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NEWS ... GLOBAL NEWS ... US AIRFORCE RESEARCHING ferancisco Chronicle. the Air Force forbate. QUADRIPLEGIC CONTROLS ANTIMATTER WEAPONS its employees from publicly discussing the COMPUTER VIA BRAIN CHIP Francisco Chronicle, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appeared in numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban. (Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 4 October 2004, http:/[tinyurl.com/61v7r) lhe US Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use antimatter in future weapons. Antimatter has been intensively studied by physicists since the 1930s. In a sense, matter and antimatter are the yin and yang of reality: every type of subatomic particle has its antimatter counterpart. But when matter and antimatter collide, they annihi- late each other in an immense burst of pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check email and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant so far tested in humans. Many paralysed people control comput- ers with their eyes or tongue. But these techniques are limited by muscle function and require a lot of training. For over a decade, researchers have been trying to find a way to tap directly into thoughts. In June 2004, surgeons implanted a device containing 100 electrodes into the motor cortex of a 24-year-old quadriplegic. The device, called the BrainGate, was developed by the company Cyberkinetics, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Each electrode taps into a neuron in the patient's brain. The BrainGate allowed the patient to control a computer or television using his mind, even when doing other things at the same time. The researchers reported that, for example, he could control his television while talking and moving his head. The team now plans to implant devices into four more patients. Rival teams are building devices to read brain activity without touching neurons. Neural Signals, based in Atlanta, has patented a conductive skull screw that sits outside the brain, just under the skull. Other researchers are developing non- invasive technologies, e.g., using an electroencephalogram to read a patient's thoughts. (Source: Nature, /3 October 2004, http:/www.nature.com/news/index.html) FDA APPROVES VERICHIP FOR HUMAN IMPLANTATION pplied Digital and Digital Angel Corporation have announced that VeriChip™, the world's first implantable radiofrequency identification (RFID) microchip for human use, has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration for medical uses in the USA. The VeriChip Health Information Microtransponder System consists of an implantable RFID microtransponder, an inserter, a proprietary hand-held scanner and a secure database containing the patient-approved healthcare information. About the size of a grain of rice, VeriChip is a subdermal radiofrequency microchip that is inserted under the skin in a brief out- patient procedure. While the VeriChip cannot be seen by the human eye, each chip contains a unique 16-digit verification number that is cap- tured by briefly passing a scanner over the insertion site. The captured 16-digit num- ber links to the database via encrypted Internet access. The previously stored information is then conveyed via the Internet to the registered requesting health- care provider. (Source: VeriChip press release, 13 October 2004, http:/Hinyurl.com/3jp5u) energy. During the Cold War, the Air Force funded numerous scientific studies of the basic physics of antimatter with a view to potential military uses, e.g., antimatter bombs small enough to hold in one's hand, and antimatter engines for 24/7 surveil- lance aircraft. More cataclysmic possible uses include a new generation of super- weapons—either pure antimatter bombs or antimatter-triggered nuclear weapons; the former wouldn't emit radioactive fallout. Another possibility is antimatter-powered electromagnetic pulse weapons that could fry an enemy's electric power grid and communications networks, leaving him lit- erally in the dark and unable to operate. On 24 March, Kenneth Edwards, director of the "revolutionary munitions" team at the Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, was keynote speaker at the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) conference in Arlington, Virginia. He explained in his speech that the energy from colliding positrons and anti-electrons is "10 billion times...that of high explosive". Following an initial inquiry from the San DID BUSH'S BUDDIES HACK THE US ELECTION? lhe underground media in America are united in their belief that the US elec- tion was "stolen", with not just one tactic but several used in the process. ¢ Electronic Voting Machines: The key to it all was the use of electronic voting machines that produce no paper trail. These were manufactured mainly by two companies, ESS and Diebold. Both of these companies are big supporters of the Republican Party and have good connec- tions with the same military/industrial/ intelligence complex backing Bush. A bill introduced in the House and Senate to outlaw these machines and require a paper printout of each vote, so that the votes could be verified and/or 8 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazi ne.com DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005