthalmic (without eyes) or even without a | When the truth about comments emailed to setex01@yahoo.com. brain, or with fused fingers or other . For a more detailed biography, visit unspeakable birth defects. the effects of using http://resumes.yahoo.com/setex01/siegfriedtischler. Andy Kershaw reported for the UK depleted uranium (DU) Dr Tischler will be speaking about global oil Independent from Basra, southern Iraq, on 1 i A politics and related subjects at the NEXUS December 2001 about the ghastly effects of ammunition hits home, Conference in Brisbane in September 2004. DU munitions on the health of the local the second-largest oil nu Endnotes population. ; reserves of the globe 1. Dewey, J., "Plate Tectonics", Scientific During the Gulf War, the USA and UK will remain in the American 226:56-68, 1972. pounded the city and its surroundings with 2. This is very much in keeping with monotheistic 96,000 depleted-uranium shells; soon after, ground. thinking which turns the human earthly presence children were born there with grotesque congenital abnormalities. into waiting in an ante-room of otherwordly paradisiacal bliss. The administrators of "- From 1991 (the end of the Gulf war) Nobody will risk isms" (religious, political or scientific) make until 1994, the Basra Maternity Hospital having their children a good living out of the sale of "tickets to saw 11 congenital anomalies; in 2000, . ride”. . . there were 221 such abnormalities. The born without eyes or 3. Windley, B.F., The Evolving Continents, nite . hb: : 4 A Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0-471- pospital here 15 squiren wi without a brain, or 99475-8, 1977. eukaemia 1n >in » It treate: i 4. American psychologist Leon Festinger sixty. with other unspeakable proposed in 1957 a "theory of cognitive dis- A study of the families of 251 Gulf War birth defects. sonance", according to which emotional veterans in Mississippi has revealed that 67 per cent of all children fathered by these soldiers after their tour of duty in Iraq were born without eyes or ears, or even without a brain, and with grotesque congenital abnormalities (Dr Lauren Moret, environmental geologist, San Francisco Bay a whole litany of new and newest literature on the Internet. (The con- View, 11 July 2001). . cept has again been recognised as relevant!) These reports have not been quoted by other news media, but —_5, David Pratt cites multiple examples of evidence from a wide range have been buried under "more interesting" news.” of geoscientific disciplines to show that "plate tectonics" is far from the According to Larry Johnson, writing in the Seattle Post- all-embracing geodynamic paradigm that it has become over the last Intelligencer (4 August 2003): "The Pentagon and the United quarter of the 20th century, and he advises a more circumspect Nations estimate that the US and Britain used 1,100 to 2,200 tons —_ approach to the subject. See Pratt, D., "Plate Tectonics: A Paradigm of armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium during attacks Under Threat", Journal of Scientific Exploration 14(3):307-352, ISSN ; ; ; : 0892-3310/00, 2000. Iraq in March and into April 2003—f¢ than th , satimated 375 tons used in the 1991 Gulf War" & Ehrlich, Paul R., Anna H. Ehrlich and J.P. Holdren, Ecoscience: When similz 5 of th sults blic health aft h Population, Resources, Environment, Freeman, San Francisco, ISBN 0- en similar reports of the results on public health after the 7167_9567-2, 1972. This is a curious book: a totally incomprehensible second "gang rape of Iraq" surface from Iraq itself and the nations —_ problem is described in everyday language in a way to make it seem- that have made up the "gang", there will be signs sprouting up at ingly "go away"... petrol pumps: "We sell only gasoline produced from oil certified 7, Krenvolden, K.A. and L.A. Barnard, "Hydrates of natural gas in as NOT FROM IRAQ". continental margins", in Watkins, J.S. and C.L. Drake (eds), Studies in With that, the vast oil reserves of Iraq will stay in the ground, Continental Margin Geology, Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geol. Memoir the resulting price hike will turn the Argentina—Falklands Shelf 34, 1982, pp. 63-144. That this data was available over 20 years ago into a porcupine of oil rigs, and mankind will be waiting for the - next chapter in the history of "Big Oil". oo Continued on page 80 homoeostasis is established when the percep- tions agree with expectations. Whenever contentedness is not possible to achieve in any other way, then perception is "filtered". See also Milton, R., Forbidden Science, Fourth Estate, London, ISBN 1-85702-302-1, 1994. Google.com finds under "cognitive dissonance" production, predicting it to "peak" between 2004 and 2008.” It seems hard to dismiss a connection between American geopolitical posturing (and unilateral action) and this kind of thinking. This time around, it is the oil reserves of the Argentina— Falklands Shelf, discovered in the late 1970s (which were the rea- son for the Falklands War), which require an oil price hike of vast proportions to justify the gigantic investments to put this resource (rumoured to be 10 times the size of that of Saudi Arabia) into production. ground. 38 * NEXUS Continued on page 80 www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2004